Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
That's wrong in so many different ways. Go start a new character as any DoW class. I guarantee you that all of their weapons will have almost identical stats at rank 1. The same is true of armor, I'm certain. The fact is, the way it's set up now, rank 50 gear is as good or better than actual optimal rank gear in a number of cases, and that doesn't even take into account the stats on the higher rank gear such as +STR and +DEX.

Should it be that way? No, but there are, I feel, better solutions.
Let me clarify, I was being an A-Hole with that comment. I didn't mean it literally as in the stats naked would equal to be the same as if you were wearing gear painfully below optimal. Although, now on the subject, it certainly isn't that huge of a difference between the two. Hell, players were even able to complete darkhold wearing bikinis.