Quote Originally Posted by Skullmaker View Post
No one ever told me to leave a party because I didn't have a kraken club, or an empress earring.
FFXI was a game where the gear was mostly side-grades, not upgrades. Up until around ToAU and WotG it was very rare to have a piece that was objectively better than another piece with the exception of main-hands. Most people wore their level 50 artifact armor until level 75. FFXIV isn't like that and if you need evidence of this then look at DF. There's instances you literally can not enter unless you meet a certain ilvl requirement making your point void. You're comparing apples to oranges here.