I think it is good to have some item as untradable, however, I found that all of the new gear now tend to be like this. Especially all the good ones. Come on! you gonna make gil worthless or what? and you not want to give lucky players chance to sell their new gear for high price? My LS mate just randomly get one R50 new gear who couldn't make use of from a random PT. The random PT didn't have distribution rule, and now he can't even sell it, so it gonna stuck in his retainer until one day he want to play mage..

Really, I think new gear should always come in mix between untradable and tradable. none of them should have tier above one another too. But now, this game have been favor only untradable gear since 1.17.