We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Dualgunner]

Too much of this game's content is tied to combat to go down that road. MSQ, new duties and new raids, I need decent gear if I'm going to experience them. Since I don't endlessly repeat duties and raids, I don't really benefit from those reward systems and my less experience with those raids and duties require me to go in with better gear so as to not be that much of a burden to the team.

Crafted gear is the best you need regarding MSQ and new trials. Raids are wholly unrelated to the main story and unnecessary, and if you hate duties as much as you claim, why do you run even NM raids? Which, btw, crafted gear is still OP for since it rewards the same level gear as one can craft.