"Need" should check ilevel

[ispano]

Kind of obnoxious to see a warrior axe drop from Ifrit only to see someone with dual haken take it over the guy using a GC weapon. Or seeing someone in AF2 snatch out a piece of CT gear over someone in darklight or AK gear "for their vanity set".

For the CT quote, SE even mentioned Vanity when they talked about it, so you're not going to get much help on that end. Some people place vanity higher than stats, they don't have any less right to the item.