Required Class/Rank failed - Can we have Optimal Rank and Favoured Class back?

[ellohwell]

Because then why even have any gear at all? Why not just get a single set, or just sets for aesthetics, and your stats scale regardless of what you're wearing?

You're crazy if you think making gear scale to such a high degree is a good idea.

It doesn't have to be a linear scale.

If you're within 3 ranks it could be a close approximation to the optimal stats, and if you're upwards of 5 ranks away, then the stats should get exponentially worse. This would strongly encourage people to wear other gear, but at the same time it wouldn't be:

• Imposing rules
• Stripping them naked
• ruining their ability to play dressup
• limiting roleplay
• limiting Solo armory-system builds
• discouraging them from repairing people
• discouraging them from attaching materia for people
• frustrating them with constant gear swap-outs

Anyway, there are games where gear is entirely aesthetic and it has slots (like materia) which determine stat make-up (i.e. blade and soul), so I don't see why you act like it's beyond belief to suggest sometime far less extreme.