Quote Originally Posted by Afania View Post
Not really, the whole point of MMO is to create a virtual world, and most ppl tend to seek accomplishment in a world, fact.
Accomplishment doesn't necessarily mean gear. Go to youtube and see literally thousands of videos of people soloing monsters that they don't need drops from, just to see if they can pull it off. A lot of times the gear is a means to an end, not the goal.

In your case the goal seems to be being the cool kid with the mythic, so it would hurt your feelings if all the other kids had one.

For me the goal is to do better at everything I do. I don't really care if everyone has one as long as I can perform better at my job.

Quote Originally Posted by Afania View Post
The only accomplishment you can have in this virtual world is getting items and parse higher....what other accomplishment you can have in FFXI? Nothing.
I soloed some AAs. I felt pretty accomplished. I mean I don't have a special item to prove it to everyone who checks me in Port Jeuno, but then I don't really feel like I need plaque that says "Winner" to prove I'm good. It was a waste of merit points in respect to material rewards. I could have gotten far more items by just going with a group. But, Just winning is all the achievement I needed. They didn't need to give me an exclusive item that no one else could have to convince me to do it. I did it because it was fun and challenging. Go take a poke around youtube. A lot of people do that sort of thing for fun. You should try garnering some recognition through clever game play instead of trophies. It feels a lot better to be recognized for how you play than to be recognized for how much exclusive crap you hoard.