Job points has ruined one of the foundations of this game

[OmnysValefor]

This has nothing to do with how SE makes the game, this is a feature of any type of game.

In my experience this is pretty unique to FFXI, actually. In games where your gear is obseleted every raid-tier, the struggle was pretty evenly spread. In WoW for instance, the potency of "refresh/auto-refresh" (closes equivalent to XI) was a percentage of your MP so it was really hard to carry undergeared people through content that was hard for your group, whereas the same isn't true in XI. If the WHM isn't in danger of taking damage, you can take an abyssea geared whm to many things.

Example: My first Sovereign Behemoth was in a BST burn with a Aby-geared WHM. Two NQ GEO. She took the full weight of every meteor but we had NP winning. Couldn't have carried a tank or damage-source in her level of gear.

Now, if your group performed sufficiently well enough, you could carry somone on any job (essentially 9man a 10man or 23man/24man a 25man). But WoW didn't (and surely still doesn't) have any case of needing any piece of gear from 4 expansions ago, usually not even 2 content-patches ago.

[Eaglestrike]

In my experience this is pretty unique to FFXI, actually. In games where your gear is obseleted every raid-tier, the struggle was pretty evenly spread. In WoW for instance, the potency of "refresh/auto-refresh" (closes equivalent to XI) was a percentage of your MP so it was really hard to carry undergeared people through content that was hard for your group, whereas the same isn't true in XI. If the WHM isn't in danger of taking damage, you can take an abyssea geared whm to many things.

Example: My first Sovereign Behemoth was in a BST burn with a Aby-geared WHM. Two NQ GEO. She took the full weight of every meteor but we had NP winning. Couldn't have carried a tank or damage-source in her level of gear.

Now, if your group performed sufficiently well enough, you could carry somone on any job (essentially 9man a 10man or 23man/24man a 25man). But WoW didn't (and surely still doesn't) have any case of needing any piece of gear from 4 expansions ago, usually not even 2 content-patches ago.

What I was saying is a feature of any MMO is if you have a Sunwell Plateau geared rogue you're going to take it over the Karazhan geared rogue. There are so many people that can toss together a very well geared DD that you're not going to get too far starting off as a DD.