Reward idea for the beastmen tribes

Heya guys! I had an idea and I wanted to suggest it here and see if it would interest some people.

Thus far, I have not done any beast man tribe quests since they are mostly useless in my opinion. They don't give anything in particular that makes me want to grind their rep and reach the max level. But what if they gave unique pieces of gear? The beastmen tribes are know to have very cool and unique tribal/Aztec like armors and weapons with awesome headgears and jewelry.

Wouldn't it make sense for them to give the WoL interesting trinkets and pieces of equipment to bind him/her to the tribe since the player character do become somewhat of a brother or a partial member of their tribe? If they were to add such, I would go max them out in a heartbeat! That would be awesome! Also, the items are already in-game. It wouldn't take too much time from the devs to tweak these items for human characters.

What do you guys think?

I made a forum account just to say that I love this idea! It would really make me want to do beast tribe quests more. Mounts are one thing and they do give me a little motivation but this would be awesome!

So eventually having a beast tribe specific mount and minion isn't enough, but glamour gear is?

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Originally Posted by Wournsfeik_Untawhasyn

So eventually having a beast tribe specific mount and minion isn't enough, but glamour gear is?

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What's wrong with catering to people who want to collect mounts/minions AND people who want to glamour their character with some beast tribe specific gear? Not everyone is a completionist, a lot of people like to make their character look cool too!

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Originally Posted by keepitshay

What's wrong with catering to people who want to collect mounts/minions AND people who want to glamour their character with some beast tribe specific gear? Not everyone is a completionist, a lot of people like to make their character look cool too!

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can confirm... only have ixal at max and still haven't bought the minion or mount. But create some snazzy gear and i'd be all over getting the rest to max.

They do give one item for finishing them all off the Sable Death Mask. http://xivdb.com/?item/8562/Sable-Death-Mask But i wouldnt mind them adding others

The Ixal Tribe have gloves you can get with Oaknots. About it though. i70 and pretty decent stats for what they cost.

I would not be suprised if this was added later, with another few levels of beastmen quest.

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Originally Posted by keepitshay

I made a forum account just to say that I love this idea! It would really make me want to do beast tribe quests more. Mounts are one thing and they do give me a little motivation but this would be awesome!

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I am honored! I am really happy you think so aswell! The more support, the better!!

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Originally Posted by Wournsfeik_Untawhasyn

So eventually having a beast tribe specific mount and minion isn't enough, but glamour gear is?

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Tell me how many people have completed the beastmen tribe quests... The answer I'm sure will be: ''Not many.'' or at least, it is the case on my server. Mounts and minions is not exactly what's best to encourage players to complete your content and let's face it... Those mounts aren't the best looking ones for the work it takes to get there, mostly being meh looking monsters turned into mounts without even a saddle. I personally don't care about them as I am happy with my chocobo. I believe many think the same hence the low percentage of people who completed it. As a game designer, you have to think of what everyone wants. Some people give more importance to their characters appearance than the collectible mounts they put on their shelf. I think it would be a good idea to put the awesome beastmen accessories and headgears to good use like what they did with the goblin mask!

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Originally Posted by QuinceTaru

They do give one item for finishing them all off the Sable Death Mask. http://xivdb.com/?item/8562/Sable-Death-Mask But i wouldnt mind them adding others

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It's a nice addition but that's the mask of a villain who has nothing to do with the beastmen. And... Well... That mask looks really weird on anyone who wears it. The eye isn't even aligned properly :/

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

The Ixal Tribe have gloves you can get with Oaknots. About it though. i70 and pretty decent stats for what they cost.

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That's a step in the right direction in my opinion. The Ixal tribe is the only tribe of beastmen I have interacted with thus far. I also have those gloves glamoured. They look awesome! We need more gear with feathers!

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Originally Posted by Bombast

I would not be suprised if this was added later, with another few levels of beastmen quest.

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One can hope for the best!

Beast tribe themed equipment does sound interesting! I have relayed your ideas to the development team.

