Garo event for casters

I really feel like casters got the short end of the stick in this event, especially male casters. Four of the classes get awesome armor. Monk is sort of less awesome but still really nice with all the detail, and they get glowing fists. Bard is way less awesome but still has some nice detail. Then we get to casters. A red and black outfit.............. How many of those do I have now? Enough I don't want to go count. But, what about details? Nope. The small scarf type accents are barely visible. Then lets go to weapons, most are ok but really sad with smn, especially since it's not really visible, sch has cool glow on theirs. Blm gets a gem at least. Whm is big and detailed. Smn just has a book with a brush. The female set at least looks new. I can forgive a lot of it, but next time they look at a caster robe, please let them realize exactly how many of them we have that are so similar already.

Healers and Casters get special treatment there. Good looking gears and even get different versions for both genders.

Look at them ugly ninja armors.

Well, of the four of them I like the dark knight/warrior and dragoon armor the most. But, even so, ninja still made out way better than casters. The armor for ninjas is new looking because ninjas almost never have anything that has full plate armor on it. Not only is it new looking but it is good for glamour too since you can mix and match a lot of that like wearing standard ninja gear with the boots and gloves. Or just the mask with something else.

It's based on a pre-existing series where priests (casters) are completely worthless for killing more than standard-level monsters, and you expect all casters to get special armor like the melee knights? The series even makes a point to show that they don't teach knights magic and priests aren't expected to be any good in a real fight.

And here I am wishing I could glamour the caster and bard outfits onto my NIN/DRK gear..

Not sure what the male caster set looks like, but I will say this. The weapons are ugly (a paint brush, really?). The female caster set is awful - it looks like a rejected frumpy design that didn't make it to World of Darkness.

Female ranged and caster sets are super detailed and extremely pretty, have some of the most unique headpieces and are all dyeable if red/black does not fit your taste :o
The paint brush for BLM is adorable and I am SO glad I barely play melee classes, because every single one of those armors is the most fugly thing I've seen since my male friends stopped bringing their action figurines to kindergarden.

Since I can't try on the male sets myself I have yet to see them, but if one of your main complaints is the color...well, they are dyeable, so what's the problem?

dying on caster doesn't change much on the males, just the shirt, 75% of it is still red and black, and like you said female is super detailed. male isn't.

More complaining. :/

What Garo event?

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Originally Posted by hallard

It's based on a pre-existing series where priests (casters) are completely worthless for killing more than standard-level monsters, and you expect all casters to get special armor like the melee knights? The series even makes a point to show that they don't teach knights magic and priests aren't expected to be any good in a real fight.

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I'm quoting this here because it's true. While I don't necessarily agree with the design decision, the armor was specifically designed with the series standards in minds and it has a distinct barrier between the magic users and the melee classes along with some gender segregation. Hell, according to series canon, females aren't even supposed to be able to wear the wolf style armor, but SE didn't go THAT far in this case. Again, not saying I agree with this choice, but that's the context of it.

There is definitely a bit of a bias - the melee titles are really cool too - but if they unlocked the gender restriction on the unique pieces (female hats, please) it would feel a lot better, and I do like the paintbrush.

Almost every girl on my server seems to have one of the caster tops glamoured at the moment. It's sort of doubly insulting when the awesome armour is not gender locked but our several identical pairs of plain pants are both job and gender locked. At least make the highlights a different colour for the different jobs :s

In any case, it finally gives me an excuse to level those unwanted melee jobs and pray that we'll get access to those cool hats later on. I'm used to sharing the exact same mediocre model between my five main jobs at this point; casters haven't had a great time with glamour in 3.x.

I dont play DoM jobs at all but even I'll admit, you guys got the shot stuck this one lol. Alot of caster gear's really beautiful, like some of the pieces from FCoB, smn artifact, etc. But it just didnt happen this time around. Aaaah well..so happy with drg lolol.

I got both smn and mnk gear, love them both. The smn gear reminds of the older demon armor.

A gigantic brush for a weapon? Well, I know an Event I won't be bothering with.

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Originally Posted by Vexander

A gigantic brush for a weapon? Well, I know an Event I won't be bothering with.

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Ikr? If the brush was actually dyeable I would give it a shot, but it stays the same color IIRC.

I guess it's about preferences, i will never use the drk garo armor, but i would love to have the option to glamour some range sets as i prefer leather armor, SE should make the MGP version (if it exists) usable by all jobs, even if it's not dyeable.

Where do we find the event?

Where do you unlock this Garo event?

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Originally Posted by Novaura

Where do you unlock this Garo event?

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Google.

/10char

Is it an event? I think it's a permanent thing.

I love the female caster body and the BLM brush. Thanks SE.

Yeah, I was really disappointed to see another gender-locked set when we've been asking them for years to stop with that nonsense. I do like the healer gear, but at least the male top dyes like someone was drunk when they were designing it....the whole thing turns different shades of your dye color, while other pieces leave the red part alone, so the set will be impossible to coordinate unless kept in its original color, and looks kinda crappy dyed anyway.

im cool with some gender locking, that ifrit tank armor was pretty bad imo. But then i prefer bulky tank armors, so I have 0 issues with the armor for tanks in this event.

Yeah, i'm pretty opposed to gender locked anything. Still waiting on the male bunny outfit. To see more of it is just annoying.