Required rank on all gear

[Lienn]

Well like I said before Dungeon stuff, or NM stuff I understand it being class specific those make sense. I'm talking more towards crafted gear being open, unless it's gears such as Tricone or w/e that uses NM dropped materials, or say FFXI Artifact should stick to that class only with rank requirement.

I agree with NM and endgame gear having class, rank or both as restrictions...but having restrictions at common gear makes no sense at all. I really hope they don't screw up the optimal rank/favor systems of crafted armors...it was one of the most creatives points of this game (also adding a brand new way of RPing without requiring external help, like dat swap and stuff) and now it just feels like the dev team is just being forced to move to FFXI system...sometimes i just feel like they have no option at all, that decisions came from SE superiors and that Yoshida is there as a scapegoat only.

About AFs, i see no use in placing rank restriction since it probably will be quested. If you require MRD 50 to unlock its AF quest and its AF is MRD only then it obviously will be a r50 gear ^^

[Leknaat]

I get the impression that SE never once assumed we'd have multiple r50 jobs in like 1 year let alone some people having all jobs at r50 by 5 months into the game. Now they're trying find creative ways to slow us down or 'encourage' us to settle into just one role maybe one craft/combat/gathering at most.

Straining our inventory is one way to deter people. /frumps at the potentially -18 inventory slots of having 2x earrings and choker of each element... in addition to the 18 rings I already have... /facepalm

(Then there's the accessory limit problem) /sigh

[Kikosho]

I get the impression that SE never once assumed we'd have multiple r50 jobs in like 1 year let alone some people having all jobs at r50 by 5 months into the game. Now they're trying find creative ways to slow us down or 'encourage' us to settle into just one role maybe one craft/combat/gathering at most.

Straining our inventory is one way to deter people. /frumps at the potentially -18 inventory slots of having 2x earrings and choker of each element... in addition to the 18 rings I already have... /facepalm

(Then there's the accessory limit problem) /sigh

Encouraging us to settle on one class just goes against the entire selling point of the armory system. The way they built the game, it encourages people to multi-class. As it is, optimal/favors is there to help us with changing classes and inventory issues. Course classes are being rebalanced and abilities swapping so cross classing might not be as savory.

Also, QQing over a low level wearing high level gear is not a legitimate excuse for abolishing it either. The fact someone is wearing it means they earned it, either by killing the NM/instance/whatever or purchasing it (assuming it wasn't RMTed). Regardless, it doesn't affect people's gameplay unless they are in a party with you.. in which case, you can always choose not to party with the individual.

I do think they should at least add some other element to wearing gear below optimal level along with showing the diminished stats according to your current class and rank. As retarded as it may sound, add fatigue after a certain amount of time for wearing gear suboptimal, time determined by the level/class difference. HP sap, mp sap, something. You maintain the freedom to at least gear yourself if you're out in BFE.

[Rhomagus]

Encouraging us to settle on one class just goes against the entire selling point of the armory system. The way they built the game, it encourages people to multi-class. As it is, optimal/favors is there to help us with changing classes and inventory issues. Course classes are being rebalanced and abilities swapping so cross classing might not be as savory.

Also, QQing over a low level wearing high level gear is not a legitimate excuse for abolishing it either. The fact someone is wearing it means they earned it, either by killing the NM/instance/whatever or purchasing it (assuming it wasn't RMTed). Regardless, it doesn't affect people's gameplay unless they are in a party with you.. in which case, you can always choose not to party with the individual.

I do think they should at least add some other element to wearing gear below optimal level along with showing the diminished stats according to your current class and rank. As retarded as it may sound, add fatigue after a certain amount of time for wearing gear suboptimal, time determined by the level/class difference. HP sap, mp sap, something. You maintain the freedom to at least gear yourself if you're out in BFE.

I love this post and agree with it so much. Thank you.

[MariyaShidou]

Like I said, lvl restricted is a lazy way out. My example of Anarchy Online, lowbie wearing high level gear actually means eleet (leet is a mob/mascot ) status because more often than not you are required to do complex mathematical calculation to get that. Grind to wear gear means nothing, not even slightest bit of achievement sense.

[Rhomagus]

Like I said, lvl restricted is a lazy way out. My example of Anarchy Online, lowbie wearing high level gear actually means eleet (leet is a mob/mascot ) status because more often than not you are required to do complex mathematical calculation to get that. Grind to wear gear means nothing, not even slightest bit of achievement sense.

I actually never looked at it like this and now I have and it's so true. Anyone can grind, and anyone can be powerleveled. Class locked gear serves no purpose but as an annoyance and, as stated, an easy way out. I can see the arguments from incentivizing single classing but I personally don't agree with that kind of design philosophy. I love being able to multi class on my one character.

[unnameduser]

Like I said, lvl restricted is a lazy way out. My example of Anarchy Online, lowbie wearing high level gear actually means eleet (leet is a mob/mascot ) status because more often than not you are required to do complex mathematical calculation to get that. Grind to wear gear means nothing, not even slightest bit of achievement sense.

because wearing lvl 50 gear when your lvl 1 sure has a huge amount of achievement sense, ur a fool...

[Viridiana]

because wearing lvl 50 gear when your lvl 1 sure has a huge amount of achievement sense, ur a fool...

Way to fail at reading comprehension. . .

[unnameduser]

Way to fail at reading comprehension. . .

way to assume that I don't know what he's specifically talking about...

[Viridiana]

way to assume that I don't know what he's specifically talking about...

Well, you quoted him, then made a comment that doesn't really follow from what he said. . . so, yeah, it seems like a fair assumption.