Item equipping

If I had a total of 85 Dex, and had a 5 Str Casa Crow, I could possibly borrow some equips, equip the crow, unequip the borrowed ones, and then the Crow will give me enough Str to equip itself, right?

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No. An item can only be equipped (or maintained) if you would have enough stats to equip it, without the item equipped.

I see.

That hardly seems fair. ;-;

I used to work the way you described, but it was obviously fixed.

Yes, that works. As of... June 2009, when I saw a friend do it. I don't know if they fixed it yet.