Quote Originally Posted by AnaviAnael View Post
I'm ok with horizontal gear as long as it doesn't become, "You don't have X, we can't use you." This happened to me in FFXI when I took a year off. Of course, I got told to do PUG groups to get the gear I needed.
Some gear expectations weren't too bad at least. I didn't exactly mind someone temporarily not having at least the NQ staves for casting post 51, but it really wasn't a big of a hit to the bank to buy them. Farming a stack of Black Tiger Fangs (or whatever it was called) could have bought at least 2-3 NQ staves. But yeah, if people expected you to have BiS crap as any role, then screw em.