Order of the Blue Garter Twintania Down (No Exploits)

[verily]

(On a legacy server which had a significant gear/level advantage to non-legacy).

Had. Past-tense. You're on a non-legacy server and you have more useful Allagan drops than half of our group. You forget that you can't choose what drops in Coil and with poor luck (like we've had at times) you end up getting a lot of doubles or things you can't even put to use in your progression group, so it's effectively useless. Yes, you can argue non-legacy can get drops they don't even have the jobs to use- but just being legacy doesn't mean you use every single job available. We get tons of dragoon stuff and we never use dragoon. We get tons of BLM stuff and we only really use the extra stuff on Turn 4. We get relatively little tank loot and even less healer loot. There are quite a few non-legacy FCs with higher average party ilevels than our group has, with better geared tanks and better geared DPS. The gear advantage was effectively gone within a week of our Turn 4 kill (which many of us did in full darklight, and outside of relic shield +1 which doesn't help your DPS at all- none of us had relic+1 weapons at the time. same as non-legacy), and non-legacy have had more than 2 full weeks during Turn 5 bug fixes to catch up even more.

There's no need to continue making excuses for non-legacy. Legacy still enjoys the perks of (potentially) having a few more level 50 jobs and/or a bit more gil, but any differences in gear at this point boil down to poor luck on Coil drops or laziness farming mythology. Simple as that.

/nitpicking