So uh... whats up with the end game gear designs lately?

[Ametrine]

Well, look at it this way: If the best gear in the game was a burlap sack, elitists would be seen all over Eorzea looking like sacks of potatoes. Elitists would not want to hide their "achievement" no matter how hideous the reward. It may look like poo but it's a status symbol nonetheless. That's why glamour sets are mostly level one items and purchasable from the Mog Store. If you care about your appearance only, you have hundreds of cheap and good looking glamour items. If you care about looking "gud" in front of the noobs, just be patient because the next ugly set of "I did it before it was cool" gear is inbound shortly.

There is the same argument applied to the most recent, level 1 glamour, which usually cost millions to purchase off the market boards.

It's as much a status symbol either way.

[Kosmos992k]

There is the same argument applied to the most recent, level 1 glamour, which usually cost millions to purchase off the market boards.

It's as much a status symbol either way.

If you are a resident of Ala Mhigo, it's cheap as chips though. Can't figure out where they get all the gil, those NPCs, but apparently they are very wealthy, either that or it's available at vendors exclusive to NPCs...

[DracotheDragon]

se: hey healers what do you want

healers: no more robes and simmilar to what the others have

se makes healing gear that isnt just a pure robe and more like what everyone else has

se: ok hows this

healers: WE NO WANT THIS

[Annah]

its still a robe dough

[Ferrasper]

I'm not a fan of the new creation tome gear (it all seems a bit been-there tired to me), but have been pleasantly surprised with the new gear overall, and there is plenty to choose from for glamours.

Still not seen anything even approaching the monstrosity of the 120 caster gear. Thank god. LOL.

I loved the 120 caster gear. We finally got separate hood options. I rate the 120 gear as one of the best.

[CosmicKirby]

The gear sets in stormblood are restricted to class, and even the crafting and gathering gear is restricted along with it. in addition, the numbrr of all classes gear in SB is pretty low, lower than what was about in previous installments.

As far as leveling gear/dungeon gear/endgame gear goes. It's pretty much EXACTLY the same as it was in Stormblood, the only exception being that Crafting/Gathering gear is now restricted from combat classes. (Remember, in 3.0 we also had job restricted AF2 sets. These were the weekly tome armors and there was actually 1 entire set of armor less, we wouldn't be having our current contest winner set for instance.)

[Skivvy]

se: hey healers what do you want

healers: no more robes and simmilar to what the others have

se makes healing gear that isnt just a pure robe and more like what everyone else has

se: ok hows this

healers: WE NO WANT THIS

Well yeah, it's ugly.

[Syrehn]

Well yeah, it's ugly.

Ain't that the truth. It makes me look like some sort of allagan storm trooper. I seriously hate it.

[Kosmos992k]

Well yeah, it's ugly.

I have to say this is a really fundamental truth that seems to have been lost. I mean, I know that what is ugly to some isn't ugly to others, but there are basic fundamentals of style that should at least guide the aesthetics of gear design. I love Japanese style armor, I do not like Japanese style armor over muted colored robes all of which looks like it was washed in a dilute paint called urban drab. Yet that's what we have. I hate armor that completely obscures gender and body shape, and yet that describes about 90% of the gearsets in the game, including the gear design contest winners. It shouldn't be hard to make gear that is pleasing both to the eye and to players who want a level of immersion. However it often seems to me that the gear designers lean heavily towards immersion and forget about pleasing the eye.

It's an MMORPG, I spent a long time creating Kosmos, and I've played her for 4 years now (longer if you include her previous incarnations), and you know, I love taking down the bad guys, but darn it I want to look good while doing it.

[Keydah]

In my opinion, sets almost never look good when you have the entire set on. The Creation set all together is super ugly, BUT I love the healer Creation chest with other gear. In the end, it's all up to taste whether or not you think it's ugly... just because you didn't get a set you find attractive doesn't mean everyone thinks it's unattractive.

On the topic of the Genji gear...I don't mind it existing as it's a matter of taste (I actually like the healer chest, but I'll never wear it simply because the cloth skirt is part of it, and I don't like how that looks...there's no reason for it to not be the bottoms model), but I was expecting a completely different aesthetic for Omega gear and I don't really understand how it fits... I'm glad they tried something different, and I hope they continue to do so, but the Genji armor just makes no sense as the raid gear.