Tank Darklight Armor.... Really?!

[Bloodclaw]

Am I the only one upset with the tank darklight armor in every way?

1. They did very little to differentiate it from the armor you get while leveling up; "just strap on two blades to the back of the head and were good right?"

2. It looks bad, really bad. They took the worse looking armor in the game and somehow made it look even worse! (Not that hard though to be honest.)

3. It costs too dam much because they are sold in chest/head combo and leg/feet combo. Its a lot easier to buy a piece at 495 than to have to wait till you get 1320.

This in itself is unfair and should demand a re-design to the armor.

We need this changed.

_______________So you don't have to go digging too much:

Unfortunately, there are no plans to separate the head portion of darklight armor or visibly remove it from the body piece.

We know also that there have been a lot of requests for hooded gear with the option to lower the hood. While some gear can be adjusted with the /visor function, each piece of gear is designed with this function from its inception, and it would take a lot of time and effort to adjust previously released gear to fit this request. Specifically this involves taking previous models, breaking them apart and inserting new frames for each.

This additional time would normally be spent on creating new gear, and when weighing the benefits of either, the Item team believes new gear takes precedent. To be clear, currently we don't have plans to adjust any of the current equipment as suggested.

We'll also be sure to inform the team to keep the /visor function in mind when designing new gear from the start.

We spoke on this topic again with the Item team and were informed that items like the black mage mask, the turban eyemask, and certain heavy armor visors were designed before the use of the /visor feature was conceptualized. As mentioned in this post, it would take a lot of time away from creating new gear if they were to go back and redesign previous gear, but the team will be looking into creating new equipment with the /visor function going forward.

[baopee]

they are UGLY....AF and Valor look so much better

[Yiell]

Sometimes I wonder if they had DIFFERENT TEAMS who designed the armors. If they did, I would make the Dragoon design team the employees of the year. And o, I guess who ever is in charge with TEAM BARD is either gay or a girl. who wants a pink armor for their end game gear? >_<

[Crimess]

Just deal with it and get your iLv90 gear....if you care about fashion wear the ilv60 gear.

[Korbei]

a) The combined pieces cost the same amount as individual pieces purchased separately.

b) Both the cowls of healing and casting are also combined pieces that cost the same amount.

[Bloodclaw]

I think your forgetting that up-front cost is an issue.

Its a lot easier to buy a piece at 495 than to have to wait till you get 1320.

This in itself is unfair and should demand a re-design to the armor.

[Hanabira]

the biggest pain i had with HDL, aside from it being ugly, is upgrading it. Say you get allagan boots.. but to wear them, you need to go back to hoplite pants and you take an overall stat loss! same with head and body. I got af+1 body, and i had to downgrade to a ilvl60 head. Just odd i have 4 or 5 pieces of ilvl90and this awkward AK circlet

[Justified]

Oef... My HQ heavy darksteel looks even worse though....

[saber_alter]

*wishes tank darklight gear was shared with dragoon*

kinda like how monk and bard us similar models for their darklight.

[xRitzx]

We should be getting vanity slots in 2.2... but it seems so far away with people only wearing about 5 sets of gear at 50 right now (AF+1, Coil, Darklight, Crafted, AK)