How do you gear classes/jobs?

[Pikachu_Pizza]

When I level my other classes..during leveling I use dungeon drops and maybe a weapon from the MB if a dungeon one doesn't drop (I always try to keep my weapon up-to-date..the other stuff not so much) While leveling I don't worry too much about my stats. Instead I try out different rotations, etc.
I'm pretty sure while lvling my MCH to fifty I wore like, an earring, and that was my only accessory (don't be as bad/lazy as me though)

When I finally hit max level, currently I'm buying the tome of Law gear for all my alts, so running dungeons. Since I pretty much greed everything all the time I have a buuunch of extra loot from the dungeons that I can slap on my classes so that they are at least adequate for endgame, too.

I was kicked because my DPS was ****. Is it just the THM class compared to other melee classes that can get by with a good weapon>