Required rank on all gear

[Zenaku]

Why shouldn't a R1 be allowed to wear R50 gear? In the optimal system they're not gaining any benefit from it, in fact they're hurting themselves for not wearing gear their rank. Does it make you feel less special? Sorry to hear we can't all be special R50 snowflakes. I know you want to lord your great "achievements" of gear over people but there's no other reason to want rank requirements. You can have goals with optimal, you can have class uniqueness with optimal, you can feel special with optimal. It all hinges upon the user being smart enough to actually wear the gear they're supposed to, apparently a lot of people are too stupid to do that.

Optimal works fine, the penalties just need to be shown more clearly. Obviously people need it spelled out for them in bright bold letters otherwise they won't see it. Maybe they should have a prompt pop up that says "Are you sure you want to equip this? Its optimal rank is above yours, you won't receive the full benefits from this piece of equipment."

Optimal would be great if they just made the penalties more visible. Optimal can exist alongside rank/class required gear.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=214
^ related, also hilarious.

Let's start by it about it not about showing off it about self accomplishment and self progression. Which causal and hardcore and many type of players is the main thing about a game.

You do understand that i'm not 50 which does not make me a snowflake? stop using the stereotype of snowflake to prove your point. Like everyone else who try and use a sterotype to prove a point like white knight,troll,want FFXI 2.0,casual,hardocore It wont help you and it sure wont prove your point.

So let's start by what i have said and many have said about this issue. This is not FFXI or WoW where you can just easy go and get the gear for a monstar drop or a dungeon. Most of all the gear that you need to level up with can't be found off random mobs or dungeon. Sure there NM now that drop some of the gear but does everyone have a level 50 class that can solo a mob to try and get the drop?

In FFXI everything drop off from a mob and only a few select item was craft. Which mean that in FFXIV it up to the craft to give out item that every player need. Not all the crafter in every singel servers are making low end gear or med range. I myself had to put up getting rank 40+ gear due not everyone selling the item and if by luck there one it's +1 +2 +3 and overprice to the point that cost 100+k for a item that cost less then 20k to make. So when the game economy run off the craft making and selling item and there no way of getting it by any other means is where the issue start.

This game is making you level up all the DOH/DOL so you can repair and make your own item. Due to the fact that no one sell low end item or med range item becuase no one is buying them becuase everyone end up using high 10+ level above there own. So if you lock by level Craft would start making and selling low and different color item. The merket ward would be full of NQ,HQ item. Even the DOL would be making loads of money due to the need of craft. So you and everyone here not likeing this idea going to sit there and not agree. So you can walk around with high end looking gear to show off?

There two thing that could fix this issue make it so many mobs in game drop every item. Then the craft wont even be high in demand becuase i can easy farm each item. Or people can farm them and sell it and undercut the DOH class. Or you can easy lock the item per level and make it so craft be in high demand and everyone can make money.

To fix the issue that other like wearing nice looking gear to show off? Easy make a system that allow you to copy / paste any gear you like in the game to your underwear or make lot's of good looking underwear to fix this issue.



Your pick so please stop with the snowflake and try and say there not a issue here. so you can go on wearing high level gear or w/e reason you want it for and give a good reason or a way to fix this issue just how i did now. Thank you and have a nice day sorry if you find this rude or anything just trying to prove my point.