Loose use of the term "eliteist"

[Jynxii]

My point is, Skill =/= Gear and Skill > Gear. A top-tiered geared who lacked skill would be outperformed by a mid-tiered played who doesn't lack skill. This is fact from every MMO that came before this one.

Unless there are gear checks, whether it be a certain amount of HP, expected DPS or HPS. As someone pointed out earlier, if a boss hits for 2k, and you can only heal 600 before the boss hits for 2k again, you're probably under geared/not ready. It doesn't matter if you're the best healer in the world; if you can't output the numbers, you can't output the numbers.

The problem is encounters like HM Titan do have a pretty hefty HP requirement, even with 3 healers. Getting hit by turmul (sp?) 8 times in a row for 700-800 a piece is incredibly painful, and if you don't have to HP to take a few hits in between getting spam AoE healed by 2 WHM and a SCH, then it doesn't matter how good you are at dodging everything else, because you can't dodge this. Of course if you have the skill and the gear than obviously you'll be far more successful than either of your categories.

Yes some games let you roll face and get (high end) gear; hopefully this doesn't turn out to be one of them.