If its pvp it should look worn and battered and have rips and tears in the robes and such maybe an opened long coat for healers and casters too.
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If its pvp it should look worn and battered and have rips and tears in the robes and such maybe an opened long coat for healers and casters too.
Wow... you healers really do like to bicker a lot.
I think people are complaining without giving the set a proper look in game, I personally quite like the robe. ^^ There is plenty of sets to glamour in game already.
http://goingsony.com/system/file_upl...20150411_6.jpg
I think in certain lighting it will be nice ^^ it's certainly better than the Alexander Normal Healer gear thats for sure :X
As nice as the designs are on it, and I do think they're nice... It would be nicer if there was slightly less "Robe" involved all the time. This gear is suppose to be for direct person on person conflict, would having your mages wear something protective but still-magey hurt? I want to call back to FFXIV, and an item called "Reverend Mail" and "Holy Breastplate", both equipabble by WHM ONLY, one offered huge amounts of DEF for XI, and the other Melee stats (Because yah, there was this WHM melee thing its hard to explain).
Holy
http://cdn.ffxipro.com/images/ss/ful...8HuMe27k19.jpg
Reverend
http://cdn.ffxipro.com/images/ss/ful...fuLu7zkEjH.jpg
Now, Reverend was a copy of "Haubergeon", a Melee body already in the game, but the Holy Breastplate (while probably a color swap) was unique to itself. SE Went on a limb and tried something different in XI in a moment of such daring I have to assume if it was in XIV that it was accidental.
I'm not using these as an example of what I want as I don't think just giving us a Melee breastplate is what anyone here wants... only that there is precedent for this. Even in XIV, Look at the Asuran gear, it has clearly metallic parts and pauldrons and such, something like a mix of that + Shirt (not Robe) I think would blend well but also look like a reasonable Battle-Mage armor.
If anything, PVP should be the place for this "Protective" and Battle-conscious armor for mages... its literally all about direct person-to-person conflict you'd think you'd want more than a Robe to protect you from someones Axe.
I feel they need more non-robe outfit for the magic jobs in general. I main SCH and personally think the job looks better when wearing things that arent long flowing robes (although those are fine), but there arent many options for non-robes that I, as a healer, can actually glamour. It seems too much gear that is for healers in general is based on WHM
The HW weaver quest line is like
MOTHER I WANNA LOOK GOOD WHEN I HEAL IN THE BATTLEFIELD. WEARING SOME KIND OF NUN ROBE IS LIKE i dont even.
Hence y the girl makes u craft her a chilvaric doublet of healing.
But somehow here we are in bedsheets again.
We might as well get a pillow staff lol that hits ppl for negative damage.
Seems like all their effort went into the monk weps.
I actually like the look of that set, and I typically don't like robe sets. Looks better than the AF2 set.
I was thinking of starting to pvp just to get it.