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

[Nadirah]

Fun fact:

WoW has 5 healer classes. One cloth, two leather, one mail, one plate.

EQ2 has 7 healers. None of them wear cloth, because there's 6 classes that wear cloth, all mages. Two plate, two chain, three leather.

[Noxifer]

EQ2 has 7 healers. None of them wear cloth, because there's 6 classes that wear cloth, all mages. Two plate, two chain, three leather.

Well... In this game healers are mages ^^; Don't know what that looks like in EQ2. But on the whole it sounds like they have a lot more classes/jobs anyway ^^;

[Nadirah]

Well... In this game healers are mages ^^; Don't know what that looks like in EQ2. But on the whole it sounds like they have a lot more classes/jobs anyway ^^;

Aye, which was part of my point. WHM is a mage. Mages wear cloth in most games. Cloth usually results in dresses.

When the game launched you had four archetypes, that turned into 12 classes that turned into 24 subclasses.

Then they added Beastlord(chain, melee dps/pet) and Channeler(leather/bow healer pet class). Not sure they added anything after that. I quit after Skyshrine, right before Channelers.

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Gandalf says...

[Noxifer]

Gandalf says...

Radagast would like to disagree... When he can remember what he's disagreeing with:

[Suggestion]

Radagast would like to disagree... When he can remember what he's disagreeing with:

Sir i give... you have my like

[Samcaesar]

Hey, I'm all for more "masculine" gear sets (And by that I mean, less sets that are just.. flowy pretty robes), but please oh please don't make the same set look entirely different between guys and girls. I want to look cool too.

[Azazua_azura]

sry to be picky but...... whats up with "like a girl" not all girls/women dress feminine. We really need to stop putting a negetive conection with girls. -_-;; (again sorry to be picky.)

I also didn't realise robes meant dresses, or were "like a girl". Hate ti say it but there is a ton of glamour in this game that u can make a manly macho healer look if you wanted. most crafter/gather gear is "all classes" plus all the post 50 stuff is re vamped looks based on combat classes. I'm all for adding more options, just try to pick your words better op.

[Noxifer]

I agree with the 'negative' insinuation towards female wear, even if it wasn't intended.

But while there's nothing bad with robes as such, there's also the whole lack of variety =/ I don't think anyone would complain nearly as much if the ratio of robes vs non-robes of mage gear was closer to 60/40, or even 50/50. But when nine out of ten outfits one gets (per category, not caster/healer counted together) are 'just another robe', one tends to get a little fed up with it. And sure, there's plenty of gatherer/crafter gear to utilize, but at the same time mages shouldn't be forced to look completely outside their role in order to find something that's not a robe ^^; (Other than the bliauds, which I personally love, but someone else in this thread has said is 'too frilly' for their tastes.)

Even tanks have plenty of variety in their armour styles, before having to resort to DoW gear. There are bulky tincans and sleek chainmails, and now lately coats and robes. And with the addition of DoW-classed gear, which while not tank gear is still combat gear, there's cloth and leather outfits in plenty. Mages have always been the most limited of classes when it comes to glamour and gear, sadly, since the majority of their levelling gear is "all classes", while physical DPS have "DoW" and tanks have their more limited category (sometimes kindly letting lancer/dragoon wear it) but still have access to DoW gear.

TL;DR - robes are good, but variation is better.

(Edit: Just saw your sig, Azazua ^^ Nice to find a fellow aspie+add player!)

[Mimilu]

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