/hood command and hiding helmets.

This is mainly for dual-slotted items like Darklight cowl and the tank armour Darklight. Why are we unable to lower the hood or hide the helmet? It really bugs me that my character is hidden under this robe when all it would take to fix this is lowering the hood.

You gave us /visor how about /hood?

personally, i hate the 2 slot armor bits altogether, their helmet components suck.

not to mention i can get more stats out of using the lower level armor and a up to date helm in most cases.

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Originally Posted by Jayrune

personally, i hate the 2 slot armor bits altogether, their helmet components suck.

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I agree with OP, and this is the reason.

I can't stand it for the fact since level 21 I've been wearing nothing but cotton cowls. I have many head pieces that would boost my Intelligence, Crit, spell speed but I can't wear them because wearing a lower level chest piece negates that fact. So i'm rolling with a level 39 cowl with 7 headpieces that could easily boost my traits 10 points. I love the BLM, and the whole "mysterious " and "dark" look is only cool for so long. I know I can get the battle mages armor from a Mayflox but I've ran it so many times I'm missing the chest piece only and now that i have this new cowl its useless for me to go for it. Disciples of Magic need some armor rework.

Amazing feature that DAOC had..I hope they add it eventually.

The problem with hoods is that your hair "disappears" while the hood is up. To make the hood go On and Off would take too many resources according to Yoshida in an interview some months ago.

The Darklight Armor and all of the armors similar to it (Heavy armors) have those awful helmets that make it seem like your character is trapped forever, not being able to move the head at all. They should allow us to hide that ugly helmet.

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Originally Posted by NintenPyjak64

The problem with hoods is that your hair "disappears" while the hood is up. To make the hood go On and Off would take too many resources according to Yoshida in an interview some months ago.

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SE has always offered excuses for things it didn't want to implement.

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Originally Posted by Jayrune

personally, i hate the 2 slot armor bits altogether, their helmet components suck.

not to mention i can get more stats out of using the lower level armor and a up to date helm in most cases.

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THIS!
why do the hoods have to be built in anyways? traditionally hoods were separate things, why are there no hoods by themselves? why can't i wear a hood with my robe? and for that mater why can't i wear glasses under my hood?
now i get the technical reasons (each body slot corresponds to a part of the model which get's replaced when the item is loaded, the code may well depend on this separations so having one model overlap another body area would cause all sorts of issues.) but i also know that where there's a will, there's a way, and it's not that they CAN'T it's that they don't WANT TO.

I could also see it being an issue with cats, as the hoods all have ear slots and would probably be hard to animate with that.

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Originally Posted by NintenPyjak64

The problem with hoods is that your hair "disappears" while the hood is up. To make the hood go On and Off would take too many resources according to Yoshida in an interview some months ago.

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These useless minions takes more resources and even replace the chance for actual loot in dungeons in order to have them in a chest - /hood would be much more of a welcome addition in the long run.

If you lowered your hood / hid your helmet you'd start complaining with "my head has nothing on it, why can't I wear a helmet!?"

Put simply, the multi-piece armours are one model. In order to allow a /hood command we would need separate item models for the hood and the robe, thus removing the whole point of these items in the first place.

This issue came up in beta when people wanted a /hood command for the WHM's AF robes to allow them to raise their hood.

While it would be nice, don't expect it on head+body armour pieces.

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Originally Posted by Riviere

The Darklight Armor and all of the armors similar to it (Heavy armors) have those awful helmets that make it seem like your character is trapped forever, not being able to move the head at all. They should allow us to hide that ugly helmet.

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This^
i hated wearing them.. even sacrificed DEF to just not wear that thing... running around tanking like thisV
http://i.imgur.com/06aERGP.jpg

Not to mention the model is already made.. considering that midget NPC does it :3

I agree that overall the concept of a /hood would be very welcoming. The entire Darklight tanking set looks awesome, but the helmet alone kills it for me. Its just way too big and makes players look stiff. What displeases me more is that there is concept art of characters without the helmet. At least Allagan tanking/mage/healer set and AF2 are not two piece in one.

SE, if something like /hood isn't possible, then can you at least take consideration of gear in the future that people don't like to hide their head? Keep things at five pieces on a gear set please.

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Put simply, the multi-piece armours are one model. In order to allow a /hood command we would need separate item models for the hood and the robe, thus removing the whole point of these items in the first place.

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I would strongly prefer all head+body armour pieces be removed from the game and replaced with separate armor and head pieces. The helmet component of these pieces are that atrocious.

I hate the fact that I am a PLD and am wearing black/dark purple colored armor (The Darklight set)... I want to be able to role play a little and at least wear something lighter colored

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I hate the fact that I am a PLD and am wearing black/dark purple colored armor (The Darklight set)... I want to be able to role play a little and at least wear something lighter colored

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I"m not sure how the Dye's work yet, but i'm assuming you can't dye it white or a brighter color?

There is a cut scene with someone wearing a cowl, lowering the hood, and having the cowl model with a hood lowered, so the resource already seems to be there. Oh, and he kept his hair, too.

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Originally Posted by Totobi

There is a cut scene with someone wearing a cowl, lowering the hood, and having the cowl model with a hood lowered, so the resource already seems to be there. Oh, and he kept his hair, too.

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there is a distinct difference between one guy in a cut scene lowering his hood any anyone anywhere lowering their hoods.(note: not everyone, anyone...it's and important distinction...)

I hate the Hoods to the point that I refuse to wear cowls. If they looked lik the WHM AF, and I could put it down, I'd love to collect some.

Is this a feature being considered at all by the dev team?

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This is mainly for dual-slotted items like Darklight cowl and the tank armour Darklight. Why are we unable to lower the hood or hide the helmet? It really bugs me that my character is hidden under this robe when all it would take to fix this is lowering the hood.

You gave us /visor how about /hood?

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They've already explained that they can't due this due to the design of the models for the gear in question.

/signed. i want this so badly. it would make the heavy plate armor worth wearing instead of that stupid fixed helmet that doesn't move at all.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

They've already explained that they can't due this due to the design of the models for the gear in question.

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Ok, where is this stated?

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Originally Posted by Steeled

SE has always offered excuses for things it didn't want to implement.

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They did want to implement this. They've spoken about it many times months ago even had concept arts with White Mages with the hoods up

I agree, the heavy armors that have the built in helmet are terrible looking. Every cs I was in where I was wearing that type of armor at the time was terrible. Mostly because an npc would talk to me, and when the camera would then focus on me I'd just be staring at a wall or something because I couldn't turn my head to respond to them.

During battle it is just as bad for Pld at least, because of the stance Pld take while fighting, when wearing that type of body armor I don't even look at the mob lol. Maybe I'm supposed to just think my character is such a bamf he doesn't need to see to block?

Idk if the intend to fix it or not, and idc tbh. I really just hope the hurry up with the vanity slots.