Quote Originally Posted by Gortys View Post
People are just going to grind for whatever is meta so these type of gearing systems are an illusion of choice.
It depends. In GW2 and FFXI, there are different metas for different roles for different content. And experimenting with them is fun.

Also, like, illusions are fun. Do you not like illusions? It's a video game, it's all illusory. It's just electrons.