Seriously SE, make crafter/gatherer gear DoH/DoL only.

[ROOTFayth]

this post is so funny on so many levels

so what would be the poing of gathering/crafting? more gather and more crafting?

[Aale]

this post is so funny on so many levels

so what would be the poing of gathering/crafting? more gather and more crafting?

You do understand that this is a post about CRAFTER gear not CRAFTED gear yes? Looks like no.

[TomTom1968]

I do not think SE should do anything in this matter. I also SB in Level 50 dungeons but I do one or maximally 2 pieces at once and let the group know about it. And I do not wear them on boss fights, only for the trash inbetween where a few seconds more do not really matter.

If you see a player who over does it or have the feeling that he is wearing too much SB items, let him know and if he doesn't react, place a vote kick. Every time people ask for a restriction, we loose a part of our Freedom. I do like the freedom when I am in my FC that we can run the Dungeon in full crafter gear or with christmas hats if we decide to. It is our decision and we bear the consequences. Please do not take that Freedom away because a few peeps play their Ego game. Instead, deal with them, try to educate them and if they don't listen, kick them.

[Lyrro]

I ran a wp speedrun with a tank who wanted to wear spiritbond gear, it didn't work out. Our healer was suited for wp speedruns, but anyone who's played a healer during those runs knows that it can get pretty fast pace for the healer when the tank has pulled all the mobs up to the first boss and you have to keep him alive long enough to kill the two tonberries. Now, try to do that with a tank who's wearing mostly spiritbonding gear and then try having him tell you how badly you suck because you can't do your job when he's taking 1/5 of his health per hit as damage and he's getting hit by fifteen enemies. You can argue all you want about how wearing spiritbonding gear doesn't affect the party, but the players who make that arguement, as far as I can tell, aren't the one's having to pick up the slack for someone wearing spiribonding gear in a level 50 dungeon. That's not to say a whm wearing all lvl 90 clothes can't heal through a normal ak trip if he/she is wearing non healing accessories. Yes, you'll still be healing for 800 or so per cure, but you're also hoping that noone else is wearing spiritbond gear and from what I've seen, that's rarely the case. Most times the person is either wearing darklight with craft accessories, or full craft gear.