I actually posted a question on the Live Letter Q&A on this when it was first put up, however can they NOT be tied to those daily quests? The daily quests can always be part of the it, but someone as cool as beastmen armor shouldn't be so mundane to obtain. I would really like to see proper Beastmen Fortresses (like the concept art ideas that I guess were ultimately scrapped) Where to enter said Fortress you have to be Rank 4 reputation, but inside will house some really tough Beastmen, by killing FATE boss beastmen[plural] (think of a difficulty similar to Cancer, Steropes, Gorgimera FATES for mega bosses and something like Roc FATE for the other bosses) and by killing them you will achieve tokens which can be redeemed for the beastmen armor.

Personally, imo, doing it like this would solve 2 things.

1) It would make the Beastmen actually powerful and appear to be a threat, because let's face it, after we get to 60 those strongholds are going to be able to be torn apart by a single player, a single player now can destroy just about any stronghold. And if we can do that it begs the question: Are the Beastmen really that powerful to be a main story threat, if we can just wipe them out?

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2) It will encourage people to do the daily quests and clear existing content, while also allowing "the next step"-so to speak-for those players who actually did do the Beastmen quests everyday until they maxed out their reputations.

For 1. a mentality to consider is you don't see elite fighters remain in non-hostile areas, they move onto tougher challenges leaving the concerns of places that would be child's play to them to those who can become stronger by challenging themselves in said situation.

At this time, that is what the 2.0 areas are, they are territories designed for 1-50 in mind, meaning that to them and their journey the beastmen would pose a threat to them but of course a person whom is in 3.0 and 60 would easily beat them up because they are no longer a threat to them. With that in mind however those 60 would most likely have little reason to go to those areas meaning that even though a 60 could potentially solo the whole area (even though 50's can do this already) it doesn't make those areas illogical because those areas aren't designed with 60 in mind, they are designed for 1-50.

In the next expansion, it's possible these beastmen may be given areas to show their strength but as for now I imagine they won't focus on the beastmen since to an extent their story has been told and until they become a threat or a reason opens up to involve them they will remain as the lv 50's who were focused on summoning primals.

Now this is a thought but it's something that might not occur til 3.2-3.4 but they could expand the leve system to involve "party based" leves involving the infiltration of forts to introduce "high level" content without interrupting the ecosystem of lower level players. They could also expand the airship map to include discovering threats in the LL/Grida/Ulda region in the essence of beastmen or other threats so that the idea of airship travel isn't just focus on Ishgard but it could expand to the other regions without infiltrating the lv 50 experience.

I actually wondered why this wasn't a thing. in FFXI (burnthewitch) they had "Beastmen Hats", which were basically like the Chocobo Mask in XIV except Beastmen hats Like follows

Mamool Ja: (Who are in XIV)
http://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/1282

Lamia: (Who are in XIV)
http://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/1195

Quadav:
http://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/16514

Goblins: (Who are in XIV)
http://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/8473

They already added the goblin one in more detail, they could always do something like this, or simply Beastmen-Themed attire.

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Beast tribe themed equipment does sound interesting! I have relayed your ideas to the development team.

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Thanks Tony! I love this idea too, might I add that I think the equipment should be added at certain stages of Reputation, and not all at once when you reach max rep? (I.E.: Accessories at Rep3; Head, Feet and Gloves at Rep4/5 and Pants/Chest at Rep5/7)

Oh so they DO read the threads.^

Anyways, I agree with this.

More incentive for me to do the daily beastmen quests.

Make sure to have the Sahagin shell mask/helmet an obtainable and equipable thing, and I'll be happy.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8782/...ddc55ff7_o.jpg

Oh, and make sure to have our future beastmen equipment dyeable. Please :)

Very good suggestion! I know 3-4 friends who would sport that hat proudly! Also, you have to admit, some of the items the beastmen are wearing are really freakin' cool!

I mean come on... Look at these...

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...pslldfqu5u.png

...stylish moffos with their swag...

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...pstcachixc.png

...and their detailed bling!

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...psc1vdwpfm.png

I want to be part of their tribe...

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...psvo5iklhh.png

...and sport their colors with pride!

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...psuwvsh2lw.png

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Beast tribe themed equipment does sound interesting! I have relayed your ideas to the development team.

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Waaah! I am honored to see you around here!! You've only posted a few times on here but I love you already! xD

Glad to hear the idea was shared with the team! Eager to see where this idea will lead to! + v +

Even if its beastmen inspired gear, I think I would be happy!