I think this was a weird change made since last time I played and it immediately made optimizing my gear such a chore that I logged back out.
99% of the time when you want to compare gear you want to turn on comparison and scroll through your inventory to see how it compares to what you have equipped. This is so standard many games like diablo have it automatically display on the piece of gear.
Why on earth does this game pin the one piece of equipment in your inventory that you selected AND move your cursor out of your inventory? So if I want to compare I need to go select each individual piece of gear instead of the extremely user friendly standard method that everyone knows where you turn on “compare” and it compares the piece you have selected in inventory to the piece currently equipped in that slot? Again this is so useful most games automatically do it.
Please change this back to the standard, useful way of “gear comparison”. Dont make the entire system function around an edge case scenario where one person wants to compare two items in their inventory without equipping one. It makes far more sense for them to just equip the gear they want to compare than to inconvenience everyone trying to make any mild change to their equipment.