DAT VANITY

I dunno if this was suggested before, but I really think a Vanity system would be LOVELY. In playing the game, it kind of sucks seeing everyone dressed as me. Honestly I hate the idea of having to dress a certain way just to be optimal though. Whaddya think?

i believe it was said that this will happen, just wont be able to dress as a caster if youre a tank type thing.

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Originally Posted by Sadique

i believe it was said that this will happen, just wont be able to dress as a caster if youre a tank type thing.

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This. "Vanity Slots" or something similar will be introduced into the game at some point, so hang onto any armor sets you think look cool, because eventually you'll be able to look the way you want without compromising your stats.

I have a friend that is overly keen to run around dressed as a pirate 24/7.

Were there any specifics mentioned? I was quite fond of RIFT's system that gave you costume pages/slots that you could wear over gear. I'd definitely prefer this over a WoW-like transmog system.

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Originally Posted by Jynxii

I have a friend that is overly keen to run around dressed as a pirate 24/7.

Were there any specifics mentioned? I was quite fond of RIFT's system that gave you costume pages/slots that you could wear over gear. I'd definitely prefer this over a WoW-like transmog system.

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An early patch, but not necessarily the first patch. Please be excited.

From what I remember hearing they will have some sort of vanity system but it will be restricted to gear you can wear and currently own. So no tanks rocking whitemage AF.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

From what I remember hearing they will have some sort of vanity system but it will be restricted to gear you can wear and currently own. So no tanks rocking whitemage AF.

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I do hope we get some degree of flexibility, if only for the sake of people like that player that "cosplayed" their character to look like Meliadoul before they did the first gear revamp in 1.0.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

I do hope we get some degree of flexibility, if only for the sake of people like that player that "cosplayed" their character to look like Meliadoul before they did the first gear revamp in 1.0.

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Its the Tingel family!!!

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Originally Posted by Duelle

look like Meliadoul

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I can shed some light into this matter. Yoshida said that the vanity slot are already made but wasn't able to be implemented before the game started. He said it'll be available in 2.1. Which is the very first patch of the game.

I would have loved a style system like the one from DCUO, which allows you to save the style of a piece of equipment onto a specific tab as long as you equip it at least once and then be able to change your look at will without having to keep that gear piece ( I actually don't get the point of having to keep it ).

Im ok for "role" restriction tho, it would be stupid to see a a DoW wearing DoM gear and vice versa especially if they are AF.

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Originally Posted by CUTS3R

I would have loved a style system like the one from DCUO, which allows you to save the style of a piece of equipment onto a specific tab as long as you equip it at least once and then be able to change your look at will without having to keep that gear piece ( I actually don't get the point of having to keep it ).

Im ok for "role" restriction tho, it would be stupid to see a a DoW wearing DoM gear and vice versa especially if they are AF.

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I love the way DCUO did for vanity slots. <3 It was brilliant.

In an attempt to get away from the whole mess with FATE/dungeon grinding and so on, something ocurred to me.

How do you think the rules for vanity slots should apply to stuff like the heavy armor and flachards? To those who don't play WAR or PLD, some of the gear we get takes up two slots. Heavy armor takes up body and head slots while flachards take up legs and feet. I wouldn't really be worrying about this if heavy armor were anywhere close to appealing. Most of it looks pretty damn bad. Not even getting into the fact that there are no head and neck animations on our characters while wearing heavy armor nor the fact heavy armor ignores the "hide head" settings for character display.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

How do you think the rules for vanity slots should apply to stuff like the heavy armor and flachards? To those who don't play WAR or PLD, some of the gear we get takes up two slots. Heavy armor takes up body and head slots while flachards take up legs and feet. I wouldn't really be worrying about this if heavy armor were anywhere close to appealing. Most of it looks pretty damn bad. Not even getting into the fact that there are no head and neck animations on our characters while wearing heavy armor nor the fact heavy armor ignores the "hide head" settings for character display.

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Honestly, those are the sets that I want vanity slots for most, and if they can't be vanitized (trademarking that word), I'll be hugely disappointed. The heavy iron/heavy darklight armour sets are just horrendously ugly, and awfully animated. Especially since one of those is pretty much standard endgame equipment for a long time.

I've got the old Onion set from 1.0 and the moogle helm. I can't wait to make them permanent.

