The New Delve Armor

[Creelo]

Ew no. Give me stats that can help me do my job better. The Marduk +1 set shows a great understanding of what the job does and what stats are beneficial.

Or we could have both! Brd on the Light DD armor set AND the mage set??

Let's not kid ourselves though, SE would never do that because it would be too kind.

[Luvbunny]

Or we could have both! Brd on the Light DD armor set AND the mage set?? Let's not kid ourselves though, SE would never do that because it would be too kind.

LOL Battle Bard and Melee RDM!!! You have balls of steels to even think about suggesting fun ideas like that. Yup, let's not kid ourselves indeed. Never going to happen, trying to make the jobs to be more fun and thinking out of the box is unacceptable here in FFXI. Some idiots had the nerve to make ninja as a tank jobs as well as showing the online world of their Rdm solo everything accomplishment. This pretty much drove the nails on RDM's coffin and since then being relegated to the bastard child of SE list of jobs including Summoner. Keep thinking creatively and out of the box please, never let developers puts you in the corner and forced you to play the way it is intended. ZERG everything for the next shiny please!!

[Emitremmus]

I think this system will pan out fine. Perhaps to sate the desires of those who are so ascetically sensitive...

Hopefully you can choose a design path along with customization of the augments. Given choices between options like the ACP/MKD/ASA/Moonshade Earring allows. That way you have pieces of equipment that can be unique rather than everyone running around with "optimal" augments.

[Yinnyth]

I always disliked the way marduk looked. Not enough to complain at SE until they fixed it though. I also dislike whm and blm empyrean armor. Preferred the classic AF look. Aesthetics are a matter of opinion, that's why I find this thread so shocking. I like the light armor set and look forward to getting some myself someday. The mage armor set reminds me of SMN empyrean, which I've always thought was adorable on tarus. The heavy set looks fairly good, though the helm does sorta resemble Juggernaut. /displayhead.

[Camiie]

I always disliked the way marduk looked. Not enough to complain at SE until they fixed it though.

My problem with the Salvage sets was how rough the textures looked. The ideas were there, but the execution was poor for whatever reason.

These Delve armor sets are just embarrassing IMO because they seem aesthetically worse and creatively lazy compared to the armor that precedes them in the new armor hierarchy. As goofy as the Karieyh set color scheme is, it looks as if someone put a bit of effort into it. I'm hard pressed to say the same for Delve armor.

So nobody remembers wearing Ohats with Kirin's Osode as the norm huh?

Ah of course! We know what it's like to look like fools, which is why we'd like to avoid doing so in the future.

[Kojo]

Ah of course! We know what it's like to look like fools, which is why we'd like to avoid doing so in the future.

As a PUP, I am offended~ >=(

[Kojo]

FFXI needs Sword-chucks.

[Shibayama]

So nobody remembers wearing Ohats with Kirin's Osode as the norm huh?

I like the new models actually.

[Umichi]

Sure let them spend developing time on this when, we all know where the real armour is gonna come from which is gonna be our new af set from this expansion. give or take a year or two before we unearth those....

[Xerius]

Sure let them spend developing time on this when, we all know where the real armour is gonna come from which is gonna be our new af set from this expansion. give or take a year or two before we unearth those....

Not likely considering they'd have to make more than 3 models and if you've looked at all of the sets that have come out over the past couple years from the new EG have all been in 3 sets with the exception of AF3. Which technically came out when 2 alliances in Dyna was still the norm. I don't know if it's the art department or if it's the development department but someone's had some cutbacks as of late.