Gear level, the final nail in the games coffin.

[Ryuni]

On Balmung I have yet to seen any shout that asks for a specific gear level, it's mostly no requirement or "with gear check" and nothing else.
Then again I don't spend that much time in Revenant's Toll, but the times I've been there I haven't seen it.

I hope it stays like that to be honest, people need to realize that most content in FFXIV is hard only when people don't know or can't handle the fight, not because their gear is bad. A combination of both is of course much worse.

[Jinko]

On Balmung I have yet to seen any shout that asks for a specific gear level, it's mostly no requirement or "with gear check" and nothing else.
Then again I don't spend that much time in Revenant's Toll, but the times I've been there I haven't seen it.

I hope it stays like that to be honest, people need to realize that most content in FFXIV is hard only when people don't know or can't handle the fight, not because their gear is bad. A combination of both is of course much worse.

Having low gear in both Garuda and more importantly titan will relate to low DPS, which ends up in death, so yes skill is important but so is gear.

If people want to do end game then they need to get in AK/CM like the rest of us and farm their gear.