Quote Originally Posted by Bustercucumbers View Post
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.
Same mentality, same issue, if I'm not gonna put "good" gear in a slot i might as well keep it empty since crap gear is just that, and its not worth the hassle of suffering through wards lag to get.

Besides you'll out grow the gear you just bought a few hours later so why even bother at all?

(Metaphorically speaking)

To elaborate.

In an FFXI situation, a lv40 will spend weeks getting to 50 and that made the gear upgrade that came @40 something important and for lets say a MNK there were pieces of gear that were vital to have and helped greatly with your performance like:

Jujitsu Gi: Looked cool, added important accuracy that you desperately needed.
Brown Belt: +8% haste, and a status symbol that you moved up from a purple belt and that much haste with H2H made a noticable difference.
Ochidou's Kote: +20 atk there were no gloves for a MNK that added that much ATK and they even looked badass, everybody strives to get them.
Sniper's Ring: +5 acc each, before it all you had was basic stat rings, and accuracy really mattered at that time before accuracy food.
Peacock Charm: +10 accuracy, and nothing else had that much acc on it at that level (33)

You wanted THAT gear and you strived to get it and busted your ass to obtained it and it was satisfying when you did and then you proceeded to use it for weeks and weeks and some you kept using even past 50.

On FFXIV you just got anything, nothing matters, get just a full suit of whatever if you really care and stick a materia on it and call it a day.

Assuming you care enough to bother getting gear you'll out level tomorrow and replace with AF.