a thought

[Karah]

This game's player base is starting to judge all players based on gear alone and not on if they know the job or even have the skills. I've seen a monk with the oat's h2h and was barely able to hit anything during a plasm farm yet my friend was booted from the party to allow them to come along. Even during reive breaks i've seen summoners with amazing gear but their bloodpacts were only doing about 1/4 of what mine was.

So yeah, my wanting to stay with this game atm is hanging on a thin wire as to the upcoming layout of this game and if its just gonna get turned into mindless zerging WoW style gameplay i'll hang up my staff and say goodbye to all the fond memories before they get sullied anymore.

So much truth it's scary. We've been running on the assumption that skill > gear for YEARS now.

Delve has literally reversed this 11 year old statement.

Skill has no place at all in FFXI anymore. It's literally gear, and gear only. (and amount of gil).
Gil > Gear > Skill is the new standard....

Everyone thought abyssea ruined things? Letting people obtain level 99 with no talent for playing the job, what a joke. Delve completely destroyed it. You at least had to put in the time to become 99 in abyssea, now you just show up, 45 minutes later, you have the best possible gear in the game, with NO CLUE how to use it.... it's PATHETIC.