Quote Originally Posted by Nezerius View Post
This can go both ways. If gear is only relevant to a player's numbers once they know their rotation, then what's the big deal of non-raiding players spending more time overall to obtain gear that's very close to raid gear?
You'd always have the relevancy of numbers and knowledge to set the raiders apart from the rest, after all!
I think Lastelli’s point is made towards the posters in this thread (and others) that claim they “want better gear for better damage”—if your damage is bad with low gear because you don’t know a basic opener or proper rotation, getting better gear is not going to improve your damage. Your foundation isn’t solid enough to hold up the walls you’re trying to build on it. That, and a lot of people seem to think it’s necessary to have “the best gear” when the most they do is run dungeons and maybe the occasional 8-man or 24-man. They can have it, but they don’t need to act like it’s necessary to the content they’re doing—it’s only necessary for those who participate in the 1% (speedruns, optimization runs, and Ultimate).