Gear level, the final nail in the games coffin.

[TaruPower]

QQ more, can I have your stuff?

But no seriously, this is such a minor thing to complain about. If you think people weren't picky about your who they let in to parties in FFXI I imagine that means you didn't play it at all during it's early years. Right now the game is bustling with activity, so if you don't want to play with the kind of people who care about GL than don't.

[GoddessEtna]

The only people complaining about this are the ones using level 45 white weapons and level 30 jewelry while trying to leech off an AK group.

[Zumi]

The only people complaining about this are the ones using level 45 white weapons and level 30 jewelry while trying to leech off an AK group.

Same people also doing the same thing in Titan Hard Mode.

[Devilray]

FFXI was my favorite MMORPG, and yes, I know this isn't XI, and everyone here hates XI, but I'd liked how in XI, in those end-game raids and the like, people didn't complain about your gear. They just had fun doign it, win or lose. I'd like to at least get XI's awesome community back.

Changes like this prevent a good community from forming.

Excuse me, you are very wrong!! FFXI is notorious for being a gear checker. If you did Voidwatch or Odinv2, or anything like Nyzul Isle floor 1-100 runs... /shout REM (Relic, Empyrean, Mythic) or GTFO!! Even the XP parties before Abyssea came out was full of gear checking. You must not be referring to hardcore events, or you have been spoiled by the Adoulin expansion. Don't know where you got that "oh it's fun to win and lose mentality" from. No one on Asura's serious end-game community had that kind of attitude from what I know. You are wasting the whole alliance's time and gil/hour by losing in Dynamis and other events.

There's a reason people gear check: weed out the n00bs, and drastically reduce the chance of failing in a DPS race or damage healing.

[Valsh]

"the final nail in the games coffin" Holy hyperbole batman, what a load of garbage.

[Pooky]

Every pet issue for someone = END OF THE GAME!!!

[Pooky]

FFXI was my favorite MMORPG, and yes, I know this isn't XI, and everyone here hates XI, but I'd liked how in XI, in those end-game raids and the like, people didn't complain about your gear. They just had fun doign it, win or lose. I'd like to at least get XI's awesome community back.

Changes like this prevent a good community from forming.

LOL. I literally had to quit the game because NO ONE would invite Samurai to their group unless you bought million gil sniper rings. Every class had their "You better be wearing so and so" or you won't be invited. heck every LFG advertisement was littered with, "I have this gear and this gear and that gear, please invite me". That game was the prime example of elitism.

[Deedsie]

Then maybe we can have a nice community again, like in XI.

I still have not forgiven them for their attitudes towards Red Mage. I'd rather not have that line of thinking dragged over here.

[Mishakai]

I still have not forgiven them for their attitudes towards Red Mage. I'd rather not have that line of thinking dragged over here.

Where's my Refresh dangit!!!! REFRESH!!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Deedsie]

lol I've been yelled at for not accepting a party invite when they needed a refresher. I was busy with my own thing and wasn't going to give them the time of day. Can't continue his exp party as a result of nobody else being available, or no other healing capable job around? Too bad. Not my problem.

While the majority of my ire went to the community, there still remains the rest of it which went to SE for not doing a damn thing about it, and going so far as to go along with it to an extent. It is this that has not subsided as they STILL haven't done a damn thing to specifically benefit Red Mage since I stopped playing almost 2 years ago.