World of Darkness gear? (opinions)

I can't find the source, but these are the coming World of Darkness patch next week.

http://imgur.com/a/7wEtO#0

My personal opinion is, from what I see...

Tank gear is the best hands down. I'm horridly disappointed by the BLM gear. Like, if it wasn't for the Cloud of Darkness, I'd be completely disinterested in the World of Darkness. Healing piece is cute, on Lala's, but it is essentially a mirror of casting dps gear.

Not sure I care for Ninja and Monk looking so much alike. Hopefully this changes a bit with later gear.

Magic users look to have a couple variations, but pretty much the same.

Tanks, Bard and Lancers look to have gotten their own look though, but I guess that's two classes that use the Tank gear, so a bit meh on that.

That BRD gear looks kinda nice. I guess we deserved it after the tragic ST gear. :))

Tank's gear looks to be heavily similar to CT1 gear, the Warrior of Light Armor (Aside from the helmet).
MNK/NIN look like mirrors/recolors, not really all that impressed.
DRG looks fine to me... aside from the weird looking circlet's horns.
BRD looks really good, aside from the shoulder piece jutting out on the closer shoulder.
Caster/Healer seems to be another mirror/recolor, but at least it looks better than CT2's caster/healer gear *shudder*

two great big /thumbsup from me. I plan on collecting every set i have a class for.

inventory, y you so full already?! ^_^

They probably took a likening to the World of Darkness... reason why the Tank item looks dark. Maybe drawing inspiration from the Warriors of Darkness.

It looks unpolished. But I get that is suppose to be the theme of the outfits, like warn torn and ancient. It's not my thing but the caster hats are cute and I think I can make those bard boots work.

Monk and tank gear look amazing. The rest aren't that great looking. But I've learned to expect this over the patches. CT gear just isn't really all that interesting. Couple sets are nice the rest look like they didn't put much effort in them.. Hope the lack in creativity with gear is due to them putting a boat load of nice gear in the expansion.

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

That BRD gear looks kinda nice. I guess we deserved it after the tragic ST gear. :))

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The hat was soooo swag! :D

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Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

I can't find the source, but these are the coming World of Darkness patch next week.

http://imgur.com/a/7wEtO#0

My personal opinion is, from what I see...

Tank gear is the best hands down. I'm horridly disappointed by the BLM gear. Like, if it wasn't for the Cloud of Darkness, I'd be completely disinterested in the World of Darkness. Healing piece is cute, on Lala's, but it is essentially a mirror of casting dps gear.

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Oh, my imgur album! They are from Dengeki Online. I like how most of them look, I guess, but I have to see them in-game to be sure.

They're somewhat-opposites of the LoTA gear; whereas LoTA had Light armor, WoD has Dark armor.

Look at the two tank sets; the bodies are almost the same model, just different colors (and the cloth on the back is tattered on the WoD set). The physical jobs also have demonic horns as crowns or the helm (not sure about BRD hat, though; haven't really looked at it yet. It may be closer to the caster set)

The DRG armor looks really nice though, and I need to see the tank body before deciding if its better than the High Allagan Coat...

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Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

I can't find the source, but these are the coming World of Darkness patch next week.

http://imgur.com/a/7wEtO#0

My personal opinion is, from what I see...

Tank gear is the best hands down. I'm horridly disappointed by the BLM gear. Like, if it wasn't for the Cloud of Darkness, I'd be completely disinterested in the World of Darkness. Healing piece is cute, on Lala's, but it is essentially a mirror of casting dps gear.

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Caster gear looks like an off shoot of blm af and the blm pvp hat with out the ears. It looks dumb, designer should be ashamed.

While I know many players will appreciate how much less "over the top" the new CT sets are, I am once again a little disappointed by the amount of palette swaps, particularly on the DoMs who have been getting this treatment since the LotA without fail.

Otherwise, the overall looks and aesthetics will once again come down to personal taste, but those hats for mages and BRDs... *raises pinky*

However, I need to interject here:

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Originally Posted by Korilynn

Tanks, Bard and Lancers look to have gotten their own look though, but I guess that's two classes that use the Tank gear, so a bit meh on that.

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I am not so sure tanks and lancers/drg have "their own look." There are differences to be sure, but I'm still seeing similarities. Check out the shoulders, some body accents, and a bit of the feet armor.

They look... uninspiring? Or uninspired, maybe? Idek. Such minor changes again, tank reminds me of the armor of light set, monk is especially on that miqo like they got undershirts on maybe with GC pants (and altogether similar to nin af i think?), dragoon looks like a mix of their af and elements of allagan caster gear?... nin I don't even know, much is hidden with that raised knee pose. Bard - I saw bard and immediately thought of their af gear again. Caster and healer...oh boy. Nevermind the fact that smn and blm is most probably gonna end up sharing the same gear again, same for whm and sch, but HELLA...caster and healer seem to be sharing the same gear too? Basically just re-dyed, the whole thing, which has indeed been going on for too long, and it does indeed feel lazy and not at all motivating. I get that certain jobs sharing gear saves some bandwidth/space somewhere, but like...really? It has to be this significant and nobody is actually concerned about it (doesn't seem so for sure)??
All in all, the one thing I can think of is something I've expressed earlier already, several times too I think: things need to be slowed down a little. Polish things, fix issues, send the devs on a vacation, heck - hire some more ppl. I don't really feel like we're seeing anything new in these sets tbh, which is disappointing. Even that horn element, in a way, feels like a lazy way to have all the loot "unified". :/

AND FOR SANITY'S SAKE REMOVE THE 1000 CHARACTER LIMIT ALREADY.

