rdmcandie wrote:
TybudX wrote:
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WAR may have the most potential, but good luck finding one who can actually hit that potential.
Good luck finding anybody who lives up to the potential of any of the jobs they play? Why do you people always feel the need to point out what is implied by human interaction? Do you really think somebody out there, even just one person, on the entire planet, thinks that the human race has the exact same reaction times and thought processes, like a bunch of penguins? Who's the bigger @#%^ here, the people you love to lambast for providing math, or you, for thinking everybody else is too stupid figure out the crap you spew?
Why so angry? I never once discounted the math, but there is no reason to take a job just because of its weapon if the person behind the character doesn't try to reach there full potential. It is why I would take an AH geared WAR over a R/M/E WAR, if that R/M/E war isn't dusting the AH war on the parse. I would rather have a guy who parses 5% less than the R/M/E guy, because when that guy gets his R/M/E he is going to demolish the other one.
Frankly Id rather surround myself with people who try to hit their potential, and even if they are limited in gear selection show that they have a head on their shoulders. It doesn't matter if you have an R/M/E if you can't play the job no amount of gear is going to save you. The player aspect is the most important aspect of the game, math is nice to prove a point, but at the end of the day it comes down 100% entirely to the person playing the game, and just because you have a nice weapon doesn't mean you are the best DD.
Is that elitest, sure it is, but you want to be the best DD, then you better learn how to play the game first.
What you are discounting is that this game is not that hard and ultimately the only differentiator is the hardest to obtain pieces. By the time you have a 99 R/M/E, you better be dusting others with the same "skill" if they can even be said to have that.
"Player skill > gear" is an excuse used by people who don't have the gear.
Are there exceptions? Sure.
Does this mean the exception should become the rule because Mr. Charity Case wants it to? No. (Although if you want to gimp yourself because one parse did not reveal a complete demolishing, by all means, gimp yourself...it is far easier to teach someone to play a FFXI "job" than to go from AH weapon to 99 R/M/E.)
Edited, Nov 30th 2012 12:50pm by TheBarrister