Is there an unneeded hostility towards regular classes in this game?

[T0rin]

I had a big long post typed up, further recanting the obviously bad information you are spewing, but I'll boil it down to this:

Your experience in XI doesn't matter. If you can't see the benefit of weapon damage, you simply don't understand how damage in this game works. In the end, ACN pidgeon-holes you into a single set of gear, SMN has more diversity. You shouldn't need to heal yourself, ever, and a minor amount of damage reduction in a non-end game instance is unimportant to overall balance. Swapping IR and B4B gives a very minor boost to overall DPS, and even when mixed in with Aero, is easily outweighted by the 20 INT, 10 potency on pet attacks and Fester.

Stop thinking that since you know XI, you know XIV. It is plainly obvious that you don't.

This statement alone is enough for anyone who understands _this_ game to basically ignore everything you have to say on what is "good".

To spend so much time on something that I don't need currently? Yes, I know avid players of XI that looked into it and have hundreds of hours in that that have said that the Relic weapons seem like bravado vanity weapons that aren't worth the time in XIV, that's a perception based on long-time experience in Abyssea, Chains of Promathia, and all of the other additions to it. XI is it's predecessor, someone who's played it for a significant amount of time will be able to notice and take apart things.

i90 weapons are the single most potent, and cost effective way to increase damage over the i80 alternatives. If you can't recognize that, you really don't understand how damage works in this game.