Male Armor Sets too flamboyant. Bring full armor back!

[Chasely]

Strange. I didn't know you had to stand or dress a certain way to be a man.

[Roegadyn_Bear]

I've long accepted that they design gear around female characters first, with male characters as an afterthought.

It's why I'm never surprised to see new gear coming across as feminine. Fortunately, been using most of my set since the dawn of ARR.

[Harlow]

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but is the lore stuff not called Eikonic stuff, and the healer is based off of Shiva? What does Shiva look like again?

Oh wait, was it ultra high heels and hair that the tiara matches...u

buuuut your post was obviously trolling, so I'll let it slide.

Much like how Ifrit and Leviathan are know for THEIR iconic high heels, yes.

I mean, we can pretend that this was a brave move on SE's part to challenge gender roles or whatever. We could also go with that whole "Men wore high heels once, they were obviously trying to be historically accurate with their gear and chose their giant elemental monster armor to do that" angle. Pretty sure that they just made female armor sets and sent them out though. Kind of like how they're having 12 jobs split 3 sets of gear here too. Maybe they don't have enough people on the team, maybe they're just lazy. Whhhoo's to say?

[Jeibird]

lmao such fragile masculinity in this thread. flamboyant character design is basically an SE hallmark at this point. have u guys considered: playing a different game? I hear there's another popular fantasy genre that also has its own mmo now. you can even be a tin can caster.

[AlphaFox]

Kinda reminded me of this

[Whiteroom]

Much like how Ifrit and Leviathan are know for THEIR iconic high heels, yes.

I mean, we can pretend that this was a brave move on SE's part to challenge gender roles or whatever. We could also go with that whole "Men wore high heels once, they were obviously trying to be historically accurate with their gear and chose their giant elemental monster armor to do that" angle. Pretty sure that they just made female armor sets and sent them out though. Kind of like how they're having 12 jobs split 3 sets of gear here too. Maybe they don't have enough people on the team, maybe they're just lazy. Whhhoo's to say?

I dont think either of them are known for wearing clothes, maybe those roles should just get "The emperors new" for their sets.

What, is it really that bad for one or two sets to have some heels? Is it really that challanging to gender roles that couple sets out of dozens have a little heel...

And yes, it has been said the 4 sets is lazy, and yes it has been said they are under staffed, (rumor has been around for a while now that yoshi and SE pres are at odds over budgeting), but this has essentially been "The Glamour" patch, so much opened to dye, on top of three new sets per class... so its not like SE is say "hahaha, you will dress like a girl, there is no other option!"

[Archaell]

I dont think either of them are known for wearing clothes, maybe those roles should just get "The emperors new" for their sets.

But they wear no underwear either... so better deliver to us full nudity, Whiteroom. :3

[Whiteroom]

But they wear no underwear either... so better deliver to us full nudity, Whiteroom. :3

Indeed, they also didn't use weapons. So only the Hailstorm classes should get lore weapons. Lucky for me though, I main heals, so I get clothes.

[FoxyAreku]

Apparently Dragoon is entitled to all good looking armor.

Yeah I actually got pretty ticked off that dragoon is the only class that got a unique lore armor.

[Harlow]

Is it really that challanging to gender roles that couple sets out of dozens have a little heel...

Sorry, my fault for being lazy and not quoting the other posts I saw when I was skimming the thread. That part was for other posts I saw that respectively brought up those points.

My original point was basically just that it's kind of frustrating playing a male mage in this game when it feels like a lot of the gear wasn't made for you. I'm at least lucky enough to play a SCH so I can fall back on my eso gear for the most part. AST dudes must be feeling it pretty bad right now considering that their last armor set was a straight up dress.

it has been said the 4 sets

Not a typo by the way. Look at the number of jobs I listed. DRG gets their own so I didn't put them on there. The other 12 only have 3 between them.