Quote Originally Posted by Vladislav View Post
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Quote Originally Posted by Lithera View Post
None of the best gear in the game was obtainable easily solo until Abyssea launched and even then it wasn't until at least the second part of Abyssea that certain monsters could be easily solod/duoed.
Read my whole post. When that gear was still the best you could NOT solo it and it was locked out. Even Abyssea had lockouts since stones were limited and with the limited abyssites and only one atma until the second installment, NOTHING in Abyssea was easily lowmanned short of the base level NMs. Even now in FFXI the best gear requires at least a party and there's no real exception there unless you have the gil for upgrading your AF/Relic. There's just no actual lockouts on endgame now short of entry items.