6.4 Samurai Weapon Visual Discrepancy

Hello FFXIV team!

Like so many other members of the XIV community, I was eagerly anticipating patch 6.4 for a multitude of reasons. None more so than the fan-design contest weapons finally being implemented. As a samurai main I was looking forward to the Higan Shigan fan-design contest winner weapon above all others! This marked the 1st time in the game that samurais were able to have a wakizashi on their waist along with their katana, something that had me and others like me very excited!

However, there is a very pronounced visual discrepancy with how that weapon is displayed on female Roegadyn characters. The wakizashi in the weapon placement on female Roegadyns clips directly through their left arms when the katana is unsheathed, and not just through their clothing either but right through the model of their left arms.

The quickest way to fix the issue is to align the Higan Shigan weapon further out from the waist on female Roegadyns. But if in keeping with the continuity of how female characters wear/hold their samurai weapons in the game, then the Higan Shigan weapon needs to be remodeled with the wakizashi being worn bellow the katana instead of above it. This will allow the Higan Shigan weapon to be worn/wielded by female Roegadyns without having the wakizashi clip directly through their left arms.

I have been looking forward to having this weapon in the game all the way back since April of 2022 when the winners were announced, and now over a year later when it's finally available, I was disappointed that quality control did not catch such a major visual oversight... Due to our muscular physiques, female Roegadyns are the ones who have this visual discrepancy with the Higan Shigan weapon. On behalf of all female Roegadyns, I am asking for a solution. Thank you kindly in advance for looking into this!

Sincerely,
A passionate samurai enthusiast!

Here are 3 different images I took showcasing the issue:

https://i.imgur.com/N9MtNWw.png

https://i.imgur.com/ldHGhIN.png

https://i.imgur.com/v01ACU4.png

https://i.ibb.co/HHMmJ70/kaiten.pnghttps://i.ibb.co/Q67vX04/X.gif https://i.ibb.co/HHMmJ70/kaiten.png

https://i.ibb.co/LvDrd2P/6XQNT1q.png

W-we can both be let down c-cause I was hoping for " Kaiten " A-as you can see here during live letter, this is the " Kaiten " pose, filling me with hope that it will return but it was for not!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!! ( obviously ) Also the visual discrepancy I fully agree with it, mhm.

Be nice if it could also just get resized to more reasonable proportions along with getting floated away from the body more to keep the second sword from clipping through any top that extends past the waist along with the body partly while in neutral stance.

edit: also OP, it'd probably help if you added a picture showing what you're talking about. along with submitting a bug report ofc.

edit2 : they could also just resolve the clipping by rotating the weapon on the x-axis. but i suppose that'd probably require some skeleton work on their end as well, so y'know, don't want to create more work for these poor, pitiful devs.

Your link doesn't work, unfortunately. Might be better to grab the direct link (ie, link ends in .jpg or .png) to the picture, and use 'insert image' so it shows directly on the forums here, rather than having to redirect to Imgur

Thank you! I made the changes you described, let me know if it's working now please.

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Originally Posted by Aylaruna_Haljaundwyn

Thank you! I made the changes you described, let me know if it's working now please.

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It works now

clipping huh.
Yeah, I think I got some bad news for you >_>

That really sucks and i wish SE would fix it but i fear they won't cause they would either need to change the pose or the katana...

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Originally Posted by CelestiCer

https://i.ibb.co/HHMmJ70/kaiten.pnghttps://i.ibb.co/Q67vX04/X.gif https://i.ibb.co/HHMmJ70/kaiten.png

https://i.ibb.co/LvDrd2P/6XQNT1q.png

W-we can both be let down c-cause I was hoping for " Kaiten " A-as you can see here during live letter, this is the " Kaiten " pose, filling me with hope that it will return but it was for not!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!! ( obviously ) Also the visual discrepancy I fully agree with it, mhm.

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This bit is growing on me after so long, hope kaiten posting never ends

For a long time I've noticed that skirts don't sit evenly on my female Roegadyn – the hem is tilted rather than straight in a resting position – and I wonder if this is coming from the same base issue.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

For a long time I've noticed that skirts don't sit evenly on my female Roegadyn – the hem is tilted rather than straight in a resting position – and I wonder if this is coming from the same base issue.

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Yes, skirts and dresses sit slightly too high on female roegadyn. Its a bit above the hip.

don't go into gpose after using senei btw. oof lmao.

I hope that that discrepancy is fixed for you all soon. Side note, that's one badass looking katana.

Yikes that looks bad……

Man. That is absolutely horrendous.

I hear you friend, you're preaching to the choir! Over the years I've noticed that we female Roegadyns suffer from what I've dubbed the "skinny-leg syndrome" where it seems like the gear pieces for legs were modeled on a female Midlander then copy+pasted on us. A real easy one you can test this out with is the Heavensward Dark Knight artifact legs (Chaos Flanchard). It's like we magically have skinny Elezen legs while wearing them, retaining a muscular physique everywhere else. I've hung onto the precious few leg pieces that adhere to our body type accurately but trust me when I say - they aren't many!

It's not just clipping, but size as well. These swords are too huge. Can we plz make their size more reasonable, so they would not look like a paddle? Like Mythrite Uchigatana size?
I was very hyped when these were added, but when I saw how they look, I'm not sure I want to wear that, honestly.
Although, models and design are pretty good.