Vanity slot restriction concerns.....

[Enkidoh]

I can understand the concerns about immersion breaking, but this will always happen in an MMO - not everyone is concerned with immersion. Even now you could grab the 2nd starting racial gear (some of which are a horrific, lime color), mix and match it with coliseum gear and slap on one of those GOD AWFUL looking fluffy mittens you get in the lower levels (died another awful color) and the result is an absolute, immersion-breaking eyesore.

I say this as an avid RPer for whom immersion is important: we will ignore what breaks our immersion. You have to, because you can't control other players. As for dungeons, I can't even count how many tanks I've run dungeons with wearing bright, pastel pink all over their armor lol

For that reason, I don't think there should be any restrictions outside of being unable to slot gear into vanity that your toon could not actually wear (which thankfully YoshiP already said would be in place)

I'm sorry for digging this out from several pages back, but what do you mean by 'second starting racial gear'? As far as I was aware the only set of racial-only gear you could get was the actual starting armour all characters start with (and which can be purchased again from a specific vendor) - and just to make sure I went searching on Gamerescape and the FFXIVWiki for any information about such a hypothetical second RSE set and came up empty. So I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're talking about.

As for the vanity slot restrictions, I think the idea of mages not wearing heavy armour is a legacy of role-playing's pen and paper origins (ala, Dungeons and Dragons), as the late Gary Gygax basically was the one who came up with that idea of mages being restricted to not wearing heavy armour 'which could be distracting while casting', or healers 'not being able to wield edged weapons which spill blood'. It's an old RPG standby which MMOs, as the closest to a pen-and-paper RPG in style, find very hard to completely shake off, even when it's just for vanity slots and not an actual part of gameplay. Or at least, that's what it seems to me.