Vanity slot restriction concerns.....

[Eidolith]

As a few others have said i don't think there should be any restrictions at all either. We already have npc characters wearing impossible combinations, Louisoix being a conjurer wearing plate legs, Papalymo wearing plate gloves, so can't see any immersion breaking in letting us do that too. I'd love for my mage to have some plate gauntlets and boots to go with my cloth body piece (plate and cloth mixes look so cool, just look at the garleans). I don't see why mages can't wear battle gear or vice versa, this is Final Fantasy, not Final Realism...

The game i've played that handled vanity items best was DCUO, almost no restrictions, only very few gear sets were class specific, i loved that freedom of costumization.

Oh and I'd love a shirt for my whm too, sad that they removed the mage versions from 1.0

And if pvp might be an issue, just disable vanity gear in pvp.

[Drekthalon]

As a few others have said i don't think there should be any restrictions at all either. We already have npc characters wearing impossible combinations, Louisoix being a conjurer wearing plate legs, Papalymo wearing plate gloves, so can't see any immersion breaking in letting us do that too. I'd love for my mage to have some plate gauntlets and boots to go with my cloth body piece (plate and cloth mixes look so cool, just look at the garleans). I don't see why mages can't wear battle gear or vice versa, this is Final Fantasy, not Final Realism...

You beat me to it, I was going to point out that Yda wears plate leggings and Papalymo wearing plate gloves.

Personally Yda's choice even makes a bit of RP sense. Assuming you trained yourself for it imagine how devastating a kick from plate boots would be.