Quote Originally Posted by Toutatis View Post
If that’s the excuse, it’s pretty lame. Anyone can get equivalent to level 3 FC buffs with the GCs. Food bonus also with pvp on top of gc. As for gear wear, again, there is a gc item, a potion (Durability Draughtwith) and you can get infinite dark matter to repair gear without spending gil by just turning in dungeon gear (just hit the greed button or take 5 mins and run a lvl 80 dungeon unsynched to buy a bunch…normal repairs are also not very expensive).
This adds to the many clear disadvantages associated with world travel or being off the data center, such as having no retainers, no free company chat, likely no novice network, and no access to their linkshells, among others. Forcing people into these circumstances is something I cannot condone.