I'm a male healer and I don't want to dress like a girl

[Trebelz]

All it takes is a little creativity and you can make your character look good. I am very happy with my glamour, only reason I took the AF2 robe off is cause I like the pants more lol.

[Cidel]

I may have missed one or two in XI, but the two WHM NPCs wearing the trademark outfit were male:






But to add to the discussion here, I always get a strong vibe that SE intentionally molds WHM to be associated with effeminate details, and any changes for male characters come as an afterthought. Most FFXIV official art/promotional material have a female representing the WHM role (I've seen like, one concept art of a male in the original AF, which was mostly identical to the female with a different head and different proportions).

The healer/cleric set was fairly gender-neutral (until you see the leg/underwear gear that the robe hid anyway), so I think they did a decent job there. It's pretty clear that the developers wanted to design the Orison body piece on the "classic" WHM (classic meaning 'robe-touches-the-floor-classic), which you only get that feel from the back of the body piece and maybe the side (at the right angle). Personally, I don't mind the Orison robe-coat much; it's that ghastly head piece that everyone compares to something a nun would wear. However, after seeing the other headgear healers get in HW (Halonic/Chimerical Klobuk), it's not too surprising the devs made the Orison head piece look like... well, that.

[Nadirah]

man, that guy is singing great. Thanks for the sharing!

Here's another one of his.

https://youtu.be/3hgcy6bsg4g

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(Also, I think you meant NES, not SNES, since FF1-3 were on the NES ^_~)

Just typed it out of habit, i stand corrected.

FF1: original: Up to 4 males (Though 4 white mages is stupid)

Your logic is flawed, it's literally impossible to tell the gender of a 27x18 pixel blob.
As a standalone i count the NES version as androgynous, not as a male or as female as there is nothing pointing out on a way or another, however the psp remake exists that points FFI sprite as female so that can't be ignored. It's not a spinoff work either so the character on the NES version are the same on the PSP version.

That however, doesn't apply to FFIII as the nds remake is completely different (character wise) to the NES counterpart.

On the other hand, You can't count FFX-2 if you discount III and I, it has a job system. So either lower your female count... or raise the male one. (Though you need to raise it regardless.

Once again, stop saying i'm counting stuff that i didn't. III, V, VIII, X-2 and XV weren't counted for their job systems and for their whole cast being of the same gender.

Hope doesn't count as a half.

That was a joke

[myahele]

Would have been nice if there were more metal armor-like gear for mages in general. Both the Law and Gordian gear for mages both have metal predominantly in their chest piece .... too bad they chose to make it into a one-piece robe.

Especially the Law gear since the leg piece is a skirt. So you're effective wearing a skirt inside a skirt ... makes no sense

[Nadirah]

(Also, I think you meant NES, not SNES, since FF1-3 were on the NES ^_~)

NES sprite looks male from the side, female from the front.

To be fair though, it's a freaking 8 bit sprite. And it *really* looks female. I've thought that since I first saw it, and I *had* the NES release.

[AskaRay]

Are we seriously discussing the gender of a sprite from a game that's almost 30 years old

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Are we seriously discussing the gender of a sprite from a game that's almost 30 years old

Like they say, game is pretty boring right now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Lewtskie]

New Healer job : Space Marine Medic

After brutal basic training and a swift trip through medical school (all 10 days), you are thrown into action on the front lines, with your fantastically macho build, shiny space armor and amazing hypospray of curing, you're ready for anything.

Well, if we are gonna go the Space Marine Medic route, actually show one!



Terrans got that shit on point, both for men and women.

[Catwho]

All this talk of white mage gear from XI brings up a sore point for me: We didn't have any skirts in XI. ALL outfits had pants. ALL THE OUTFITS. ALL OF THEM. NO MATTER WHAT JOB.

Let me have my frilly dresses in this game at least.

(But if they want to bring back a design similar to the Noble's tunic from XI, which was gorgeous and gender neutral, I would not object at all.)