What's the deal with the gear in FFXIV? I'm not really all that far in the game, but I look up everything that's coming up once I'm a higher level and it's all the same. It seems like you're not really being rewarded with your pillow like arms, and your weird jackets made of linen. Ocassionally they throw some plate armor, and some chain-mail on an item, but still... it doesn't look cool enough to make you feel awesome. I'm not saying go WoW and have glowing skull pauldrons, but there should be a massive change in the overall image of your character as you level up. I want spikes, I want colors, I want shiny glass stuff, I want badass helmets, I just want to look cool.
I think it all boils down to me wanting to look like a Final Fantasy character. Not some poor serf. Wouldn't it be sweet to look like Cecil or Gabranth? Hell, it'd be sweet to look like Bartz or even something like Rikku.
Final Fantasy has a long line of visual badassery when it come to the characters overall image, so what happen here? Even in FFXI you look moderately awesome by the time you're level 20. And the 'cool' factor of your gear goes up like a J-curve. I just want to have another MMO that I can fall in love with. FFXI filled that role for me 5 years ago, but then it got all crazy. FFXI did something for me that no game has done before. While I was playing I felt like I mattered in the world. And it was fun getting together with random people and working together. I didn't like endgame too much but I loved partying and skillchaining, and making the best possible party setups. I had 3 Lv.75s and none of them were necessarily awesome. I was never outfitted in Homam gear, or the cool armor from Aht Urghan. I never had the weapons that were millions of Gil, but I still had fun because the game was incredibly fun before the whole endgame thing.
I just want to have fun again... ; ;
I'm tired of everything and everyone looking like pilgrims.
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12-10-2011, 03:16 AMEyervanI'm tired of everything and everyone looking like pilgrims.
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12-10-2011, 03:21 AMsyntaxlies
in 1.21 job specific armor will come out. alot of the designs now were made by the former ffxiv team. you can expect to see some better stuff down the road a bit.
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12-10-2011, 03:56 AMRentahamster
"everyone looking like pilgrims." lmao
We could use more gear choices, yes. I agree about the acton with the pillow arms. Who the heck thought that was a good idea? -
12-10-2011, 05:09 AMZahak
I like actons :o
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12-10-2011, 05:15 AMburitoslicerHaha, I loled when I saw the pillow arms myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rentahamster
@OP
With the dev team working on new sets of armor, I can imagine they will be on the level of the Ifrit weapons and possibly even better looking (in a more reserved way of course). If only SE could find a good balance without crossing the WoW line, we will be ok.
Just give it a bit, it seems you have joined the game at a funky time seeing were in the midst of another patch that will change the game quite a bit. If it bothers you, I reccomend taking a break and checking back in around the 14th/15th. -
12-10-2011, 05:19 AMRentahamster"Buritoslicer Buritosandwich" is one of the best names on Lindblum.Quote:
Originally Posted by buritoslicer
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12-10-2011, 05:40 AMburitoslicerThank you! Glad to see people appreciate my name, this one is going to be quoted for my siggy lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rentahamster
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Yeah, things are going to be a bit wonky for a while... As soon as the dev team fixes FFXIV's gear direction you'll see more consistancy in our gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shikaree
Hopefully they won't be using the "gear takes 3 months to make" excuse to delay stuff. -
12-10-2011, 05:42 AMRentahamsterI remember when you first started the game. You were running around Limsa and ran past my party. We were like, "We should invite that guy to our LS just based on his name alone" lolQuote:
Originally Posted by buritoslicer
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12-10-2011, 05:49 AMburitoslicerHaha I should have a story to my lifespan on FFXIV:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rentahamster
Since Beta Burritoslicer Buritosandwich has been walking past people and captivating their hearts with his incorrect spelling of the word burrito. :P -
12-10-2011, 06:14 AMRentahamsterlol that's exactly what happened. Our Mexican player was like, "He spelled 'burrito' wrong", to which the rest of us nodded our heads in bemusement.Quote:
Originally Posted by buritoslicer
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12-10-2011, 06:17 AMburitoslicerWhat can I say, were a great server :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shikaree
haha, the reasoning behind spelling burrito wrong was because of the character limits put on names in the older games... so I had to cut an "r" out lol. It has been tradition to just keep it the way it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rentahamster
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12-10-2011, 03:04 PMEyervan
Yeah, your name is great. Burito haha. Instantly derailed my topic though. Though, what kind of things would everyone like to see in the future installments within the gear category?
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12-10-2011, 03:12 PMBowenI personally wouldn't mind to have Braska or Seymour's outfit from FFX. :3Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyervan
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12-10-2011, 03:17 PMburitoslicerThen I would just be plain ol' buritoslicer :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shikaree
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12-10-2011, 03:19 PMburitoslicerArmor that better suits the classes appeal. If I'm a PLD then I want heavy white shiny armor. If I'm a War then I wan't Bad-arse heavy armor that looks like it could eat someone. And so on and so forth...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyervan
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12-10-2011, 03:35 PMEyervan
I'm totally with you Buritoslicer. On top of that, I hope it's more colorful. Not crazy colorful. Just... not.. brown... I swear everyone I see is outfitted in brown things. Another thing! I have to say the whole pirate look is pretty lame. It's like a spin-off of the Corsair job in FFXI.
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12-10-2011, 04:09 PMRentahamsterBrown is next-gen. Didn't you get the memo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyervan
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealIsBrown
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PhilR...n_And_Grey.php
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12-10-2011, 06:37 PMburitoslicerThe pirate look for Limsa is actually pretty good, I love that place, much better then Ul'dah where everything is basically located close together. Limsa is my fav city hands down!Quote:
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LOL! Excuses!Quote:
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12-11-2011, 05:17 AMNakiamiie
I do like the current armours and I also agree we need more variety of choice at every level. Of course, we are set in a medieval-magitek world, we are bound to have plenty of armours made of fabrics, but that also means the setting opens for more different types of armours at every level.
I don't think we all look like pilgrims, but I do like the idea of a wide variety of choice. -
12-11-2011, 05:27 AMZenaku
I think due to the system they have now there limit to copy/paste too 1.20,.
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12-13-2011, 01:07 AMFensfield
Oh well may as well post... -.-
I like things as they are now - especially actons. I'm beginning to get a bit annoyed that there aren't actons above cotton anymore, frankly, especially since it doesn't seem like 1.20 will be changing that.
Of course more and diverse gear would be nice but I do not think people ought be ragging on the current gear designs as if nobody likes them, and I wish some of the gear I like (actons, dalmatica) wouldn't keep getting left out in the cold.