This made me giggle.

Players can easily reach cap, can easily farm items, can easily get epic equipments

Hiding gears is not really necessary since everyone uses the same armors only different accessories and weapons at key points in the game. If you've done your research you'll know what weapons/armors/accessories benefit your class the most. Even if someone knows someone else's gears, there is still a BIG difference in "build" depending on how your skills are set. I find that even if I have the same gears as someone else it doesn't mean anything if you can't use your character correctly. You mentioned 85 BF for example... well the armors everyone uses there is either the 85 CQ armor or armor bought using BF points.

So simply put, they can easily get everything they want in a few days or weeks which will take months or years in a normal server.

If they have an endless supply of funds, as some people do, then yes, they could easily get all the Cards/Costumes/Wearing Cards/Relics much faster, but that really doesn't make much of a difference if you don't know how to play the character.

If someone was able to make a unique build for Character X that's able to beat a specific class, then isn't it a good idea that his/her unique build be private?

I just don't think that simply being able to look at someone's Armors/Accessories/Weapons/Costume/Costume Accessories/Wearing Cards/Relic will enable someone to copy another's "build." This is simply a guideline. I really think that the only way to know/copy someone's build is to have their skill menus and skill bar set ups since you can have the best "looking" character, yet it can still fail miserably. Also, should you come across someone wearing donation wings, you're going to assume they're a donator and they're probably going to have pretty high statted cards in their gear.

My two cent: I guess at least

Now: For at lvl 60 everyone pretty much will have either vendor gear or farm the HELL out of Tundro for gear Take my sister for example farmed so much Tundro gear for her hunter. At 70 again Vendor gear, only people probably have it mixed but honestly it's all BASICLY the same stuff (Basicly doesn't mean it fully is.) 75: CQ gear and if lucky maybe some BF acc for defense. But that's not what was mentioned. What was mentioned was 85 sooooo let's focus on 85.

I don't see hiding gears as "Needed" the reasons are as follows:

For the following let's completely exclude Wings and Moolah costumes FOR THE MOMENT.

What is the options for 85 BF? BF acc is likekly, As is a cape (by the way capes have all the same stats from BF just saying, at least to my knowledge) Next we have Armor: There is only four options and you can EASILY tell which option by the simple LOOK of the armor those are as followed.

Imbued gear from Enraged Tundro/Sakun (Does anyone even HUNT these anymore?)
Imbued gear from Circus insane (GG prepare to die)
Battlefield gear: (....)
Or Chain quest armor (More than likekly)

mostly LIKELY the last option, unless people are just battlefield fiends wanting to proove a point and beat the CQ gear with normal stuff. POWER TO YOU HARD WORKERS

Now Weapons: Okay weapons i give you are different and SO SO many
Golden Temple weapons (Rusty/Brilliant Sun/Moon)
Imbued: Nereus, Ulric, Livid
Enhanced Lisk
Or Chain Quest.

Now unlike armor, THAT is up to your own preference


Relic and wearing cards? Yes yes there is that, but honestly either they have a relic from tears, the gold one, or they were just lazy guys and got the Sublime seal just to have relic. You just have to assume. But study them and you'll EASILY know what class would grab which relic.

Costumes though? Yes that's tricky but most (remember we aren't counting moolah YET) were around for the OLD tear costumes and thus would have one with set effects. Or just spend points to get military one from BF.

Cards? Well use common sense here.What would your class need the most? what would THEIR class need the most. Excludeing moolah which gives all stat 30, There is very few options

All stat 18 farmer.
Lisk All stat 24 farmers (BRAVO)
Or VI cards to fit class
Or a mixture of the above

By VI cards i mean, a templar would go Power Stam mix cards of course stami for HP and Defense, Power for the attack boost to be able to hold aggro.

Now moolah is different, All that wings, all the costumes, all the cards, Yeah it's insane difference. but it's common knowledge that if you are the same class as them, have same gear, same title yet they are kicking your tail HORRIBLY you can assume either 1 of two things.

A: You don't know how to play your class well and they do,
or
B: They are rocking all stat 30 and have a bit of a higher edge than you do.

Now TL;DR if you know the game, you know what to look for and you know the items well enough you can make a guess on gear without even having to look at them. so why hide them if you can easily guess?

Finally Armor, gears, etc etc is fine and all but Selka said it best up above: You can rock the same gear as them and same cards, same everything, but if they grabbed skills you didn't, that can make a huge difference. Also remember there is things to take into consideration such as buffs, Food, potions, transformations. Gears are only roughly a 1/3rd of the game, knowing the extra tricks are what makes the difference.

Lisk All stat 24 formers (BRAVO)
^ that bravo made me laugh xDD

Well when you consider 1 all stat at a time. And then think about the time it takes to does Lisk Hard. Then the fact of a party. To farm enough all stat V for EVERY slot in the armor would take.... what... over 30 something runs. and that's ASSUMING one drops EVERY run. That's REALLY a stretch there. LIke i know it's POSSIBLE just would take for-freaking-ever so if you manage to fill your armor with all stat V every slot you DESERVE a Bravo

Actually LiskH drops 2 statV at a time

Oh? Well then with that said maybe reduce that down to maybe 20 something runs if lucky. Still Bravo in order if you do that.

Stats can't be viewed, only gears.

Me, I want an option to hide gears, because it feels like people can just peek on undies.

HAHAHAH

Nikkeh undies!!!

don't look! you won't like what you'll see! hahahaha

ok lets be honest this might have been a good idea when the server was new but now there not much point since most people can predict a build for each class. most people will stay to the same build for a particular class e.g
Templar/champion like Stam + power,
wizard/ sorc = intell + stam
myrm (and other duel swords) = eva/+resist or eva/resist + stam

and so on and so on

is good if can see hahaha

is much easier if u want hide ur gear, just dont afk or naked ur char.

I dont agree about hiding gear, if can hiding gear, u wont know who is feeder in bf, can u imagine if they naked in bf and u cant examine?

100% agree
they can naked in BF and who knows =))

Insanely good point here.