Quote Originally Posted by Flassk View Post
...there are sets of crafted gear and occasional pieces that although they show tankish stats, they list lnc/drg as a class that CAN wear it, but we're unable to roll on it. also, there's no lnc/drg only gear below level 40 and if there is, i've made it to 50 without finding it. they're literally restricted to rolling on bard/monk gear until you hit around level 40 and even then the pieces are sparsely strewn throughout existence till you get your relic armor, so you're stuck with ill-itemized crap for about 90% of the game.
None of the classes/jobs have class-only gear below level 40.
Getting stuck with "ill-itemized crap" is pretty much how it is until you get to endgame at 50, complete your artifacts, move on to DL and/or CT, and so on until you get to i90.