Void Ark... Players are getting sick of Palette Swap Gear.

[ZanzhizExaverion]

We want more original designs for each class.

White Healer = Black Caster
Purple Ninja = Other Monk
BRD Gets unique gear. THANK YOU.
Tank Now = More Endowed DRG.

We want more innovative gear designs, more colors, more unique aspects to embody the job. We're all sick of Palette swaps, it's lazy.

[zosia]

HEY!

That would detract from the bunny costumes, maid outfits, Eskimo hoodies, sailor attire, and pj's!

We really need the same set of gear aesthetics for 5/12 of this game's classes. If they don't swap colors we will lose out on all the serious glamour and much more! I think they would have to cancel 4.0 if they actually made a different healer and caster dps set.

[Einheri]

IMO there are too many sets bogging down the loot tables. One set of class specific armor is fine per season.

Tank-plate
heavy dps-mail
Medium dps- leather
Ranged medium dps- leather/cloth
Caster cloth
Healer cloth

That's 6 sets of armor. Currently they would need to make 13 sets for each class to have there own.

[zosia]

IMO there are too many sets bogging down the loot tables. One set of class specific armor is fine per season.

Tank-plate
heavy dps-mail
Medium dps- leather
Ranged medium dps- leather/cloth
Caster cloth
Healer cloth

That's 6 sets or armor. Currently they would need to make 13 sets for each class to have there own.

There is no excuse as to why dps caster and healer always share so many aesthetics. It's the worst kind of laziness and it's inexcusable with the amount of time the dev team has had to catch their breath.

[Einheri]

There is no excuse as to why dps caster and healer always share so many aesthetics. It's the worst kind of laziness and it's inexcusable with the amount of time the dev team has had to catch their breath.

That's why I have them separated in my list of armor sets I would have.

[Ellehym]

IMO there are too many sets bogging down the loot tables. One set of class specific armor is fine per season.

Tank-plate
heavy dps-mail
Medium dps- leather
Ranged medium dps- leather/cloth
Caster cloth
Healer cloth

That's 6 sets of armor. Currently they would need to make 13 sets for each class to have there own.

they could use a token system where 2-3 jobs would share a token for each equip slot, and have 2-4 tokens drop each boss.

[Noxifer]

IMO there are too many sets bogging down the loot tables. One set of class specific armor is fine per season.
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That's 6 sets of armor. Currently they would need to make 13 sets for each class to have there own.

Well, that's not really the point of this thread. Plus, they already have separate gearsets (apart from casters, tanks, healers and ranged having shared gearsets)... it's just that visually a lot of them look the same apart from colour.
Caster and healer gearsets share the same look.
MNK and NIN gearsets share the same look -- though sometimes it's been MNK and DRG or even MNK and NIN and DRG.

And now with Void Ark, it seems tanks share the same look (apart from the skirt) as DRG.

Having different looks for all seven gearsets doesn't mean they bog down the loot tables any more than they do today.

I understand the need to save valuable time, especially as I've heard that Japanese work ethics kind of don't care how long it takes to get something done, as long as it gets done by a certain date -- if that means overtime and loads of stress, it doesn't matter as long as they get the desired result. If that's true (and not just horror stories), then I can certainly understand wanting to take shortcuts. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that said shortcuts -- like easy palette swaps for various gearsets, instead of designing an entirely separate gearset -- doesn't get annoying every time they happen ^^;

[Whiteroom]

Would have been nice to see the caster set be seperate from the heal one, it does seem to be a storyline based on caster history, it would be nice to show them a little love.

[Gaiussenpai]

The ugly looks isn't even the worst of it because you probably won't see the gear on your character since its the CT loot system they said.

[Evangela]

and bad looking gears in general. who wants to wear those boring outfits?