Best Gear in Coil needs to end

[Giantbane]

Except nothing is stopping the players who don't meet that "bar of entry" (don't really agree with this phrase as it implies that you must group with those players setting this threshold) from banding together and progressing upwards. i90 is more then enough for any bunch of players to get together, learn and progress above that i101 you spoke of.

No, when Ramuh is released, it won't prevent the i90 players from doing that fight. However, it may encourage those who do coil to stick with other coil players by only running in 101+ PF groups. And i'm not sure it's good to encourage players to segregate themselves from the rest of the population all the time. And it's certainly less ideal if you're in the situation where you're judged to be not good enough to run with a party finder group, purely because you choose not to do coil.

I mean it's not like coil players can't do this already. They can just choose to only run with their static or FC members if they choose to. If they're really determined to run with coil only players, they can just check the gear of whoever joins. In 2.1, if you were in coil you probably had at least 1 piece of allagan gear, same would be true for high allagan in 2.2. But those ways require you to be a little more proactive in segregating yourself from playing with others. But when it's so easy to just put up a PF with 101+, you may see more people doing it.

Demanding top tier gear like people is on this thread is like a person who worked hard trough college, graduated, and with dificulty managed to get a respectable job with a good salary, then have a lazy person that din't work or made any effort at all and just demands to have a job with a equivalent salary.

You do understand the differences between a video game where you pay for entertainment, college where you go to learn, and a job where you work and somebody pays you ... right?