Endgame gearing in FFXIV

[Themarvin]

...did you actually even read the post? Because that's part of the complaint. One of the game's selling points is being able to play all "classes" on a single character, except you actually can't at the higher end, you're locked into whichever job you decide to gear first.
And no, making an alt for every job you want to play is not a solution. At that point it's probably worse than WoW's, ESO's or Guild Wars 2's class system, because those atleast give you some variety while you grind to max level.

Because you can, you can kit out character entirely with previous generation gear or use crafted, you may be off 10 ilevels for a while, but that is it, it wont make you stop being able to use your character for pretty much any content in the game as it is.

[Shurrikhan]

Because you can, you can kit out character entirely with previous generation gear or use crafted, you may be off 10 ilevels for a while, but that is it, it wont make you stop being able to use your character for pretty much any content in the game as it is.

Unless you are siphoning resources from your main, everything else is stuck at, at best, the peak of the previous tier.

To be only 10 ilvl off means you either cleared Savage week 1 and got lucky on alt gear rolls (which still only covers 1 of several alternate gear classes), or you held your main back by funneling resources to another job.

For those unlucky with drops, that could often mean being unable to take part in Week 3 farms, given how high the community likes to jack up ilvl requirements.