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At this point I'm hoping for Bismark healer >.>

I really, really hope healers don't get stuck with Moogle armour. From the few sets we can see the armours all look amazing for the primals but Moogle would be bad. (Shudders at the thought of having a headpiece Pom thingy that bounces and glows) Not that it really fits with healers but I would love to see the set being based off of Ravana with glowing red bits and dark grey/black colouring to it. Probably get Ramuh though and the headgear will be a giant floating beard and we will be stuck with awful full length robes and be jealous again of the DPS casters gear.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Yes, the "caster" Shiva gear looks like healer gear, especially by the fact the Au Ra is posed in almost a caring, kind pose.

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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Is there some obvious tell that this staff is a BLM staff and not a WHM staff? Or am I missing something? Because what I'm seeing isn't saying it's one or the other, though my personal tastes suggest that Shiva is for healers.
(Then Ramuh for Casters, cuz black and purple)
(Bismarck for Ranged?)

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Originally Posted by CosmicKirby

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Is there some obvious tell that this staff is a BLM staff and not a WHM staff? Or am I missing something? Because what I'm seeing isn't saying it's one or the other, though my personal tastes suggest that Shiva is for healers.
(Then Ramuh for Casters, cuz black and purple)
(Bismarck for Ranged?)

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the translation of the set says Hailstorm Caster Attire

It's rather funny how some people complained about the ever marching trend of casters = dark gear, healers = white gear, so they change it up and it's just more complaints. There's no pleasing some people.

Haha.

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

maybe ramuh for ranged , and king mog for healers :p....who knows

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I'd be all over some fluffy pink Mog gear for my AST, but I think since we already have the Moogle Suit it might be a bit redundant. I'd love it if they chose Mog though, over Ravana/Ramuh/Bismarck. Or if they do like the guy a few posts up suggested and give us all the robe version of a Ramuh beard.

Still hoping that one day they'll add a King Mog primal pony...

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Originally Posted by AlexanderThorolund

It's rather funny how some people complained about the ever marching trend of casters = dark gear, healers = white gear, so they change it up and it's just more complaints. There's no pleasing some people.

Haha.

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It's probably a lot more 'the devs didn't show us Healer gear and all the options that made sense for Healers were already taken, so we're probably gonna have a crappy set' than anything else.

I would have imagined the aiming set to be based off Garuda too... The devs actually didn't show us either of the aiming sets yet, which worries me a bit.

I imagine they gave casters Shiva because BLM uses ice, but by that logic the devs could have gone with Ramuh and still have it make sense. By that same logic though, healers are probably gonna end up with Titan since Garuda was already taken. Or Bismarck. Bismarck works too, because both wind and water and WHM uses both.

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Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo

Still hoping that one day they'll add a King Mog primal pony...

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I should be a pony with a moogle's head. :D

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I would have imagined the aiming set to be based off Garuda too... The devs actually didn't show us either of the aiming sets yet, which worries me a bit.

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I also said the same in a different thread. Garuda for Dragoon makes no sense to me at all.

The whole lock on sets scares me more. I love Ifrit, not the biggest fan of Monk. I just don't get the thought process on this.

Looks like i'll be Ifrit huh. and omg the gordian gear looks AMAZING and I'm so shocked!

Are we getting prototype weapons too? O.O

I'm gonna grab my shiva blm gear and spam shiva ex while having frozen playing in the background. I'm happy lol. I am glad drg finally gets a decent looking garuda spear though because the original one is awful.

Mentioned it in the Healer forums, so I'll bring the quote up here:

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Originally Posted by FeliAiko

Possible reason behind the choices could be due to the Class/Job's starting City State and the associated Primal. Therefore Ifrit for MNK (Ul'dah), Levi for NIN (Limsa), and Garuda for DRG (Gridania). It also reinforces the existing separation between the melee roles by giving them a Primal from a different City State to each other.

With that in mind, they may assign Ramuh and Mog to the remaining Gridania Jobs (WHM/BRD). Tanks will most likely get Titan as that thematically suits them more than any other role, which in turn left Shiva as the only one left for BLM.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Hildibrand is zzzZZZ.

All the gear looks horrible.

Midas looks literally the same as Gordias. Yeah, there's a city.. landscape.. thing but you can also see what we'll be fighting on, which is just a small square. So... I guess it'll be nice looking around the arena at all the stuff we can't interact with.

Bosses are alright, hard to tell if they're really interesting until I see 'em in game.

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I would recommend you to play another game then.

gear design is fair at best, I would love to design my own ^^, they need to look at a change of overall style for some sets, for variety. 4/10

the rest of the info in the English album looks cool though!! :)

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Originally Posted by FeliAiko

Mentioned it in the Healer forums, so I'll bring the quote up here:

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I was talking about that with a friend of mine last night as well. It does seem like they're going for city states for the base classes here. I'm still somewhat surprised that Lancer got Garuda and not Archer, but I suppose Archer fits either Mog or Ramuh better than Lancer does.

