Required rank on all gear

[Oscillate_Wildly]

Yeah that ^
Cool signature, btw!
Not you, Oscillate_Wildly.
Not you.

)':

Cue single tear...

[Reinheart]

now that makes more sense...

[Ashaylin]

Lol... Thanks Bay.

[Mikita]

Sorry guys, it seems there was some miscommunication earlier on this, and it took awhile to clarify the situation. I've updated my original post in the thread and will copy it here for viability. This was speaking specifically to NM and other content-related gear, and not a blanket removal of the Optimal Rank system. I really apologize for the confusion my post caused!

I am soooooooo relieved!

I also just wasted a lot of gil going on a major shopping spree for the past couple of hours. ><;

[Arcell]

I think Bayohne did it intentionally just to see what would happen.

[Fensfield]

Well, thank goodness. I think. That's one less thing on my plate, lord knows I needed that.

My head hurts x.x

I wish we could have development blogs like the ones EVE puts out.. you know they released telemetry readouts from the server the other day? And a detailed chart of how the game handles object tracking a few months back?

Still I suppose that's the price of dedicating to being multilingual..

(And yes, before someone jumps me, I know such blogs would be in Japanese, but still)

[Oscillate_Wildly]

I think Bayohne did it intentionally just to see what would happen.

We had this same level of paranoia and panic over a vague statement about the crafting system too.
IT WAS CRAZY.

[Cape-Freak]

Ah! The clarifications are a relief! And I think that's a good way to handle it, having restrictions on dropped (or similar) gear and optimal rank on crafted gear. Makes a certain amount of sense.

Much thanks to our community team, their hard work and dedication and putting up with our occasional rants

[Zenaku]

Pretty much this "It going to happen this way" They saw what everyone on here was QQ and they go omg we can't do this they going to quit. Ok sorry guys it was miscommunication. "Joking btw"

So are the new item going to be level limit or it was all a miscommunication can someone explain what going on here to me?

[Arcell]

Glad we got clarification before anything terrible happened. I mean it would have been really embarrassing if someone said something like:

I guess SE agree with most of us the Optimal rank is not the way to go at least the made gear would still be allow to be used at any level. Then any new gear would have a level limit put on it sound very good i like this. this is also one of the idea i said a few post back i guess SE really thought about it also.

....oh wait >.>

New recipes will still have optimal rank on them, the whole bit about recipes was unrelated to rank restrictions.