Why are not all accessories locked behind jobs, including the old ones ?

[ArturiaPendragoon]

Hi I'm a new player in Final Fantasy 14. I got to the end of the game today. When I was levelling, I found out I could STILL wear all the old accessories pre-SB normally. This has gotta be a bug right ? I am playing tank, and I see that in this game, Strength is the attribute that gave me attack power; so I figure, I can just wear as many Strength rings as I want if I want the extra attack power - I thought I could not though because of the Stormblood patch notes.
If this is a technical problem, please fix this Square Enix. I think it's very deluding. Maybe a new player like me who does not know the game will still wear .... Vitality accs for example, to have more HP because they think they need it to survive, but they missed the fact that DPS should just do more damage by wearing the best gear that gives you the most attack power increase stat. It is not stable too, that the Stormblood accessories are locked behind jobs as intended but not the old accessories, that is really stupid.

[Kling-Klang]

Please dont lock the old ones, removing more glamour options like that. -.-

[Mimilu]

From what I remember, the devs said that going on accessories will be Class/Job locked. They probably were worried because of all the tank-mains wearing STR accessories going into SB.

[akaneakki]

From what I remember, the devs said that going on accessories will be Class/Job locked. They probably were worried because of all the tank-mains wearing STR accessories going into SB.

No it was because people ilvl cheat into dungeon trials or raids. Main reason since some people thought mnd was good on smn for example. But would also say a little bit of what you said. Scale good players down to bad ones.

[AsahinaMyLove]

From what I remember, the devs said that going on accessories will be Class/Job locked. They probably were worried because of all the tank-mains wearing STR accessories going into SB.

Because of the ridicolous tank nerf VIT = HP ONLY.... <.<a Im wearing ilvl270 STR Accessories as a protest and to DO actually damage! I wont wear any VIT Accessories till they change it back! > As Paladin: with full ilvl270 of STR Acc's, the damage raised ALOT! Alone Auto atk fraised from tiny 700 to 1000! Not to mention all other atk skills >-> Why bother with SB Acc's if they only boost your Max HP...? So yeah.. soon we will have "tanks" full of STR gears in raids back... thanks SE...

[KageTokage]

I still see tanks wearing the SB STR accessories even at level 70.

It's rather annoying to encounter them while doing hunts, because they pull aggro off me really easily but strain the healers a lot more when the tank busters are nearly OHKOing them because of their lack of HP.

They could just use their DPS stance and let the tanks geared for tanking handle it, but I guess they want to hog the glory or something.

[Mimilu]

No it was because people ilvl cheat into dungeon trials or raids. Main reason since some people thought mnd was good on smn for example. But would also say a little bit of what you said. Scale good players down to bad ones.

I meant the reason why the devs didn't lock older accessories, not the reason for job-locking in general.

[YitharV2]

Shhh... It won't be until like 4.2 or so when substats from tank accessories outweigh the bonus from i270 STR accessories so stop letting SE know about it

[Rita1989]

The official reason they gave for locking accessories to jobs was not to confuse new players that might put strength on Bard or something but if they are going to base tank dps off strength then we should be able to equip them as well.

[Tint]

The official reason they gave for locking accessories to jobs was not to confuse new players that might put strength on Bard or something but if they are going to base tank dps off strength then we should be able to equip them as well.

lol if THAT was the reason then they actually should job-lock the old accessories, not the new ones. it's new players with old gear who may get confused, not people who played until they reached lvl 60 and suddenly realize they used the wrong accessories the whole time... o.ô;
even if such people exist - and we know they do - why directing them into the correct accessories at lvl 60 and not at lvl 1?