Cartoony art style, hell no we won't go

[Xmbei]

So wheres the problem?

"we aren't the Garland Empire, we are these proud behind the times people that can't let go of our traditional weapons"
Seriously we don't even know what special, magical fantastic designs will be in the rest of the world of Hylandyn. Seriously don't say only Garland Empire is the ones that are advanced in this world. Because, yes I am going to pull from past FF's 1-12. When is it ever not more to the world then what the character originally see's? They get out of their home comfort zone and things start going crazy, weapons, encounter's, people they meet, locations.

[Meleena]

Heres another oppinion I agree with.

[Xmbei]

Also on the guy who left and went to another company, He was not the art designer, he just named things and put pop culture references in the game... Even Reinheart came back on to her thread and corrected everyone on this. The guy was just in charge of naming things like Levequest's and quests and NAMING the items.... not designing them

[Ashgarth]

The Ifrit weapons are made from Ifrit's horns wich i'll remid you is a gigantic fire beast, doesnt it make sense that those weapons have gigantic firey horns in them?

I wonder how many posts would we have if those weapons were smaller and didnt have that fire glow saying that they looked plain, unrealistic and ugly.

[Tezz_Xivectro]

These weapons are boss. A little foreshadowing of how awesome relics could be.

There is nothing wrong with having these weapons that stand out (especially since it's... um.. ifrit). IMO, they fit very nicely in our current continent.

I hope they keep pumping out all styles of various equipments.

[Xmbei]

The Ifrit weapons are made from Ifrit's horns wich i'll remid you is a gigantic fire beast, doesnt it make sense that those weapons have gigantic firey horns in them?

I wonder how many posts would we have if those weapons were smaller and didnt have that fire glow saying that they looked plain, unrealistic and ugly.

Yes there would be as many posts, because then people would be why is Ifrits weapons so bland and same as everything else. Sadly, as human's we will never always be happy with what we get. We all make assumptions thinking we know what Yoshi and the dev team are going to do with the game. You know what, I DON'T CARE, I just want a memorable experience and have fun with my friends, I am not going to get all offensive and angry because of weapon's or armor. If that is the way they see the world going than fine, I am along for the ride to enjoy it not nitpick it to hell and back again. I will complain about bugs I find and make my experience hard to work through, such as UI or other things but graphic things, meh get over it.

[Misha]

Just gotta say... thank god alot of you people aren't in charge of the art direction lmfao >.< ... I want a Final Fantasy game. Yoshi is actually making it into one in all aspects, including the weapons and upcoming armor. Do they match the current gear? Not entirely, but most the old art is disgustingly bland and non FF like AT ALL! Whether your a fan or not of Final Fantasy don't expect anything else, these weapons and art style are here to stay. I just can't wait till more items get here along with map redesigns and other such things. Imagine how much crying we'll see once the rest of the game starts feeling AND looking like a FF game LoL Going to be riding around in our magitek armor in our colorful job equipment playing an up to par, good, fun FF while you people are whining in your corners >.<

For those that just don't like em and think they are too bulky, expect Titan's weapons to be same size or bigger!!! Garuda and other like primals will probably have the smaller more elegant weapons to match them appropriately. The art's consistent with the primal, thankfully!

[MartaDemireux]

As far as the current gear being bland, remember that our current cap is 50 out of what, 100? I forget what they said the final level will be for this game. But the point remains that the armor shouldn't be entirely awesome right now because when the game is re-released it will all be outclassed by better armor anyway. Might as well save the incredible designs for the incredible armor.

FFXI suffered this also, under 50 all the gear is dreadfully boring. Then the cap was 75 and a lot of the gear was really nice looking and great stats. Now the cap is 95 and it seems like they're having trouble bringing in items that aren't insanely overpowered (even though most are now anyway) as well as having trouble thinking up new designs. I think they're trying to avoid the same issue in FFXIV.

As to the glowing, even FFXI has glowing weapons and armor now. Glowing weapons and armor is "trending" in the MMO world and with the next generation of gamers.

These new Ifrit weapons should probably have waited to come out (as well as the battle) until later levels in my opinion but really, they're throwing us a bone. All this new content and still no monthly fee. I say be thankful for anything new at all at this point. Maybe they'll progress levels with element "eras" haha. 50 cap would be the Fire era in this case, maybe each level cap rise will feature a new primal to fight and new great endgame gear with the final ones being astral and umbral related weaponry!

[Nakiamiie]

I like all the weapons and stuff shown in the Iffrit teaser video. They are quite unique and show their magical power too.

I'd like weapons and armor to look functional
- Pugilist weapons would break your wrist if you used them irl. They should be attached at the forearm not held. (pet peeve)

I have to agree with this though.

Armor shouldn't be overly stylized like a tron suit (ease up on the lines!)

I don't agree, magical armours should look magical.

[Zezlar]

Out of all the problems XIV has you are really going to complain over a few over the top items? They are items from a PRIMAL. What the hell do you expect?

Focus on other issues because this is certainly not one of them.

Also bud. This is not real life. This is Final Fantasy XIV. This type of stuff can exist.