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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.

Again you're twisting my motivation and play the "you just wanna be special" card again, and put your irrelevant subjective POV toward me in an argument. I guess that's the only skill you're better at AFAIK, if that is even a skill lol.

Also your logic is contradicting yourself.

In FFXI you can't "do better at something" than others because battle system is so simplistic, most of your performance are completely based on gear sets, macro/tools and luck. If A SAM uses same gear set as B SAM, and same tools or both use default macro, the gap between their output is usually less than 3%~5%. Your performance is limited by in game mechanics and values on gears mostly.

This is a MMORPG without action element, this isn't a skill based game. Idk how you can "perform better than everyone else" if you're wearing the same gear as them, unless you can hack into the game system and change your character stat, lol.

As far as the definition of gear goes, IMO it's the reward of your goal. Of course you're free to set a goal like soloing the monster, but that doesn't change my POV about fun/accomplishment and such. It only shows that you're trying to apply your subjective opinion on everyone else and downplay other's opinion if they're different.

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.

I'm gonna play the "you just wanna be special" card like you as well

You feel accomplished because majority of the player doesn't/can't do it, that's why you feel accomplished.

If a MNK can solo AA wearing lv 60 gears by ONLY engage TP WS, you probably won't feel as accomplished anymore

And what makes your char different from his? Gears.....and maybe the job you choose.

So your sense of "accomplishment" is completely based on.......gears, and being the cool kid in town

No matter how I see it, I don't see how your POV of fun is better than mine, it's fundamentally the same thing.