Quote Originally Posted by AamesxDavid View Post
I think a lot of the appeal is that it was different. Case in point:



The familiarity of a system in which you can only have one class for your character is not a point in its favour, because there are many benefits to the current system - variety and player choice being the most important, in my opinion. And that's exactly what I'm in favour of for all gear.



As for forcing people to upgrade gear and stimulating the economy, I'd refer to the previous part of your post:



The fact that gear makes a big difference is what will make people get new gear - they don't have to be "forced" in such a literal sense. I don't think the optimal system was to blame for people not getting new gear - the fact that upgrading didn't matter was. Since that has been corrected, I don't see the need for requirements.

(Hmmm.) I don't mind either way to be honest. I'll use whatever system they put in the game, well because I have to lol. I think once they fully implement the new system it will be much more forgiving in its ability to allow people to choose. They will be adding more recipes and Yoshi said something about (24 or 32) different colors for all the armor, IIRC.

Isn't the whole optimal gear thing being argued by people who like to "look pretty" and want there characters to appear a certain way?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this but why wouldn't you want your character to have the best gear available to them and use that? Granted that I really don't want to look like a giant red tomato on my gladiator (cobalt red stuff) but it's the best gear so I'm going to use it.

If using Optimal gear, on the wrong class or level makes the stats worse than anything you could wear, then what's the point of using it?

Not trying to argue, just want some clarification... maybe I'm not understanding the discussion.