FFXI fixed!

[Teraniku]

I can't speak for him, I'm sure that applies to some people, but personally I don't care for other people not having gear. I care about being rewarded for skill. I don't care if other people get better and get it themselves. But I don't see why being actually good shouldn't be rewarded.

And no, dedication is not skill. A relic means shit to me. Legion and Neo-Einherjar gear means more than five relics, because it means I was able to beat that content. Nothing in Dynamis is worth beating as a display of skill. That's what difficulty in a game means to me. Just having gear sooner than others means absolutely nothing. What about VW gear? If someone has it sooner, does that mean they're better, or hardcore or more dedicated? I know that's just an example of SE doing it bad, but even other things I can think of do not reward skill with time to obtain, Abyssea gear and empyrean weapons come to mind. Sure, skilled people can do them faster. But it's still easy, it is no test of skill. That's what I'm interested in.

Legion and Neo-Einherjar are steps in the right direction. I'd like to list Neo-Nyzul too, but luck is a bigger factor than skill in it, so I won't. It feels SE overshot their goal on that one, but an optimist would still call it a nice try.

You need to find another way to be rewarded is all I can say. Having good gear makes doing events easier. Its a fact that doing Neo-nyzul in pink gear is never gonna reward you with that floor 100 win. That means that when they come out with the next event that's even harder and people start going "sorry buddy, we only let people in our shell who have 15/15 neo-nyzul gear, then said pink player has reached the end of the road. his problems grow exponentially as they add more and more events that require higher and higher levels of weapons and gear. Eventually he is excluded from everything worth doing.

See and here's the thing, just because he / she is in pink gear doesn't necessarily mean that said person is an unskilled player, at the least, it means that maybe they don't have the friends you do, that can help them achieve at least getting Abyssea gear, then going from there. You'll never know though because you make an assumption, and write them off without ever getting to know the person and how they play.