Armor Sets would be nice

[Jinko]

What I think needs to happen is, more armor needs to have multiple stats for different disciplines to do something with them. I would like to see crafting stats on the Plate Armor, An armorer being empowered by the armor he/she creates. and the funny thing is, Plate armor Favors Armorer >.> but there is no reason for them to actually wear it: no crafting stats.

That's the complete opposite to what I want to happen lol

As I said before Doublet could be a second choice to double vest (but make it Crafting only)

Pointing to the text I highlighted, If you do this it basically means any class can wear any gear, its a massive problem and the devs are looking at the rebalancing and restriction of gear (check the in development sub forum)

What you are suggestion is making armour ever less unique kind of like the whole armoury problem with equipping skills across classes. (its just watering everything down so everyone can be everything and wear everything)

From a role player perspective wearing plate armour to craft would be kind of silly, many times heavier than leather/cloth armour and hard to move in.

[Viridiana]

Yeah, I'd much rather see either new or reworked gear whose stats and favored classes actually match. There's no need to have a piece of gear that has caster stats but favors PGL, for example.

On the other hand, it is nice to have certain pieces/types of gear (e.g., tabards, slops) that favor All Classes, just to use as leveling gear to save our limited inventory space. That gear probably shouldn't be crafting gear, which I'd rather see marked "Disciples of Land and Hand;" but if it is, oh well, that's even more space saved. . .

[Ceons]

Armor sets would be great. I think armor sets would give you a purpose and a goal when you level up to buy all the pieces and look cool. Set bonuses, if done could give you a purpose besides just "looks" to have a whole set.

[KorPoni]

Sorry this is taking me so long. Been getting more work IRL and RL comes first. I looked through alot of gear to see how sets would match up, and from the way it looks atm SE has 2- or 3-piece sets max atm, with hands and feet not matched up atall with Head, Body, and Hands. This won't stop me from doing what I'm doing, just going to make more work for me.

But, as a heads up and suggestion from other players looking into this, how about 4 level 1 sets, one for each Discipline (War, Magic, Hands, Land), then a set per level starting at 5? The way things are looking I may make up completely new pieces for the full sets, but I myself would rather see alot of currently-released armor be added to to make sets.

Also, R01-R10, set bonuses would be extremely small to keep balance, maybe +1 to 3 different attributes or +2 to one, then increase by 1 every 10 ranks (+2 to 3 different attributes or +4 to one R11-20/ +3 to 3, or +4 to 2, or +6 to 1 at R21-30/etc.)

[Jinko]

Set bonuses could work on a set % across all levels, similar to the light party/full party bonus works, this way SE doesn't need to add specific bonuses to every set of gear, as long as you are wearing the full set you would get the bonus.

Say for example:-

[Buff name]
You are currently receiving a bonus for wearing an armour set, all bonus stats are increased by 10%.

Something worth mentioning, there is a lot of unimplemented gear according to http://www.ffxivpro.com, so SE no doubt plan to add these eventually.

	Felt Doublet	1	Attire
	Felt Doublet (Blue)	1	Attire
	Felt Doublet (Brown)	1	Attire
	Felt Doublet (Red)	1	Attire
	Felt Doublet (Teal)	1	Attire
	Felt Hat	1	Hat
	Felt Hat (Blue)	1	Hat
	Felt Hat (Brown)	1	Hat
	Felt Hat (Red)	1	Hat
	Felt Hat (Teal)	1	Hat
	Felt Robe	1	Attire
	Felt Robe (Blue)	1	Attire
	Felt Robe (Brown)	1	Attire
	Felt Robe (Red)	1	Attire
	Felt Robe (Teal)	1	Attire
	Felt Tabard	1	War Garb
	Felt Tabard (Blue)	1	War Garb
	Felt Tabard (Brown)	1	War Garb
	Felt Tabard (Red)	1	War Garb
	Felt Tabard (Teal)	1	War Garb

	Linen Doublet	1	Attire
	Linen Doublet (Blue)	1	Attire
	Linen Doublet (Brown)	1	Attire
	Linen Doublet (Pink)	1	Attire
	Linen Doublet (Yellow)	1	Attire
	Linen Robe	1	Attire
	Linen Robe (Blue)	1	Attire
	Linen Robe (Brown)	1	Attire
	Linen Robe (Pink)	1	Attire
	Linen Robe (Yellow)	1	Attire
	Linen Trousers	1	Pants
	Linen Trousers (Blue)	1	Pants
	Linen Trousers (Brown)	1	Pants
	Linen Trousers (Pink)	1	Pants
	Linen Trousers (Yellow)	1	Pants

	Woolen Doublet	1	Attire
	Woolen Doublet (Black)	1	Attire
	Woolen Doublet (Grey)	1	Attire
	Woolen Doublet (Red)	1	Attire
	Woolen Doublet (Violet)	1	Attire
	Woolen Hat	1	Hat
	Woolen Hat (Black)	1	Hat
	Woolen Hat (Grey)	1	Hat
	Woolen Hat (Red)	1	Hat
	Woolen Hat (Violet)	1	Hat
	Woolen Robe	1	Attire
	Woolen Robe (Black)	1	Attire
	Woolen Robe (Grey)	1	Attire
	Woolen Robe (Red)	1	Attire
	Woolen Robe (Violet)	1	Attire
	Wyrmskin Smithy's Gloves	1	Gloves
	Wyrmskin Thighboots	1	Shoes

