Not sure why there's all the arguement about rank restrictions on gear. SE never mentioned anything about that in the link posted by the OP. It only mentioned class restriction which is completely different.

With regards to placing restrictions on gear, I do hope it's not all gear. I would like to see the information separated on the gear with one line saying "Optimized for classes" and another saying "Requires class". For example, a chain armour piece might show as follows:

: Requires- DoW.
: Optimized for- LNC, GLA, MRD.

IF there's going to be rank restrictions I'd much prefer it to be shown as follows:

: Requires minumum rank- 20
: Optimal at rank- 30

This way we can have gear as it is now, and future gear in a similar equip style, while still having gear which can be class specific. It also allows rank restrictions to be placed if required while still having an optimal rank for the gear. In the above example with the minumum rank 10 rank below optimal it still allows people to grow into gear instead of always growing out of the gear. With gear currently in the game just give it 'Requires- Any' and 'Required minimum rank- 1'. Everyone is happy?


20 new NM's? That's a nice touch. It's always fun to run into an NM when you're out and about. I was really only expecting 3 or 4 new ones. I hope the patch notes tells us what ranks the NM's are before the patch goes live. It would suck to get a group of 50's together to go hunt an NM only to find out it's meant for groups around R30. If I don't die at the first attempt at each one I'll be rather disappointed.