Epic Battle: AF vs. Inventory

I realize SE has been hard at work at the so-called "mannequin" system for gear, but I have no idea what that entails. That being said, I figured surely something could be done about the strain all this AF places on our inventories.

Each set of job armor has the same five slots. Instead of receiving individual pieces as actual inventory, why not have a generic set of armor, let's call it Prismatic armor, that acts as the AF for the job you currently are.

For example:

Say I'm a THM and I switch over to BLM. I then equip my Prismatic Helm, which, as a BLM would appear as my Wizard's Petasos with the appropriate stats. How about WAR? No problem. It would then be my Fighter's Burgeonet instead.

I doubt this would be simple on the coding side of things, but it would ease up the burden of carrying up to 7 different sets of AF gear, not including weapons or future jobs. Here we would only have at most 6 pieces (assuming some sort of prismatic weapon is included).

Or maybe I just like the word "prismatic" ;) (I blame Chrono Cross!)

*edit: I'm getting the impression that some misunderstand my proposition. I'm not saying we should have one piece count for an entire set of AF, thus not allowing you to mix and match other types of gear with AF. There would be 5 pieces of armor, so if you only want to wear the AF body, then just equip the prismatic body piece and fill in the rest of the slots with what you want.

I don't like that idea because then i could not combine pieces of AF gear with crafted/dungeons gear

AF is not the end all gear, no point in making a custom system around it. Also our inv has been raised to 200 temporarily to combat inv issues til 2.0. You shouldn't be having to

The mannequin system will solve this more intuitively, as it will serve as additional storage for equipment as well as create a way to easily quick-change gear sets.

So i get to carry my mannequins all around with me?

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

I don't like that idea because then i could not combine pieces of AF gear with crafted/dungeons gear

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Of course you could. Why wouldn't you be able to?

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

AF is not the end all gear, no point in making a custom system around it. Also our inv has been raised to 200 temporarily to combat inv issues til 2.0. You shouldn't be having to

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But it's something every job will get in order to unlock all abilities, so we might as well slim down the burden. The inventory cap is temporary, as you said. Hopefully the mannequin system adequately addresses this, though. I wish we could get some more info on it.

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Originally Posted by Peptaru

So i get to carry my mannequins all around with me?

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They stay in the extra storage slot between your buttcheeks.

I don't remember if was tanaka or yoshi but someone of SE said that chocobo i'll have some kinda of inventory as like the mog satchel of XI.

My worry of mannequins is not being able to take them with me, then i'll still be carrying everything i am now and putting silly u/u things that i never wear on them... that'll open a whole ... 15 spaces? maybe 20?

Pep, the 'mannequin system' is another way to say 'paper doll system' it's not a physical mannequin like you could have in your mog house in XI, it's a UI element that will allow you to see your equipment on a 'mannequin' so that when you switch jobs/classes that gear will be auto-equipped.

As long as they go with me wherever i go then, i'll be happy. if i have to run to town to swap jobs i'll be disappointed.

The mannequin system will be part of the UI. You won't have to "take" them anywhere because it's not something that goes in your inventory.

Think of the equipment screen we have in XIV right now. Now think of having a bunch of those, one for each class or job, that you can switch between at the click of a button. Now think of all that equipment not taking up space in your inventory. That's what the mannequin system will be like.

Reading the small bit of info on the mannequin system shows that the number of mannequins we will have access to is limited. It would certainly help if we had more information on it, but chances are none of it has been finalized yet. My main concern is that the addition of more jobs (with more AF, job-specific gear, etc.) will greatly weigh down our inventory space, especially if they plan on reducing the number of available slots. This is an attempt to alleviate some of that pressure, even taking mannequins into consideration. Even with the mannequin system, I still see this being an issue. I'm honestly surprised more people don't agree.

I believe the idea Yoshi has is to be able to earn one mannequin per class/job once they reach a certain level (~10). If that's the case then it solves the equipment problem unless people are carrying around multiple equip sets for a single class or job.

I have all 7 sets of AF gear and I'm doing fine with my inventory space. The suggested idea isn't bad but it's not really necessary. I mean I've got AF gear, weapons for all classes, a set of crafting gear, crafting tools for all classes, a set of gathering gear, gathering tools for all classes (+secondary tools), every event item that's come out so far AND a small stash of crafting mats. I'm sitting at around 250/500 currently. Clear out your inventory of needless trash if you have issues with space.

One would need to hunt down dev quotes, however: Did not Yoshi talk about a flag-based storage for unique items like job AFs and event items in the future?
(flag-based means whatever the storage system merely stores 'does [X] have the item?' and 'Is the item with me?' on it, far more server-friendly than what the system for each individual piece of gear being stored should be)

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Originally Posted by Skies

One would need to hunt down dev quotes, however: Did not Yoshi talk about a flag-based storage for unique items like job AFs and event items in the future?
(flag-based means whatever the storage system merely stores 'does [X] have the item?' and 'Is the item with me?' on it, far more server-friendly than what the system for each individual piece of gear being stored should be)

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Pretty sure Yoshi said that they were introducing this for certain U/U items in one of 1.21's lettered patches coming up. I imagine it'll come in time for the Easter event.