[dev1072]Gear-based systems are bad

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

Well, yeah i saw those kinds a few times too...but i'm not talking about recently bought accounts...its obvious that if a dude can't time his WSs he might fail or if he doesn't know where to stay when he SATA the abilities will be wasted..

What i mean is...comapare a dude that knows the gameplay basics (knows how to use the macros, that he needs TP for WS, that SA requires to be behind mob, that TA requires to have a player between you and the mob, that to SC the WS needs to pop in like 3 seconds after first one andMB in up to 5 seconds after the SC effects...the basic anyone past dunes already is supposed to know) but that has the best armor in comparison with some badass player (like those crazy NINs that can stay 30~45min without getting a single hit unless AoE...there's gear and latency involved...but this also requires tremendous skill) with average gear...you will see the dude with top gear having superior overall performance than the other dude no matter how skilled he is...sometimes the dude in average gear can put some tremendous effort to get even to the top gear one, but still in overall performance the one with top gear will win.

eventually the dude with skill with get the Gear and be better that the dude qith the gear only.. why would the dude with skill not wnat to have the gear??

[Lienn]

eventually the dude with skill with get the Gear and be better that the dude qith the gear only.. why would the dude with skill not wnat to have the gear??

Well, assuming my example was based on FFXI, i can say sometimes obtaining a certain gear was more than just a matter of wanting or needing it.

And this is the point...because no MMO have or ever will have endgames where the effort of only one is rewarded properly...it will always be something bigger than a single player and, due this, often you can see extremely skilled players not being able to achieve what they wanted while some n00bs, with the correct support, will.