Now your trying to turn the discussion specifically to me? People like you i would assume fear gear swaps because you didnt understand how to use them, those few that claim they "did fine" without them, simply did not, there is no way around it.

Atleast with comparing endgame with non-endgame people in 11, people using swaps and people not was very easy to tell, you would hit no stat caps, you would settle for a nobles body and light staff and have what... 28% cure potency or something? I had cure potency 50% (cap), -50% cure casting time (cap), as much fastcast equiped at the start of every single cast that could be found in the game, and as much mnd that could be added at the end of the cast without getting rid of cure potency, that is the difference between you and me, i knew my job, you believed you did.

But again, im assuming you did no endgame, or if you did... it wasnt "real" endgame. So you doing "well" would be fine for what you did.