Anyone else disappointed with the lack of variety in Monk gear?

Or to be more specific, it just feel like most gear sets have a theme that makes us look like thugs / bandits, strip-club pirates, and just generally degenerates that look like they're gonna sock you in the stomach and take your lunch money. There's pretty much no gear outside of the Temple / Melee set that really makes us look like actual martial artists. The mages look like mages, the Paladins look like knights...but us? Even the new soldiery set continues the thug/bandit motif with the partly-concealed face and un-heroic / noble looking garb

http://imgur.com/a/OBxZg#13

The Gryphonskin set is...okay...if you hide the headpiece. And the Melee gear, while it's the closest thing to an actual martial arts set we have, is of course that obnoxious yellow colour. CT gear is more ninja like, but I'll take it. Those aside, we have to settle for looking like thieves, or glamour up with sets that don't embody what you'd associate with a monk / martial artist either.

http://abload.de/img/monkaf2loyib.jpg

^We have this to look forward to at an unspecified time in the future, but why can't we have stuff to make us look more like a hero of light, as opposed to some nocturnal street bully?

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Originally Posted by Aeliott

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http://imgur.com/a/OBxZg#13

The Gryphonskin set is...okay...if you hide the headpiece. And the Melee gear, while it's the closest thing to an actual martial arts set we have, is of course that obnoxious yellow colour. CT gear is more ninja like, but I'll take it. Those aside, we have to settle for looking like thieves, or glamour up with sets that don't embody what you'd associate with a monk / martial artist either.

http://abload.de/img/monkaf2loyib.jpg

^We have this to look forward to at an unspecified time in the future, but why can't we have stuff to make us look more like a hero of light, as opposed to some nocturnal street bully?

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What if I like being the street bully? Who will stand up for the bullys if we all look like warriors of light?

Reminds me a little of how monks looked on the original FFT

That MNK gear looks like Erzas' from Fairy Tail. Anyway, there is only so much a monk can wear when he still looks like a monk. They have already done the Shaolin monk style. Maybe OP you could do some design for a monk costume and see how hard it is to make a monk look like a monk and keep it all looking interesting.

I always felt Ragnarok Online's Champion design was the best fit for a monk class.

This set for monk just keeps reminding me of Korra.

I think a lot of the new gear sets look pretty awful, not just the MNK outfits...

That said, I actually like the MNK outfit from that concept art.

I don't have a problem with the current theme, just the sheer amount of sets that follow it with hardly any being "traditional". Had high hopes for the soldiery gear, but nope, another bandit mask :P

FF11 monk was awsome! Just plain rugged h2h with emphasis on martial art with abilities and equipments that looked really cool. FF14...griffin, cat, dog, snake...wth? Our armors look really girly too with vest/sleeve/pants.


...The best part was attacking twice which stands to reason...and the ability to counter which made us distinctively different from mages and other melees

Not to mention the limited tanking skill...

Can't wait to glamour all my monk stuff to af2 with CT legs. <3

#foreverfeather

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Originally Posted by Havenchild

I always felt Ragnarok Online's Champion design was the best fit for a monk class.

This set for monk just keeps reminding me of Korra.

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Doesnt it look like a Sura from RO though?

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...w-65f834da.jpg

Slight resemblance

RO has good clothing concepts that really fit in their character job themes

id be happy with my flame pants from ffxi, they were awesome

I'm seriously tired of looking like some bondage gimp with monk gear. It's disgusting, really.

This is "bondage gimp"? I love this armor set. Will be using it with glamours for sure until I find something I like better.

https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/...75967993_o.jpg

I agree some more monk gear that's obviously inspired by traditional martial-arts wear would be cool, but by the same token, there's only so many ways you can make a gi look interesting. Mostly I'd like to see them make the AF1/1+ set possible to dye.

There isn't much monk gear in the game if you think about it, the monk gear, you have to have your job soul equipped, all the other gear is really pugilist gear, and you can wear it as a monk, because even as a monk, you are still a pugilist. A lot of the street thug looking armor fits pugilists, because they are street thugs, your class guild is home to gamblers, bookies, and loansharks.

Indeed. I yearn for the day that mnk AF2 makes it to the game. i will wear it with pride. for now it looks like i may stick with melee glamour. Black Miquotes look good in melee armor.

I would have to say the pants are a little flashy for my taste and if they were just plain instead would be way better and little more flat would be good too.

Here is what some day people hope to see monk look like in the game.

http://ericbelisle.com/weblogs/wp-co...paizo/monk.jpg

We can wear this at least:
http://i.imgur.com/G01dw9B.png

The only issue being that I think it's a dungeon drop...

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...APcKsIrw0nmJrA
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...-MpMMqaM02r8lY
This is what that gear set reminds me of. I don't mind it

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Originally Posted by LaralnKornera

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...APcKsIrw0nmJrA
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...-MpMMqaM02r8lY
This is what that gear set reminds me of. I don't mind it

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This.

Gear in Final Fantasy XIV representing character designs from past Final Fantasy games is a good thing in my opinion. I'm here to play Final Fantasy online after all.