Quote Originally Posted by Fondle View Post
My point is that FFXI is so easy that it doesn't matter. You can speak of rational and ideal choices as much as you'd like but my taru buddy spams c5/c6 all day wearing swimming trunks and a santa cap and I don't die. You can't explain that.
I can explain it: gear means fairly little for whm. The difference between the best geared and a naked whm isn't really that huge. However that doesn't really apply for other jobs, in particular dd jobs. gear might allow a whm to perform maybe 70% better than a naked whm, which realistically will matter maybe 1-2% of the time, since it's pretty easy to keep people alive anyway. However, a dd can easily do 100 times more damage by using proper gear than they could naked with just a gimp weapon.