New Gearset Preview is pretty nice

Genuinely look like something people would wear, when traveling on ships or exploring islands were the temperature is humid or simply living on such a continent. Renaissance inspired, if anything or sailor wear.

For me it's such a contrast against the disappointing cyberpunk slop, clothes of Alexandria / Solution 9, this is actually something my character can actually wear and not feel apart of another game.

The colors are vivid and lively, the hat with the feather is amazing and bunny boy's attire is cool and I genuinely want more of something along that line. The tank / warrior attires clearly has inspirations from the Landsguard; being lighter variations of them; with the same design cues in shoulderpads, boots and gloves.

PLEASE MAKE THESE DYEABLE, USE YOUR NEW DYE SYSTEM!

the top the bunny boy is wearing look hella nice not gonna lie!

Yea I think the new gear is awesome. I saw it and was pretty happy with it. It looks really neat. The recent tomestone set and this set are exactly the kind of armor I like in this game.

I agree with your points about it looking landsguard inspired. I truly don't see the connection between these armor sets and conquistadors....Conquistadors had a full breast plate and colorful puffy sleeves. None of these armor sets have a full breastplate or colorful sleeves.

My only two complaints is that the set that is probably for Phys Ranged will be unavailable to Casters. That set would be fantastic on RDM. The other one is I wish the Scouting/Striking one wasn't a V-neck and instead had it buttoned up all the way.

It looks boring. Nothing I see in the preview pics makes me think "Wow, I need this".

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It looks boring. Nothing I see in the preview pics makes me think "Wow, I need this".

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As a Roleplayer, this is the normal looking attires for adventure I'd actually farm but I can understand your critique.

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It looks boring. Nothing I see in the preview pics makes me think "Wow, I need this".

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The models are alright but I'm not a fan of the the colours. I guess we'll have to wait until next expansion for the dyeable reskin...

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As a Roleplayer, this is the normal looking attires for adventure I'd actually farm but I can understand your critique.

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There are better adventurer roleplayer glams in the game in all honesty.

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There are better adventurer roleplayer glams in the game in all honesty.

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there always is but depending on your character this could work perfectly

One of the best looking dungeon gears. Especially love the helmets and headpieces.

I like what looks like is probably the scouting/striking gear and the musketeer for what's probably aiming isn't bad.

According to white people in this community, we should be offended.

As a South American, descendant of native South American, black African slaves and Portuguese, and as an individual who has my own tastes...

I'm in love with the new sets. Disappointed it will probably be non-dyable
I loved specially the musketeer tabard!! Hopefully I'll get to wear it as SAM and as VPR as well!

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According to white people in this community, we should be offended.

As a South American, descendant of native South American, black African slaves and Portuguese, and as an individual who has my own tastes...

I'm in love with the new sets. Disappointed it will probably be non-dyable
I loved specially the musketeer tabard!! Hopefully I'll get to wear it as SAM and as VPR as well!

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please don't add all white people x) but just kidding tho I kinda know how you feel like chill dudes

I think they all look really cool, but the healing/casting set could have been a bit more stylish. There is room for improvement.

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According to white people in this community, we should be offended.

As a South American, descendant of native South American, black African slaves and Portuguese, and as an individual who has my own tastes...

I'm in love with the new sets. Disappointed it will probably be non-dyable
I loved specially the musketeer tabard!! Hopefully I'll get to wear it as SAM and as VPR as well!

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What is with this trend of immediately thinking that everyone that is upset is white? You're immediately assuming everyone upset about it some white guilt addled wokescold, when many of the people upset are Latino/Indigenous.

So because you don't mind it, that erases the concerns and issues others who also belong to that group have? Maybe instead try understanding the perspective of others, and listen with the idea to understand rather than react.

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What is with this trend of immediately thinking that everyone that is upset is white? You're immediately assuming everyone upset about it some white guilt addled wokescold, when many of the people upset are Latino/Indigenous.

