Quote Originally Posted by Quesse View Post
I used to give a lot of my gear away - especially to random gathers where stats actually did make a difference. Also I would give gear to people in LS who couldn't afford it. Once in a great while I was lend gear to someone at Ifrit, etc. for some reason or another.

All these people lose.
They only lose if getting decent melded gear in ARR is as "hard" as it was in 1.x which doesn't seem the case. To think that ARR is going to be the same as 1.x in regards to gear, stick playdough in your ears and sing LA LA LA is just stupid.