Vanity for pvp

[ShinigamiZero]

Any chance with the big pvp update coming; can we keep our vanity when we pvp. I don't see why it's an issue when you can easily just color-code each team respectively.

[saeedaisspecial]

Because identifying the enemy BLM/WHM/Whatever is easier when everyone on the entire team isn't wearing the same vanity gear.

[Raldo]

Because identifying the enemy BLM/WHM/Whatever is easier when everyone on the entire team isn't wearing the same vanity gear.

While I do technically agree with this, as things currently stand, it literally says the job above their head now, so I could go either way really.

[Zumi]

The reason it is disabled during pvp is probably so that people can't hide their PvP armor with PvE armor. A common tactic in other mmos that don't hide vanity options was to change all their PvP gear to look like PvE gear so people would be like lets go for the guy using all that PvE gear only to have a hard time killing that player because he has tons of def from player attacks from his PvP gear.

[Nayto]

While I do technically agree with this, as things currently stand, it literally says the job above their head now, so I could go either way really.

Faster target acquisition if the gear is correct.
Especially in frontlines where a wall of nametags pretty much block what your looking for... If I see evenstar/highallag/stupidswanlookingthing then I know it's the damn healer without reading the nametag that requires a magnifying glass (at a long distance).

[ShinigamiZero]

It already says 'BLM' 'PLD' ect on the name. You don't need to recognize them by gear. Also no one is gonna care about tactics with gear on a massive scale pvp. I can semi understand arena though.

[saeedaisspecial]

Alright then, so how do you distinguish by two of the same job, assuming they're wearing the same gear.
One might be a better player or more of a nuisance than the other,someone you'd want to deal with first, what then?
Allowing vanity is a bad idea and leads to people abusing it to gain whatever small advantage they can.

[ShinigamiZero]

Can be as simple as how other games like League of Legends does it. Purple text, Blue text. Things like that.

[saeedaisspecial]

But we already know that name color in Frontlines is decided by Grand Company.
Do you expect every player to have a different color name when there's 72 people there?

[ShinigamiZero]

What are you talking about? Why do you think its hard to implement 'maelstorm' red. 'gridania' yellow. Ect. ? Its a team match not a death match.