SimonSes said: »
I think you guys need to stop looking at things from your perspective when you are talking about what's needed or not needed for what content.
First of all, when you take away REMA from your BIS equipped chars to prove a point that you can make some content without REMA, then you are doing it wrong. Like DirectX noticed in his first comment, getting some bis gear is harder or more time consuming than getting REMA. So while REMA is nto required for many content, overall good gear is. You can have REMA and nq gear and be by far worse than someone with bis gear and without REMA.
So going back to my initial thought. REMA might be a part of what is required to clear a content (obviously not for jobs with REMA not even being bis for them), but might be not. If you need to have some accuracy or DPS levels not to time out, then it doesn't matter how you gonna achieve it. You can mix REMA with half hq gear, you can mix non rema with hq gear etc.
On top of that returning players aren't usually that good at game like people with muscle memory and experience playing this game for past few years. So sometimes new/returning players without REMA actually can't clear some content, but it's wrongly connected to REMA itself, the true reason is lack of other gear beside REMA and having rusty skill.
You still can let them leech to get better if you can carry them tho!
First of all, when you take away REMA from your BIS equipped chars to prove a point that you can make some content without REMA, then you are doing it wrong. Like DirectX noticed in his first comment, getting some bis gear is harder or more time consuming than getting REMA. So while REMA is nto required for many content, overall good gear is. You can have REMA and nq gear and be by far worse than someone with bis gear and without REMA.
So going back to my initial thought. REMA might be a part of what is required to clear a content (obviously not for jobs with REMA not even being bis for them), but might be not. If you need to have some accuracy or DPS levels not to time out, then it doesn't matter how you gonna achieve it. You can mix REMA with half hq gear, you can mix non rema with hq gear etc.
On top of that returning players aren't usually that good at game like people with muscle memory and experience playing this game for past few years. So sometimes new/returning players without REMA actually can't clear some content, but it's wrongly connected to REMA itself, the true reason is lack of other gear beside REMA and having rusty skill.
You still can let them leech to get better if you can carry them tho!
I believe we are all very well aware that people shout for rema because FFXI doesn't have gear score like other mmo. So pt lead needs to implement some kind of system to ensure member meets dps check.
So it's faster to shout "REMA DD" than "DD with XYZ set using gears from Z content"
That doesn't mean I agree that shouting for rema is the best solution. I almost never put "rema" in my shout ever.
IMO the best solution is to build pt base on reputation. You know, playing FFXI like MMO like Asurans favorite. Talk to people, pt with them more than a couple of times to "get" how they perform. When pt doesn't work sit down and discuss a good solution rather than complaining....Etc.
If more people do all these above then rema only mentality would finally go away.