So because you don't mind it, that erases the concerns and issues others who also belong to that group have? Maybe instead try understanding the perspective of others, and listen with the idea to understand rather than react.

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have you lived those time? or anyone have? honestly this is just a way to play victims that's all there is

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It looks boring. Nothing I see in the preview pics makes me think "Wow, I need this".

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Yea, I agree. Very mid.

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What is with this trend of immediately thinking that everyone that is upset is white? You're immediately assuming everyone upset about it some white guilt addled wokescold, when many of the people upset are Latino/Indigenous.

So because you don't mind it, that erases the concerns and issues others who also belong to that group have? Maybe instead try understanding the perspective of others, and listen with the idea to understand rather than react.

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I’m mostly confused why Latino people would be offended by those sets in the first place?

There’s nothing about them which fits either historical or stereotypical pop culture depiction of conquistadors. The only „historical” set is the one looking like a Musketeers from „three Muskeeters” so it has nothing to do with conquistadors (being from different century) and the rest of the sets are completely fantastical (with designers I assume being inspired by FFIX fantasy vibe).

So there’s nothing really to be offended about.

The stuff looks ok I guess.
I just hope the material quality is as decent as those screenshots and doesn't end up being another pixelated hien robe.

I wanna wear the one in the middle of the picture. Its pretty neat. (The outfit the hrothgal is wearing.)

I hope RDM would be able to wear the musketeer glam, it's perfect and I would be able to channel my inner Zorro lol. I also hope it's dyable, dunno why they don't let many dungeon glams be dyable when there are many good ones that would look better being able to be dyed.

I would love to rock the musketeer looking glam on red mage, but I'm betting it's phys ranged. I just hope (but don't expect because it's dungeon gear) the sets are dyable.

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I would love to rock the musketeer looking glam on red mage, but I'm betting it's phys ranged. I just hope (but don't expect because it's dungeon gear) the sets are dyable.

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It would be perfect for Red Mages. D'Artagnan cosplay right there.

I love the one with the long tabard, rest is meh.

It's decent, like the musketeer styled glam, the rest is kinda mid^
Maybe could mix some of the vests with something nicely

No it's not, we still feel the cultural impact.
It isn't a way to play victim. If anything you proved my point correct, you care more about reacting and dismissing criticism, than actually bothering to consider others feelings on a situation.

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No it's not, we still feel the cultural impact.
It isn't a way to play victim. If anything you proved my point correct, you care more about reacting and dismissing criticism, than actually bothering to consider others feelings on a situation.

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There will always be people looking at ways to feel offended. The armor is fine. I quite like it, especially the musketeer inspired glam and the turali gown. Edit: I like the other French style glams with the white shirt too and been looking for that type of glam since a while. It’s tied to Alexandria.

I like the two ones in the middle, the purple with black scarf and gold/red/white accents, and then the white and teal one with the feathered hat. Sadly they are likely to be caster and aiming sets and thus can't be transmogged as samurai. Also probably undyeable too.

I was having a conversation on a WoW forum a few days ago, and my opinion when seeing new armor sets is that I am not that excited for them, not because of the designs but because I can only really be wearing one outfit at a time. I main Samurai and rarely use my Dark Knight tank alt job, and that's it really. The game has been running for over a decade. I have long since settled on my outfit, so new outfits being added doesn't do that much for me. Same with mounts since I can only ride one or two mounts at a time (ground and flying mount). What I would like to see is new cosmetics added that are not mutually exclusive with what we already have. Facewear was recently an instance of that since it did not take up a helmet slot. I would like to see more of that. Maybe being able to add or customize new spell visuals.

I hope the people who were threatening to let their subs run out have houses. With auto demolition running now, we're long overdue for a real estate exodus.

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I hope the people who were threatening to let their subs run out have houses. With auto demolition running now, we're long overdue for a real estate exodus.

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See how much content you get with half the playerbase.

The ones that scream the loudest aren't half the player base. Funny thing? Only one set reminds me, and many others, that the Three Musketeers were never part of the Spanish Inquisition.

