My opinion about sims is use it if you want, I'm not your mom, but if you apply to my static, you better be able to learn difficult mechs within a reasonable amount of time without sims
I prefer to learn mechs without it but I'm not gonna be the one stopping ppl from using it
The sim/lb3 chatter floating around is hilarious, but at the same time so depressing. Who cares if others want to sim. Join parties that align with the way you want to play the game and chill the hell out. These same folks critiquing are probably in UCOB lb3'ing Grand Octet LOL.
Everyone blatantly shitting on the event could just take a sec to realize that there's volunteers and real people who are putting on this event, people from all over not just xiv and there were indeed plenty of us more experienced players posting resources for all of us to use...