Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

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The trick is to making this content both fun, engaging but not "required" to progress in other avenues of end-game. In EQ, getting that fiery avenger would've been awesome, but it was not necessary in order for to enjoy the other awesome end-game content in EQ for example.

I thought people in this thread are saying equipment as well as echo didnt matter in any of these fights as long as you know how to dodge, so based on that, you don't really need any equipment to enjoy any content of this game. In fact, that is the bases of the original blog.