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The thing is, as mentioned above, you can't measure skill, and despite how much people want to kick and scream about gear score, or how skill trumps gear, there simply are gear checks within content that should be met, and some people either are unaware of them, or choose to ignore them. Yes, gear score and restrictions on the duty finder are necessary either so people are aware they do not meet the gear requirements, or to stop people from trying to sneak in and affect 7 other players.

What it will do is, when you try to use DF, if someone has the gear but lack skill, you will leave and queue back into players that have the gear, and hopefully have increased skill; You're gambling against one variable, not two. And I think someone already pointed this out, but just because some people claim you need full Darklight to do it, it doesn't necessarily mean you do, and I'm sure Squeenix know better than the 'elitist' player base.

Even with the gear checks, since 90% of content is DF'able, you won't have to deal with 'elitists' that want you to be geared to the teeth for the content, because so far the only content you can't DF is BCoB, and incidentally, you do need some pretty significant gear for that (on top of skill/coordination etc). 'Bad' players will get rooted out through natural selection on server-based content, and they'll either come complain about the game being too hard, or move onto the next game.

I've said it before, but I hope SE wait a couple of months before 'tuning' content so they can at least support the attitude of their paying customers, and not those that are going to stop at the end of the month.