Split Light Armor between Ranged and Melee jobs

[Kincard]

Ogier's is not Chainmail-class, it's Heavy in their new-ish gear system. After VW they've simplified the way gear is distributed through a simpler Heavy/Light/Mage system. In some ways I kinda prefer the older way of them having the lore tied to what armors you could wear, but I guess that isn't very conducive to good gameplay. (IE Ninjas could wear Chainmail, but not Scale Mail because the latter is too noisy)

If they were still using the old gear system something that looked like Ogier's would probably only be accesible to WAR PLD DRK. DRG was never really much of a heavy armor wearer (It stuck to scale mail mostly), SAM always wore Eastern Armors and BST usually wore Banded Mail/Chainmail at the heaviest.

I vote BRD to be included in the light armor sets since they can also equip some of the best daggers in all of FFXI.

Yeah, this too. Probably some other jobs that slip my mind on where overlap should be, but the basic idea is that if they want to have like 15 different hybrid classes in the game they should really allow them to actually wear more than one type of armor.

If you wanted me to be honest I'd rather they drop this whole Heavy/Light/Mage gearing paradigm while they're ahead because it really makes gearing a lot less interesting. You'll just end up with having 22 jobs being shoehorned into one of 3 categories of armor outside of JSE, and that's no fun.

[ManaKing]

Guys there are only 3 jobs in this game. That's why there are only 3 sets of armor. Don't you see? That's clearly the answer.

[darkhorror]

I have noticed this also, usually these set's seem to have a single piece that works for Ranged attacks while all the rest have nothing or about nothing to help ranged.

[Xerius]

They could make the ranged attacks not suck so much for the jobs on the equipment. If you don't have /RNG or /COR. I suppose that's beyond a dream at this point though. <sarcasm> I mean, they have to know that THF's aren't equipping Aliyat Chakrams because of it's damage stat and our crazy over-powered throwing skill. </sarcasm>