Quote Originally Posted by Miburo View Post
I really hate the "Skill can make up for gear" mindset some people have. Part of being good at your job is gearing up. If you can get better gear with a fairly minimum amount of effort and you don't then you're being inconsiderate to the rest of the people you're playing with. It's not hard to get stuff better than your AF. Run some easy WP a few times and gear up a little before going to AK. Do AK for a bit before doing HM primals. It's not that much to ask. I've never seen anyone give anyone any crap for not having full sets of HQ quadmelded ilvl 70 crafting gear or anything. It's jerks who go into HM titans with AF and level 40 rings and whatnot.

Just be considerate for your party by not wasting their time or forcing them to work harder because you didn't want to take a bit of time gearing up a little. Gear score is a good thing, because it at least works to enforce that a bit.
This is the is the mindset I am talking about. players dont seem to understand that there is more to an MMO than just silly shiny farming for "loots brah".... it really is sad that this ideal has taken hold so much in todays generation of gamers. You dont "need" shinys at the best level to be able to play a computer game well. This idea is just something the gearscore fanatics push out because they are the incorrect assumption that you must have it at all costs.
I highly recommend people do not be forced into the endless grind for shinys an doin the same instances over an over an over an over an over an over an over an over.... endlessly as these guys do every day.