We SHOULD be upset that the gear doesn't reflect something that comes out of IX - Like... the Meso Terminal? Give us Alexander gear or something to that theme. I'm gonna cosplay as a female D'Artagnan.

As for all of this rage bait victim complex BS - Some people need to get over their hubris. Or just stop being overly offended and looking for a reason to be angsty.

Four hundred years ago was a long time. Unless you have a time machine, build a bloody bridge and get over it.

some of gearsets in 7.3 preview looks fine but problem is that there is only 4 different looking gearsets when 3 of gearsets are twice and only difference i see between them is just the different colors.

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The ones that scream the loudest aren't half the player base. Funny thing? Only one set reminds me, and many others, that the Three Musketeers were never part of the Spanish Inquisition.

We SHOULD be upset that the gear doesn't reflect something that comes out of IX - Like... the Meso Terminal? Give us Alexander gear or something to that theme. I'm gonna cosplay as a female D'Artagnan.

As for all of this rage bait victim complex BS - Some people need to get over their hubris. Or just stop being overly offended and looking for a reason to be angsty.

Four hundred years ago was a long time. Unless you have a time machine, build a bloody bridge and get over it.

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These people just need to grow some balls (or a spine, or a brain?) and stop being offended at every dang thing on the planet..... It's getting tiring. If you don't like the gear, GLAM it. problem solved. I read some of the posts in that closed thread complaining about it and the idiocy gave me a headache.... And apparently GameRant wrote an article saying the FFXIV playerbase is boycotting the game... LOL!

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This gear is obviously inspired by Burmecia, that's what I don't get about the outrage as a whole. This is a gear set that is inspired by one of the nation's in Final Fantasy 9. It may not be exact, but Neo Alexandrian wasn't exact either, hence: inspired.

Truth be told, my immediate thought when I saw this gear the other night was:
"Oh! Finally they're representing Burmecia! Now when's Lindblum?"

Yet so many people are hung up on this thought of it being offensive when the world that the Meso Terminal and this gear are in so far removed from Latin America that its almost hilarious that this is considered a "problem." Its the Ninth, Living Memory and the Meso Terminal are on the Ninth, a world that is heavily inspired by Europe from what we've seen. This isn't Turali or even Etheiryan in origin, its gear from the remnants of The Ninth.

In all honesty, anyone upset could literally just go on Bsky and ask Kate about it, as she's their cultural consultant liaison. She'd have been involved in the process if there was something related to this gear.

Personally, after the outcry people keep having about cultural influences, I wouldn't blame CS3 if they opt to simply rip off previous Final Fantasy games or go with their own ideas for civilizations and cultures instead, as clearly anything "inspired" by reality is going to face heavy scrutiny by people simply looking for a reason to be mad.

It might be peak but it could be more peaker if they inventing new type of silhouette for healer/caster instead of, robes and robes-like

I quite like the new sets. Honestly don't know where any of this conquistador raging is coming from, because none of the upcoming sets look like them at all. The fem elezen in the screenshot looks like a French musketeer, the various helmets for presumably Fending and Maiming look like dragoon helmets (historical dragoons that is, not Final Fantasy dragoons)... if the tank/maiming gear was someone in a set of half-plate with a gleaming cuirass and a Morion helmet, I could see it. As it is, it's bizarre. I'm going to be very disappointed if every time Square tries to add a set from the renaissance and early modern periods (15th to 18th centuries), people with no historical knowledge are going to be screaming nonsense.

On an aside, if Square wanted to add some Landsknecht gear, that would be absolutely bussin

They all look ugly to me..

I love the... what I assume is the Aiming set. Really good aesthetic. Alas, I'd rather it were glammable by a Red Mage.

One day, cross-job glams, maybe...

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No it's not, we still feel the cultural impact.
It isn't a way to play victim. If anything you proved my point correct, you care more about reacting and dismissing criticism, than actually bothering to consider others feelings on a situation.

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Where were you with Cutter's Cry gear then?

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