[DEV Question] Why is this allowed?

[Reynhart]

If SE went with your suggestion, the BLM would actually do even less damage since their weapon is now more "balanced" towards i110 gear (and those secondary stats they went with... what even).

No, the BLM would do more damage since its Attack Power would have a greater impact

[Nestama]

No, the BLM would do more damage since its Attack Power would have a greater impact

So let me get this straight... if SE goes with your idea and a player with a level 50 weapon, possibly in the i90 range and they enter level 60 content with mostly i260-270 gear and accessories, their DPS will still be decent because of their gear stats? What even is the point of a weapon then? i230-240, 250 and 260-270 gear are very easy to acquire (Savage being the exception), whereas a weapon requires you to earn it either by grinding PotD, doing Alexander Midas/Creator 4 or 7 times to get tokens, beating Primals, beating Alexander Prime Savage, or doing the long Anima quest.

It is still possible to enter a duty only wearing crafter gear, you need only high enough average item level and you could enter ARF maybe higher, depending on your weapon and individual style of gear mixup.

Alrighty, so if I find a way to equip crafter gear and still be able to enter The Creator, Reynhart would have to concede that this is perfectly alright, since the game decided to let me enter :^)