Difficulty stat question

[Leesin]

It's class based, you can pick up weapons if you have the Strength for it from what I have seen, but you can't equip them through the character screen if you don't have the correct class, I'd imagine the same goes for armour ( except you can't pick armour up off of the floor lol ).

Basically, if you want to use that armour, you need the correct class, this is for balancing reasons.