So which is it Yoshi?

[Taruranto]

If you're logging in each day purely to raise a number on your character sheet, surely you'd be better off getting a second job?

Getting better equipment and stats is one of the most baseline incentives of ANY mmorpg. It was like this in XI too, where the "trip" actually mattered because there was a trip.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve one character equipment, stop telling people how they should play. Getting to maximize your stats, trying to get better equipment and min-maxing every slot, this is "fun" too for some people.