Realistic equipments or More fantasy equipments?

Maybe we should get both... have all class-restricted gear fantasy-based, and have a majority of non-CR gear realist-based.

Fantasy all the way, I would love to wear the Judge armor from FFXII!!

I wouldn't mind having more fantasy looking gear as long as it looks cool and concurs to the FF lore. However, I would like it to be realistic looking at the same time for great detail. Please, definetly no auras. Then you're just talking about WoW and other f2p game equips that i've seen.

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Originally Posted by Zhyrios

They definetely need to be alot more creative, make unique designs, not seen in the real world.

Just imagine what people Cosplaying FFXIV characters at conventions will look like... boring, you wont recognise them.

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You've got a point there. :) If I went in the hooded robe, people would think I was a Jedi.

Like I said, I like most of the designs. Anything new, it would just depend. Yoshi-P mentioned working on new armor though. Just for epic gear I think it was?

You know... I'm an avid reader of Fantasy books as well as an avid gamer of fantasy games. A mixture of both is always good. Because if you think about this, if someone brought out an outlandish sword that isn't based off of actual facts in a fantasy novel they would tend to be ripped to pieces. Also fyi no matter what is used the basis of the weapons are going to be all similiar to what real life is. Wether it is two types of weapons put together as one or just an exaggeration of the original piece. IE there is such thing as a gun blade it's called a Bayonet but designed differently the buster sword is an exageration of a claymore type weapon.
So yes it's fine to pretty up some weapons to make them look "fictional or fantasy like" but to keep some perspective in the issue.

Now here is a challenge for all of you... try to come up with a completely original "fantasy" weapon that doesn't involve guns, wands, swords, bows, crossbows, maces, axes, scythes... sling shots... you get the picture. I want to see what idea's you come up with ^_^

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

A mix of both is fine in my opinion.

Save the really awesome fantasy stuff for drops/quest rewards/rare crafting/etc., and have "standard" gear for buying from NPC shops/"standard" crafting/etc.

There's no reason that fantasy can't be grounded in SOME reality. How many nameless soldiers in different fantasy mediums ALL have unique, fantasy-inspired gear? I think it gives some variance in the overall population, which isn't bad in my opinion.

Plus, having the really sweet looking stuff on a "higher shelf" than you can currently reach makes for a better carrot, right?

I like that crystal sword idea though... Maybe an entire tier of "crystal weapons"?

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I agree, there's nothing wrong with realistic gear, and you can have more fantasy gear and materials as well (i.e. Mythril is not a real metal people.) There are even real weapons that only work well in a fantasy setting (Gunblades are technically possible, but were never proven as effective weapons.)

Still, I like the idea of crystal mail or Genji gear being available, maybe the Lightbringer too.

I like the current art direction on all the equipment - looks great without going overboard. Bright neon armor with lightning and fire coming out of every orifice? Hell no.

Fantasy equipment in a Final Fantasy game. What a concept!

Keep a mixture of both but I think once the level cap is removed and we start heading up to 75/99 whatever we will start to see some great fantasy gear. Can't have people running around in the early levels with massive cool looking weapons now can we or what would we have to look forward to at the later levels.

I find the weapons, armor and overall appearances of the characters in this game extremely bland in comparison to its past titles and titles not in the FF genre. Seriously need to rehaul that too, or just add some stuff that actually looks cool.