Now Mr OP, what do I mean by 'be reasonable in gear'? Let's take a look at Prothscar's Ocelomoth Headpiece +1:

Quote Originally Posted by Ocelomoth Headpiece +1
DEF:32 DEX+13 AGI+13 Haste+7% Adds "Regen" effect Set: "Triple Attack"+3%
It's worth around 5 million gil. Now let us compare it to it's NQ version, worth around 1 million gil:
Quote Originally Posted by Ocelomoth Headpiece
DEF:31 DEX+12 AGI+12 Haste+6% Adds "Regen" effect Set: "Triple Attack"+3%
As you can clearly see the difference between the two isn't very significant and extra +1 agi, dex & def, and an extra +1% haste isn't going to make a huge impact on your life and even without breaking out a calculator you can see the drastic price increase simply isn't warranted and since there is this apparently unknown thing called caps that limits just how much the stats can effect your performance the HQ simply isn't worth getting. Period.

Therefor the HQ can be safely disregarded as 'reasonable gear'.