We appear to have lost a lot of armor

[SodaPop]

What I'm seeing is, among new gear, far less variation in what you can choose to wear.

Everything seems to be getting shoehorned in to Magic OR War OR Hand OR Land. ie: You can't choose to be a Thaumaturge, Goldsmith, Fisher and Pugulist and wear the same gear.

Actually, Thaumaturges can't wear the new shirts at all any more... *cry*

So in the end, each class is forced to pick between only two or three types of clothing.

((Disclaimer: If it is undyed, it doesn't count. It also doesn't count if the optimal rank is way out from your own.))

though to be fair if you were actually looking for stats that mattered for each job you couldn't wear the same stuff for all those classes before anyway, it was just that the stats barely mattered.