Why are low standards for dps acceptable?

[RiceisNice]

First off, in TheUltimateSeph's case, it can be very easy to miss out on the job quests UNLESS you decided to max out one of the new jobs for the expansion. Most of the players new and/or old upon reaching HW when it released wanted to jump into the new stuff asap, which was all done in the new HW areas. Unless you were a DRK, MCH, or AST, no job quests from the other prior jobs took place in Ishgard. Sure, the quests will lead the player into the new areas, but the quests themselves were always right where they initially ended in 2.0.

You're really stretching it though if the implication is that you get no new skills for the entity of 50-60, which comes with an entire expansion, when previously you gained skills from your job NPC every 5 levels.At that point you're either severely tunnel visioning or you just didn't care for it (especially if it's going to the point of level 60, since this is the general range of the discussion). Not to mention the problem with the post you're referring to his that he basically coined knowing the fact that "you get new skills as you level" is elitism.

I mean there's benefit of the doubt, but there's even reasonable limits for that, nor was this example nessescarly relevant to the OP (where the problem was someone choosing not to use a skill and lowered their damage output as a result)