i90 Does not make you a good player

[jello]

i like jello

I don't know you.

[Empressia]

I decide how good you are based on how attractive your toon is. If you are ugly you must suck.

heh inb4 2.2 brings peeps "transmute" i90 or better into starter low level nubs gear skin!

[Yashnaheen]

Drops should be better than token gear in every slot. They aren't. There should be 2nd tier, 1 materia slot, ilvl 80 crafted gear that has offset stats from myth. One has Determination? The other will have ACC. Something to get people out of the 2 piece body and leg sets without having to drop something back to 60. There isn't.

But back to the OP. In every MMO I've played, this is the hierarchy of player goodness-

1. Enough gear to be useful in the content. Much lower than community requirements, but the scale here slides up as those around you make mistakes.
2. PAY ATTENTION. WHY DON'T PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION???
3. Being able to do all the things at once. e.g. Keeping your rotation alive while doing the Titan dance. Not one then the other. Both together.
4. Try.

[alhandra]

what about scholars? their myth pieces are is BiS in 10/12 slots.... i have allagan stuff, but i wear it for vanity, when raid time comes i switch to my myth. people need to l2play before making baseless judgements about people's gear choices.

[ApolloGenX]

[COLOR=blue]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.

This is fine, if a fight has specific requirements. Say- you have to have 4000 hps to survive a mechanic. Getting kicked or excluded on this basis makes sense. It's not offensive, and is practical.

ILevel is a generic number that is a catch-all dumbed down evaluation point. It's a mindless 1:1 comparison for a one-size-fits-all intellectually lazy mentality.

No, it doesn't require you to actually look at gear to see that your healer is wearing int jewelry to cheat the score (I've seen that). No, it doesn't require that you make sure that your tank is wearing appropriate stats... it is just a go to number that a mindless person looks at and says X > Y? OK!

It's a complete and utter watering down of a gear system, distilling out any potential sophistication, thoughtfulness, or diversity into a single easy to consume number.

Yes, gear matters. I don't dispute that. What I dislike is a one-dimensional system that might as well be wearing stat tokens that each have a value. Why bother with multiple stats? Why not JUST have an Ilevel?

[Kaiser_Rage]

It frightens me that people who spent their time spamming Wanderers Palace only and buying Titan Win now belong to the best geared players in the game.

That kinda declasses the efforts of everyone else.

Thank you! I agree 100%... Not sure if they bought titan, but the rest is right on!

[Nanaho]

i see a big difference skill wise in people who "buy" their ilv90 compared to those who "earn" them.

so the fact most of my BIS is Mythic gear, i have less skill then those running around in their crappy Allagan pieces? k.

[Kaiser_Rage]

so the fact most of my BIS is Mythic gear, i have less skill then those running around in their crappy Allagan pieces? k.

This is only on my server and from what "I" have seen. I don't know what happens on your server. Here is your BiS by the way. 6 Bis for drg are allagan, 4 Bis for drg are myth. So the fact that you said MOST is a complete lie. Some of your myth gear is BiS.

Here is the proof. http://xivdb.com/?wardrobe/2180/Dragoon-Best-in-Slot Dont make false statements about BiS. I have a DRG as well.

[Traek]

Why is this thread still going?

I thought we already figured out I am one of the best players in game, as I have full i90. I even have a pretty good mix of Allagan and Myth. My superiority knows no bounds. You may /bow to me.

[NeruMew]

Why is this thread still going?

I thought we already figured out I am one of the best players in game, as I have full i90. I even have a pretty good mix of Allagan and Myth. My superiority knows no bounds. You may /bow to me.

/shrug

Only after me, maybe...