Level 90 Job Artifact Armours Looks so Bad and Borring

Endwalker armors are just "refurbished" from HW. I really hope to see some new armors at some point and not relegated to Eureka grinds or The Feast.

I feel like they peaked in ARR.
ARR captured the feel of the Jobs the absolute best imo ( the RDM's have all been great tho ).
After that I think it's way more mixed, I'd say the NIN, RDM, DRK and WHM ones have been pretty good overall imo the rest I am meh about.
DRK is almost impossible to mess up tho just make it edgy and black.

But not to the extent that I'd actually want to wear them while I do go back to the ARR ones every now and again.
Personally I'd like to see them experiment a bit more with them, like with MNK I think it'd be cool to get something in the vein of Tifa instead of just another pants and long loincloth thingy/ top.
The ARR MNK already was the peak of that imo and it worked really well, personally I feel like the Endwalker one looks cluttered as hell.
It reminds me a little of Stormblood but worse, I don't think that the Stormblood MNK gear was horrible but it felt too unfocused and messy too many different colors, patterns and random metal.
The Endwalker tho imo is just horrible, it's everything that was wrong with the Stormblood one without being interesting or feeling all that unique and nothing about it feels like a MNK to me.

It's kinda the same with DRK for me, instead of the same black splotch that might as well look the same from a distance maybe open it up a bit?
Remove one arm piece or something, make it look worn and broken?
I know that they have the red flap which adds some contrast and it's something at least but I just think that there needs to be more drastic differences that set them apart.
It's not that it looks bad because it doesn't, it's just that it looks '' the same ''.
I just think that they need to be bolder.
There's some basics that they shouldn't stray away from like white for WHM and black for DRK and BLM, the problem imo is that it revolves too much around those basics and plays it too safe.

Or like for BLM make it more like Lulu instead of '' stereotypical top hat witch with black cat ''?
Even if they want to draw from old FF games there is still more variety.
I mean I think it'd be pretty cool to see a Lulu inspired BLM design ( don't forget the belts ).

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Originally Posted by AtlasS

Ninja was straight up disappointing.

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I had to go and look it up again and yeah you're right imo.
It's the first NIN set I don't like.

The SAM set I am the most conflicted on because I actually do think that it looks good.
I just personally don't like '' beefy '' looks, it's too broad for me.
I kinda wish you could remove the jacket or something but that's more of a personal thing.

I'll say the Paladin and Warrior sets look pretty cool, but I'd agree most of the others feel very... predictable.

But you know what WOULD make all of these armors super dope?

Particle effects.

Instead of just upgrading our Relic Weapons again, what if we actually got an opportunity to upgrade our Artifact ARMOR?

The DRK, for example... yeah, a little bland. But imagine if you upgraded it, and it suddenly had glowing eyes? Upgraded further, there's smoke and shadow seeping from breaks or cracks in the armor. Maybe fully-upgraded, there are runes and stuff that light-up when you draw your weapon.

Either way, I'm certainly not hating on the armor. But I WOULD say that in the NEXT expansion, whenever we are hitting lvl 99 or 100, I would probably dig going "outside the box" a little bit more for the AF armors. For the Dark Knight, maybe it could look ALMOST like a holy paladin's armor, but "tarnished" or "corrupted". Stuff like that.

The two jobs that I play are WHM and DNC. I love the DNC AF personally (also really a fan of the current AF). The WHM...bit underwhelmed, but honestly I haven't cared too much about most of the WHM sets. I do feel for RDM. I haven't really played the job for years now, but it seems to look reaaaaaally similar to the AF styles & basic gear they already have IMO.

Honestly though, I think some of my favorite AF sets are still the early versions from ARR. Gotta love the classics! :3

I can agree that some of them don’t look all that great, looking at you black mage. That warrior look though and that axe. Chef’s kiss.

Samurai looms pretty basic, honestly. Was hoping for something more armored, but SE just wants us in robes apparently.