Quote Originally Posted by Arkine View Post
Nobody is going to bother constantly upgrading their gear if they can go from 1 to 30 in a day, 30 to 40 in the next and then hit 50 one or two days afterwards.

Other than changing weapons every maybe 10 levels I've been seeing people (me included) just wear the Grand Company equipment 25~40+ then just get AF in an evening or two and that's that.


In old pre-abyssea FFXI gear upgrades mattered because you took a long time to level up, and used the heck out of that gear until the next gear upgrade.

I also believe that materia has something to do with it, since almost every piece of craftable equipment feels lacking without materia attached to it, I'd go as far as saying that most things feel like just a defense upgrade if it doesn't have a materia or two attached to it. (basically upgrading gear is not satisfying, you take no pride in a tunic, even if its +1 unless there is 2 materias attached to it at least, and even so, you don't keep that piece on you long enough to actually bother getting 1 materia on it, let alone two)



(TL;DR): Nothing is satisfying without 2 materias on it and you level too fast to care enough to try sticking any to your gear.
I understand where you are coming from with materia becoming the new standard of "good gear", but I'm asking why people just refuse to wear the bare minimum. Would you expect people to be happy if you went to their ifrit run wearing no accessories, and half of your gear is broken? Maybe people are having their levels handed to them so easily that they expect their rank 50 gear to be the same. I just don't know why everyone I group with just seems to not give a damn what so ever.