Darklight/ Relic Armor Exchange system?

[Losian]

Now all the darklight gear I spent hours grinding for is going to waste.

I hate to break it to you, but that's 99% of MMOs at level cap. The only reason you are playing at 50 is to get better gear. When you get better gear, your old gear becomes useless. That's all there is to it, it's the absolute single focus and flaw of all games which are 100% item-based progression at level cap. Did you really expect it to not be useless? The game revolves around grinding a bunch at cap to get stuff, so you can get other stuff.. it'll eventually be worthless. That's the whole idea. I'm not sure where the impression that working hard for something means it will be forever relevant, because frankly it won't, and attempting to keep it so will just further handicap those who have started more recently and hurt the game itself (like XI's constant relic upgrades.. it absolutely stifled any weapon/shield upgrades indefinitely. It's a horrid design choice!)

[Arkista]

I hate to break it to you, but that's 99% of MMOs at level cap. The only reason you are playing at 50 is to get better gear. When you get better gear, your old gear becomes useless. That's all there is to it, it's the absolute single focus and flaw of all games which are 100% item-based progression at level cap. Did you really expect it to not be useless? The game revolves around grinding a bunch at cap to get stuff, so you can get other stuff.. it'll eventually be worthless. That's the whole idea. I'm not sure where the impression that working hard for something means it will be forever relevant, because frankly it won't, and attempting to keep it so will just further handicap those who have started more recently and hurt the game itself (like XI's constant relic upgrades.. it absolutely stifled any weapon/shield upgrades indefinitely. It's a horrid design choice!)

I'm sorry the only other MMO I played was FFXI for almost 9 years and there was plenty of gear that was old and still viable at level cap 75-99 "Raja's Ring" for example up until recently was still awesome to have. Usually the much harder/grinding gear was still good even as level cap increased.

I never played other MMOs outside of FFXI/XIV so Idk how gear was, But in XI many jobs could use the same piece of gear. FFXIV I can't Share my MNK gear with my DRG,BRD,WAR,PLD and still do my job effectively. But in FFXI I could share the same gear for many jobs example Thaumas I could use it for my BLU,THF,NIN and I didn't have to do NNI to gear each job separately outside of Nares and Phorcys. The thing this game lack is sharing the same gear for multiple jobs.

The system is meant to take the gear we already used and is no longer of any use to us because we have already gotten better gear and then exchange it to help ease up the grind to gear for another job.

So yes I understand that once you get better gear you old gear is Crap, Garbage, Obsolete.

I don't even see how any type of system can "Handicap" a new player or hurt the system, if anything it would help a new player out in gearing up a new job once they can replace DL/Relic.