Please no more (tank glam complaint)

Please no more:

“Dress”
“Skirt”
“Coat”
“Cape”

Tank gear? Please?

Maybe add some more gear like:

-cuirass
-harness
-scale mail


More tank gear that ends at the waist?

Please?

I don’t always want to have to either choose between being naked or wearing a blanket.

Thank you.

(Also more shiny or otherwise “higher quality” looking dyable plate armor would be amazing too. A lot of the current metals used in tank gear look worn and don’t dye well.)

Oh and more shields that don’t look like all the rest.

More hoplons or other type shields.

Arm guards
Hoplons
Bucklers

Also more dye options for shields.


Everything in the game should have variations. (Saves on resources and give players variety.)

Don’t take just one type of gear and make 379338737 options for just that one and leave out the rest.

Please and thank you.

Gear is largely recycled (Dyeable templates from older content) or region specific, though still staying to the Fantasy theme.

There's quite a few good looking plate options.

I agree, but only because they refuse to fix the (anti-gravity / steel-mesh) skirts/coats issues. Until they're fixed, the more often I can avoid having any top that extends at all past the hips, the better.

please give us more pauldrons

If they insist on dress type armor, I'd kill for a crusader style set. I know adders elite tank set kind of fits the bill, but a general one for everyone would e nice. I agree though, I would love to see more practical sets in the game without as much stuff hanging from the waist or unneeded asymmetry.

I agree, tired of the dress type armor, I love the heavy armor type and part of the reason I play tank. I have almost all the heavy armor sets for glamour but I would like to get something new.

I, for one, would totally like to see a greater selection of stylish yet functional smaller shields and bucklers. :)

My aestetic is "lightweight, but still protective" on account of the fact I'm a Miqo. XD So I never really was much for heavier armor. (I'll admit I especially hated the "tin man" armor you got from ARR.) In that regard, the Valkyrie Fending set from SB seems to work well for that. Very "soldiery," with what looks like a chain shirt for vital protection. (Yes, yes. I know it's basically a pallette swap of stuff that dropped from The Vault. Sheesh...)

Still, I wouldn't mind seeing more outfits like I described above. I was sporting the Gazelleskin stuff for a while, because hey, Ala Mhigan. :D But it got to be a little overly drab sometimes.

Edited to Add: And TOGGLEABLE CAPES. Seriously, SE. That clipping for us kitties and lizzies is unflattering. :P

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Originally Posted by Snarky_Sunseeker

I, for one, would totally like to see a greater selection of stylish yet functional smaller shields and bucklers. :)

My aestetic is "lightweight, but still protective" on account of the fact I'm a Miqo. XD So I never really was much for heavier armor. (I'll admit I especially hated the "tin man" armor you got from ARR.) In that regard, the Valkyrie Fending set from SB seems to work well for that. Very "soldiery," with what looks like a chain shirt for vital protection. (Yes, yes. I know it's basically a pallette swap of stuff that dropped from The Vault. Sheesh...)

Still, I wouldn't mind seeing more outfits like I described above. I was sporting the Gazelleskin stuff for a while, because hey, Ala Mhigan. :D But it got to be a little overly drab sometimes.

Edited to Add: And TOGGLEABLE CAPES. Seriously, SE. That clipping for us kitties and lizzies is unflattering. :P

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I'd love more smaller shields even as a highlander. I remember being disappointed when I was leveling armorer, finding a really cool small shield, not paying attention, and crafting it only to find that....it was a caster shield and I couldn't equip it as a tank.

Side note, why don't the new captain weapons in the GCs include a shield?!

would also like to see more "Helmet" armors. The allagan tank helm is still the best helm imo in terms of simplicity and non clashing design. The gordian one is pretty good once you dye it pure white. They also need to stop with this trend of raid gear being Helm > circlet > circlet per expansion. I also wouldn't mind the dx11 helmet for tanks.

http://i.imgur.com/LyYAPQE.png

Yeah I'd also love more actual helmets. I mean we're tanks! We take hits for a living! Maybe some proper headwear would be nice. At least the ala mhigan set had a chin strap or something. Then again the Omega fending set has gaps on the thighs and chest (at least for female characters not sure about male) so maybe I shouldn't give the circlet too much trouble, it's not a realistic set to begin with.

Tail coats should just be leg pieces anyway like the pvp gear for Striking and nin

https://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/Gear...h9ot1p/036.jpg

"Of all the entries, this was the one that boasted the tightest defense. We’d like to incorporate this solid design for tank equipment in the future."


https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...e042795f04e636


i know kinda goes against peoples hate for the tail coats and such part of tank gear
but i do love this gear and the helmet is sweet.
Ill be waiting Square enix
more deus vault gear
less circlets and mechanical gear

Please, giant body sized tower shields. I need to only be able to see the crown of my forehead...

