Required rank on all gear

[Rubicon]

My hope now is back to where it was: End game players will play with end game/NM dropped gear that is easily recognizable as top gear so there is no confusion to whether someone is geared optimally for their rank/job. That and each job has a set of gear that defines them like Artifact Armor did in FFXI. I suppose this is what will happen and I will survive. I know you all were concerned.

[KiniRyris]

Oscillate_Wildly's sig scares me. just sayin lol

[Felis]

Overall I'm very happy to see this. I can understand why some are opposed to it though.

The way I see it, it'll force us to use multiple different sets of gear on our way up to rank 50. With each new set of gear we equip, we can turn the old into materia and enhance it, if you choose to do so.

This also prevents exploitation of the spiritbond system (ie: cap spiritbond on multiple high rank pieces as you progress), assuming that higher rank equipment will yield materia superior to that of lower rank equipment.

Only if you play one class to 50 after another. But if you play many classes with different ranks you end up with a 100/100 inventory with 80% gear only.

[Kraggy]

Forcing people to re-gear every few levels is unacceptable if the old gear can't be sold on without having to find a crafter to repair it: make the NPCs repair to 100% so I can sell my out of date gear then fine, otherwise I certainly won't be letting myself be at the mercy of price-gouging crafters every 5 levels.

[Arduous_Soul]

I agree, I actually hate wearing gear that is over my rank, and whenever I look at the wards there is a complete saturation of higher level gear over the lower ones. Forcing anyone at lower ranks to have no choice but buy the higher ranked gear because of availability and price (because people mark up lower ranked gear due to it being rare).

[Mikita]

The reasons there is a shortage of lower level gear in the market wards is because:

1. There is only a small number of new players coming in to the game overall, so the pool of low rank crafters is small.

2. There is almost no incentive for advanced crafters to make low rank gear to keep the marketplace stocked.


My suggestions:

1. There are NPCs in the middle of the market wards that sell low level gear. Check to see what they sell.

2. Make friends and join a new-player-friendly LS with higher level players who like to help.

3. Ask in public /say or /shout. Use words like "Please" and explain that you are a new player who would really appreciate help in obtaining rank-appropriate gear.

I'd bet that there are some friendly crafters on your server who don't care about gil and will gladly help you.

Good luck. ^^

[Nixius]

+1 for required rank gear!

[Shneibel]

The system now make me

A: Make me level up a craft to wear gear for my level. Due to no one selling the item i needed for my level. If the item is in stock it be HQ and overprice so why buy it?

B: If item is in stock it be other color from the other item i bought so my fashion is gone due many diff type of color parts.

C: The DOH are not making much money due to them only selling the item that most people buy. So mean that more and more craft would undercut or overprice there items. Which then mean the

C-1: DOL only would sell the item that is needed to make that type of item and top of that there not making a lot of money with other junk.

If you lock the gear to people level it would make craft sell every item for every level and they even sell more diff colors. They would make profit for everyone even the DOL.

Make a system that allow you to copy/paste any gear in the game to your underwear which then allow you to wear it for looks.

They can't make that every item drop from a mob or a dungeon like FFXI due to how FFXIV layout is set. The crafting job are the only one that make 98% of all gear in this game.

So stop thinking i'm penalizing players when i came up with hard core facts and issue why they should not be allow. I even made a idea how we would fix it for players who like wearing gear only for looks. If you want the DOL/DOH to make more profit and people to waste more money this is the best way. Right now people are holding on to 10+mil due to them not buying every gear every time they need a upgrade. "Note: you don't have to buy every time you need a upgrade you could wear the same gear and wait a little longer for a new set then buying each upgrade" like what most people did in FFXI if i was going to a party and you know you going to get 5 level no need to buy a gear set for each level just wait and see what level you get and you buy from there.


I don't need pity but i'm LD so i know i have issue with grammar i hope you can understand what i said now.

YOU dont have to lvl a DoH if you check the ward and wear the item above your rank for a few r, wearing a example r25 gear as r1 dont hurt and I found that the r25 gear is 5k (besaid) while craft the low r gear can cost to 5k for a r15 gear or more and you ll have to buy the r25 , do you do your calculate ? pretty sure you dont

YOU re wrong in this point as well, MY char is a r21 BSM (main) and when I was r15 I can already make 400k for sell r10 and r20 axe (besaid) w/o lvl a DoW to get the reward money, DoH dont make money on low r equip ?

there are nothing call JUNK in DoL, all the item they get from gather are money, learne to use em and sell em

and NO to rank required to the current item, the imo need to have class specific gear with required the correct job and rank to wear WITH random gear Beside to support with either replace the current missing piece or to lvl your alternative class that are not your focus class

[Pyrix]

Yeah no current system is fine. Some gear has requirements, others are merely optimal. It has BOTH. It doesn't need to be changed. Go away.

[Aion]

why people dislikes options......