Ahhh....

Thanks for the clarification, but I'm a little disheartened to see that the optimal rank system is going to stay. I hope there are some serious adjustments to the system at least to help clarify what happens when someone pops on those blade-dancers Jackboots on his Rank 1 archer.

The gear should be FAR INFERIOR to what is available at that level but as it stands the way stats work they are almost inconsecential choices.