Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
I don't see all this mercing you speak of. There's easily obtainable 117+ gear, that helps you get early 119 gear, that helps you get later 119 gear... seems like there's a slope to me.
An awful lot of people won't take people in 117 gear for anything. I've seen a lot of a specific problem which is "we will not take you for content X unless you have gear from contentX+1 or equivalent." Like the time I got told off for suggesting we take a 119 mythic MNK on a tojil run over a MNK with oatixur because "oatixur is the best you noob". It's like people who refuse to take you into alluvion skirmish unless you're already in alluvion skirmish armor.

You cannot pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.