Quote Originally Posted by AngelCheese77 View Post
But is it really that bad higher up?
Yes. I was doing Castrum Abania with a friend to get their alt through the story and I was tanking it on Paladin. We had a level 70 Scholar so I thought things would be ok. You get free level 70 gear at 70 from your job quest. Except this person showed up with a level 50 unfinished relic and level 40-50 gear. Their heals literally did nothing to my hp. I basically solo healed myself and eventually died when running out of MP to heal with because our dps was pretty low (level 69s with leveling gear or worse). I got Shisui in roulette with a Dragoon who still had level 50ish gear.

I totally agree that all dungeons, even story, should have a minimum item level requirement. There is NO excuse to be running around in item level 50 gear at 60-70. NONE. The story hands you free gear just for clicking a button. Vendors have level appropriate gear that is easily obtained and not expensive. I had like 2 million gil just level up from 1-50 the first time from msq and dungeons and did almost no side quests, so not having gil is a poor excuse for that as well. Problem is people are lazy, and don't care that they are a burden to others.

Being new is not an excuse. When I was new I still made sure I had appropriate level gear for the content I was running because I had a sense of personal responsibility to not be useless to the rest of my group. I wish others did the same.