Gear level, the final nail in the games coffin.

[Nexxus]

It's such a shitty thing to do to a game. "You've got all LV50 gear, really good stuff, some of the best, but your GL is 65, and we only want people with GL70, so go away."

Let's be honest, i've saw a lot of ppl doing Garuda (Brutal) with their AF and even a PLD with a sword lv.30 (he was playing pretty good tho, better than some darklight/relic PLD, but his stuff didn't follow well). I've done Titan yesterday, and let me say that a guys like that won't stay long on his feets.
For High Level content it is a necessity, it's not like you can't farm easily token for darklight, and darklight is enough to reach good amount of HP to survive... What come with high ilvl, it's higher Vitality (and the others stats, but let's focus on this one only).

I've saw the limit, i understand the necessity of it. gear level or not, people won't take you if your stuff is low.