Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
From what I understand of ARR's messy coding it's actually impossible to change what jobs can equip gear. That's why they had to make a replica set for the sky pirates stuff so they could make it equippable by everyone.
This seems doubtful, since they've been able to add AST, MCH, DRK, SAM, RDM, DNC and GNB to all existing role-appropriate gear. It can't be based on just role either, since there's no gear which fits all melee dps.

The hempen undergarments set in particular is technically not race-locked gear. Instead it has different appearance depending on the wearer's race. SE would have to split each item into a bunch of different versions, each of which would have a static appearance. And I suspect they would have to create the appearances for the races which currently don't have them.