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Please, giant body sized tower shields. I need to only be able to see the crown of my forehead...

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I hope we get a new tank job with these kind of shields.

But sadly PLD has already taken a bit too much of that identity.

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Originally Posted by Daniolaut

Please no more:

“Dress”
“Skirt”
“Coat”
“Cape”

Tank gear? Please?

Maybe add some more gear like:

-cuirass
-harness
-scale mail


More tank gear that ends at the waist?

Please?

I don’t always want to have to either choose between being naked or wearing a blanket.

Thank you.

(Also more shiny or otherwise “higher quality” looking dyable plate armor would be amazing too. A lot of the current metals used in tank gear look worn and don’t dye well.)

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I kind of like dress/robes

I would love some kind of spell shield. FFX had a few of these, just little energy barriers. Yuna and Lulu both used them.

I'm forever a little miffed that the tailcoat is part of the TOP piece of armor in the first place. Like dear god, I just want a plateskirt that isn't attached to something big and bulky so I can pair it with a light breastplate. Is halfplate too much to ask for?

and shields! For the love of bahamut every shield looks the same these days, it's only kites and square shields! What happened to round shields and gladiator style weapons and armors? I get that energy shields or stylized kites might be a bit much to dream of, but it's so hard to find anything even remotely Grecian or Roman, let alone Middle Eastern in the supposedly India-Middle Eastern and Greek themed expansion.

There's still only like four or five scimitars in the game. Y'know how hard it is to look like a desert warrior with so little selection? There's like 80 longswords that all look the same visually from a distance, and that homogenization has spread hard into the rest of the tank gearsets.

I cry for the WAR mains who just wanted to look like a barbarian or tribal warlord with pelts and hides. Apparently, if we're not ALL so heavily armored we could break stone paths simply by walking on them, we're not a tank. Stop forcing us to look like the WoL from the trailers.

I really dislike circlets, hope for more closed helmets.
As for big shields, i would love a new class similar to gunlacer from Monster Hunter.

this is so beautiful, my love for heavy armors is immense and i hope se will add some.

I'm all about subligars and harnesses....sue me

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I'm all about subligars and harnesses....sue me

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Sir im going to bring you in COURT

I would like some more heavy armours. Tassets are fine but less of the capes. Give us armour which actually look like it can take the crap we tank, to a point but I think my point is easy to understand

On the contrary, after years of tin cans with goofy pauldrons, the more fabric-oriented, feminine tank glams have been exactly what I've wanted for so very long now.

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On the contrary, after years of tin cans with goofy pauldrons, the more fabric-oriented, feminine tank glams have been exactly what I've wanted for so very long now.

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Pretty much, people also greatly exaggerate the frequency of it.
It reminds me of revealing gear too and how some people talk about it as if it's constant and a majority, in reality it's an extremely tiny minority of the gear in the game that is revealing...
Like every single damn time we get a skirt or shorts people throw a tantrum about it and talk about it as if every leg piece is that.
99% of the leg pieces are still pants lol.

It's the same in WoW too people talk about WoW as if it's full of '' plate bikinis '' when in reality it's like three pieces from Vanilla and none has been added since...
If you like it you have an extreme lack of variety to pick from there's a reason why people use the same handful of pieces.
More diversity and variety would actually be adding more of it and it becomes really silly to complain about it especially from the lens of '' omg there's so much of it '' which just isn't true.

People who like the conventionally '' masculine bro '' gear already have almost everything in gaming catered to them already.
And FFXIV has also gone beyond the ARR point that was a bit more '' grounded '' for a lack of a better term.
It's just not what the game is, the gear in the game went in a much more fantasy direction.

The one body gear type that's sorely lacking: Basically anything that won't hide the belt layer of pants. It'd be nice if you could actually use stuff like dalmascan bottoms with more than three options, outside the bikini tops. Just a simple chainmail body armor would be nice at least.

I demand a Gimp suit.

So when I run DRK in dungeons I can be dressed appropriately.

We need to see more like Diablo style armor that the Crusader wears and less of theses trench coat skirts that look less tanky and more spank me.

But I like capes and cloaks? Seriously though, the Paladin EW class armor is frankly the best "tank" armor they have ever made for this game. I also really like the Cryptlurker set combined with Crystarium weapons, you are a little ornate, but you look some someone who is using gear that actually would work in the real world.

As a Dark Knight I agree though, death to these stupid skirts. I am especially tired of them on my class armor...oh wait too late for that one.

I still like dress