So, My only 99 job is WHM and I've been really struggling with the expansion content when it came out.

Now I should preface this by saying I had problems getting gearing stuff done in AByssea and the like before the expansion came out. While I do have Arka IV built and tried to buy some good gear off the AH for healing, Most of the Orison pieces I have are +1 (I always had a hard time getting a group together to get Atma's, +2 items, etc.) and I never really got Orison boots or hands. (instead having to settle for hands and boots off the AH.) I'm also missing things like the Orison locket and the like and tried to gear how I could via AH.

During an average Rieve I'm having a hard time keeping people in the alliance alive, as well as I'm also having enminty problems and getting killed by the mobs, since I have to stand so close to the mobs in order to keep my Rieve tags. (for this reason, I try to make sure to get into a group and make sure I am riding Afflatus Misery for Cura and Esuna obviously.)

A few random folks I join in a random roving Rieve group or shout have commented on my gear and said I need to go back and gear up, which, I'm not going to be one of those people complaining that SoA is too hard/inaccessable, SO I'm open to my healing experiene or my gear being a problem, but my problem is I don't know how to improve.

For example, are people even going to go back to Aby? I once got kinda annoyed when someone was kinda being mean about my gear in a Rieve, and I wanted to sarcastically say "Oh let me go shout for Itz or Sobek to get some +2 items then, I bet people would be willing to drop what they are doing in Adoulin to kill NMs they've probably been killing for forever, just to help some newb WHM who only started playing the game when the last Aby Expac lauched. Especially when I tell them we'll have to farm KIs from scratch, since I can't really solo the KI NMs on my own because I just have 99 WHM."

And that's just the tip of the Iceberg, I only have 2 Aby clears, and I don't really have much of an idle set, I need PDT bad, and Shinryu happens to drop a piece, who I need clears for. Also I could shout for boss floors for oldschool Nyzul to maybe get Goliard legs, but I don't know if I'd just be wasting someone's time. My main curing set is "modest" my Fast-cast is "ehhhhh" (liteally just Loq earring, Swith cape, Incantors.) and like I said, I don't have much of an idle set other than maybe my Earth Staff, and some refresh on my curing set, like Orison body +1. I have some hMP for resting, but way less than I'd like for "the world of no Minikin".

Now, some of Bayld gear could actually solve some issues. (for example the Bayld mage boots from Peacekeepers look like a good alternative to Orison Boots, and the legs might be decent for the fastcast set.) So do I do current content that actual people are interested in doing, and just deal with people being unhappy with my gear, or do I got back and try to twist people's arm to do old content?