Battle Difficulty and Gear Requirements

[Mithlas]

I know that, once upon a time, SE had stated their intent was for R/M gear to be something that was rare.

However these items, Relics especially, are common now. I don't have a problem with this! I am saddened by the requirement to have that gear for clearing any endgame content. If you are a PLD with Aegis or fully upgraded Ochain, then "{No Thanks}." If I had spent some time work to get an Ajax, shouldn't that also suffice until I am able to get the former?

I feel as though it is not only the playerbase, but the content that is being released that caters more towards this attitude. Certain R/M/E pieces are asked for, and of course for cookie-cutter parties.

You say create your own party? Let's go back to the PLD example: people may decline party invites or leave the party after inspecting what you have and believing that just because you don't have the best-of-the-best that you simply don't stand a chance at any content.

Why are certain pieces of gear from latest events simply not good enough? Or not at least worth trying? Just curious.

Also in line with this is the scaling of player accuracy to mob evasion. Does anyone else think it's gone a bit extreme once past 99 and into the item level range? Or is just fine and I need to learn how to stack +acc and food better?

[Afin]

i'm personally saddened by the fact that the most of endgame now has been built solely for mages since vagary, i mean, really, its just bad. You have to have acc on dd gear that takes out any equation of doing any dmg because the eva on the mobs is still too high, + ontop of the fact that most endgame will now wipe any melee out in 1 shot (vagary being the worst as plouton / prefidian warp if any deaths. I just thing its wrong, because you have 22 jobs, and really these days WHM, BLM, RDM, THF, SAM, GEO, BRD, COR, SCH, PLD are used to most effect in the game. What really, and i mean really annoys me, is how you can come out with, drakesbane will not be increased due to game balance, but why are you coming out with that, when blm's sch's etc are sc'ing / mb for 70k+???, The game is so 1 sided, if you don't have these jobs lvled, with top end ilvl gear then no thanks etc etc. Back when tojil 1st came out, as soon as whoever got oatixur, ppl only wanted oatixur mnks when they were hardly any on the server >.>; SE you just don't have that balance of supporting all jobs for endgame, and at this point i really don't think you care, as the games ending anyway. I just don't like the way this games gone so 1 sided.