Endgame Progression, Elitism and You

[Vanidin]

I'm just curious on how killing mobs as fast as you can, skipping some by running around them, and skipping all cut scenes is considered an exploit....

Are the mobs bugged or something? Are people taking advantage of a bug that's causing unintended things to happen?

The mobs aren't bugged, it's not an exploit. If anything it's bad dungeon design by SE that you can simply skip by things. There are no glitched npc's involved or anything of that nature. It's simply avoiding things that the game doesn't require you to fight by running around them.


Concerning OP:

I don't think this is elitism at all, he asked how his FC mate is geared. For all he knows the guy hasn't even finished his af quests and is using a lvl 30 white weapon. Heck I've ran into people in ifrit and garuda wearing crafting jewelery, 40ish white weapons, tanks without completed af that were wearing lvl 40ish crafted armor, I even saw a white mage that was using a lvl 20 aetherial weapon. Granted I've had plenty of runs with normally geared people as well... but I can completely understand him wanting to make sure his FC mate had at least finished af and had a relatively recent weapon and jewelery.