Please do NOT alter Dark Knight AF for female characters.

[Jeykama]

Also going to point out that the much more recent Ninja AF design features not only the tights instead of the hakama (throwback to FFXI for those diehards I guess) but also a completely arbitrary boob window.

I don't know if male/female gear appearance equality is important to the designers anymore. Check out all that male-exclusive vanity ... I mean wut?

[Eidolon]

Starting to think I'm a massive perv for loving the DRG AF on females <_<

[Mahri]

...Okay, when people keep saying they don't care for realism, yet bring up continuously how "impractical" the Dragoon AF armor is in an MMO that makes you fight things that would kill you, damn whether you are plated in full deck armor or not, I end up just laughing rather than think the same way.

See though, there's nuance.

The female DRG armor isn't bad because it's impractical-looking. The Dragoon armor is completely ludicrous and unrealistic to begin with. Anyone who tried wearing such a thing would need to be sent to the ER if they so much as attempted to scratch their back carelessly. It's bad because it feels like a cynical and lazy attempt to add sex appeal.

If they designed it from the ground up to look deliberately hotter on female characters, it'd be one thing, but the design reads more like the art team got a memo a few hours before a patch went live saying only "NOT GOOD MAKE SEXY" so they just threw up their hands, yanked out the scaly middle section, and called it a night. Maybe that's not literally what happened, but it sure looks like it.

The artists for this game can do better than that. Hell, FFXI's Dragoon AF pulled it off far more reasonably: The metal bits were mounted on a full-body suit for males but a leotard for females. It wasn't practical and it didn't need to be, but at least that design helped to sell the high-flying gymnast aspect of the class. As lots of people in the thread pointed out, that bared stomach of the DRG AF in this game doesn't say anything so much as "stab here".

[Canadane]

[Zosimo]

"...The female DRG armor isn't bad because it's impractical-looking. The Dragoon armor is completely ludicrous and unrealistic to begin with...If they designed it from the ground up to look deliberately hotter on female characters, it'd be one thing, but...The artists for this game can do better than that. ..."

Like I said, this is a fantasy game ya know? Not a simulator based on realism. If you don't like the art direction of a game, you could always just build your own instead of being a backseat dev, lol.

[mekia]

boob plate, yes please
cut stomach part, yes please
hot pants, yes please
:3

[Cylestea]

/signed to this

[mekia]

QQ DRG armor QQ".

you do know you are playing a game called Final "FANTASY" yeah? Not "let's have everyone in a tin can yay" >.>. Armor from Blade&Soul looks very cool and sexy, some armor in this game sexy, or FFXI red made hot pants very cute and sexy. I really hope SE does not give a damn about this, i can't stand tin can armor.

[Talshara_Blade]

Personally I want sexy Dark Knight AFs for my female character BUT I wouldn't worry about it too much, I would just like to see some additional glamours in the spirit of light steel and taffeta stuff and hope that the AF gloves and boots work well with them

[Anatha]

They didn't cut corners for female versions of PLD/WAR AF, so I would expect them to respect the proper plate-covering necessary for their DRK counterparts.

This. I'm not worried.