I spent my time in XI doing all kinds of crazy things. The most boring of it was doing stuff like Camping Colin for over a 6 month period and never getting the drop. Waiting around for a monster to pop is not skill.
Killing IT++ Monsters solo isn't even skill if your crutching off Gear to do it.
Skill is being able to get a group of friends together, log on, group up, spend 4 or 5 hours doing what ever and not feeling like you wasted your time when you logged off.
If I log on and camp a 1 Hour NM Pop and it pops every hour on the hour and I camp it for 5 hours, and no drop falls? I wasted 5 hours of my day. I could have been out gaining XP in a proper XP area with a proper party, Or doing a dynamis run to claim crack fallers to sell off for what ever I can get. Or I could be helping an LS mate climb Delkafutts tower for Rank 4. Or bumrushing them through Castle O for Rank 5. Even if I don't gain anything out of helping I still didn't waste my time because it means more people were on their way to being the same rank as me and we can share other events together.
Sitting in one spot for hours at a time does nothing but waste time.