[QUOTE=Vejjiegirl;2634405]Quoting this from another thread:[QUOTE=Vejjiegirl;2634391][QUOTE=Tupsi;2634321]Until those of you against it can state how the items on the cash shop are mandatory, you can't argue against it being optional. Optional means it's not mandatory.[/QUOTE]
 A Friend of mine was walking around in a full Arachne Set

[URL="http://xivdb.com/?item/9063/Arachne-Robe"][COLOR="green"]Arachne Robe[/COLOR][/URL][B] (goes for 1mil)[/B]
[URL="http://xivdb.com/?item/9065/Arachne-Culottes-of-Healing"][COLOR="green"]Arachne Culottes Of Healing[/COLOR][/URL][B] (goes for 1.4mil)[/B]
[URL="http://xivdb.com/?item/9064/Kirimu-Gloves-of-Healing"][COLOR="green"]Kirimu Gloves Of Healing[/COLOR][/URL] [B](goes for 800k-1mil)[/B]
[URL="http://xivdb.com/?item/9066/Kirimu-Boots-of-Healing"][COLOR="green"]Kirimu Boots Of Healing[/COLOR][/URL] [B](goes for 1mil)[/B]
[URL="http://xivdb.com/?item/9062/Platinum-Circlet-of-Healing"][COLOR="green"]Platinum Circlet Of Healing[/COLOR][/URL] [B](goes for about 500k->1mil)[/B]
Thats around  [B]4700000-> 5400000 gil.[/B]

For a player that just got to level 50 it was a pretty big jump to go from i50->i110(HQ) in just a few minutes.
I asked them how they did it, guess what they did.

Bought [I]$40.00 Platinum Plan[/I], and sold the [B]Promise of Devotion[/B] for about [B]5mil[/B] each.

Its not mandatory but if you have the money to spend it can get you a huge boost.

Think of it as an [B][I]"Optional"[/I][/B] Power boost.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]