The Lessons Not Learned.

[SannaR]

How do you know this? You've never completed a single Savage tier on content. At best, this is entirely hearsay—which isn't saying much because we have no idea on the qualifications of those players. Speaking from actual experience, this never happened. The only time people made any sort of stink about your melds is during Stormblood Ultimates when the occasional DPS and Healer refused to meld Vitality, which made them squishier. Nobody was looking through your gear to check whether your i400 Omega Earrings were proper bis. They weren't doing it in Midas either when Savage was more on par with Ultimate level difficulty. Substats have never been more than a very small fraction.

Even if I took you at face value, you openly claim it was only ever a minority of players who bothered. So... who cares? It wouldn't be applicable to the argument I had with Jojoya earlier and what sparked this whole conversation to begin with: Adding raid equivalent gear to Criterion wouldn't make it mandatory.

You're right I haven't cleared an entire Savage tier on content on this character. The furthest I got was T4 on a different character due to my needing to restart over halfway to late into Stormblood. Which is also around the time I stopped having to listen to someone raid each week, leave a midcore-hardcore FC and choose for myself and another who got to keep my SE account. As before then it had made more sense to tie our accounts together. It just happened that the account that didn't get absorbed was mine. And no SE isn't able to re-split said accounts. Unfortunately you wouldn't find much on a certain site to see any of my proof.

Nor on the lodestone as I deleted the character. Even after I started this character I still kept in touch with people who did raid. Along with being in a Midcore FC. I stopped raiding when I did due to various reasons. One being in a past life I must have royaly pissed off the RNG gods as I had an abysmal time getting the things one you needed for ARR relics. Thus I fell behind on that aspect. I also tend to have high healing and raid anxiety. The other reasons have to deal with RL stuff I won't divulge here.

For me the reason why it's a minority as to checking people's gear is because they're not a raid lead. Or a nosey person. Why would your average raider think about wanting to or feel the need to check to see if someone has proper melds? Normally it's they're eating stuff they shouldn't, poor gear, not having refreshed their food, potting at the wrong time. Melds tend to be the least looked at.

Anyway I also know how this community tends to behave. If a bunch of people say you should do X cause it's the most optimal then they'll go do said thing. So if for some reason enough people made it so that checking to make sure gear was melded properly was optimal guess what is most likely going to happen? Why? Cause people tend to want to rather be like a sheep and turn their brain off.