Gear was never really hard to get in XI though, outside of King drops. If anything it was just a matter of rare/ex gear being bad drop rate that took a while to get that put people off. Most people could get by just fine with AH bought gear as long as they knew how to gear properly though. I never had issues with melee rdms as long as they did what they were in the party to do as well, debuff/haste/cure, but if they didn't do that and just wanted to melee, then yea, I'd replace them too.