Melee Gear Design Contest Winner - Finally in 5.1?

So, we finally gonna see this in 5.1 or what? It's already been almost a year...WTB that melee gear!

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...9e3b7e7d5e21b5

That Ranged Physical DPS Design is the one I'm most looking forward to.

Yes i too like metal gear rising

All of them looks so cool (delinquent striker looks especially close to part 3 jojo's clothes lol). Ones i really like that is unique is the プロハンター (pro hunter) outfit.

as a miquote, i would love a hat with that covers 1 ear and exposes the other (and the eye covers are super lit). also really want a

spriggan backpack and a namazu necklace <3 (also dat ”physical ranged dps" DBZ scouter tho )

I want the one with the tank top and black jeans look. The one that's on the female au ra form. That design would be so good as a monk design.

So the metal gear one won? and the others won't be used? Cause I honestly prefer the others, metal gear is cool and all but it's very bland, it lacks imagination and creativity.

It gives me metal gear vibes. I want it

I just hope that it won't be for Nier Automata raid...

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Originally Posted by Neri

I just hope that it won't be for Nier Automata raid...

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Will come from either a dungeon or next capped tomes.

Damn.. I forgot how painful it was to look at the outfits that could've been. Would've loved if the devs spoiled us and we got the top 3 highest scoring outfits per role.. The ranged one is neat, but not my style. I can be happy for those that will love it. That melee one though is moreso what I like, and glad that it won, but the other submissions were just as wonderful. Also hoping the devs don't figure out some weird way to add robes to the melee one for healers and casters..

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Originally Posted by Noctisnine

So the metal gear one won? and the others won't be used? Cause I honestly prefer the others, metal gear is cool and all but it's very bland, it lacks imagination and creativity.

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I do wish they'd at least retain the runners-up as 'potential' gear designs if they find a situation that fits their theme in the future. There's been more than a few designs from those contests that haven't won but that I desperately want, and it's just such a shame we're unlikely to ever see them. The Caster / Healer portion of the contest was rife with designs like that in particular... I can't say I honestly liked either winner. :/

( Some of the short list entries from the 2016 Tank Gear contest were really darn good as well... That's probably the only contest where the Winners and Runners Up never appealed to me. )

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Originally Posted by Noctisnine

So the metal gear one won? and the others won't be used? Cause I honestly prefer the others, metal gear is cool and all but it's very bland, it lacks imagination and creativity.

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I agree and the range one looks very similar to MCH AF and other gear we have.
They just took the easiest way out and picked those. I would hope they add the runner up like they did with hair or something. :/

I Hope all versions of the metal gear one have pretty similar mask and vieras/ronso being able to use It, i want that mask for tanks ^^

If it's going to follow the trend from Stormblood I'd assume 5.1 will have the Melee set, and 5.3 will have the Ranged set.

Would be neat if they did a whole Devs pick one, the community picks the other. Like the DS2 shield contest.

I like the steampunk ranged DPS set, but I would much rather have the Delinquent Striker's set for melee over the actual winner.

I'm not a fan of the actual winner. The Delinquent Striker set and the one above it in the white robes would have been perfect.

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Originally Posted by Enla

I do wish they'd at least retain the runners-up as 'potential' gear designs if they find a situation that fits their theme in the future. There's been more than a few designs from those contests that haven't won but that I desperately want, and it's just such a shame we're unlikely to ever see them. The Caster / Healer portion of the contest was rife with designs like that in particular... I can't say I honestly liked either winner. :/

( Some of the short list entries from the 2016 Tank Gear contest were really darn good as well... That's probably the only contest where the Winners and Runners Up never appealed to me. )

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I was REALLY disappointed in the tank design winners. They were pretty much exactly like half the tank pieces already in the game, just with slightly different colors and ornamentation. If you told me they picked the winner based on what would be easiest to implement in-game, I would totally believe you. :/ There were some really clever and out-there entries that I was excited about; the winning entries didn't even ding my radar.

I'm definitely looking forward to the Melee DPS winner; that outfit, with its skintight, one-piece bodysuit, is really like no other gear we have!

Yeah I like a lot of the submissions, but I like the one that won as well. Excited to use it on say Ninja perhaps, if it looks right once it's in game.

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Originally Posted by Noctisnine

So the metal gear one won? and the others won't be used? Cause I honestly prefer the others, metal gear is cool and all but it's very bland, it lacks imagination and creativity.

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To each their own. I don't think it lacks imagination or creativity at all...it just isn't to your personal liking. I personally love that set and can't wait to see it. Some of the other ones were good too though.

I'd forgotten about these and I'm still disappointed with what they picked.

That regal tunic of aiming had all my votes. I'm so sad ☹️

All can say for top pick eww. Metal Gear Solid has no place in final fantasy. Not cute design at all. Might be ok for guy characters.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

All can say for top pick eww. Metal Gear Solid has no place in final fantasy. Not cute design at all. Might be ok for guy characters.

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Not every design has to be cute, and it is not a bad design just because it is not cute. It'll fit in just fine.

A lot of people are sad it doesn't have ruffles, bows and ribbons and is pink by default and looks better on females. Tragic.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

All can say for top pick eww. Metal Gear Solid has no place in final fantasy. Not cute design at all. Might be ok for guy characters.

