Required Rank vs Optimal Rank

[kukurumei]

1 - What others wears have no effect on your actual gameplay. Really, I can't see a problem in the fact that someone out there is *gasp* using a Vintage Haubergeon on their lower level classes. What a crime against humanity.

2 - if he has that gear it most likely means that he worked for it, so even that kind of argument is void.

Not really. A little coin or hand me down, and it's yours, and it ruins the economy as well, as you have no reusability.

It's a decently bad system in the long run. Nice idea, badly thought out. It needs to feel so bad , there is no way a lvl 1 would ever want to wear that lvl 50 for example.