Race specific fashion

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Feels like there should be a lot more than there is....or at least a second set. To me race clothing looks better than all the copy and paste gear we get from the raids.

Would be nice if instead of getting china and korean dresses that we could get more lore and race related fashion. Agree disagree? I don't mind it's mogstation

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/p....png?b6ce190v1

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Unique Styles tied to specific in-game races is cool.
However unless these styles are made out of some region specific fabric the other races somehow cant access or let alone copy the look of, I just cant legitimize locked race styles.

So yeah...
Race locked clothing - meh
Race specific accessories/eyes/horns/skins/body types/voices/fighting styles -makes more sense to me

I be more happy if they quit reskinning new gear with old gear skins. I would love to see more Korean and Chinese outfits. I think it is wrong to have race and gender locked clothing. Most I could see for race clothing would be head gear and leg gear for races with none human ears, horns, and tails.

I would be okay with more race specific items, but why not allow a kind of reputation system to allow those who would like to have it be accessible as well? If you want the gear you need to work for it.

I'm a little torn on this. On one hand I want more RSE gear. On the other hand, I want access to some of the RSE gear of other races. I can admit to being a snobby brat when it comes to this, because I want access to everyone's stuff, but don't want everyone to have access to my stuff. And I'm supposed to be a fair person! :p

I am fair though, so I accept that if I want to wear those gorgeous Elezen female boots, then I either need to fantasia or start another character instead of pleading to SE for an unlock. It is my atonement for having such a selfish heart when it comes to glamour. If you think this walk is a simple one, then you have no idea how badly I want those boots!

Anywho, I truly think diversity can be a good thing. It would be unfair if SE released sets only for certain races. Releasing sets for all races is perfectly fine, and the 'I want it all' peeps will just simply have to suck it up.

They don't really make much sense in first place though.. being the fact that the races all live in mixed raced areas for many decades & we never/rarely see any of those races wearing this attire outside of players. If anything all Racial gear should be unlocked.

We should have more rpg things to do when it comes to race like special quests and some gear designed to fit your character perfectly but we're not an Auri Warrior or Elezen Bard; just some faceless distant WoL. I wish people would stop asking for homogenization u_u

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Originally Posted by programcanaan

More racial specifics? Yes
Don't like it make an alt :P

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In a game that's as alt-unfriendly as this? At least WoW has heirlooms and account wide achievements.

I think they should do more stuff like the Hempen and starter sets. I mean, having lets saaaay ... 5 sets of gear that are MADE for your race with their style and body shape and culture in mind seems like something that wouldn't break the game. Hell, GW2 (a game with a much deeper glam system I might add) had this type of gear for races and often times they made for the best looks (the plant people just look sooo much better in their race gear ...0

Race-locked is about as retarded as gender-locked, imho.

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Originally Posted by reivaxe

I think they should do more stuff like the Hempen and starter sets. I mean, having lets saaaay ... 5 sets of gear that are MADE for your race with their style and body shape and culture in mind seems like something that wouldn't break the game. Hell, GW2 (a game with a much deeper glam system I might add) had this type of gear for races and often times they made for the best looks (the plant people just look sooo much better in their race gear ...0

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It wouldn't break the game but it would have to be handled carefully which I would honestly be worried if SE would be able to do. I'm not opposed to more race locked armor sets so long as they're very unique armor or insanely special clothing to that race, not just fairly casual/general clothing arbitrarily locked to a specific race. It would suck to have another hempen set problem where simple casual clothes are race locked.

There's also the neat thing in GW2, with dungeon sets you have the option to get decent alternatives to those styles for all races. (Twilight arbor sylvari style armor for all for example). So that really helps balance things out aesthetically.