Quote Originally Posted by Orophen View Post
Okay, I've seen this argument floating around for a while now. It's seriously kind of bugging me. If you can't look at the gear that's out there and see that it works for you and work towards it as a goal because it makes you better at your job... then I dunno what's going on.
You clearly understand it then -- You look towards gear to work toward, however if you can wear it at whatever level you please, you're not working toward it as you can put it on now, and suffice to say the current penalty to wearing less than optimal rank gear isn't big enough to keep that goal where as locking the gear out till said rank will keep the goal intact as you're leveling to wearing that nice piece of armor you have your eye on or leveling to wield that demonic sword that shoots skulls.

It's not about being special, it's about the game giving you a goal to toward -- I don't play to just dress up my character in any attire, I play to experience the storyline and further my class which includes gaining the best gear possible, but if I can do this at rank 1, what's the point of having DoW or DoM gear if you're just going to forgo every other requirement that should be used? Clearly Yoshida agrees that there needs to be requirements on gear so the debate is pretty much done with in general, but while this is a role playing game, it's also about striving for goals, and I'm not going to artificially handicap myself from gear.