In answer to a vanity system. From here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...IV-Q-A-Summary

Q: In a related question, will higher level race-specific gear be implemented?

A: We don’t have any plans for the start of A Realm Reborn, but we’ll definitely look into adding such gear later on if there’s enough demand.

Also, this may be a bit early to share, but there are plans for a vanity system called “katagami” (dress pattern) that allows you to adjust your appearance. Say your role is a tank, and you like wearing your artifact armor, but prefer the stats on your Darklight gear. In this case, you can change the appearance of the latter to be like the former. I’m not sure yet when this feature will be ready. It’ll depend on our progress.

I'm losing my shit waiting for this addition. I need to run around half naked beating people in the faces with my fists.

the problem is the dye system, it's useless
why bother implementing it if we can't dye most unique gears?
a remodel system would be a nice addition too..

just look at GW2, where we can be anything by mix-matching different set of gear piece from several gears with different set of dyes into one brand new armor set
we can see a player with great armor design and say "woah that's awesome"

GOod! How you look in an MMO is very important. Its your character. CUstomizing the look is so important and I am happy they are doing it!

I wonder how it'll work between switching classes? Will every class get its own vanity slot?

i can't wait for the vanity system to be implemented! dressing up my char has always been a secret pleasure of mine..

It would be nice if we could trade in our yukatas/swimsuits/santa gear for vanity slot equivalent equipment when the vanity slot system gets released.

Oh heck yeah! That will be awesome, I love the scale armor in the game, but the cuirass armor just keeps getting better and better. D:

I feel like the majority of people that will use vanity will be cat girls wearing bikinis.

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Originally Posted by BoomerOU

I feel like the majority of people that will use vanity will be cat girls wearing bikinis.

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If all other MMOs that have had such a system are any indication the scantily clads will be there but not the majority by a long shot. The majority people will be using the system to make elaborate personal costumes that will look a heck of a lot better than the stock end game costumes.

I hope it will be similar to LOTRO's system. I always caught folks off-guard running around in my lvl 1 hunter gear. I can totally see myself rocking the starter lalafell outfit :P

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Originally Posted by amnie

I hope it will be similar to LOTRO's system. I always caught folks off-guard running around in my lvl 1 hunter gear. I can totally see myself rocking the starter lalafell outfit :P

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yea me too, I HATE the transmog system as you cant make having multiple cosmetic sets since you have to drain money/gear into a perma change on your current armor

I'd love this. I wish I could keep my black leather harness + cotton tights for the whole game. I actually used underleveled gear until level 20 because everything else looked so ugly. Not being able to dye unique gear is a big turnoff too.

i'd rather they didn't keep the vanity class specific. seeing a tank running around on a cowl is perfectly fine, just look at this BAMF:
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i'd rather people had the freedom to customize how they looked rather than having their appearance pushed into narrowly defined "class acceptable" slots.
as for vanity in general:
i like it, i think this opens the gates for more cool equipment that the team may have a hard time putting to a class or giving stats for. this opens the road for them to show their creativity and it gives some cool new synth stuff.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

I do hope we get some degree of flexibility, if only for the sake of people like that player that "cosplayed" their character to look like Meliadoul before they did the first gear revamp in 1.0.

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FFT love! I used to try the same thing in 1.0 with GLA at lower levels to emulate the Squire's look.

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Originally Posted by 16bitBounty

I'm losing my shit waiting for this addition. I need to run around half naked beating people in the faces with my fists.

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I love you.

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Originally Posted by Kiteless

Honestly, those are the sets that I want vanity slots for most, and if they can't be vanitized (trademarking that word), I'll be hugely disappointed. The heavy iron/heavy darklight armour sets are just horrendously ugly, and awfully animated. Especially since one of those is pretty much standard endgame equipment for a long time.

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Hah, I think I know the darklight--I mean, which set you're talking about. Yes, it's ugly as sin.

What I would want is, say I have a heavy darklight armor. If I put my PLD AF body on the body vanity slot, I still have the option of putting something in the vanity slot for headgear since the PLD AF body overwrites the heavy darklight armor (which is taking up two slots). Conversely, if I wanted to use a heavy iron armor over a darklight armor, I wouldn't be able to put anything in the head slot since just like the heavy darklight armor is taking up two equipment slots, the heavy iron armor is taking up two vanity slots.