Required Rank vs Optimal Rank

[Reika]

I always thought since the beginning optimal rank equipment should have had a much steeper penalty for equipping it on a class below the optimal rank. But it is probably easier for them to add the rank required equipment instead. I suspect all the equipment we will see added from here on out will have required ranks.

If they did this from the beginning however, there would have been no end to the inventory issues. Now that inventories are starting to get more space due to some of the changes, it might not be much of an issue. It will be even less of an issue for those that already have everything ranked up.