All 4.2 new gear

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Originally Posted by Caitlyn

Another asian-like gearset and nothing special from Omega. Oh look, its recycled Void Arc Gear and the good old Relic Weapon from ARR (without glowing stuff). Its not like that SE doesnt have enough inspiraton from two previous gear design contests with over 400 entries (and more)...

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With all due respect towards the artists taking part in the contest, most of the sets didn't even look like gear, which belongs to the asked role. A few sets were amazing, though. But still, they imo had an much easier job to suprise people, because...

• we never saw anything of those fan artist before. We know the artist working on FF14 very well by now, since they designed over 1200 sets already.
• they didn't had time constrains. At least not harsh ones.
• they didn't had to stick to a theme and could design what they wanted.

for example. In my opinion artist working for a company have it much harder and then there is also the fact that gear set are subjectiv. You dislike them, but others think they look good. As an artist you can't satisfy everyone.

Yea, it's not easy having to constantly create new gear for the last 4-5 years. With the Crystal Tower series they did set the bar pretty high because they started with such recognizable gear on top of recognizable gear and then World of Darkness they went into an Emo phase of gear style lol followed by Void Ark also being very emo in style but then we get the current 24 man raid and their style is pretty cool and unique. Notable gear from Tactics with an XIV twist to it.

I would say when the artist has less direction they seem to gravitate towards the dull/gaudy color scheme, going for a very dark look but when they are given more restrictions, focused on a style that's already been made before, it ends up looking more bright and vibrant because SE as a series in it's infancy did have very bright colors to it. If the artist could capture the magic of what makes gear like "Labyrinth of the Ancients" stands out, we could start seeing more unique gear.

I will agree however that we do seem to see a rut with the artist making current gear, that they are so fixated making gear that looks dark and moody.

Just my opinion but all the gear (even crafted) is rather ugly
Did they change designers last few patches or something

People despising other people jobs. Like always anyway. I see the sets ok. Not bad, not wonderful. Just ok. That's enough.

Except mendacity healer set. I want that so much.

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Originally Posted by era1Ne

With all due respect towards the artists taking part in the contest, most of the sets didn't even look like gear, which belongs to the asked role. A few sets were amazing, though. But still, they imo had an much easier job to suprise people, because...

• we never saw anything of those fan artist before. We know the artist working on FF14 very well by now, since they designed over 1200 sets already.
• they didn't had time constrains. At least not harsh ones.
• they didn't had to stick to a theme and could design what they wanted.

for example. In my opinion artist working for a company have it much harder and then there is also the fact that gear set are subjectiv. You dislike them, but others think they look good. As an artist you can't satisfy everyone.

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You re absolutely right.

Point 1: Sure, most entries doesnt look like a tank or healer gear. But maybe thats the point! People WANT something different. Having something fresh and new, outside of hundreads of traditional white robes for healers or plate armours for tanks. Why not break those limits a little bit and give us something new? Maybe a light plated armour for mages? Who knows?

Point 2: The problem about the current gear is, that you have too many seperated gearsets for the same role. You have ONE (!) Tank-Gearset. But you have THREE gearsets for melee DPS (MNK/SAM, NIN, DRG). Instead of having 4 different (lets just mix ranged DPS together), role-specific sets, you have to design 7 different sets. Thats alot!

Point 3: Compared with Heavensward, it feels we got less variety here. I totally agree, that SE's gear designers are doing a pretty good job. But the upcoming gearsets doesnt feel like something special. Its recycled or asian gear right now, just like the gear we got last year. If you really want to stay on the asian theme, why not bring some fresh ideas into it? Instead of the 10th battle armour, why not something creepy, demonic, noble, ninja-like or asian-fantasy-like (like Blade and Soul?)?

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Originally Posted by DevonEllwood

Who actually likes the ear sleeves on hats. I really want to know.

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I hate them so much

Most of them looks bland and I just hope they at least put some effort on making eureka gears... or maybe hire some of the people who made wicked awesome gears at the previous gear contests because they're doing 1000x better job than people that designs gear/clothing at SE.

It is painfully obvious, apart from some af from sb, whomever creates gear designs is out of ideas. This gear (especially raid gear) is uninspired, ugly, and looks like dungeon droppings of yester-year. Tell me why, and this includes deltascape, the devs didnt use gear models from the tiers’ respective ff installment? There are tons of appropriate and interesting gear/ looks from ff6 party members but instead we get this doody (but we’ll make Setzer’s gear for gold saucer)? Raid gear this xpac doesnt even look related to the ff/raid it belongs. Despite not being a fan of alex gear aestheticaly, it at least LOOKED alex-themed. PvP gear is alright, but thats about it. Cut the crap SE.

I agree that excepting the PVP set, these are nothing new. I like the Mendacity sets, they're not bad as far as such sets go and the central-Asian theme is something new and works with Xaela characters. The Sigmascape sets wouldn't motivate me of themselves to raid, other than the caster set, which is decent.

As a former 3D modeler.. got to say I really hate it when other 3D modelers resort to retexturing(you all call it reskins) and dare pass it off as something new. It's lazy.