question about current armour

Can’t understand what some armour favours....

Dated Bronze Chainmail
Level 12 Favours GLD, ARC, ARM, GSM, ALC, BTN
DEF 25, HP +22, STR +2

Why can't that armour be for Marauder or Lancer?

If my Marauder equipped it, would there be any penalty?

There are many armour like this.

Yes, there would be a big stat penalty for equipping it on a class that it does not favor.

defence would be lowered and you wouldn't get any of the str or hp bonuses

seems so convoluted, why not just only allow those classes to wear it? Are there situations where you would ever wear armour that does not 'favour' your class?

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Originally Posted by Nixius

seems so convoluted, why not just only allow those classes to wear it? Are there situations where you would ever wear armour that does not 'favour' your class?

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its dated, its the old system. penalty's weren't as bad before. the gear is slowly being worked out of the system.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

its dated, its the old system. penalty's weren't as bad before. the gear is slowly being worked out of the system.

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Fair enough! I shall avoid it then, thanks ^

Assume that any gear maked Dated will not be in 2.0.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

its dated, its the old system. penalty's weren't as bad before. the gear is slowly being worked out of the system.

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This, and sometimes it's easier to carry just one (or a few) set of gear for your various classes rather than gear them separately at every 5 levels

Unless you have a damn good reason, you should never be using dated gear. The newer stuff generally has better stats, is more fair when it comes to classes that can use it, and can use materia.

Is not knowing any better a reason?? Lol... Half of my gear is dated!