Quote Originally Posted by indira View Post
in FFXI if you were good you could solo things naked.
Uhhh no you couldn't. Gear in FFXI meant just as much, if not more, than it does in this game.

Quote Originally Posted by ApolloGenX View Post
People who use Ilevel as a basis for anything deserve to be shipped back to WoW.

I still can't believe they put that horrible thing in this game. Ilevel is the go to number for mindless Goombas.
I don't think you understand just how incredibly important gear is. Yeah yeah, skill > gear, but gear is very important. It doesn't matter how skilled you are if your ilvl is so low that you simply can't reach the required output for any given fight. When you know nothing about a person other than the gear they're wearing, the one with higher ilvl is always the safer bet. Always. Not sometimes. Not occasionally. Always.