Required Class/Rank failed - Can we have Optimal Rank and Favoured Class back?

[Wynn]

No!
Too many options to choose from, that confuses people!
He's shouldn't be wearing L30 pants on his L27 character!
He is wearing the same gear as me after paying the same price or getting someone to craft it for him the same way someone made for me!
Changing from Archer to Pugilist should make you forget how to not let your hat fall from your head!

Is that sarcasm I smell? :P

LOL @ confusing people

Seriously. I can't help but wonder if we are getting dumber as a species instead of smarter. Do we really need to pigeonhole everyone into a specific set of gear AND color code it just so we can identify what their role is? It's even funnier that most of the people for this kind of crap are self proclaimed "hardcore" players who think they are so good but they need this kind of help just to tell who their tank is. It boggles the mind.

[Tsuga]

snip.

Why should we need tutorials to know how gear works? It should be self explanatory. The problem with the old system is that it was in no way self explanatory, just like the wards are in no way self explanatory, just like leves are in no way self explanatory. If you need tutorials for the most BASIC of features in the game, then those features are broken, and not streamlined. I should not need to micromanage every little stat on every single piece of gear and between a handful of pieces that are "recommended" to me to know what is good for the class that I am currently playing. The old system was too cluttered, and too misleading. It was not user friendly and so it is getting abolished.

Honestly, I spent an hour last night explaining systems to a newbie that should be self explanatory as functions of an RPG. When you try to reinvent the wheel, it usually doesn't work. It's not innovation, it's clutter, and I'm glad they're getting rid of it.

If you want to wear whatever for aesthetics, then I'm all for an aesthetic gear tab (ala, where you can equip anything to simply change your look, but not stats). But wearing the same gear across levels and disciplines is pointlessly complicating what is currently a streamlined system.

[Dragon]

Honestly.

It's just getting annoying now. Why do I have to be stripped to the bones every single time I want to craft something on a different class? Why can't my gear just scale down accordingly? If you ask me, it was better before patch 1.19.

As long as the UI shows me what stats I'm losing out on (and now it does), that is suggestive enough for me to want to wear something else, but also not imposing enough that I HAVE to wear something else. The optimal rank was flexible. This new system is just flat-out punishing. It's more punishing than fatigue.

Can I have fatigue back? I'd rather have fatigue back than this.

And the mannequin system isn't a solution because A) It's 1.5 years away and B) just give us optimal and favoured back instead.

I couldn't even wear a R18 dagger as a R15 gladiator merely because i wasn't high enough for it. I mean really... really... It was the lowest one available in wards so I had to buy a dated one which was a few ranks higher because i could actually WEAR that one.

So in conclusion: bring back optimal/favoured system.

• It was a progressive step for an MMO where you are constantly changing classes.
• It was also much better than restrictions because it allowed you some flexibility to play the way you wanted and also look the way you wanted
• Restrictions are punishing
• Restrictions make you buy stupid stuff from the wards

Just leave restrictive gear for AF stuff or something. There's no reason to get all crazy and heavy-handed about restrictions just because the polls suggested players wanted some restrictive gear. It's really not balanced at the moment.

For all the time I've spent defending the "Optional/Optimal" system since Alpha, I don't see the problem with the new system. There are certain gear sets that should NEVER be equippable by just anyone.

[Nakiamiie]

Honestly.

It's just getting annoying now. Why do I have to be stripped to the bones every single time I want to craft something on a different class? Why can't my gear just scale down accordingly? If you ask me, it was better before patch 1.19.

As long as the UI shows me what stats I'm losing out on (and now it does), that is suggestive enough for me to want to wear something else, but also not imposing enough that I HAVE to wear something else. The optimal rank was flexible. This new system is just flat-out punishing. It's more punishing than fatigue.

Can I have fatigue back? I'd rather have fatigue back than this.

And the mannequin system isn't a solution because A) It's 1.5 years away and B) just give us optimal and favoured back instead.

I couldn't even wear a R18 dagger as a R15 gladiator merely because i wasn't high enough for it. I mean really... really... It was the lowest one available in wards so I had to buy a dated one which was a few ranks higher because i could actually WEAR that one.

So in conclusion: bring back optimal/favoured system.

• It was a progressive step for an MMO where you are constantly changing classes.
• It was also much better than restrictions because it allowed you some flexibility to play the way you wanted and also look the way you wanted
• Restrictions are punishing
• Restrictions make you buy stupid stuff from the wards

Just leave restrictive gear for AF stuff or something. There's no reason to get all crazy and heavy-handed about restrictions just because the polls suggested players wanted some restrictive gear. It's really not balanced at the moment.

I totally support that! I much prefer optimal class and favoured class.

[Alerith]

Plate wearing mages....no thanks. It's already a nightmare getting them to gear at all, let alone with proper gear.

[Drunk-Bandit]

Your post will get a lot of likes, because this community likes to like posts like yours.

But anyway. Couldn't you argue that FFXIV had a optimal/favoured system for a year and it worked fine. No complaints.

Maybe you should have taken your own advice and stopped "QQing" when you had the chance before you helped encourage the devs to ruin a perfectly good system.

Ooooh Crap.... lol obvious troll.... ~.~

[mysterytaru]

Was wondering when you'd show up again and it's even less surprising that you're beating on this dead horse again. Were the last 5 forum account bans not enough to figure out you're not wanted, gifthorse? You might as well have just revived your last topic on it instead.

[Drunk-Bandit]

Was wondering when you'd show up again and it's even less surprising that you're beating on this dead horse again. Were the last 5 forum account bans not enough to figure out you're not wanted, gifthorse? You might as well have just revived your last topic on it instead.

LOL Wait.... Alyosha17 is that you?! O.O

[mysterytaru]

LOL Wait.... Alyosha17 is that you?! O.O

O.o? *confused*

[UmJammerSully]

Your post will get a lot of likes, because this community likes to like posts like yours.

We like to like posts that we agree with? Yeah, that's generally how it works...

The majority of people prefer required level over optimal level. That's why there's less people agreeing with you. It's that simple.