Quote Originally Posted by Molly_Millions View Post
DL gear is pretty much a requirement to getting a relic and moving forward in the game. It's actually not hard to do, but you need to be willing to put in the time. As long you do that, the rest is not too hard. If you only have one 50, then there is really no excuse. You can run 3 to 4 times in WP in 2 hours, do that a few times a week and you'll have full DL and maybe even some AF2 before you know it.
Yes, I know that. But the practical aspect of this is not the issue, it's the social dynamic. Put the way you just put it, that sounds eminently reasonable, but put the way that others have put similar information it sounds elitist and exclusionary, and sets up walls that need not be there. The requirement for static teams for the Coil make this even worse as those teams will always be several steps ahead of everyone else, and as they spend more time running the Coil and other content as a team, the are less available to run other things with other people. The end-game in FFXIV is just plain anti-social, it set's up too many real and imagined barriers to entry at each step.