good equipmentFollow

i pride myself on having the best equipment possible that if that means having plus 1 everything then thats what i do. I recently have had people complain that i make other people of the same job/lvl look bad by having plus 1 everything. I am confused here. You guys are biotching at me because i use the best equipment possible but then others will biotch because i am not using good enough equipment when i don't have the best. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO??? I can't plese both of you and personally i want what makes me better so i am goin to continue to use the best equipment possible and if you don't like it because it makes you look bad then get off your behind and go farm and get the best equipment yourself!!



Edited, Wed Oct 13 02:35:42 2004 by Shreg

I'd take a person with a lot of +1 equip in a heartbeat. Means they know how to get money. ...or they bought it. Well either way, I'd take you, and then if you're good at the job, big major kudos to you for doing an outstanding job.

Equipment isn't *everything* but it can make a difference, and it shows you're dedicated to your job.

I'm pretty neurotic about my equips myself, so I can relate.

But there's something gratifying about getting conned and being told "Nice equips".

^^

In GC i met a cocky NINJA/WAR he had Emp Hairpin, Leaping Boots, and all +1 equipment and some of his RSE on.

Let me tell you i wound up tanking the whole time he was in party. Me tanking as a DRK/WAR that is. He could not get hate and he was also trying to pulling when i was out pulling. He was /telling that he likes it how I have great equipment and saying how he has over 500k. Its quite obvious he bought this charector on the internet because he had no idea what a Renkai was.

I would take a Smart player over a newb dressed up in +1 any day.

I could care less about most gear. Super Duper Armor's don't excite me like the crazy Melee's out there. What I do care about is your ability to hit the mob.

So, if I see that a person is thinking that +STR is better than +VIT on a PLD, I won't party with them. Or, if I see that +STR is more important to a DRG, or any class that melee's, than +ACC, I will also not party with them. What is the point of hitting something really hard if you can't ever hit them? Conversely, what is the point of a PLD who hits really hard but also gets hit harder than a WAR?

Also, while gear isn't really important to Mages, spells are. I had to stop for a while and go find a way to get Raise II; that ******* spell. But, I will say that it has come in handy more than 20 times and i've only had it for 4 levels! Reraise II has more than helpful as well.

+1 Gear is good, unless it's not the gear that you should be wearing. Then, what is the point? Your gear may be +1 but it's still a worthless +1.

I guess maybe I care more about gear than i've let on. As a defense, I will say this. In XP parties, it is important to be at your best. By agreeing to take part in a party, you are saying that you have brought your best to the table and will use everything you have for the common good of the group. Individuality, gear that does not make you work at your peak, these things slow the group down. Leveling up is not something that most people enjoy and so, this makes for some grumpy times if someone has become a weak link in the group because of poor choices for sub classes or the inability to farm for gil and buy the gear they need. This can be frustrating as one gets into higher levels and gear moves from being in the 10,000 gil range to the 100,000 gil range all the way up to the 2-3 million gil range, but by purchasing this gear you have shown to those looking to form a party that you are more than capable of performing when you need to.

If people are angry with you for having the best gear, they are merely envious of your ability to find the paintence nessecary to attain your prize. Maybe they'll tell you how they don't like you purchasing gil, maybe they'll yell at you for supporting gil farmers; just ignore them. Black list is there for a reason. No need to put up with the stress of anger in a game that is supposed to be enjoyable.

Looking back on this post, it doesn't even look like I wrote it! But this is how I feel, please forgive me!

This arguement is brought up time and time again, but it completely ignores something that is true a large percentage of the time. People who take the time to farm for the best equipment they can get for their level, are generally going to be dedicated players who maybe have already levelled a job, or have taken the time to make sure their equipment is the best it can be. Generally these types of players are going to be quite knowledgable.

It's very true that there are completely horrible players with amazing equipment, but there are even more amazing players, that make themselves even better with amazing equipment.

this is to theophany. You invited me to your party and we had one fight!!! one Fight!! i remember it distictly. I was trying to voke the mob and just so you know i can only do it every 30 seconds. With different Pt's i need to adjust the way i keep hate. Some parties it will be easier and some will be harder. After the One battle we had you took off and said you couldn't be in a crap party. Maybe if you had some patients you would've ended up having a good Lvling experience. I know alot of WHM's have praised me for my ability to keep hate and that i keep up good equipment with good Def and that i use Fish Mithkabob(+25% Def). I am not angry with you i could careless. I just think you should give people a chance before you go judging them like the way you did.

your right there is no point. I am a PLD and i was experimenting with bows for awhile because i had found they do good damage(i no longer use them). I can't prove that people have praised me for my ability to do things so i am not goin to try but maybe i'll see you out there sometime and if we get a chance to party then i can show you in the Meantime Good luck to everyone and Best Wishes.

Balance Ring +1 is actually an HQ2 synth. You would be much better off comparing a balance ring with an amethyst ring.

He wasn't speaking about HQ items but +1 items.

Also, as PLD, using his MP to cure yourself helps to keep the aggro on you (Hate+) :)

I'll post this once, explaining my side of the story.

We were in a party set-up of this sort (maybe not this exactly, but close enough): PLD (Shreg) NIN (me) WHM BLM BLM THF. I offered to tank, as that was how the party had been going for the past 2 hours. You agreed and offered to pull. All fine and dandy so far. The way I run my tanking is that I like to have 2 provokes in the party so that I can have the other person provoke the monster, allowing me to get Utsusemi back up. Very rarely do any other members of the party take hate using that system, and I know it works. I have a macro set for this system. "No more shadows! (Provoke) (please)! <call3>"

Now, disregarding that I explained twice what the system was, if you ever saw that macro, being the second and only other provoke in the party, wouldn't you do your natural job and provoke? I guess not though, as 2 explanations and a macro don't explain it enough.

Regarless of who was right or wrong in this situation i will say this i Agree that Equipment does not make the player. I dont care if you have the most expensive equipment there is to have, if you cannot play your job appropiatly i will not be in the party for long. Because if one person cannot do there job then the party will fail it is as simple as that.

I dont think that good equipment makes a player.
O and if someone has all +1 gear, that person might know how to get gil and farm, but did u guys ever think about the fact that that person might be buying gil for their equipment. I personally think that buying gil is wrong, but some people do it, and they can probably get all the best gear in the game, and still be a noob.