Frontlines: Leechers and Feeders

[MisterNublet]

I can see where you think it's about gear, and that's on me for not wording it in a better manner. Artifact gear is level 99. You can get better gear from the 100 dungeons, tome gear, etc. Even if you went with artifact gear, there is no materia. So what I was trying to say, and put that in my last response, was about the effort.

You're still correlating gearing up with effort and participation in a duty. Even if a player is too lazy to upgrade their artifact gear with dungeon/tome gear, if they are still doing their dps rotation and making an attempt to respect the mechanics in a fight, then they are doing their job and it doesn't matter if its artifact gear because they are still making an honest effort to participate inside the duty. Not to mention the fights were designed by SE to be cleared with said item level which the artifact gear has +5 item levels on.

Also, someone with upgraded/tome gear can do jack all in a fight, so all that "effort" they put into gearing up means literally squat if they make zero effort in the duty.

You want people to put effort into PvP and hold them to your standards and not let them get rewarded, then you can't in turn be upset if someone in PvE wanted to withhold rewards from you from not meeting their subjective standards.

If you want to argue about afking, I'm 100% with you. But unless it's 100% objective, there is not going to be any way to determine who should and shouldn't get rewards.

Weird thing about PvE content, if I chose barely participate by only pressing a single dps skill on my keyboard, decide not to heal the tank, not use my mitigations as a tank, or repeatedly die to the same avoidable mechanics. High chance I'm not clearing the content and won't receive any rewards because I refused to participate and a hindrance to my party.

Only reason its a high chance and not a 100% chance because too many people keep making excuses and refuse to hold anyone accountable for when players are purposely making no effort and are griefing the party.