Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
Since folks often want to rush to 70 as fast as possible, they rarely bother to grind dungeons for gear, and are often low on gil as well (and often have little patience for tracking down the NPCs that could sell NQ gear cheaply).
I'm sorry if I misunderstand - if you aren't defending these points as legitimate reasons to not be up-to-date on your gear then excuse my post.

Not being willing to take advantage of the plethora of gearing options available to you is no excuse to have poor gear. Everyone has the same opportunities to gear up, some of which take literally the effort required to google a vendor and teleport to them.


Wearing Shire gear into Doma and Abania is really just lazy no matter how you spin it - you could have geared up in Bardam's, you could have purchased crafted gear from the MB, you could have purchased NQ whites from a vendor... there are so many options and if in the 'rush to 70' someone feels it's okay to burden their party by not doing any of these that is on them.

A lot of people justify not gearing up under this idea that the rest of the party will likely be geared just fine but imagine an entire party showing up to Abania in i255 - that's going to be a nightmare 99% of the time and needlessly longer than most runs. They all assumed someone else would pick up their slack.