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

[Tsuga]

Get this on your thick head: We are - NOT - talking about using gear with god knows how many levels difference and it still being useful; we are talking about being able to use gear with 3-5 level dif and it properly punishing the player without being completely useless, thus allowing quick class changing without the need for multiple gear sets and macros just because you might want to mine a single node and two and go back to killing things. This was the whole mentality behind the optmal level system, NOT using level 50 gear on you R25 character while you raid Toto-Rak.

Optimal Level gear will still be in the game if that is what you're arguing for.

Yoshi-P saying it doesn't mean some people might not completely agree with him and can't provide a few arguments against it, even tho we all know this won't change. This is what we're all doing here, by the way.

No, the OP is claiming that the current system doesn't work, when it works best according to the devs, and the majority of the player base.

Wait. You're the ones saying people shouldn't be using gear a few levels above them just because people are too dumb to properly gear themsellfs (false), that everyone will just buy level 50 gear (false), and, let's be honest here, because that just happens to be the system you're more confortable with, and 'we' are the selfish ones?

All of my points come from experience. I see people wearing gear that is not "optimal" for them on a daily basis. Also I am arguing for the current system because it is a system that works and is more user friendly for most of the community that is in the game, as well as potential subscribers. I am also arguing for the current system because it helps with instance, boss, materia, and job/class/level balance. All of which influence a more healthy game than your "I don't want to have to carry multiple sets of gear on me" argument. You have 200 friggin' item slots. I carry gear for 4 different classes at a time, and still have room to spare (and I did so before the inventory boost). Your other arguments were stronger than that.