Quote Originally Posted by Zarzak View Post
Were raids tuned to where if you didn't have leaping lizard boots macroed you would wipe? No. But if you wanted to min/max your potential there were things you could do to do that.
Quote Originally Posted by Zarzak View Post
It is a CHOICE if it is not REQUIRED. Leaping Lizard Boots were NEVER required to beat an event.
That's partly because almost none of FFXI's content was particularly challenging, and even instanced content allowed you to bring far more people than were really necessary to complete the content.

If Alexander Savage let you take in 12 or 16 people with its current tuning, groups would be beating all four floors in i180-190 gear.