Why Leave After 3 Mins?

[Hachiko]

I wish everyone would stop with "gear makes you good" attitude. It's a cop-out.

Gear is necessary but not sufficient. Skill is the same. Necessary but not sufficient. You can't "out skill" a DPS check if your gear only lets you hit 130 when you need to be doing 180.

Gear doesn't make you good, but you need gear to beat the encounters. Why people are willing to ignore this and wail about player skill, like they're god's gift to FFXIV (or any MMO) is something I've never understood.

Skill doesn't prevent you from getting 1shot by unavoidable area wide aoe hits. Skill alone won't make it possible for you to hit the DPS threshold to take down the heart in time.