Why refusing customization is a fallacy

[Xerius]

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.

[Skullmaker]

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.

Well, I was only really considering the idea of customization based on gear since it seems unlikely we'll get a skill tree, but, isn't it true that once inside a duty you can switch gear to what you want as long as it's wearable by your class?

[Xerius]

Well, I was only really considering the idea of customization based on gear since it seems unlikely we'll get a skill tree, but, isn't it true that once inside a duty you can switch gear to what you want as long as it's wearable by your class?

I agree that we could use more unique gear stats and I don't actually know if you can change gear to go below the ilvl once you're in a dungeon, I suspect that you probably can. However, if someone is doing that, they're probably trolling because they could contribute to the party (they obviously met the requirements to get in). However, they're choosing not to, just to be a jerk.