[Suggestion] Changes at hooded atires

Since there's no armor related dev tag, it will stay tagless.

The idea is to make the other hooded equipments to have the hood usable.

The hooded armors would be cowls, haubergeons, tunics and bowman tunic.

The idea is to make the hood being usable if there's no headgear equipped and, if there's a headgear equipped, the hood not being usable.

At these armors, a secundary latent effect should be added for when there's no headgear, so the armor wouldn't be too good if there's a headgear equipped or too bad if there's no headgear equipped.

Example: The bronze haubergeon's effect would stay like this:

Strenght+4 Dexterity+2 Elemental Resistances+20 Hood: HP+40 Slashing-3% Blunt-3%

It wouldn't be the same as if you were using a headwear, but at same time the beneficial effects from it would, sometimes, make it worth leaving the hood on instead of using a headgear.

Odd no one having any comments regarding hooded atires ; ; I think it would be so nice being able to use (or remove) hoods from body pieces at will.

I agree. I got excited when I read about the /display head off command then was a little disappointed it didn't work with my hooded attire. I agree that the hood should be removable and new helmets can be worn. I don't know how to deal with the stats difference though. One set of stats for hood up and one for down? the screen would get crowded fast. I also think glasses and masks should be accessories and not helmets as I can wear glasses and a hat at the same time.

Not a set of stats for each...would be more like them having a latent effect that only activates while you have no headgear equipped. The effects would need to be good tho to make up for the stats (defense, magic defense, evasion, etc) you will be losing by having no headgear equipped. I'd like to see effects that you don't have in armor right now, like attack, accuracy, etc.

Some npcs in the game are mages that have cowls and masks on. I don't understand why cowls must be limited to no additional head gear when npcs are capable of it. I heard in beta they originally had it so you could wear like glasses and masks with cowls but now you cannot. I was hoping to wear glasses and a cowl and I'm a little disappointed that I can't. =(

Otherwise I am pro being able to wear a hood on your head if your gear obviously has one. Maybe they should have hood stats if people decide to use them. But if you wear like glasses with a cowl it will still show the hood but you would get the stats from the glasses instead? I'm not trying to get more stats or anything, I just want something aesthetically pleasing to look at.

(Also, while I'm at it, if you have some nice bangs or hair towards the face of your character, why can't that peek out of a cowl from under the hood? Same with some head gear, it won't show the bangs of some characters and I think several people would like to see the hair they worked so hard on in character creator. =p )

Yes, yes. I completely agree. IMO facegear should be accessory and not headgear. This way we could combom eyepatches, spectacles, masks, etc with not only hoods but also other headgears like hates and helms.

Another thread like this was started in the "items...." forum, by someone in my linkshell. Ivera Ivalice. We both like the idea of being able to lower hoods on hooded gear! But the thread eventually evolved into wanting class specific gear, like having gear for conjurers, and some gear for thaumaturges, etc.

Anyways, I like the idea of the hood losing stats when it's down, so that a different head gear can add stats. I also really like the idea of being able to wear facial gear, like glasses etc. while the hood is up. Of course the stats on such gear wouldn't apply while the hood is up. <-- This is something we didn't think about in the other thread :)

Ya i saw the thread ^^ I didn't post there because this one was more "generic" since its not only about cowls.

But i do hope they add an option for removing hoods. It would favor characters customizations alot ^^

Yup, I really like your idea! Hopefully it makes its way to the development. :o

Bumping incase someone else has more comments regarding it ^^