I had retired from this thread but, but I cant believe its still going strong, that being said I feel even more strongly about mixing the gear than before simply based on poor game design. How can the game want to make specific gear but then on the other hand force u pretty much to share the highest optimal gear that you have per job. You cant be this lazy in my opinion if you want the job specific gear to mean something then you need to at least let us glamour it per job.
So basically if your a tank with how the system is set up now you can only have one job specific look you cant for instance have on all shire gear and then give your warrior a full set, and then try to give your pali a job specific set to. So basically it just leaves this gear as another piece of glamour that holds no significance because the game doesn't even allow you to glamour it per job unless you wear all different sets of gear to do so. So if the game is gona have a system that bad, then its no need to lock the gear behind a wall that they are basically saying doesn't even matter, because of their very on game design they make it to where you cant even wear full on job specific gear per job anyway.