	Velveteen Dalmatica (Yellow)	1	Attire
	Velveteen Dalmatica (Red)	1	Attire
	Velveteen Dalmatica (Green)	1	Attire
	Velveteen Dalmatica (Black)	1	Attire
	Velveteen Dalmatica	1	Attire

	Darksteel Celata	1	Helm
	Darksteel Celata (Gold)	1	Helm
	Darksteel Celata (White)	1	Helm
	Darksteel Cuirass	1	Full Plate
	Darksteel Cuirass (Gold)	1	Full Plate
	Darksteel Cuirass (White)	1	Full Plate
	Darksteel Eyeguards (Green)	1	Eyewear
	Darksteel Eyeguards (Red)	1	Eyewear
	Darksteel Gauntlet	1	Gauntlets
	Darksteel Gauntlet (Gold)	1	Gauntlets
	Darksteel Gauntlet (White)	1	Gauntlets
	Darksteel Sabatons	1	Greaves

	Iron Spectacles	1	Eyewear
	Iron Spectacles (Yellow)	1	Eyewear

	Kobold Iron Celata	1	Helm
	Kobold Iron Celata (Blue)	1	Helm
	Kobold Iron Celata (Purple)	1	Helm
	Kobold Iron Cuirass	1	Full Plate
	Kobold Iron Cuirass (Blue)	1	Full Plate
	Kobold Iron Cuirass (Purple)	1	Full Plate
	Kobold Iron Gauntlets	1	Gauntlets
	Kobold Iron Gauntlets (Blue)	1	Gauntlets
	Kobold Iron Gauntlets (Purple)	1	Gauntlets
	Kobold Iron Tassets	1	Belt

	Ash Mask	1	Mask
	Elm Mask	1	Mask
	Leather Vizard	1	Mask
	Leather Vizard (Green)	1	Mask
	Leather Vizard (Ochre)	1	Mask
	Leather Vizard (Red)	1	Mask
	Maple Mask	1	Mask


	Mythril Celata	1	Helm
	Mythril Cuirass	1	Full Plate
	Mythril Gauntlets	1	Gauntlets

	Boarskin Gloves	1	Gloves
	Boarskin Thighboots	1	Shoes
	Boarskin Thighboots (Beige)	1	Shoes
	Boarskin Thighboots (Blue)	1	Shoes
	Boarskin Thighboots (Brown)	1	Shoes
	Boarskin Thighboots (Red)	1	Shoes

	Goobbueskin Smithy's Gloves	1	Gloves
	Goobbueskin Thighboots	1	Shoes

	Pince-nez	1	Eyewear
	Pince-nez (Black)	1	Eyewear
	Raptorskin Smithy's Gloves	1	Gloves
	Raptorskin Thighboots	1	Shoes
	Rope Belt (White)	1	Sash

[KorPoni]

I don't know, nor am I going to worry about, what SE actually plans to do about armor sets. But, after careful thought, I have a plan that would be fun to implement, whether or not it will be practical.

Here's how my plan works:
Every armor piece for the sets will be self-made. They can be altered names of the same pieces, or another tier of a pre-existing piece. The stats won't be any different except the name, and the set bonus.

Set bonuses will apply ONLY to the classes listed next to the set bonus. Here's an example:
"CON, THM - Old Robe set, 5 pieces: Magic Accuracy +2"
"ALC, CUL, GLD, WVR - Old Robe set, 5 pieces: Control +2"

[Reika]

That's the complete opposite to what I want to happen lol

As I said before Doublet could be a second choice to double vest (but make it Crafting only)

Pointing to the text I highlighted, If you do this it basically means any class can wear any gear, its a massive problem and the devs are looking at the rebalancing and restriction of gear (check the in development sub forum)

What you are suggestion is making armour ever less unique kind of like the whole armoury problem with equipping skills across classes. (its just watering everything down so everyone can be everything and wear everything)

From a role player perspective wearing plate armour to craft would be kind of silly, many times heavier than leather/cloth armour and hard to move in.

They can do good to remove the favored classes that have no reason wearing it then ^^. Like right now Doublet's and Smithy gloves have Miner and botanist favored on them, yet no gathering skills. I was simply implying that armor that is already like this have stats added to them for those select few favored classes, else remove those favored classes that have no reason to wear it. There is armor already like this, like robes, berets, halfgloves, Armguards, jackets, jerkins, voyager's belt... They have either crafting/battle crafting/gather, or gather/battle stats on them. I use a Jerkin for my marauder, and all 3 gather classes. Wont hurt to fix the other armors up the same way.

[Jinko]

You use a jerkin on your MRD,

/sighs, this is exactly my point lol, each to their own i guess.

[Cairdeas]

XI had lots of matching sets that were graphically part of a set but individually were not dependant on each other.

My favorites the Unicorn Harness.

[KorPoni]

XI had lots of matching sets that were graphically part of a set but individually were not dependant on each other.

My favorites the Unicorn Harness.

They also had a few armor sets that fully benefitted off having multiple pieces of the same set, or others that benefitted only by having the complete set.