Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
It takes 2 months at the most to fully gear up a single job through lore and proto midan (at the time of 3.2 anyway, now we have upgraded lore), and that's assuming you're going for weapon which is 7 weeks by itself.
Just to clarify: What I calculated was full tome equip and then upgrading tome equip, because those are the endpoints of progression for a non-raider. I mean, sure, situationally, a mix will be better due to secondary stat weights, but it's IMO faulty to use that as blanket assumption.

So, 1000 (weapon) + 825x2 (chest and legs) + 495x3 (Feet, Head, gloves) + 375x5 (belt and acessories) = 6010 / 450 = 13,35 weeks. Then another 10 + 1 weeks to upgrade all that, because one upgrade per week.
That's where the numbers come from. And since the point was to illustrate that SE attempts to shift the endpoint of progression around the time people reach it, I think that statement is still adequate.

Furthermore, you're taking my latter comment out of context. It was regarding the fact that ones gameplay does not change much when you equip new gear on the same class/job/role/duty, whereas it does drastically when you change your class/job/role/duty together with the gear, making the prior option more stale.