Have you ever been kicked for not having "good enough" gear?

Yes, but I can count how many times I've had to do this over the 7 years I've been playing on one hand.

Every time this was because the person's gear was so bad it was actually keeping us from progressing. Think healer with an Ironworks weapon still in something like Ala Mhigo where they legitimately can't put out enough healing to keep a tank alive even through single group pulls, or vice versa, the tank with armor so far below level that they die if an enemy just looks at them funny.

If it's an issue of DPS being too low and hitting enrage, then I'm more likely to vote abandon as typically that's an issue of multiple people being too poorly geared as opposed to trying to dismiss every person who is under geared.

To your point, not every dungeon in the game has a minimum item level requirement, so you can end up in situations, especially because of people using things like Palace of the Dead and Heaven on High to level, where a person just doesn't have gear or skill up to par with the content they're trying to take on, but they were allowed to queue in anyway because that item level requirement doesn't keep them out. Your situation, though, seems more like someone upset they couldn't farm their relic items fast enough, and rather than just take one clear as being shorter and move on, made it take even longer by dismissing the person.

Edit : read this backwards.... I mentioned times I initiated the vote dismiss. Though yes, I've also been kicked out of groups for them claiming I wasn't doing enough damage. This was more of an issue back in my Heavensward days before people knew that this kind of behavior could get you banned from the game.

No, but looking back at my sprout days, I should have been a couple of times.

I asked to be kicked a twice or so because my tank was wholly undergeared for the dungeon but they refused
the only time I got kicked is because I asked a level capped healer to use something else other than cure 1 in bardams :'(

Having crap gear while leveling is only a legitimate problem as a Healer, or as a tank if you want to pull big.

I remember as a sprout leveling my SMN with crap gear; no one seemed to care. Eventually I decided to switch to SCH and try healing in the same crap gear... My hard cast heals only restored about 1/10th of the tanks HP. Even just targeting the tank and focus healing I couldn't keep him up; not even that I was running out of mana, things were just literally out-damaging my healing. The group was cool and we got through the run, but I ended up buying gear immediately after and healing from there was pretty easy/boring. Healers need to keep up with at least their weapon.

So far? Not at all, I was kicked once because I did no see the reason to dps when I'm struggling to keep the stupid tank alive. Well, you can't always have a good equipment if people just kicks you because they won't cheese the dungeon under 3 minutes.

No I haven't been. I was kicked before because I couldn't keep a tank alive as a healer when he was in a lvl 70 dungeon and had lvl 60 and below gear on.

Gear matters so little in this game you'd have to be really really behind for me to consider it.

I cant say I have or that I remember. Honestly the only dungeon I remember having difficulty keeping up in was when heavensword came out and a mid level dungeon was rough to heal through as whm and again sch.

I wouldn't take your experience as common place. Surprised to see any drama at level 70 but lower level dungeons have a lot of wannabe elites dictating nonsense. If it happens a few times, maybe there's something to consider. But from what it sounds like they queued together and discussed between one another to kick you both. Not exactly the kind of people I'd want to hang with anyway.

No.

If I don't have the tomes for alt gear or feel like buying it, I run PotD, HoH or Bozja, which are literally designed for that and can theoretically get you from 1-80 with no gear whatsoever. It amazes me that people still go into dungeons under-geared when SE have provided alternatives that give decent exp and don't require gear at all.

"I don't want to do that, I want dungeons, but I don't want to get gear!" is just selfish really.

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Originally Posted by St0rmy

Have you ever been kicked for not having "good enough" gear?

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In one point : No PL

There are enough ways to get to the dungeon with decent stuff. This includes the stuff and the materias.