I realize that this is an mmo and that many people will be running with different specs. Most of the player base probably runs the game well bellow high settings.

In my mind it's just another way to future proof a game.

Indira, you seem more tech savy than I when it comes to this stuff and I would not refute anything that you have posted thus far. It's just when it comes to most games that I own there has been a significant difference when I picked up my benq xl2420t monitor, especially while playing BF3. Hell, even my desktop runs smoother on my 120hz monitor vs the 60hz monitor that I run along side it (opening tabs, dragging them around etc). It's just when I tried FFXIV I could not notice anything but a slight difference in colour. I assumed it was because of the 60fps cap.