The Shiva casting gear looks great on that female character but for a Duskwight Elezen male? I'm kinda scared. I mean, the cutoff between the chest piece and the arms, the crown, all of it doesn't seem like it would fit well with male characters. Or are they planning on introducing different designs of the set based on gender? Cause that would be really nice. The Garuda set makes me want to go DRG tho lol

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Originally Posted by FeliAiko

Mentioned it in the Healer forums, so I'll bring the quote up here:

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If this is how they are basing them, I'm hoping that Mog is assigned to BRD/MCH and Ramuh to healers. I would love a kick ass set of red and purple gear for my healer, instead of the ever-generic white.

I'm a black mage. BLACK mage. First the anima weapon, and now this. I just... no.

HOW PRETTY MUST I BE????

http://i.imgur.com/H1PXle7.jpg

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I also said the same in a different thread. Garuda for Dragoon makes no sense to me at all.

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Actully it makes total sense if you know extended FF lore. Barbariccia in FFIV was very similar to Garuda, being a green themed Wind Element woman you had to fight. She had a soft spot for Kain the Dragoon claiming she only spared Kain's life because she had "feelings for him" as a "fellow creature of the sky." , referring to his Jump attack. The logic here is pretty similar Jump is Sky, Sky is wind, Garuda is Wind, Dragoons are Garuda.

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Originally Posted by FeliAiko

Mentioned it in the Healer forums, so I'll bring the quote up here:

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It will be possible to have Thordan too for the tank ?
I think of Dark Knight since it's a job from Heavensward, in Ishgard and it correspond to Thordan himself.

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Originally Posted by Ceasaria

It will be possible to have Thordan too for the tank ?
I think of Dark Knight since it's a job from Heavensward, in Ishgard and it correspond to Thordan himself.

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That would be interesting if they made the new HW jobs have HW primals, but it doesn't fit with the armor per role vs armor per job. Thordan DRK, Bismarck AST, Ravana MCH?

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

That would be interesting if they made the new HW jobs have HW primals, but it doesn't fit with the armor per role vs armor per job. Thordan DRK, Bismarck AST, Ravana MCH?

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Hmm, I didn't even think about Thordan being in the mix. I'm not we'll see them use the new HW primals for these sets, though, as the ARR primals cover the normal number of armor sets we get. I'd much prefer a Thordan or Bismarck-themed set to a King Mog one, though.

This is what i think for all the armors set :

Paladin --> Ultima (Gaius)
Guerrier --> Alexander
Dark Knight --> Thordan

White Mage --> Phoenix
Scholar --> Mog
Astromancian --> Bismarck

Dragoon --> Garuda
Monk --> Ifrit
Ninja --> Ramuh
Bard --> Leviathan
Machinist --> Ravana
Black Mage --> Shiva
Summoner --> Bahamut

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Originally Posted by Ceasaria

This is what i think for all the armors set :

Paladin --> Ultima (Gaius)
Guerrier --> Alexander
Dark Knight --> Thordan

White Mage --> Phoenix
Scholar --> Mog
Astromancian --> Bismarck

Dragoon --> Garuda
Monk --> Ifrit
Ninja --> Ramuh
Bard --> Leviathan
Machinist --> Ravana
Black Mage --> Shiva
Summoner --> Bahamut

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Not a bad prediction. Though, it has been confirmed Leviathan is Ninja not Bard.

Here is mine if they are job specific:

Paladin --> Odin
Warrior--> Titan
Dark Knight --> Thordan

White Mage --> Moogle
Scholar --> Phoenix
Astrologian --> Bismarck

Dragoon --> Garuda
Monk --> Ifrit
Ninja --> Leviathan
Bard --> Ramuh
Machinist --> Ravana
Black Mage --> Shiva
Summoner --> Bahamut

Here is mine if they are role specific:

Tank --> Titan

Healer --> Moogle (sad face)

Dragoon --> Garuda
Ninja --> Leviathan
Monk --> Ifrit

Bard/Machinist --> Ramuh

Caster --> Shiva

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Not a bad prediction. Though, it has been confirmed Leviathan is Ninja not Bard.

Here is mine if they are job specific:

Paladin --> Odin
Warrior--> Titan
Dark Knight --> Thordan

White Mage --> Moogle
Scholar --> Phoenix
Astrologian --> Bismarck

Dragoon --> Garuda
Monk --> Ifrit
Ninja --> Leviathan
Bard --> Ramuh
Machinist --> Ravana
Black Mage --> Shiva
Summoner --> Bahamut

Here is mine if they are role specific:

Tank --> Titan

Healer --> Moogle (sad face)

Dragoon --> Garuda
Ninja --> Leviathan
Monk --> Ifrit

Bard/Machinist --> Ramuh

Caster --> Shiva

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Oh, i forgot Titan and Odin.
Yeah i think it will be something like that for "job specific".

