Please make the Seraphism model swap optional

I wished they were as bold with such decisions when it came to gameplay content and not turning peepz into white mages lol

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Originally Posted by Eorzean_username

Seriously...?
Scholars have always had a pretty rough impression, with people saying things like "Marine Spirit!", so the difference was huge.
(Alternative from DeepL)
The art team has been a bit more “Marine Soul” and “Soul of a Marine” until now! The difference between the two was quite striking.

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Meanwhile the capstone skill has a literal crown of thorns

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Originally Posted by Eorzean_username

Seriously...?

https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/1593842.html

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Ah Well.

If that's that, i'll probably still heal for my static, at least the first Tier.

But come hell or high water, I'll not touch df with one.

Not a strong form of protest I know, but it's the best I can do without pissing off Friends.

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Originally Posted by Eorzean_username

Seriously...?

https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/1593842.html

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????

Tone-f@&$!ng-deaf. I try not to hope but disappointing seems to be a skill level they level up every patches.

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Originally Posted by Eorzean_username

Seriously...?

https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/1593842.html

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"Let's change it just because. Lore? We don't need to explain that, but the 300 hours of MSQ is mandatory though. Please look forward to it."

Honestly, it's kind of a microcosm of SE's problem with FF. The series has been plagued for a long time with devs who are clearly tired of making FF games, but ever since SE stopped seriously investing in new IPs after the 90s, have little outlet except either leaving the company or just putting weird shit in FF games.

I get the same kind of vibe from how they are starting to treat the jobs in FF14. They don't want to design these jobs anymore. You can see it in gameplay, and now it's really creeping in to aesthetic too, going wildly off-road with things like angel Jesus scholars and mecha-bahamuts.

They really should hire new people in the job design team, for everyone's sake. You ironically sometimes need fresh perspectives to stay on track.

WHM's divine caress (New lvl 100 shield skill combo after temperance's) animation has glowing angelic feathers falling down under pillars of light.

I don't know about the "angel theme is clearly a sch thing".

Scholar has MARINE SOUL.
As a military tactician, this white robe suits WHM as well.
And the small stiff wing looks like a cheap fashion item.
Making an on/off text command for the appearance transformation is the solution, I think.

Seraphism is disgusting and it honestly baffles me that they’d have thought it acceptable in any way.

Literally 95% of FFXIV is purely aesthetics. Dressing your character up in gear you like, using the job you like the look of most (not like there’s enough variations in gameplay for that to matter lol), with all your flashy fireworks abilities.

They created a skill that literally overwrites the entirety of these aesthetics…and replaces it them with the aesthetics of another job .

The biggest slap in the face? The Seraphism outfit doesn’t even account for head display settings . You can have helmet display completely turned off, but if you use Seraphism well, you will take your ugly ass veil and you will LIKE it

Honestly, I don’t say this lightly, but whoever thought this was a good idea should maybe be encourage to like, retire early.

Literally the only good thing about Seraphism is that Manifestation and Accession have cool animations. But when it’s a hideous Angel monstrosity that replaces my character doing the animations, suddenly any enjoyment I may have had is gone. SE literally won’t even let us enjoy the game’s aesthetics anymore. And I mean, what else are we going to enjoy? The gameplay? lol

I didn't like it when they previewed it and now that I've seen it in game, I still do not like it. Chiming in to either change it or let us toggle it off. Please.