Male Armor Sets too flamboyant. Bring full armor back!

[Galgarion]

That's hilarious. I mean I know you're not trying to be funny but it really, really is.

Bowie hate is so dank. You make me sad, boy.

[Saito_S]

I love how homie listed like 15+ different OLD sets of gear and says "deal with it"
I've explicitly made notions to make more options for new gear, not old

New gear, when? All of the "old gear" that "homie" listed was new to us, the players who equip them, at SOME point. When each gear was found or introduced, some liked it and others didn't; the latter group probably glamoured something else over it once the glamour system was introduced.

You're basically saying this latest patch introduced a single new gearset that you don't like, and extrapolating that out to "new gear, in general, doesn't have enough options". It's actually not a logical leap to make, at all.

And yeah, listing old gear that you can glamour is a perfectly acceptable response to your complaint. You don't like that primal battle armor set? Glamour something else over it. What else would you expect the solution to be? Some people DO like that set. Others just don't care. Any single set or piece of armor is going to be liked by some, but not all; aesthetics are entirely subjective, after all. And since there IS a pretty good variety of gear in this game, and a glamour system, then everyone can be happy!

Re: the primal set itself - as mentioned, some people DO like it and have said so in this thread. If you don't, that's your prerogative, but "just deal with it" is the solution because there will be some gear you do like and some you don't. That's just the breaks when the game has a wide variety of gear. Next time they introduce new armor, maybe you'll love it and some of the people in this thread who've argued with you will hate it. Then they can glamour over it while you don it happily.

Also, if you think it looks silly and terrible on a guy, and GOOD on a woman, well, that's your problem. Bit amusing to me to see this tired old double standard being paraded out in the open so bluntly here: armor that is horribly impractical for the sake of showing skin and being sexy~ is fine on a female character, but put that same armor on a guy, and suddenly it's a no-go? To the point where your solution was to fantasia your character INTO a woman? Well. Says more about you than SE.

As said before. They're getting lazy. It shows.

So because one armor set in one patch wasn't to your personal liking, this is evidence of objectively measurable laziness or incompetence on the part of the people who design the gear.

Sure.

ALL OF THAT SAID: just for its own sake, I love the idea of introducing an armor set modeled after the female Knight set from FF Tactics, because it's freaking gorgeous (and way better looking than the male Knight, I always thought, though hey why not bring both into XIV while we're dreaming!). It's also an excellent example of how to make armor that looks solid, practical, serious, AND still has a "feminine" touch to it.

[Uhm]

Wear a scarf or something...

[Keramory]

Thinking back on the gear progression since when the game came out, it certainly took a strange turn. Before the top gear was dark light gear, which was heavy, heavy armor. Even the mages were armored. And then it stayed pretty armor driven for a while.

Then alligan gear came out. It was robe like but it was ancient technology armor, so whatever it works. Now...pffttt that just opened the door to these silly designs. Don't get me wrong, I love some of the sets and it's a welcome addition every so often. But now it's becoming the norm...

[Morzy]

I think this was there answer to people complaining that the drg and nin af bodies were different on females. They make them uniform, and now people are complaining.

SE literally can't win.

Lol this is so true. I forgot about that old complaint, in fact i thought it was sexy. Oh well, people will complain, who needs logic right?

[Morzy]

Or at least a miqo'te belly fur option...*scritchscratchgiggletickle*

One day! I hope

[Serilda]

The current trend in designs are (mostly) trying to go with a theme, though, right? Ishgard gave us a lot of strong influence from a fantasy version of medieval Europe so you have knights with intricate armour, house livery and religious iconography everywhere. If we get a future expansion with a strong Doman theme and/or samurai, we can probably expect quite a few gearsets to resemble Sengoku-era warrior armour. The lore gear is separate to this overall theme, but it just happens to be of a fanciful design as well this time.

(I'm not a great fan of the healer/caster model on my character but I like it far more than the Daystar or Ironworks gear - it's 100% subjective.)

Lol this is so true. I forgot about that old complaint, in fact i thought it was sexy. Oh well, people will complain, who needs logic right?

Well, I assume it's different people on both sides of the debate otherwise that would be silly! The original point is still valid, however; some people like the belly windows, others like to feel their character would choose to wear more practical equipment (though with DRG gear that ship has probably sailed; most of it is so jagged you're likely to give yourself a fatal wound just getting dressed anyway, belly window or otherwise).

[Synrin]

Honestly, I'm loving it. I just come up to good looking hyur males and stare at their bare chest.

[LadyVal]

I love this because I get to tell all of my guy tank friends, "You know, that corset really does wonders for your figure."

Also, men wearing corsets was kind of a thing back in the day and is sometimes mirrored in steampunk fashion, which the devs have said they wanted to incorporate ideas from in the 3.x gear sets.













So yeah. Male corsetry has been a thing for a while, though certainly not mainstream since Edwardian times. Now it has come to Eorzea. :P

[Kurogaea]

*gag*

Oh god put it away! *Hrmmphh* ugh... I kinda see what the OP is saying. Tanks are wearing less tank looking gear and looking less armored than they should. Honestly I'd actually like to see the soup can armors come back as well as the dungeon exclusive metal armor plate sets.