After seeing them on an actual PC and not just a illustration of the gear, all I feel is a whole lotta MEH.
This is just my personal preference, but I'm let down.

That bard gear is sexy.

I looooove the monk/ninja sets! The tank looks pretty badass and a must get aswell.

As for the rest, they look great but not particularly amazing though. Actually makes me happy I switched from summoner to ninja! xD

Aside from that fabulous healer hat, I'm thoroughly unimpressed. I'll collect the whole set for the sake of having it, but I'm not thrilled to wear or glamour any of it.

Probably the first set in which I'll acquire a piece due to stats and not for glamours lol.

pretty simple but effective. I like them.

I hope they're dyeable (but probably won't be.) I'm so sick of tank gear being red. Which is saying something since red is my favorite color. And with the upgraded soldiery pieces if you want to dye it, it turns the whole entire thing that color. I don't want blue or purple armor, just the red cloth to be dyed. ; ;

Finally we get good armor sets again. I like all of these, none of them I really dislike...save for the horns on everybody's heads.

I like them, but I don't love them. I'm also tired of casters and healers getting dye-swapped versions of the same gear. I'm also tired of witch hats. Why can't healers/casters get more crowns, hoods, circlets?

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I like them, but I don't love them. I'm also tired of casters and healers getting dye-swapped versions of the same gear. I'm also tired of witch hats. Why can't healers/casters get more crowns, hoods, circlets?

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I really hate steepled hats on healers. Those hats are typically reserved for black mages or other offensive magicians. I'm also annoyed by the fact that all NIN gear looks like its made for a thief instead of an actual ninja. Monks and NINs looking like thieves is so dumb.

So wait, the images shown in the OP appear to be for the new dungeons? The new WoD gear is different in the patch notes :O

WoD Gear shown in patch notes
http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/a5a...d038115_34.png

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New dungeons?
http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/a5a...d038115_33.png

IDK im confused myself. Some say it was a typo on which was actually WoD sets. They both look flashy enough to be from WoD. Wish we could get dev conformation on that.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

So wait, the images shown in this thread are for the new dungeons? The new WoD gear is different in the patch notes :O ]

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It was an error; one of many that patch notes were filled with.

Thing that has always put me off with the bard hat is that it covers up so much of the face. But I gotta admit, the darkness hat looks too cool not to wear.

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Originally Posted by Tarushade

IDK im confused myself. Some say it was a typo on which was actually WoD sets. They both look flashy enough to be from WoD. Wish we could get dev conformation on that.

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I agree. It is a bit confusing. Either way both sets look great (just a matter of knowing where to get it now) :D

SE doesn't care about Black Mages.

Seriously through the whole CT line sometimes melee DPS share a set and sometimes they get a unique set, but mages never do. Come on!

The new set, IMO, is much better looking than the set we think is the WOD set (with all the pointy witch hats). I hope that new set drops from the new dungeons.

My personal opinion is that the tank gear (- the helmet) is the best, followed by the Dragoon set. I like the style.

Not really a fan of any of the other designs, or rather, lack of design.

But that's okay, will probably just get w/e my retainers need.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

So wait, the images shown in the OP appear to be for the new dungeons? The new WoD gear is different in the patch notes :O

WoD Gear shown in patch notes

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New dungeons? [/IMG]

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Yah, it's flipped by mistake in the NA Patch Notes. :( Look to the JP Lodestone to see the proper ones:

http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e248e46c3e754c

I wish the ninja gear looked actually ninja like. It's embarrassing how bad it looks.

Guess i'm glamouring my Ninja/Koga Kyahan onto the Calligae from the Ninja Armor.

Really getting tired of Calligae-style footwear being slapped on ninja all the time as an excuse for below-the-knee foot gear.

I love the bard and tank set, but I'm not interested in the others.

kinda boring. :/

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

SE doesn't care about Black Mages.

Seriously through the whole CT line sometimes melee DPS share a set and sometimes they get a unique set, but mages never do. Come on!

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I agree, for having us on the cover of their game and their advertising things we sure get spit on a lot. As a lifer BLM this is getting really annoying. Actually it has been annoying since I got the game and started leveling a year ago.

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

SE doesn't care about Black Mages.

Seriously through the whole CT line sometimes melee DPS share a set and sometimes they get a unique set, but mages never do. Come on!

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The worse part is that the healer/caster gear has pretty much just been recolors of each other even. Like, 1 unique design set covering 4 classes. It's disappointing.

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

SE doesn't care about Black Mages.

Seriously through the whole CT line sometimes melee DPS share a set and sometimes they get a unique set, but mages never do. Come on!

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Its because BLM and SMN use the same main stat and defensive traits. All melees have different traits, which is why they get different gear, namely NIN being different in it using DEX instead of STR and DRG having higher Phy Def on their gear than MNK and NIN (used to have lower Mag Def too but that got changed).

They usually dont make two sets if the classes can use the same set, its rather being economic than wanting to disatvantage mages.