Think new players have no chance, unless they devote their lives to this game?
Probably the dumbest comment I've ever heard. What do you expect when you play a new RPG game for a console. To have everything available to you at level 1? Course not, your gear gradually gets better and better as you work through the game for it. Same thing applies to Ragnarok, as it should. Not really sure what dreamland you came from, but where I came from gears aren't just dwindling from tree branches for the picking.