About the tank gear shown in trailer for 3.2

[Eidolon]

As a single class player, I level other roles merely to get into roulettes faster/help friends, the esoteric system was fine to me. But I'm not the entire playerbase. Having unique gear at least on an archetype basis would be the best compromise I agree, though Squeenix have kind of trapped themselves with DRG/MNK. Both use strength but one wears "leather/cloth" and the other "mail/leather".

What will likely happen, is they will add more DPS to the game, and likely those DPS will share - just as MCH shared with BRD.

If I had to guess, SAM will share with DRG. I don't see them taking SAM into a light-armor role. It also makes sense - Polearms and Katanas are a favored weapon of Samurai, so having it share the same armor class with the lance-wielder makes sense to me.

[Alahra]

What will likely happen, is they will add more DPS to the game, and likely those DPS will share - just as MCH shared with BRD.

That's my assumption, too, or else raid drops will start to get really messy. To be honest, they probably should have left MNK and NIN combined as they are for pre-2.4 gear, as it's going to get pretty weird down the line since there aren't really any iconic jobs left that would fit with either MNK or NIN's armor. There's Dancer, which we'll probably see someday, which could go on Scouting or Striking, but that's really about it, unless they come up with something whole cloth.

Given that so many of the MNK/NIN sets are just palette-swaps of each other anyway, I have a hard time reconciling why they felt the split was necessary. At one time, I reasoned that, since all of the melee had essentially the same stat priorities, they gave them separate sets so that they wouldn't always be competing over the same pieces of gear (and ultimately, looking exactly the same). At the time, PLD and WAR wanted different stats to a degree, BLM/SMN had different priorities, and so did both healers.

With the buff to Criticial Hit Rate, though, that doesn't really hold true anymore in most cases (with the exception of BLM's preference for Spell Speed). Just about everybody wants Crit as a focus now, so the rationale I thought they had initially doesn't really hold up as well.

[Serilda]

Sometimes I wonder

I think I have wandered into a preexisting debate I was never involved in before...

Instead of "The designers invested in giving one job a unique look", complain that "The designers didn't invest in giving all roles a unique look." That's a far more endorse able argument.

I'm going to focus on BLM/SMN because the Shiva gear is obviously primarily designed for healers anyway and I'm not upset that all three healers share a set, just that five unique jobs in total which amounts to 43% of jobs played (source: 2015 census) share a single model - again. The BLM/SMN gear shown in the video isn't even the same colour as the primal it's inspired by. They also share the exact same issue as melee DPS with queues, so that point isn't really relevant here. Of course I inherently agree with you that unique models for different roles is the ideal and we're going around in circles because there's no disputing this; however I only questioned whether the decision made sense and I stand by that. I personally think that the team's design resources have been allocated extremely strangely with this gear.

[Alahra]

I think I have wandered into a preexisting debate I was never involved in before...

Sort of, yes. There was another thread specifically about the Caster/Healer gear sharing late last week (and it's come up in a couple other threads about the Lore gear, too).

[Daenarys_Targaryen]

Am I the only person that realises if we got Titan tank gear we would be walking around looking like a giant poo?

If that pic is right then taht is literally just a copy paste of Void Ark gear with better ilvl and stats. Extremely lazy on SE's part.

[CyrilLucifer]

Tanks complaining that they're the ones getting shafted when healers and casters share the same palette swapped gearset a good 90% of the time.

Oh goodness, what absurdity.

[Eidolon]

I think I have wandered into a preexisting debate I was never involved in before...

just that five unique jobs in total which amounts to 43% of jobs played (source: 2015 census) share a single model - again.

Honest question - I looked it up and found it interesting. But what does the game use to determine "jobs"? Wasn't it just "Having the job at max level", not necessarily those who main it?

In such a case, both SCH and SMN are heavily skewed because both of them share the same Class. I don't know how reliable this is if it's "Max level in the job" as the requirement.

[Stupiduglytaru]

Haven't you learnt yet, SE development time = making one thing then ctrl c > ctrl v

[Eul]

Haven't you learnt yet, SE development time = making one thing then ctrl c > ctrl v

And somehow I'm still mad how uncreative they do for DRK,AST, and MCH's ilv 100-110 pvp gear.

[Stupiduglytaru]

And somehow I'm still mad how uncreative they do for DRK,AST, and MCH's ilv 100-110 pvp gear.

As a pvper player, I feel this.

As for the other sets the day the i110 stuff became rankless I cried inside, only to be replaced by some copy n paste crap.

The only saving grace, dem sexy mnk fists.