On the (hypoethehcial for now) removal of aetherial assessories

Ahem, with 5.3, The ARR dungeons up to Aurum Vale had a rather interesting chnage, the weapons and armor of the Aetherial quality (pink icon, randomized substats) were replaced with more standardized (and better looking) gear. Yet the accessories still remains.

I'd like to ask if they can be removed and replaced by new ones as I feel that not only is randomized stat gear an outdated concept,but also because I see a golden opportunity for accessory models locked to Gatherers/Crafters (Two-tone Leather earrings, Manasilver, etc) to be made available to every class, and at a low enough level to warrant storing in the glamour dresser (as certain accessories, such as the Nabaath ones are not universal) and possibly even recolor them for slightly more variety.

What do you think?

Correct me if I'm wrong but the big reason for this change in 5.3 was for fashion reasons?

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Originally Posted by Luna-M

Correct me if I'm wrong but the big reason for this change in 5.3 was for fashion reasons?

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It was mainly for standardising stats, I think - and making sure all dungeons had unique gear and weapons to drop.

Still, it's definitely nice from a glamour perspective (though I wish they'd picked a few more exciting items in places) and it would be fantastic if they could bring down the newer jewellery designs to this level.

There are two big advantages to this:

1. Designs become equippable much earlier

2. Only one version needs to be stored in the glamour dresser.

I agree, I would like to see new accessories instead of the aetherial ones as well! Not only for glamour purposes, but only to standardize the system some more. Having aetherial accessories feels uselessly convoluted now.

BTW I am wondering if there is a list of Stormblood and Shadowbrigners accessories for Crafters and Gatherers, and of those which of those exact models were used in combat gear?

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Originally Posted by Luna-M

Correct me if I'm wrong but the big reason for this change in 5.3 was for fashion reasons?

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As of 5.3 all the ARR dungeons also now do direct inventory drops when you complete a run, so I would imagine this is also related. I can imagine if you're running to get gear, that it would be very frustrating to get a pink pair of shoes to drop only to run it again and get another pair of shoes with slightly different stats. That doesn't really help new players with making sure they get up to date and current gear as they progress through the story.

I would even venture to say that this is more the reason than glamor/fashion, and that existing higher level models were just given a color pallete shift because that made it easier to implement compared to creating entirely different items, modeling them for all existing sexes and races, and testing all those items with the entire collection of actions and emotes, when that work was already done for these other items.

As far as I was aware you can still get 'pink' gear including accessories from treasure chests during Battlecraft levequests up to level 60 (which is the last level battlecraft leves were available for), but as battle leves are not popular anymore (because most players save their leve allowances for crafting and gathering leves) this fact is easily overlooked.

Really the removal of random pink gear during pre 50 dungeons is a good thing as I was being overloaded with junk gear whenever I ran low level dungeons for the Challenge Log that was only worth turning in for GC seals at my GC HQ, so this keeps my inventory much clearer, and also does help new players getting guaranteed drops.

I suppose I should also ask if anyone had reported getting random pink accessories after their dungeon runs?

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Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

Ahem, with 5.3, The ARR dungeons up to Aurum Vale had a rather interesting chnage, the weapons and armor of the Aetherial quality (pink icon, randomized substats) were replaced with more standardized (and better looking) gear. Yet the accessories still remains.

I\\'d like to ask if they can be removed and replaced by new ones as I feel that not only is randomized stat gear an outdated concept,but also because I see a golden opportunity for accessory models locked to Gatherers/Crafters (Two-tone Leather earrings, Manasilver, etc) to be made available to every class, and at a low enough level to warrant storing in the glamour dresser (as certain accessories, such as the Nabaath ones are not universal) and possibly even recolor them for slightly more variety.

What do you think?

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I realize this is an old post but I SO vehemently disagree with your assertion that it’s “outdated”.

Variation is nice. It makes the game less uniform. It gives variation, and in the smallest of terms adds a level of uniqueness to individuals.

I wish they’d bring these items back to newer dungeons. It’s BORING seeing everyone at the same level wearing the same equip, regardless of “Glamours”.

Bring back Aetherial items!

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Originally Posted by Hypnauticon

I realize this is an old post but I SO vehemently disagree with your assertion that it’s “outdated”.

Variation is nice. It makes the game less uniform. It gives variation, and in the smallest of terms adds a level of uniqueness to individuals.

I wish they’d bring these items back to newer dungeons. It’s BORING seeing everyone at the same level wearing the same equip, regardless of “Glamours”.

Bring back Aetherial items!

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Well that's a flaming hot take. Randomized gear is and will continue to be a horrible time sink that does not reward players effort but instead leaves them asking what the point of it is. Some will get lucky and get it fast. So tell me, wheres the skill in that? If you enjoy this try legendary fishing. Maybe that's more up your alley.

After 20 years of monster hunter.. yea you come to despise the desire sensor

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

As far as I was aware you can still get 'pink' gear including accessories from treasure chests during Battlecraft levequests up to level 60 (which is the last level battlecraft leves were available for), but as battle leves are not popular anymore (because most players save their leve allowances for crafting and gathering leves) this fact is easily overlooked.

Really the removal of random pink gear during pre 50 dungeons is a good thing as I was being overloaded with junk gear whenever I ran low level dungeons for the Challenge Log that was only worth turning in for GC seals at my GC HQ, so this keeps my inventory much clearer, and also does help new players getting guaranteed drops.

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Can also get the pink quality armor from maps.

People like those pink accessories to farm low level materia while leveling alt jobs, to use in arr relics. If people want accessories for glam purposes, I feel like we should ask for some accessories made specifically to be Glams. Personally I'd like to see a couple modern pieces of jewelry that we can use to glam our current equipped accessories , and maybe they could use that "new tech" that they used for the titania crafted weps to add a little touch if bling to these accessories... And I'm sure there's plenty more ideas to go along with it. Ever since I first picked this game up I've always thought that having some nice looking, modern jewelry would be a nice touch (moreso now that we have more modern outfits)