Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
Moving forward, all gear that is introduced will have requirements placed on them as we will be phasing out the "Optimal Rank" system. With new recipes being introduced in 1.19, the old recipes will be lost and it will not be possible to make that gear anymore going forward. So only the currently existing versions that exist prior to the change will feature "Optimal Rank" features.
Would it be possible to get some sort of reasoning as to why the devs are making this decision? Personally, I'm rather disappointed that they're completely doing away with the optimal rank feature (though I'll deal with it, I suppose...) as it seems like it would be easy enough to have both optimal and required rank gear coexist.

I'll also add that while I haven't entirely agreed with every change that has been made or proposed so far, this is the only one that I disagree with enough that I'd consider it to be a negative decision - though, of course, I also realize that this is only my personal opinion. Still, I'd be curious to know why the decision was made the way it was.