Ilvl restrictions for leveling dungeons?

[Fhaerron]

Yesterday!

I was lvl-ing my WHM. I'm lvl 49 and farming Aurum Vale until 50.

So I got this 47 DRK, I popped protect and we proceed to first pack of mobs, he lost like 60% of his HP from 1 hit from one of those plants! I had to spam cure II to keep him alive!
Next pack of adds he actually lost enmity, I had less trouble keeping the BRD & SAM alive. He actually also died because he didn't care to move out of the poison puddles.

So apparently I was the noob, so I did inspect and well ... all his accessories were lvl 1 stuff ... on the left side his weapon was the lvl 30 DRK weapon you get from the job quest and that other chest and leg and stuff you get as lvl 30 but the other gear pieces were between lvl 1 and 15...

So after another wipe I told him that I can't keep him alive in a lvl 47 dungeon with him wearing lvl 1 gear and he said I should stop bullying him and that he was poor and all that.
So I looked up his search info and he had a lvl 70 Paladin, so then I replied with 'how can you not obtain lvl 40+ gear when you have a lvl 70 job' and he just kept going on that I'm a bully and all that ... so I just vote kicked him to get rid of him.

So the new tank that joined was decently geared, we continued told him to pull multiple groups, we never wiped, apart from the BRD that wiped from the swing from second boss and being to close in range but other then that swift run.

But yeah apparently I'm the noob for being unable to keep a tank with lvl 1 gear alive in a lvl 47 dungeon.

[Tridus]

But yeah apparently I'm the noob for being unable to keep a tank with lvl 1 gear alive in a lvl 47 dungeon.

This is exactly why we need this restriction. There's absolutely no reason why the game should allow this.

[Kazgrel]

But yeah apparently I'm the noob for being unable to keep a tank with lvl 1 gear alive in a lvl 47 dungeon.

I've been lucky enough to run into something similar to this maybe once or twice in nearly 3 years playing this game. Doesn't mean that such a rare occurrence (in my experience) should be acceptable. Maybe people think regular dungeons function like PotD? Who knows.