New Hairstyle

Well it took me almost a year to get the hair from PoTD if I remember correctly. I doubt I'll be seeing this anytime soon. So far all I've gotten is mostly fireworks and worthless materia with a minion or two. I did get a hunting hawk today which was nice though so consolation prize I guess.

i caved and bought the hair, i hit 200 sacks and just gave up it looks so pretty on my lalafell

I got one while grinding aetherpool grips.

I may be a dude but I don't want to let it go to waste.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...8_00-40-38.png

I've been farming HoH since day one for HOURS and hours on end everyday just for the hair.

I have almost 3 weapons by now, and still no hairstyle orz

What bothers me most though, isn't even that I haven't gotten the hair. It's that in 99.9% of the bags I get, there's only fireworks, fireworks, f i r e w o r k s
Not even minions or chocobo stuff; just fireworks.

Also, the fact that they needed 3 YEARS to implement a HAIRSTYLE and then lock it behind double rng is kind of
Well it. Kinda rubs me the wrong way.
But that's just my personal opinion so yeah

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Originally Posted by Lapisluzili

What bothers me most though, isn't even that I haven't gotten the hair. It's that in 99.9% of the bags I get, there's only fireworks, fireworks, f i r e w o r k s
Not even minions or chocobo stuff; just fireworks.

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Someone posted in another thread that they would literally prefer nothing instead of inventory-clogging fireworks. And I couldn't agree more.

All of those fireworks are there so you have celebration things for when rngesus blesses you with your mystical hairstyle scroll. remember that

...there is much to celebrate after working that hard for that long..

I'm getting REAL tired of the RNG that only allows me 2 bags per run (if that)..... at this rate I might just give up completely. This patch effectively gave us no hairstyles unless your lucky or rich.

One would think with PotD they would have learned hiding something like this behind an RNG wall would make people upset.

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

I'm getting REAL tired of the RNG that only allows me 2 bags per run (if that)..... at this rate I might just give up completely. This patch effectively gave us no hairstyles unless your lucky or rich.

One would think with PotD they would have learned hiding something like this behind an RNG wall would make people upset.

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To be fair the price /tanked/ for the PoTD hair on most servers within a month of it being introduced, and likely would have happened sooner if they had made an effort to make it tradeable sooner. It'll take a little while but eventually it'll be affordable, the demand just needs to go down.

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

I'm getting REAL tired of the RNG that only allows me 2 bags per run (if that)..... at this rate I might just give up completely. This patch effectively gave us no hairstyles unless your lucky or rich.

One would think with PotD they would have learned hiding something like this behind an RNG wall would make people upset.

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That's the thing I wasn't really fond of. At least with the samsonian hair, we got hairstyles at the aesthetician on patch day so it was actually pretty refreshing that there was an extra hair as a reward for playing content. This time, it's like they just decided that it was too much effort to actually make rewards for content and just took what we normally get at the aesthetician and threw those in as the rewards, which makes it annoying when you have to suffer through bad rng for something that you would have normally just had because se decided to cut back.

Not to mention that male characters didn't get a craftable glamour outfit this last major patch at all, while female characters got the quaintrelle dress outfit, and there seems to be no good reason why that should have been skimped out on either tbh (especially with there already being years worth of complaints around here about male characters already having less options than females).

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Originally Posted by Unease_Lemming

That was in large part due to Samsonian Locks initially not being able to be put up on the Market board. Tradeable yes, but not marketable.

Since this one immediately can be put there, it should drop in price a lot faster.

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It's currently still 3 to 4 million on the Faerie server. And speaking of the Samsonian locks, they've actually gone up in price. I recall getting mine for least lower than 30k. After HoH released, it's over 400K now

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Originally Posted by REPROBEAN_CHILD

And speaking of the Samsonian locks, they've actually gone up in price.

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Could be to do with awareness. I didn’t know about it until I actually got it in a loot bag (and went to see if there were any other styles on the marketboard, but there weren’t). I don’t think I’ve seen any other players use it either - when I first saw it on a few Stormblood NPCs I assumed it was a style not made available to us.

We need more hairstyles with bangs!

52 bags and counting. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY~ If it drops to 1 mil I will buy it. It is still going up and down from 3-4 at the moment. I've gotten a bunch of minions and barding I guess, and leveled 3 times so far, so not all bad. Damn all the fireworks though! I'll sell them to Doman Enclave.

Edit: 64... urgh. xD GIMME!!!

