About the looks of the new raid gear

[Recaldy]

sam armor

This isn't going to happen. It's forever a generic robe class now. We'd see tanks wearing DRG gear before SAM gets legitimate metal armor.

Why does the Ala Mhigo section have eastern armor? All of the Doma stuff was eastern. Overall it looks atrocious and not fantasy like at all. For Honor fans will enjoy the sets but for a fantasy game where anything can be made it's pretty disappointing. No the EX version with a different color texture wont change anything. The fending set on any female except maybe Roes looks terrible and too big for them especially the waist plates. Fending set looks great on male Roes but that's about it...I think that was their model body while developing them. I also find it funny how SAMs don't get the actually SAM set (fending) that'd you see SAM wearing in ALL THE OTHER FF GAMES.

Came to this conclusion after posting and editing: The Omega raid tier should've been the Doma Castle drops.

[Giubba]

I have two here I took to show a friend who requested these ones specifically:


Left one is Fending, right one is Striking.

I saw the armour in-game and for my taste (colour schemes apart) they are gorgeous. They are the closest thing to an historical representation of true samurai/Japanese armour sets.

Problem is the colour are horrible the fending set is clearly painted with vomit

[Kailii]

As a samurai main, I'm very disappointed in the mnk/sam set. I don't know what aesthetic they were going for but it looks like a bulky mess. While the armor overall is bulky, at least the tank set is symmetric. The mnk/sam looks like they are trying to copy Zenos's terrible armor set or something. I'm more disappointed because the drg/nin set is pretty much everything I could've asked for, but samurai will never be able to use it.

[Nixxe]

I don't really like the art style used for the armor in this game to begin with. This set is especially bad though, if you ask me. It's so bad I might actually bother glamouring it. I don't care for the theme and it's extremely bland on top of that.

[Snat]

I cant understand who thought its a good idea to make every set for every job look exactly the same. And its uninspired samurai armor for EVERY job, SE if i want to play sam and wear sam armor, i will play sam and wear sam armor, why every job looks like sam armor now?

Kinda the same thing that is annoying me. White Mages typically have white robes with red triangles ... and now that's that's theme carried on to the other healers -.-

[Kling-Klang]

I cant understand who thought its a good idea to make every set for every job look exactly the same. And its uninspired samurai armor for EVERY job, SE if i want to play sam and wear sam armor, i will play sam and wear sam armor, why every job looks like sam armor now?

At least now they can maybe stuff away that excuse for why we cant glam whatever we can wear... They often said "to keep job identiy/players dont get confused". Well now we are all SAMURAI! Not confusing at all. Right?

[-Teria-]

Here's hoping the 24 man sets are better.
SE is dropping the ball this expansion.

Most of the crafted gear (And quest rewards) are palette swapped HW dungeon gear.
Most of the dungeon gear is either the same set just slightly altered (Thank you underwater Raen for your homogeneous style. No really, so great), or recolored Doman gear from HW 3.0.
And now these bland sets that make everyone look like a Samurai.

The armor design team needs a kick in the pants for how lazy they've been this expansion.

[Lildragora]

It's really ugly armor... Can we just go back to Bahamut?

[Warlyx]

Aiming hat ...............come on is a joke ? looks like a bachelor party hat lol

[Eldevern]

I agree this tier is ugly but everyone told SE they didn't like cyber punk. I remember yoshi saying "I didn't know so many people hates cyber punk" So that's why you're not getting it here.

What a shame. Cyberpunk and steampunk looks can be really cool. The question it inspire me is : Is that really the problem or rather... Do they miss that much imagination?

That's right western people and eastern people don't exactly have the same tastes. Asian cyberpunk/steampunk and western cyber/steampunk are different. Western is usually more serious and dark.

But that's a pity, we miss something that -really- looks like cyber/steampunk with the gothic/victorian touch or futurist touch. For now, when there is something that try to look like victorian, it looks like doll.

Anyway, that may happen later, after all, we can expect this game is planned to live at least around 6-10 years so... there is still 5.xx, 6.xx, 7.xx and who now? Maybe more :-D