Holiday Themed Weapon Skins

So I'm completey surprised that the only time we have ever really seen weapon skins was with the FFXIII event, and I thought it would be amazing if they started doing this more often, particularly with the different holiday events.

Every holiday they release costumes and things to play with, usually something unique each year, but the one thing that they tend to lack is a weapon to go with the costume. So how cool would it be if this year while dressed up as Mr. or Ms. Clause (or a Reindeer) you could get a glamour for your weapon, such as a candy cane for Black Mages, a sprig of Holly for White Mages, a christmas tree sword and sled shield for Paladin, presents for Monks, a north pole sign for Warriors, and so on!

How is this not already a thing SE?! Make it happen, if not this year than next!

Hey, new players may confuse you with a christmas decoration!

It'll be in the cash shop soon so don't worry.

Please look forward to it.


In cash shop =D

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Originally Posted by Marxam

It'll be in the cash shop soon so don't worry.

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Forum whiners just love to beat a dead horse.
Out of the few things wrong with this game, cash shop isn't one of them.

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Originally Posted by Krimzon

Out of the few things wrong with this game, cash shop isn't one of them.

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Please don't start this argument, it will go on for 50 pages and go nowhere.

I think more vanity weapons would be great. The Lightning Returns event had them and they were actually decent lvl 15 weapons, so I don't see why more of that would be a bad thing. Maybe they feel like it's a bit tacky? Or doesn't really fit within the lore? Not sure. But it'd be cool to see more of that with the events, along with the costumes and etc.

http://i.imgur.com/ydKDeub.jpg

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Maybe they feel like it's a bit tacky? Or doesn't really fit within the lore?

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Doubt this would be a reason, considering it's well within the theme of the usual costumes and such that they give out during the holidays.

That'd be fun and cute! I'd be all for it!

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Originally Posted by Ashren

Doubt this would be a reason, considering it's well within the theme of the usual costumes and such that they give out during the holidays.

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Well, we are talking about weapons. Which are a bit different from costumes.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Well, we are talking about weapons. Which are a bit different from costumes.

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FF11 had holiday themed weapons. The halloween ones come to mind where they had like bat staves and stuff...

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Originally Posted by Autumnfire

FF11 had holiday themed weapons. The halloween ones come to mind where they had like bat staves and stuff...

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Didn't XI also get bells for Christmas? That'd actually be kinda cool here, I seem to remember you could do different notes with the bells in XI... Kinda makes me disappointed that the Manor Instruments for Housing play a static song...

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Originally Posted by Krimzon

Forum whiners just love to beat a dead horse.
Out of the few things wrong with this game, cash shop isn't one of them.

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I actually don't mind the cash that much as people will always have an opinion on spending money when they don't want to. The only gripe I have is how SE seems to have forgotten that they are a game developer and switched into the mentality of a business firm, and a very aggressive one too.

Instead of asking questions like "Is this game play intuitive?" or "Will our servers with stand the load of gamer's during peak times?", they ask questions like "how much can we make off this vanity item?" or "We must try to appeal to the majority of demographics without having to spend too much. How do we achieve this?".

A Gane developer would see themed events as a way of executing some really neat ideas like candy cane weapons but a business would see this as copy and paste event that requires the basic formula of "do this, do that, fate here, fate that" to save costs for other things that may or may not be used for the game itself but for other projects. I probably sound frustrated, which I am a bit, but anyone who remembers SE as Squaresoft and Enix as two separate entities knows what they are capable of and how they can effectively combine Game development and standard business practices cohesively.

... *ahem* I mean, some Eorzean wreath's would be nice to put over our doors.

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Originally Posted by Autumnfire

FF11 had holiday themed weapons. The halloween ones come to mind where they had like bat staves and stuff...

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Well in FFXI they could just make one weapon and let any job equip it. That can't happen in XIV because weapons are tied to jobs, so they'd have to design a bunch of different weapons which is a lot more work.

As long as the whms get staff glamours instead of wands. Wand glamours make me cry.

I want to beat mobs with a big frigging candy cane.

Make it happen, SE!

I'd totally love to be healing people with a giant candy cane. Minty Christmas White Mage is go~

Here's what I would like to see:

PLD weapon:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sBRPaX07NnY/maxresdefault.jpg

PLD Shield:
http://www.officialpsds.com/images/t...s-psd88499.png

WAR Weapon:
http://www.abcteach.com/free/c/candycanergb.jpg

D: sorry some of the images are so big, wasn't bothered with finding smaller ones.

I see no reason why this can't happen. It's plenty lore-friendly to have holiday-themed weapons. Just have some crazy weaponsmith who obsesses about Starlight Festival create the weapons and dole them out.

Found this image after a simple google search. Even something like this would be nice.

http://file.gamescampus.com/News/1112/21030752636.jpg

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Maybe they feel like it's a bit tacky?

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It's only tacky if you lick the candy cane.