Required Rank vs Optimal Rank

[kukurumei]

It's the rebellious stage, where they think they are better then the community, and when it becomes trouble for the community, they claim right of progress.

"If I want to stand in the middle of the street naked I can!" Types.

[DeadRiser]

Nobody buys the lower ranked items created anymore. I wish the majority of things had a required rank. You wouldn't see r15 in r50 gear all the time

[Fixy]

on my lvl 19 rank puglist i have an optimal rank 33 weapon.(spiked knuckles) when i equip an optimal rank 22 weapon (brass knuckles i believe) i lose 10 attack.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Fixy]

If you equip the optimal weapons for a R19 PGL which are dodoskin cesti, not only will the stats be better (full stats of the weapon) but you'll lose durability slower.

sure if they existed.

[Fixy]

You realize you can buy them from 4 different NPC vendors if no one has any in bazaar, right?

ye let me bust out 90k gil

[Kaizlu]

If you equip the optimal weapons for a R19 PGL which are dodoskin cesti, not only will the stats be better (full stats of the weapon) but you'll lose durability slower.

And sadly he had to post that to know that information. This is the kind of information that needs to be in-game. Or at least color some fonts to red. I was like him/her/? and only used gear higher than my rank, I learned the hard way x(

[Firon]

If anything they should just add an debuff for not wearing the right gear in battle like -15% to the stats the gear gives