How does a tank get to Lv20+ content without a single Lv10+ piece of gear?
Just had a Halatali run.
Thankfully Halatali is still easy enough regardless but I fall into a party with a tank that almost dies during the first pull despite the healer doing their job.
I thought it was weird. The tank was extremely squishy and they had... barely 20 more HP than the party's BRD. And less HP than everyone else. Used examine on them... they were wearing Lv1 gear. Except for their weapon.
I asked directly "why are you wearing lv1 gear". They say they "forgot to buy new gear in town".
I didn't ask further or point out how that made absolutely no sense because one of the DPS was defending them already going "dw I forget to buy gear all the time" and I had a feeling it'd start a fight.
So tell me. How? HOW?!
The MSQ hands over gear pieces to you very often.
Since this is Halatali the tank had to go through the first three dungeons at least, and those ALWAYS DROP A GEAR PIECE FOR YOUR JOB IN YOUR INVENTORY. That's assuming he never got tank gear from the chests. Which is not impossible but still takes some real bad luck if we're talking 3 dungeons, assuming he only ran each once. To say nothing of the fact they'd need to be extreeeemely unlucky as to not drop Disciple of War gear in general since tanks could wear that too in the early levels.
I'm not gonna give them flack for not doing Hall of the Novice for the free Lv15 gear pieces, EVEN THOUGH THE GAME POINTS YOU TO IT TWICE DURING THE MSQ, but you need to put some serious effort to get to this point without at least some Lv1X gear.
This is but one of the many ridiculous DF moments I've been experiencing on Dynamis by the way. I get it, Dynamis is where most sprouts start, but I've been playing since Heavensward launched and I have never encountered characters like these until I started queueing there.
I can't wait for the Aether players to start queueing with Dynamis when the region-wide DF and PF get implemented. You're in for a rude awakening.