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[FrankReynolds]

Well.....being good or bad at a job is subjective, so I don't actually give opinion about whether I'm good or bad at my job.

It is fact that there are many ppl told me "You're good at X job" (and vice versa......sometimes!) in my life. However, most of the time gear is the deciding factor, that's what I was saying. If I fail at doing something, it's mostly because I lack appropriate gear sets, if I parse high in an event, it's also mostly because of the gears.

I mean, there's a limit of how much dmg you can do with bad gear....and there's just nothing you can do about it. So how can gears not be the major factor affecting your performance?

An easy example is bard. People constantly complain both in game an on this forum about people singing everything with terpander and empyrian gear. That's an obvious bad move, because you can easily see the harp and gear while they are singing, but the same thing happens a million times every day on every job. There's that monk who doesn't swap to empy body for weapon skills when impetus is up. theres that one that does swap to it even if he just missed the last hit. there's a million shades of grey.

You can call it stupid or experience or macros or scripts or whatever you want, but it's all skill in one form or another and it varies from player to player. As good as my gear and your gear makes us, I guarantee there's someone out there who thinks we suck.

That's not what I was saying at all.....

It actually was.

This is fundamentally the same thing

You said that your building a mythic was the same as my AA clear. I know it's ridiculous. That's why I pointed it out. If they were anywhere near the same, they would or should have a similar reward. They are not the same. They have completely different rewards and are done for completely different reasons.

So by your logic, I can go read a forum, ask how to gear X job, and perform properly based on other ppl's experience and tell you "I'm a skilled player!"? Not convinced.

In FFXI you can basically just copy and paste gear sets from other ppl and do exactly the same thing.

First of all, I didn't say that at all, but...

In (your) theory, yes. But in practice, NO. Just like reading a book on karate doesn't make you a black belt, reading about how to be a good bard doesn't make it so. You're crazy if you think it does. I've read all those scripts and things on the forums. I have needs they don't meet. They make things easier, but they definitely don't do all the work. And to be honest, my macros are different from yours. Just looking at them would probably freak you out. Making macros is in and of itself a skill.

There is a funny book out there that says that the trick to flying is "to throw yourself at the ground ..... and miss". While fundamentally correct, I've yet to meet anyone who succeeded based on that.