They'll be role specific. Last tome set was Job specific because it was AF gear. This is just Primal themed/inspired gear, so it will be role specific, like all the previous tome sets (outside of Myth) were.

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Originally Posted by FeliAiko

They'll be role specific. Last tome set was Job specific because it was AF gear. This is just Primal themed/inspired gear, so it will be role specific, like all the previous tome sets (outside of Myth) were.

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Didn't you say in your last post that your theory is one of Ramuh or Mog will be for WHM, because WHM started in Gridania?

Mog makes the most sense for healers because he's the only Primal/Primal-like-construct-thing that heals during his fight, mainly his subordinates. This reflects healer's relationship with the rest of the party very well, King and subordinates. :-D
Tanks will get Titan as punishment for thinking they are the king. :-D
And Ranged will get Ramuh because they need beards. :-D

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To expand:
MNKs got Ifrit because they are hotheads, DRGs got Garuda because they are on the floor all the time, so the only place they can go is up, NINs got Leviathan because they are all slimeballs who don't use Goad enough, and Casters got Shiva because SE thinks they're all ice-princess for not talking during parties but their actually just bots. :-D

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Didn't you say in your last post that your theory is one of Ramuh or Mog will be for WHM, because WHM started in Gridania?

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Well, it's conjurer more specifically, going by that theory, I think.

The role-specific gear is normally themed for/after the base classes, rather than the actual Jobs. I'd imagine healer's set will most likely be one of the two Gridania primals because ACN goes on caster gear rather than SCH gear, and AST doesn't have a base class that it's associated with. The Titan set would then be Limsa via Marauder.

The only odd one out is ACN/THM in terms of the base class's city state matching the primal (but Ishgard also doesn't have any base classes, so Shiva was going to be an odd one out either way, I suppose).

I'm just sad because I was really hoping that healers would get the Shiva set as the base classes and jobs are from all over Eorzea and so could go with the less region specific one and the blue/white ice look would also for with SE's idea that almost all healer gear needs to be white. But it is all good. I am super hyped about having the Garuda set for my Dragoon. That spear is awesome.

Edit: Phoenix for healer would be very cool too if they used it.

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Originally Posted by Dyvid

Very odd choices here for Primal armor. I would have went with:

Fending - Titan
Maiming - Ifrit
Striking - Shiva
Aiming - Garuda
Scouting - Levithan
Casting - Ramuh
Healing - Bismark

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im extremely glad they didnt go garuda for aiming lol

SE logic is fun logic.

Have a smaller portion of the player base enter Bahamut: Make it look amazing and the gear wicked.

Have everyone enter Alexander: Make it look terrible and the gear look horrible.

So...I mean WHM is confirmed Shiva now right?...Or is that supposed to be a BLM and somewhere there is an ugly frilly coat and a huge hat coming our way? XD

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/00...cs1w1_400x.jpg

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Originally Posted by BroodingFicus

So...I mean WHM is confirmed Shiva now right?

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The translation of the Japanese (linked in the second posts) specifies that the Shiva set is Casting, which Google Translate confirms.

Edit to add an additional thought:

Actually, the fact that it's the Hailstorm Attire of Casting all but confirms the sets are in fact role-based and not job-based, as Casting has always referred to both BLM and SMN gear so far. It's possible they could be changing that (honestly, I never really understood why the ranged DPS have shared sets and the melee DPS don't), but I wouldn't bet on it. We probably wouldn't see a change like that outside of an expansion launch.

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Originally Posted by BroodingFicus

So...I mean WHM is confirmed Shiva now right?

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/00...cs1w1_400x.jpg

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That's the Hailstorm Attire of Casting >w>

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Originally Posted by AlexanderThorolund

It's rather funny how some people complained about the ever marching trend of casters = dark gear, healers = white gear, so they change it up and it's just more complaints. There's no pleasing some people.

Haha.

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some people just arent happy unless they are whinging about anything and everything they can XD those kind of people i swear just wanna see the world burn :P

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

Im dissapointed by the looks of honestly all gearsets shown sadly... Guess glamour is not going to be good this patch, hope dungeons bring something better.

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The devs can't make the welfare/tome gear the best-looking sets. Crafters would rally from under the buses!

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wow, the end-game gear looks really appealing this patch.

I love the Shiva gear...finally we get something really nice for caster! :D

Can't wait to see the healer set.. am hoping for Phoenix as well lol