Quote Originally Posted by Crushnight View Post
Player skill is always a factor in how fast things are run but you can't tell me if that good ilv270 player was wearing ilv285 gear things wouldn't be better, more stats on a bad player barely raises them, more stats on a good player you start to feel it.
Oh, I won't deny more stats is worse; more stats is always better. My statement was in regards to this:

You were a hindrance to any party
Which is far from the truth in many situations since stats on their own mean little if the player skill behind that gear can't utilize them to even 40% of their value.

I personally think healer is a bad example of kill times since your rotation is basically spam 1, re-apply 2, use the very few ogcds you use for damage. Whereas you can get mystical eye-rolling dps players like SMNs who don't apply dots, BLM that don't use enochian, things that constitute very large swaths of their damage output being ignored and causing massive deviations in damage output between bad vs good players that would take immense extra stats to fix. You get any of these dps in your Abania and you'll be begging for an i270 knows what they're doing player in comparison lol.

Beyond that, my point was that sure; more stats is good, but at the end of the day an ilvl 270 player who knows proper rotations, utilization of support and abilities, etc of his job is an infinitely better asset than an i285 player who uses single target moves in a pack, barely knows their job, etc. i270 is far from a hindrance or inconsiderate when utilized properly; it all comes down to the player. I know my bf in i270 leveling WAR on his 3rd alt was infinitely easier to heal in Abania than literally every other tank I've met in Bardaam's, Doma and Abania to this day, and he was even Deliverancing quite a lot as well.

Basically, don't judge a book by its cover. Instead judge it when its obvious the person doesn't have the skill to back it up; you might misjudge the i270 player that's about to save you 5+ minutes on your run over the i285 Blizzard mage you might get instead.

TLR; more stats are good, but stats by themselves are pointless if the player behind them can't use them correctly.