Quote Originally Posted by SilverObi View Post
I've always viewed the AF gear being locked as a concession to the devs, working with their constant line against it "job identity/you won't know what job someone is". Like sure we can see in the UI what job someone is. We can look at their weapon to see what they are. We can EXAMINE them to be very sure. But ok ok let's earmark a set of gear that is always job locked to avoid possible confusion.

But really it wasn't an issue in FFXI and it wouldn't be an issue here. So either they think we are that thick (sometimes they're right) or it's rightfully a lame deflection instead of just being frank and saying "No." but that's part of the culture there of course.
Except we have plenty of examples of gear that isn’t role locked that could very easily be confused for AF gear. The new Heavensturn set is indistinguishable from Samurai’s AF aesthetic. If you set it up against the three existing sets and the new DT set, and asked random people which was not samurai exclusive gear, you would never get a consistent answer, because people would just have to guess.

Quite literally the only difference between AF gear and other sets at this point is one has “Gucci” on the tag, and the others don’t.