People sacrifice good gear for "fashion"

[Pulseczar]

Honey, I must kick-ass in style!

[Marline]

I'm kind of picking up that vibe as well. Which is not a bad thing. I've had it with fugly gear with good stats and good-looking gear with terrible stats. I hated the O-hat, I hated all subligaria, and it annoyed me that they were all vastly superior to some of the pieces of gear I could stand to look at. Could we get to perform well in combat without looking like mismatched clowns for once?

I thought the O-hat was fugly as hell too, but since everyone was wearing them it started to grew on me and at the end I thought it looked kinda cool. At one part of the game the O-hat represented respect in some way.

[Cairdeas]

I thought the O-hat was fugly as hell too, but since everyone was wearing them it started to grew on me and at the end I thought it looked kinda cool. At one part of the game the O-hat represented respect in some way.

I'd rather wear my riceball headband and sam af and eat shogun riceballs. The bonuses from the riceballs at that point far outweigh the o-hat. and since I could make the riceballs myself. it never hurt me.

[charliesheen]

I'd rather wear my riceball headband and sam af and eat shogun riceballs. The bonuses from the riceballs at that point far outweigh the o-hat. and since I could make the riceballs myself. it never hurt me.

But dude, that's not what everyone else does! That's like blasphemy! You must now be hung, drawn and quartered my friend.

[Cairdeas]

I have never really gone with the stream. I tend to fight up waterfalls pretty easily.

[ManekiKanji]

People do it since gear and stats are for the better part useless altho not completly, altho its a trend that could proberly die off soon as the attributes start to be noticable, Only really defence hp and mp is something that will make any difference in your life of fighting deadly mounsters. Im doing it msyelf in light bursts altho not to the case im wearing a coatee everywhere i go, Steel Preserves ftw!

Altho to be fair its nice to see people looking more different instead of a Complete Huaby spam across the board at least for the short while~

[charliesheen]

That's good to hear. Sounds like you have the same blood pumping through your veins. Keep on munching on that sushi... and Winning!

[Molly_Millions]

Nope, I don't relate. Ideally, gear would look cool and have good stats. However, that's just not the case. If a piece of gear looks like crap to me, I don't want to wear it and I'll wear stuff w/ lower stats. I like the challenge anyway.

[Dragon]

Something I don't really understand is the growing desire people have to looks "fashionable" rather than have better gear. It's pretty shocking how many people just tell me "I'm wearing this because it looks better" even though they are well aware of gear being better for them that doesn't look so stellar >.<. Stuff like this can really make a party suffer and it's quite selfish so I ask why? Why is this allowed? Anyone else relate?

What's it to you what people wear when they're not exping with you? Unless they're directly affecting your exp rates by being in your own group, you should just move the hell on.

[TirionCrey]

It reminds me of something. Something that should be close to the hearts of many players. What do the 'normal' people in society say about your geek habits and hobbies? They tell you it's not 'normal' and it's no good, right? That you are a loser in life. And you get angry about that, don't you? You say they just don't understand that it's what you enjoy. Then what do you do?

You go in-game and act the exact same way to players who don't wear what's considered the best gear!!!! The Irony!

#winning

Your argument crumbles with one little comparison. If he decides to be geeky and has strange video game habbits, he's only affecting himself. If you're in a game, doing whatever you want AND expect other people to just drag you along, although you are more of a burden to the people rather than a help, THATS selfish.
You only have your own thing in mind and don't care about the other peolpe who drag you along, hence you're being selfish, cause you don't even consider putting the benefit for the group over your own benefit.

That's as if he, as a geeky video game playing person, starts to go to soccer games and expects to be put on the field, although he doesn't even know how to play soccer, but he wants to do it and he gives a fuck about the rest of the team who train and whatever to actually be good in what they are doing and he pulls down their performance, just cause he only thinks of himself, and not of the greater good for the group.

This is an MMO...if you can't even consider doing stuff for the greater good for the people you are playing with, go fuck off and play an offline game, cause you definetely give a shit about other people hence you should spare everyone else with your presence since you even think the other players are selfish, not you. That's just obnoxiously ridiculous...egoism is what destroys our world and it's becoming a more and more spread illness.

The people you think are selfish are actually the ones allowing you to play with your own narrow minded selfish way, cause they make up for your lack of performance.

PS: The OP NEVER talked about the BEST gear in each slot, he talked about gear thats "useful" for your class, rather than just looks. Just look at the CON/THMs...a lot of them wear Bladed Lantern Shields, cause they look better. But it gives Attack+, while the Square Shields give Magic Accuracy...its not about wearing the BEST gear possible, its about wearing gear thats at least useful for your class...