Required rank on all gear

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Yes, a huge achievement compared to someone who can't afford those stuff even more if it's HQ/NM made.

And for the record, try Anarchy Online, try twinking high quality gear on low level characters. It's mind blowing mathematical challenge compare to grind to meet "level requirement" (which you can do but you are a total noob if you do that in the game).

You're defending the current implementation of equipping gear by comparing it to a game I played for over 5 years... I'm not even going to get into talking about AO and implants to equip implants because it has no bearing or relevance on this discussion at all.