Quote Originally Posted by Colorful View Post
I don't know if you've seen the recent LFR sets, but they're not overboard by any means. Impractical, perhaps, but that applies to 90% of the FFXIV armour sets and weapons too.
The only thing I'm seeing from the LFR sets (they're probably the wrong ones, tbh) is typical Blizzard pauldrons the size of shields and massive shoulder spikes. Impractical is in nearly every fantasy game ever, but Blizzard and those they've inspired take designs to a very unique height. There's nothing wrong with it, but I personally dislike the look of it. I stray away from the more extreme designs in XIV as well.

Which leads to your other point. We had gear based off boss design. And besides the dress, Syrcus tower gear glamours didn't last very long and even the dress died out fairly quickly. I very rarely run across anyone glamouring a piece of any of those sets.