Elitism and How It Is Ruining The Gaming Community [Discussion, Feedback, and Rants]

[Seiko769]

Bullshit. You can easily hit 3.4k HP with AK gear and DL accessories, and you can get away with less than that. You'll still survive a plume.
Optimally you should be able to dodge all of the plumes anyway.

A tank or Melee might be able to doubt a caster would and if you do go in full AK and DL accessories your not going at your best potential cause your missing a lotta stats from full DL. Possible? Yes. Makes it the easiest? No. As for plumes your NEVER gonna miss all of em optimally you just don't want stacks of them so u dont die when they do hit. Took me 5 days for my first titan drop and I was alive when the fight ended and guess what? I was eating single plumes a lot. I don't think it's ever possible to miss all of them

[Mysteltain]

A tank or Melee might be able to doubt a caster would and if you do go in full AK and DL accessories your not going at your best potential cause your missing a lotta stats from full DL. Possible? Yes. Makes it the easiest? No. As for plumes your NEVER gonna miss all of em optimally you just don't want stacks of them so u dont die when they do hit. Took me 5 days for my first titan drop and I was alive when the fight ended and guess what? I was eating single plumes a lot. I don't think it's ever possible to miss all of them

Actually, since Plumes are magic damage, us mages are more resistant to them. When I first ran it, most everyone would take 3k from a plume, whereas I--a BLM in WP and AK gear--only took 2k or so. Hell, all but two of the times I was the last person to die and it wasn't because our healers were focusing on me more than any other person. I was smart about my abilities. "Oh shit, I'm not dodging this, Manaward!" [0 damage!] "Bombs are coming, moving there now--wait, gotta adjust for that jerkish Landslide."

Yes, there are some points where gear is absolutely required. I would not run Titan in AF gear and without Ifrit's Cane or the DL Staff from WP, for example. But skill matters just as much, if not sometimes more.