Question about loot etiquette

[Fynlar]

Oh... you dont raid, you say? Then you dont need that ilvl anyways.

These sorts of comments are repetitive and tiresome.

Raiders or not, ppl playing a video game always want to get more powerful. For many that's the whole point of playing. How many of you went ga-ga over Offering + Genji Glove 9999x8 hits in FF6 even though nothing in the game was hard enough to warrant it?

[MoroMurasaki]

These sorts of comments are repetitive and tiresome.

Raiders or not, ppl playing a video game always want to get more powerful. For many that's the whole point of playing. How many of you went ga-ga over Offering + Genji Glove 9999x8 hits in FF6 even though nothing in the game was hard enough to warrant it?

It seems you may not understand the difference between need and want.

If you want to beat the dps checks in some savage fights (or even simply survive some unavoidable damage without shielding) you'll need some gear above 380. Without it you'll die and not be able to complete the content. You can meld vit for the survabilitybut not only does it adversely impact your dps it may just not be enough. This isn't a situation you encounter elsewhere in the game. In terms of beating enrage your options are to gear up or be really, really amazing. Most people will never be skilled enough to beat Savage at minimum ilvl.

This isn't an issue in any other content. You can complete everything else in the game currently at 380 with quite a bit of breathing room.

So sure, gearing up feels good but it's entirely unnecessary for playing outside of enraged content.

[Berethos]

It seems you may not understand the difference between need and want.

I think their comment is coming not from confusing needing versus wanting gear, but more from the fact the quoted phrase "If you're not doing x, you don't need the gear" has a long, often negative history attached to it (even if in this case it was meant in a more neutral fashion, as evidenced by Vidu's later explanation). Too often it's been used by players to justify why they think other players don't deserve any access to gear above a certain power level, even months after the gear became obtainable and has been made obsolete by later tiers. I could be wrong, but I've been hearing/seeing that phrase for a long time now, used in various (but often too similar) contexts.

Seriously - I remember hearing basically that phrase personally back in 2007 when playing Burning Crusade in WoW.