Quote Originally Posted by Riviere View Post
To be fair, at level 45 you should already know what the stats are for, and even more important, that it's better to have items equipped rather than empty slots. He's missing neck and wrists, the earrings are Lv11, one of his rings is for Spiritbonding only which I doubt he's worrying about and the other is Lv15.
When I leveled my first character, I did know well about my stats, but doing the main quest was my only worry and my main priority, so I could get to 50 fast and do stuff with my friends. Judging by the gear of new people in most dungeons, seems like they are on the same boat.

Either way the most important gear pieces (left side) are given by quests as you level up. Gear level on newbies is something I let slide unless its so low that it's detrimental to the dungeon completion, like a lvl 40 tank using lvl 20 gear or a healer that cannot keep up with the incoming dmg.