Required rank on all gear

[MariyaShidou]

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

Yes, a huge achievement compared to someone who can't afford those stuff even more if it's HQ/NM made.

And for the record, try Anarchy Online, try twinking high quality gear on low level characters. It's mind blowing mathematical challenge compare to grind to meet "level requirement" (which you can do but you are a total noob if you do that in the game).

[unnameduser]

Yes, a huge achievement compared to someone who can't afford those stuff even more if it's HQ/NM made.

And for the record, try Anarchy Online, try twinking high quality gear on low level characters. It's mind blowing mathematical challenge compare to grind to meet "level requirement" (which you can do but you are a total noob if you do that in the game).

You're defending the current implementation of equipping gear by comparing it to a game I played for over 5 years... I'm not even going to get into talking about AO and implants to equip implants because it has no bearing or relevance on this discussion at all.

[MariyaShidou]

You're defending the current implementation of equipping gear by comparing it to a game I played for over 5 years... I'm not even going to get into talking about AO and implants to equip implants because it has no bearing or relevance on this discussion at all.

Because it offers freedom? Because it doesn't lock level restriction? Because you actually quoted me saying level restriction is lazy when I use it as an example how you get the sense of achievement in equipping something? Because old FF never has level restriction up until 11? Or maybe because you can't afford r50 NM stuff to wear on your level 1 that you want nobody else to do that?

[Arcell]

Sad to see it go this way (again). Cosmetic gear satisfies the RP community sure but I don't think most of the people supporting optimal rank were playing that angle. Personally I was looking at it from the point of saving a unique system that could be made into something great with a little work. Alas as far as combat is concerned it's just going to be like every other MMO on the planet. We could have had something unique and great but we're simply settling for safe mediocrity now. That's not to say it's a bad system, it's simply sad to see yet another unique system go.

I mean I'll still play the game either way, I followed optimal rank so it's not a big problem for me anyway.

[Rhomagus]

Sad to see it go this way (again). Cosmetic gear satisfies the RP community sure but I don't think most of the people supporting optimal rank were playing that angle. Personally I was looking at it from the point of saving a unique system that could be made into something great with a little work. Alas as far as combat is concerned it's just going to be like every other MMO on the planet. We could have had something unique and great but we're simply settling for safe mediocrity now. That's not to say it's a bad system, it's simply sad to see yet another unique system go.

I mean I'll still play the game either way, I followed optimal rank so it's not a big problem for me anyway.

This one too. I also followed optimal rank but loved the flexibility of wearing stuff at one or two levels lower, in anticipation of getting to a certain level. As I would make my way up to the gears optimal rank I was putting my old stuff for sale on the market. It really is a great system if you use it as intended and follow the suggestions outlined by the mechanics.

[Rhomagus]

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Increases demand for lower ranked crafts/crafter.
Gives player a sense of progression.
No more R25 ARCs in So parties wearing r48 cuirass "because it Has more defense"
Promotes knowdgeablity about gear (once stats matter... )


Discuss.

Inb4roleplayingqq

Dammit, and I just told myself I wouldn't respond to immature OPs. Especially those that use the ineffectual "in before" method of supporting evidence that doesn't actually do anything to support their argument.

[Cape-Freak]

I agree that these newest developments are back on the disappointing side and I'm still curious as to why the devs have decided to take this route. While I definitely appreciate that they're recognizing that some players like to have town gear or gear for RP purposes, I think that reducing the optimal rank system to only cosmetic gear is basically only one step above removing it entirely and, as others have noted, it's kind of missing the point.

I am also a little worried that cosmetic gear might not have the full range or breadth of styles compared to regular gear. Plus, as has also been mentioned, it's going to cause inventory issues for anyone who wants to have one (or more) town sets. I'm already a big enough pack rat as it is!

[Zdenka]

I was reading this post a few days ago and people were complaining about space... but not sure if this was mentioned yet (cuz im not reading 300 more posts since then) but..

Yoshida had a post saying the dev's were working on a "Mannequin" system where your gear would be stored separate from your actual inventory as a way to alleviate inventory concerns.

Not sure how it will be pulled off but I thought I'd mention that for the people freaking out.

[Reika]

I was reading this post a few days ago and people were complaining about space... but not sure if this was mentioned yet (cuz im not reading 300 more posts since then) but..

Yoshida had a post saying the dev's were working on a "Mannequin" system where your gear would be stored separate from your actual inventory as a way to alleviate inventory concerns.

Not sure how it will be pulled off but I thought I'd mention that for the people freaking out.

Where? link? i missed it..

[Lienn]

Where? link? i missed it..

Ditto. Never saw a thing about this either.