Edit 2: 72 /cries

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Originally Posted by Kaelah

52 bags and counting. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY~ If it drops to 1 mil I will buy it. It is still going up and down from 3-4 at the moment. I've gotten a bunch of minions and barding I guess, and leveled 3 times so far, so not all bad. Damn all the fireworks though! I'll sell them to Doman Enclave.

Edit: 64... urgh. xD GIMME!!!

Edit 2: 72 /cries

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as someone who hit 200 sacks before giving up, i wish you luck

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Originally Posted by Enla

To be fair the price /tanked/ for the PoTD hair on most servers within a month of it being introduced, and likely would have happened sooner if they had made an effort to make it tradeable sooner. It'll take a little while but eventually it'll be affordable, the demand just needs to go down.

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yea but you have to agree though the pool for that hairstyle was MUCH MUCH smaller then this one.

The games RNG is a fickle thing...

Gave the hairstyle to my hubby within his first 30 floors first time we ever ran it....(a guy that literally doesnt care about his hairstyle or glamour)

Took me two days to farm it for a friend.... T.T

That being said it had dropped to about 2mil last time i checked on our mb...

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

as someone who hit 200 sacks before giving up, i wish you luck

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Thank you~ 76. It's gone up to 8.5mil! Gdi. I'd pay 2mil max but never 8. The grind continues! Plus side, only 2 and a half levels til my MNK caps and I can slowly grind for the weapon and potsherds too. Got the minion, now to save for the emote. Also gotten almost all of the bardings.

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Originally Posted by silverlunarfox

The games RNG is a fickle thing...

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It was a cruel mistress to me last night while solo farming just for the accursed hoards...

I start with two 21-30 runs that got me 1 sack each, with both containing sparklers.

I then went approximately 15 floors total without a single pomander of intuition or lucky discovery of a hoard spot. My first pomander to follow came in a room where I couldn't use items, which occurred on the next floor, and I'd not been graced with any serenity by that point either. I can finally use it, only to discover that I got no spawns on the remaining 2 floors of that run. Another 21-30 with no intuition...

Since I'm after only the hair at this point (and as far as I've heard, it only comes from silver sacks), I start again. Very first chest was an intuition, I pop it, it's right in that room. I follow the path back along the wall I'd taken, but apparently it was a few pixels different as I tagged a detonating trap. At almost the same moment that I hit that trap, the same type mob I'd killed to get the chest spawned next to me, and before I could get a heal off I was dead. First sack I'd seen in 20+ floors, and it was snatched from my fingers in the most deep dungeon way possible (the risk of running it solo, but it was the intuition pomander situation that really burned).

Another 21-30 run, no intuition until the 29th floor...which had no sacks on it.

I was saltier than the Lochs when I logged off.

It'd dropped to a price I was willing to pay by this afternoon though, so I went ahead and snagged it.

If people are patient it might be worth waiting for the weekend warriors to flood the market again. Managed to make enough money last weekend and not having to deal with the random loot BS was worth 2.4 million.

I got it today. In total maybe about 20 haloed sacks. I'm really loving it. Finally some long hair that doesnt clip my weapon! Also, it has went down to about 1.5 million here but didnt want to spend that for a hairstyle.

92 sacks now... come oooooooooon. Still 3.5mil on my server. Too much for a hairstyle imo.

Edit: 95.

Saw it on Adamantoise for 500,000.
It's going for 1.4-1.2 mil on Cactuar, still waiting for a price drop, but there's still a lot of demand for it.

I'm completely broke and just want it for my cactuar alt XD

I'm starting to wish I didn't sell mine. Got it on my 5th sack and sold it, figuring I would just look for another one while I farmed the potsherd items or I would just buy it once the price dropped. 100+ sacks later, no hair and the price is still over 1.5m on average. The Samsonian Locks also went from 30k to over 200.

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Originally Posted by InkstainedGwyn

Depends on how often it drops. PotD hairstyle went down in price super quickly.

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There was a PotD hairstyle? I never got it. Which one was it?

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I'm probably biased, but I think it looks best on lalas. ;)

https://i.imgur.com/uUHs61a.png

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I feel bad for the tall races. The lalafell get the perfect fairytale princess dress; then, S.E. follows with the perfect hairstyle for our little princesses too. Between the carbuncle suit, carbuncle mount, and this, S.E. is spoiling us! We feel the lala love!

