This is getting ridiculous. (Endwalker MSQ and post MSQ spoilers)

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I do hope they intend to make versions of the Vanaspati glams that are not job-locked considering that we mostly see civilians wearing them.

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That would be nice but i’m not holding my breath. I expected them at least to role swap gear they’re reusing and they can’t even do that. Taking off job locks for some glams just seems out of the question for some reason it’s crazy. We make so much money and have such an influx of players yet somehow this is the expansion with the worst of it when it comes to reusing assets and glams. Where’s our money going? The one time done msq?

That was also something that disappointed me, I was looking forward to new dungeon sets but it was all recolours so I was not impressed at all. The story is still a 10/10 for me but I lost that hype of oh new dungeon new glam that I had in other expansions.

I'm generally pretty okay with gear re-use, especially when it offers something new like switching roles (since they refuse to allow to cross class glam) or different dye patterns or something. That said, I agree this expansion seems excessive so far.

Hopefully the new gear in the raid patch is nice, at least.

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Originally Posted by Arzalis

I'm generally pretty okay with gear re-use, especially when it offers something new like switching roles (since they refuse to allow to cross class glam) or different dye patterns or something. That said, I agree this expansion seems excessive so far.

Hopefully the new gear in the raid patch is nice, at least.

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Yeah a part of the problem with it this expansion is a lot of the reused gear isn’t even role swapped.

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Yeah a part of the problem with it this expansion is a lot of the reused gear isn’t even role swapped.

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They mostly stopped taking racial features into account, we get tons and tons of reused gear, they don't role swap the reused gear, quality control seems to be all over the place, and the reaper form is universal and removes all racial features of the various races - a full on job, not even just glamour. You actually can't make it up. Please, for the love of God SE, with the increased success can we please see the quality of the game actually increase as well?

Out of the 8 new dungeons and new crafting recipes we got in total negating AF and Moonward:

2 new sets….literally only 2. We’ve gotten more sets from freaking patches! 81 and 87 recycles crap from Swallows compass and Hero’s Gauntlet and there isn’t even any 89 loot.

80 is From Gymlit dark
82 is from Shire tomes
84 Is From sunken city of Skalla
86 is atrocious from PVP of all resources
88 is Neo ishgardian

This is hella appalling, blame Covid all you want, they delayed this twice to try to give us the best product, yet it’s all familiar

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Originally Posted by Jirah

Out of the 8 new dungeons and new crafting recipes we got in total negating AF and Moonward:

2 new sets….literally only 2. We’ve gotten more sets from freaking patches! 81 and 87 recycles crap from Swallows compass and Hero’s Gauntlet and there isn’t even any 89 loot.

80 is From Gymlit dark
82 is from Shire tomes
84 Is From sunken city of Skalla
86 is atrocious from PVP of all resources
88 is Neo ishgardian

This is hella appalling, blame Covid all you want, they delayed this twice to try to give us the best product, yet it’s all familiar

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Yep, this is basically my entire point. People continue blaming covid for the lack of content but they literally delayed this game SEVEN MONTHS, specifically so that things would be done. Instead we got an expansion with the least amount of unique gear sets, but not only that they even reused a damn dungeon theme for one of the expert dungeons. I really wish people would notice that we’re slowly getting less over time despite the game getting more successful. Remember when samurai and red mage got 50/60/70 primal weapons on release? Yeah Gnb and Dnc got 2. Sage and Reaper don’t have any so far. Where is all that effort going cuz it’s clearly not on gear. This really needs to be brought to attention and get some raised awareness because something just doesn’t add up. More money and more players=less content?

The thing that really bugs me with the recycled sets isn't just that they're recycled, but recycled without a single instance of shuffling which gear models go to which roles.

Shadowbringers has a lot of recycled gear too, from memory, but it still felt exciting. Aiming got those two healer gearsets I wanted for my dancer! Caster got the tank coat from the Arboretum! A whole list of new things per class even though the models were already in the game.

Here it's just multiple rounds of "that thing I could already equip, in a different colour". Which is sometimes an exciting thing in itself, but not for every single tier of reused gear in the whole expansion.

And we didn't get anything at all from either the level 89 or 90 dungeons. Just recycled Omega jewellery.

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Originally Posted by Kyrj

Also another set that's pathetic is the ShB PvP set. We got one, ONE god damn set of armor through out the entire expansion and they couldn't even make different looking sets for the dps.

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To be fair, it was the winner of a costume design contest for melee DPS, so it's not exactly strange for all the melee DPS to get that design.

Overall the gear series has three outfit designs (melee, tank/ranged, mages) which is all we ever get except in rare circumstances.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I do hope they intend to make versions of the Vanaspati glams that are not job-locked considering that we mostly see civilians wearing them.

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The Vanaspati/Palaka gear is basically seven variants of a single design already. Different sleeves, different lengths but all the same core top and pants.

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Yep, this is basically my entire point. People continue blaming covid for the lack of content but they literally delayed this game SEVEN MONTHS, specifically so that things would be done. Instead we got an expansion with the least amount of unique gear sets, but not only that they even reused a damn dungeon theme for one of the expert dungeons. I really wish people would notice that we’re slowly getting less over time despite the game getting more successful. Remember when samurai and red mage got 50/60/70 primal weapons on release? Yeah Gnb and Dnc got 2. Sage and Reaper don’t have any so far. Where is all that effort going cuz it’s clearly not on gear. This really needs to be brought to attention and get some raised awareness because something just doesn’t add up. More money and more players=less content?

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Covid is a piss poor excuse people hide behind to mask shitty work. Sorry to be blunt but it's true, if this were 1995 I could buy covid as an excuse but it's not it was 2019-2021 where we have a plethora of programs to use. Programs that let you talk to 1000 people at once, screen share, hell you can control peoples computers from another when you're on the other side of the planet so the idea that covid is to blame in this line of work is laughable.

I expect a lot more and for them to do a lot better going forward in terms of gear. EW has shown me just how lazy they've been not only with the current expac but all the previous ones as well.