Vanity Slots

[Mirage]

You also have to use common sense. Anyone under 70 logically wouldn't be wearing Ace's leggings. Considering ToAU is pretty much dead and magians is easy as hell, there's your answer.

I dislike Vanity slots in MMOs for various reasons (mainly because they're the cashshop shit) but it also would kill the use of JSE. You could appoint your RDM gear to vanity slot then be a WAR, it would just look silly.

So just require the vanity items to be wearable by your current job?

[Alhanelem]

Vanity slots is pretty much the primary reason I'm looking for alternative MMOs. If all MMOs were about looking like clowns with mixed armors, I'd have no reason to go from FFXI.

Uh, FFXI isn't like that at all, and most games with "vanity slots" ARE like that. Your statement contradicts itself.

The only way to look like a clown in FFXI is to play PUP.

[Tannlore]

I don't, because then I can't tell what someone is wearing just by looking at them.

/check them then?

[Romanova]

I dislike Vanity slots in MMOs for various reasons (mainly because they're the cashshop shit) but it also would kill the use of JSE. You could appoint your RDM gear to vanity slot then be a WAR, it would just look silly.

not all vanity slots are cash shop required, eq does it and as others stated it has to be gear 1. you own 2. you could actually equip normally.

Blizz is implementing it as well. cash shop ones are usually f2p mmos that do that, this isn't one of those so I doubt that's how it'd be set up.

[Nefertiri]

Hey, nice! I had a classic idea pretty much like this, as well. Tried expressing the idea to others years ago but it didn't go over so well.

Vana'diel Vanity has a certain ring to it.~

In a world where only select few equipment choices are accepted as "the norm", there sure isn't much room for fashionable diversity. Ever wanted to tank in wedding garb, swimsuits and other such event wear? Wear a full AF/Relic set without being called a gimp, freedom to choose exactly what you wanna look like for others? Well, if only stuff like this existed..!

By registering equipment to vanity slots you'd be able to change your appearance without altering your statistics. The only requisites? You need to be able to actually equip the "vanity" gear according to your job/level. The vanity slots might be too difficult to create a new menu or equipment tab for, so why not let an NPC (such as your own personal moogle) handle it? Can it really be that difficult~?

The best part? Wearing vanity equipment would allow you to always appear as such no matter what, even if your "real" equipment is swapped around, your appearance will stay the same until you specifically change your vanity set . A solution to the ever-present "blinking" issue as well!~

The only complicated snag, I feel, is what to do with weapons. I think maybe they wouldn't get vanity slots. It just wouldn't work. Wouldn't be much of an obstacle anyway - as front-line jobs don't change their weapons all that often. While back-line jobs do change weapons often, they generally need less cures and support than front-liners tend to, usually. Thus, weapons would remain as-is and you'd still blink when swapping them around.

It'd be really nice to have this, I feel.

[Camiie]

I wouldn't have an issue with it. I like the idea of requiring that your vanity items be something your job could equip anyway. Also, IF they were to do weapons, the vanity weapon must be of the same type as the one actually equipped.

If people have an issue being checked for their real gear, they can turn off the message or get over themselves. (or, SE could remove the message entirely and there'd never be an issue). Some guy on my server actually likes to chase people down and spam them with "death" and other such kind comments after being checked. Why people like that don't get banned is beyond me, but another topic for another day.

I think it's moot though, because I'd bet the game engine makes no allowances for this, and I doubt they have anything that would require any drastic changes to the client in mind.

[Dijana]

Normally I would be all for this sort of thing in a game, and in many others I have spent alot of time collecting 'fashion' items..but I really dont see the point in 11. Some people like to know what others they have to work/deal with in game are actually wearing, and yes they can just /check them but, they're going to have to then check them again throughout fights if they want to know are they changing gear for ws, for spells, etc.

Most games I've seen with vanity slots, use completely different appearance, things made to look good, not just the appearance of an existing piece of armor. When it comes down to it, nobody is going to care what another person's character is going to look like beyond are they using decent gear or not (though they may want their own char to look nice). In that case, why dont you just swap your dats so you are wearing what you want.

That being said, even if it was possible to do this now I dont think it completely shouldnt ever happen. But if this sort of thing were to be implemented, I wouldnt even want it to be considered by the devs until we have more important things to do in game already aside from making our character tank something in what appears to be a swimsuit.

[Limecat]

Haha, I'd love this if only to macro in my old elemental staves as vanity when using the affinity magian ones. It's minor but it annoys me that I can't look at these blocky-ended things and see a colored ball to instantly know which one is equipped.

[SpankWustler]

With this, my dream of appearing in a bronze subligar of the lowest quality no matter what I'm actually wearing could come true.

I suspect it would take entirely too much time to implement, but if not, this would be neat.

[Yamimarik44]

I don't know about Vanity slots in FFXI, I like seeing people in mixed matched gearing knowing "Oh lol they're wearing Twilight Helm/Mail with Hachiryiu pants!" Just interesting seeing all the different gear people are wearing, and when I see the gear actually on their characters that's when I /check them to see what else they have equipped. I just go pimping around my AF3 in town anyways, that is my Vanity gear and I worked hard for them being +2 lol(ok not so much on some pieces, but others yeah!)