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Well, we have Allagan gear, so...that's pretty futuristic/robotic. And you know, Alexander. And Ironworks. And the Garleans. And a flying car from another world. But Metal Gear Solid-esque items totally don't have a place in FF. Nope, not at all.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

All can say for top pick eww. Metal Gear Solid has no place in final fantasy. Not cute design at all. Might be ok for guy characters.

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nah. Also not all female characters need cute designs. Femroe for the win

Neither aesthetic of the DPS winners are to my liking, but the melee one at least seems like it will be unlike anything we have in terms of gear design.

Not to discredit to the ranged DPS winner, it's a gorgeous design, I just feel we have gear that resembles this already. I imagine SE will use the Riviera doublet as a base for this concept in-game and the hat seems similar to the Ironworks cap of gathering. Seems like there were far more original designs that could have won. Will be neat to see what healers and tanks will get from these sets, at least.

Eh I'm not a huge fan of it, but I can see why it won. Simple and sleek design and it can easily be fitted to look like some form of Allagan armor or something, so it would fit with being a tomestone set.

The other submissions were a lot more visually interesting and appealing though, I hope they keep them on record as possible sets to make in the future.

They really did pick the most boring designs possible I feel like. Super sad.

To each their own, I love the melee set. Wonder if Hroths and Viera will be able to wear the head slot since it's just a mask and not a helmet.

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Originally Posted by Allegor

To each their own, I love the melee set. Wonder if Hroths and Viera will be able to wear the head slot since it's just a mask and not a helmet.

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Well they can wear the Midan Striking and Maiming helm
This isn't much different

I'm not super stoked for it but I don't entirely dislike the ranged winner. Some of the runners-up would probably have been more interesting but maybe it will at least provide some nice pieces to incorporate into other glamour... assuming the asymmetry doesn't go too overboard. I have been wanting this kind of hat with goggles for MCH forever so yay for that.
However, if it had been up to me, I would have chosen this one or this one instead. I find them more fun to look at and I imagine their individual pieces would have had great glamour utility as well.

The melee set... I mean, I'm fine with the MGS suit on its own but... It hurts my heart to see all the runners-up that somehow lost to it. I'm a big fan of magitek aesthetics and I always want more high-tech gear, but even so I feel like the winner is a very low-hanging fruit of a design. Look at what's been passed up... This one is so so pretty! And this one too! And... okay this one is a bit out there for a melee DPS, but I'd love to have it regardless, it's so cute >.<
Compared to them, the sci-fi ninja catsuit just looks like the hundreds of the same outfit I remember from SWTOR. Just so unbearably... plain >o<

An honourable mention goes to this design, which I feel would look perfect as an Allagan-style DNC set! <3

Something I noticed with a lot of these runners up, a lot are designed with catgirls/fem lizards and not a different body type so to speak.Maybe it would have been in their favor to have a male roe and lala to show how it works across the board.

Shame about the delinquent set though.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Well, we have Allagan gear, so...that's pretty futuristic/robotic. And you know, Alexander. And Ironworks. And the Garleans. And a flying car from another world. But Metal Gear Solid-esque items totally don't have a place in FF. Nope, not at all.

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Hate to tell you but that armor you just brought up is very ugly gear and was most time had glamour put over it. Fly car from ffxv. Metal Gear is made by Konami not Square Enix. I like the looks of all other designs below it way better. Maybe next they can add Marvel and DC universe outfits.

Can't wait for all the naked robot ninjas running around.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

Metal Gear is made by Konami not Square Enix.

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Pretty sure they're aware of that, hun. :P That's why they said Metal Gear Solid -esque.

Anyway, I don't care for most of those designs, to be honest; however, the fact that the sneaking suit one was chosen over the others? Really now? It's dull as dirt, and I'm just going to glamour it to something better. The ranged dps winner is nice enough, except for the lack of pants on the female set... Oh, how I despise hot pants/short-shorts in general. It'd look so much nicer with leggings or actual pants. Whelp, glamour to the rescue!

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Originally Posted by hynaku

Hate to tell you but that armor you just brought up is very ugly gear and was most time had glamour put over it. Fly car from ffxv. Metal Gear is made by Konami not Square Enix. I like the looks of all other designs below it way better. Maybe next they can add Marvel and DC universe outfits.

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You may think it's ugly, but others do not. It's all a matter of personal taste. Don't like it? Don't wear it. I'm also fully aware that Konami and Square Enix are 2 different companies making 2 different games, but thanks for the information. Do I like some of the other designs too? Absolutely. But I have no issue with the winner they chose. Some like it, some don't and that's totally fine. Welcome to living with the rest of the human race where we all have different likes and dislikes.

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Originally Posted by Neri

I just hope that it won't be for Nier Automata raid...

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Um, we're getting a 2b raid???

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

You may think it's ugly, but others do not. It's all a matter of personal taste. Don't like it? Don't wear it. I'm also fully aware that Konami and Square Enix are 2 different companies making 2 different games, but thanks for the information. Do I like some of the other designs too? Absolutely. But I have no issue with the winner they chose. Some like it, some don't and that's totally fine. Welcome to living with the rest of the human race where we all have different likes and dislikes.

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Well put. No idea what Hy's exaggerations are about.. you were being pretty reasonable. Their irrational response aside I certainly wouldn't turn down some Nightwing tights and better face masks, specifically domino ones. The melee set is as close as I'll probably get to this so I welcome it all the more. Plus hoping they can pull off the glow fx in the mask's eyes off properly, especially when in motion. Shouldn't be hard if they borrow the gimmick from Warriors.