More item drops in low-level dungeons

[Buzzwords]

quest hand out free gear though?

like granted dungeon gear is BETTER but you can keep current off basic free stuff that is peppered around everywhere, you just gotta look for it.

not to mention a lot of that bonus XP is not available for an actual new player. no armory, too late to get a mhigan earring, so they might get a friendship circlet, and hopefully they'll do hall of novice and get the ring.

so an actual new player will not have this "problem" as bad as a veteran would, and they'll have a bunch of free solutions all over the place anyway?

and then any veteran player should be able to dress themselves?

it seems like the issue here isn't "not enough gear" so much as it's "some people will always try to get away with the barest minimum"

if you find a way to patch human nature, lemme know.

[Gunspec]

so an actual new player will not have this "problem" as bad as a veteran would, and they'll have a bunch of free solutions all over the place anyway?

and then any veteran player should be able to dress themselves?

Ah, I suppose you're right there. Perhaps I've just been playing other games which tend to fling leveling sets of gear at newbies so liberally that it's felt out of place not having it in ffxiv. I haven't needed to gear a class lower than lv 30 since 2.5, so it's been strange to watch a friend deal with it.

For those recommending buying the NQ gear from vendor, do you think the gil earned is currently enough to support that type of expenditure? I remember when 2.0 launched that money always felt so tight, and those vendor items were always overpriced, but I realized the economy has changed since then.