Quote Originally Posted by SDaemon View Post
You still don't need the drops. You can easily make do with Ironworks gear and WoD gear.
honestly, this is just too much to try and argue, because - for all intents and purposes, yea, you can fight in sub-optimal gear just as well as you can fight in pentamelded i110 gear. That doesn't mean your typical static doesn't need the Dreadwyrm gear in order to progress. This goes right back to what I said before - just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you don't NEED the other thing.


I still remember that our BLM got geared out -extremely fast- for Final Coil when I lead my static. They got extremely lucky, getting primary left-side i130 drops almost every time we cleared a turn for the first time. These drops enabled us to be able to clear back when the amount of poetics in circulation were extremely limited. It took us 2-3 weeks per turn to clear a single turn. This is why we needed this gear. Every time we got more pieces, we were advanced to a point where we were stronger for the next turn. The upgrades of our right-side poetics helped from T11. The upgrades of our left side helped from T12. Stronger weapons, etc etc.

To say that people "Don't need it" just because you "Can do it another way" (Such as right now, by going in with a full set of ironworks i110) does not suddenly mean you don't need it. It is another option available to players. And even then, full i130 Ironworks Augmented is not an option to everyone - because not everyone has full poetics for a single class they wanna take in.

So again; yes, the raiders need their i130 gear. To progress. To make their runs smoother. To get better. The non-raiders do not need raid-equivelent gear in order to progress, because it's already designed with the baseline far below what you can buy with those tomestones. Case in point: The hardest dungouns are i90 to enter. You are effectively 10 item levels over this just by buying full Weathered gear.