Honestly, I can't get over how good the hair looks on everyone. S.E. did a great job on this hairstyle.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

There was a PotD hairstyle? I never got it. Which one was it?

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Samsonian Locks.

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Originally Posted by ElHeggunte

Samsonian Locks.

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Thanks! Guess they never dropped for me.

Bought it for a friend for 300k, seems like the price is starting to go down.

110 bags and still nothing... urgh. It's still 3.4mil on my server too.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

Honestly, I can't get over how good the hair looks on everyone. S.E. did a great job on this hairstyle.

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Yeah, thank you SE for implementing the hairstyle; should also give thanks to the artist who created the hairstyle in the first place (I wish I knew their name XD) If the artist is reading this, THANK YOU! for creating the Gyr Abanian Plait; it's definitely popular!

https://scontent.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...70&oe=5BD8C0F6

https://scontent.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...bf&oe=5BE9E022

https://scontent.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...35&oe=5BEA2736

I paid 1.5 million a couple weeks ago, eh, not using the money for much else. It is ok, looks a bit plasticy.

Gave up after 40 runs and I don't even know how many bags and just bought it once it dipped below 2 million. I'd rather just make money than grind that place ever again.

I finally lucked out after who knows how many bags. (honestly likely over 100) It bums me out that it clips so many helms I use.

126 now. My luck sucks!

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Originally Posted by Kaelah

126 now. My luck sucks!

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I'm up there too. Bad luck for all \o/

I think it's interesting that some hairstyles like this one require effort to obtain. However, I hope SE will continue adding hairstyles that we can choose from the character creation/aesthetician. The reason is mostly that we can't try on any of the special hairstyles before obtaining them, and that somehow steals a bit from the fun for me.

(Posting this comment because both the 4.3 hairstyles had to be obtained by other means, so I fear this will become the new norm).

Making hairstyles “obtainable” rather than “free” also stops you from being able to use them on retainers!

It looks horrible on males

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Originally Posted by Okamimaru

It looks horrible on males

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Well, it *is* an entry from a competition to design a female hairstyle!

(A link to the complete list was posted earlier in the thread. It looks like several of the male “runner-up” entries have made it into the game already, but this is the first female one.)

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I'm up there too. Bad luck for all \o/

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139 now. /groan

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Well, it *is* an entry from a competition to design a female hairstyle!

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This seems to be an unpopular opinion around these parts, but I miss the days when we had specific female/male hairstyles. A majority of unisex hairstyles look pretty damn similar, and then you have cases like this new hairstyle - clearly it was designed for females, but they're expanding it to males as well. Why not just release both a male AND female hairstyle at the same time? It just feels really lazy to me.

This also expands to hairstyles looking really bad on a lot of the races. Almost as if they design a hairstyle based on a single race, and then simply re-size to fit the other races, not taking into account face shape or anything else. I just wish they would just take the time to tailor hairstyles more to each race/sex.

With that said, I think the new hairstyle looks pretty nice on all races, as well as on the two guys I've seen running around with it in game.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

This seems to be an unpopular opinion around these parts, but I miss the days when we had specific female/male hairstyles. A majority of unisex hairstyles look pretty damn similar, and then you have cases like this new hairstyle - clearly it was designed for females, but they're expanding it to males as well. Why not just release both a male AND female hairstyle at the same time? It just feels really lazy to me.

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There are two issues here, I think.

One is whether hairstyles should be locked to characters of a certain gender - I don't think that's necessary. The model is there in the game, no extra work required, so let anyone who wants it have access to it if they think it looks good on their character.

The second issue is: having made the same hairstyles are available to everyone...
(a) if they try to make all the hairstyles unisex, there's not enough variety
(b) if they continue to make 'male' and 'female' hairstyles (but don't lock them accordingly), and people may start complaining about being given styles that aren't for their gender "instead of" all suitable ones - when actually the alternative would be getting their one style instead of two.


I went into more depth in a post the other day, but I feel like the "non-gender-locked" assortment of hairstyles balances towards male styles (particularly considering which NPCs they are used for, and Square Enix's character designs in general).

Now they've finally brought out this long-requested feminine style - and what have they done with it? Not given it to everyone for free in the default list, but put it as a prize that means those who want it may have to spend a large amount of time and/or gil to acquire it, and those who would never use it may be able to benefit from it.

Meanwhile it seems that several male designs from the same competition have already been implemented, and simply added to the character creator options.


For reference, the unlocked styles currently available in the character creator:

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...c8e6adb78f.jpg