Why are caster and healer (almost) always a colorswap

Please, stop it, there's like only 2 category of magic gear, healer and caster, and almost all their gear are just colorswap from one to the other. Can't you give magic job more diversity?

"White" Mage & "Black" Mage ? ;)

That is only really with non-job specific tome gear most of the time. There are plenty of different options.

Though it doesnt mean they should do that in the first place anyways for the tome gear, it is kind of dumb

There were some diversity in bahamut. Now alexander is just a colorswap too.
Also, 24 man raid are colorswap.

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Originally Posted by Konicorgi

There were some diversity in bahamut. Now alexander is just a colorswap too.
Also, 24 man raid are colorswap.

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I did not say it SHOULD be like this. I only said that there are still multiple options for glamour and such that are different.

I said in my previous post that despite that they should not do the colorswap thing, AGREEING with your post.
Dont cherry pick responses to argue against people who are actually generally agreeing with you

I believe the gear from Lab is completely different for healers and casters. I think that's the only raid like that.

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Originally Posted by Ekko

"White" Mage & "Black" Mage ? ;)

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Laziness. A better question to ask is why is 90% of all caster/healer gear just ugly.

It's further insulting when melee dps, especially dragoon, get to have unique looking gear all the time.

I don't even like my healers looking the same, why would I want all magic users to look the same? It's gross.

Lazy what else? Making new gears from scratch give them a lot work so to save time they just make the general of each role and go with it... But this time they were super lazy because they didnt even bother doing tank set and group it with mnk set.

Mnk with fists of fire make sense to them get ifrit primal gear but the tank would make sense having the titan set. And while Shiva is ok for healer, ramuh would be the best for casters.

They most likely gave casters Shiva set becuase BLM uses Ice spells and the SMN can use Bliz 2 I think. Still lame.

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

Mnk with fists of fire make sense to them get ifrit primal gear but the tank would make sense having the titan set. And while Shiva is ok for healer, ramuh would be the best for casters.

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I have a feeling they're saving Ramuh and Titan (and other primals) for future tomestone gear sets.

Anyway, with the amount of gear that's added each patch, I don't see why they wouldn't have time to make two different-looking sets for healers and casters. At least for the most important gear like tomestone, Void Ark and Alexander sets. It makes me sad every time I see it's yet another colour swap. That's 5 jobs sharing the same gear model.

I agree with this. There are soooo many color swapped healer/caster sets in the game - too many. Just the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

Allagan
Divine Death/Divine Harvest
Aery set
Dravanian
Plague Bringer/Plague Doctor
Gordias
Midas
Vault set
Hailstorm
Darklight
LOTA set
Syrcus Tower
World of Darkness
Void Ark
Sohm Al set
Library set
White Griffin/Black Griffin
Law set
PVP Thaliak gear

EDIT: Added five more sets

It got outrageous enough at one point that the BRD set was a recolor of the Caster/healer set, too. Doubly so when that's also the crafted glamour set at the release of 3.0 for MCH/BRD

They don't have the right to be lazy, and I don't care if it takes more work. IT IS their work, and I pay them every month along with everyone playing this game, to give us interesting content. They're already lazy enough to do a glamour log so I pay them even more because I have to buy more retainers.

<insert PS3/PS4/memory/servers limitations> everyone should know the chorus by now.

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Originally Posted by Ekko

<insert PS3/PS4/memory/servers limitations> everyone should know the chorus by now.

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Excuses excuses.

White and Black are spectrum opposites.
Scholar and Summoner are two sides of the Arcanist coin.

The only odd one out is Astrologian!
So other than AST sticking it's nose in the game, the pallet swaps aren't too outrageous to think of.

It's more likely to be a case of insufficient resources than it is laziness.

Because art assets are the most expensive part of game development.

I feel like saying that the pallete swapped gear is the reason I farmed LoTA back when it was relevant. (and got the Healer-Battleliege gear for WHM and AST) but then again I like having a somewhat uniform look on my classes

Also I feel like pointing out that this is a thing with Melee DPS as well (BRD and MCH included)