People who don't raid should really stop trying to make statements about how raiding is or how the community behaves, it's legitimately fatiguing and the baseless things they authoritatively spout can be discouraging to newer players who don't realize the source is probably intentionally misrepresenting things.

Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
Yes, she is. Nothing you have said has any direct parallel to our argument. Jojoya is positing that players will lock people out after going through their gear and seeing they have a DET/TEN ring instead of the hypothetical CRIT/DET ring from Criterion. The notion it absolutely ludicrous. It simply doesn't happen at any level of play. Not even at the high end parsing level would anyone remotely care. I, for example, could still parse 100 despite the healer having some non-bis i630 PIE pieces. So long as they're putting Misery under buffs and pressing Glare, we're golden. So your comparison here is entirely a strawman.
To bolster Forte's point,

I have a meme alt that I pentamelded in Tenacity materia because it was cheap and available. I have been savage raiding on it in pugs periodically for like 2 months, and haven't received so much as a comment concerning my gear. If you are competent and consistent, no one is seriously going to care about your substats.