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

[Jybril]

Their designs are reuse after reuse after reuse and everything is unisex.
Stop making things unisex.
Here are 3 sets from aion.

Make stuff like this at least. I even like TERA armour (or outfits lol.)

I...don't think you've played FFV to even really be complaining.
Who's from FFV? Gilgamesh, who travels through the rift? Gilgamesh, what armor can you obtain from Gilgamesh? Genji Armor, what this raid tiers armor based on? You get the idea.

Genji armour has been in multiple FF's...even before V. It's just most notable in V because of Gilgamesh and his first appearance.
When I said "FFV inspired" I mean the JOB armour or even the characters concept and weaved into gear.
Even so, they could of done WAAAY better than this silly mash-up design. They are cleary running out of idea's.
The Genji armour could of been done way better.

I would say host more "Let the players create" but they seem to go back to their roots and pick
designs that are what they usually make...No point really.

[Naunet]

Stop making things unisex.

I'd rather not be forced into sexy/revealing/skirts/etc just because I play a female character. I much prefer armors that are equal-opportunity in their treatment of covered vs noncovered, heavily armored vs lithly armored, skirts vs pants.

[eschaton]

Their designs are reuse after reuse after reuse and everything is unisex.

I feel like it's mostly on gear you won't be wearing very long anyway... kinda the same as with mob reuse (slightly altered) in places where people won't hang around for long.

And there's always all the glamour to pick from right?

[Jybril]

I'd rather not be forced into sexy/revealing/skirts/etc just because I play a female character. I much prefer armors that are equal-opportunity in their treatment of covered vs noncovered, heavily armored vs lithly armored, skirts vs pants.

I do not mind a little skin. People call the Shisui sets on females "provocative" but it's one of best gears I've seen in a long time.
Unisex gear is just rehashed things, gives them little room to make fun and cool gear. :/
I would rather them have
"Female" and "Male" versions to be honest and give the people a choice.
TERA/AION craps on the games gear imo.
Look at the gear I show in that picture. Does any of that gear looks "too much" for you?
But different strokes for the folks.

I feel like it's mostly on gear you won't be wearing very long anyway... kinda the same as with mob reuse (slightly altered) in places where people won't hang around for long.
And there's always all the glamour to pick from right?

Glamour is highly loved in this game (Remember, glamour is true end game!)
But I wish they made more gear, glamourable and not reuse.
I like WHM's AF3 and glamoured it because I look like a Princess lol.
I just wish for my cute stuff honestly...

[ErryK]

I'd rather not be forced into sexy/revealing/skirts/etc just because I play a female character. I much prefer armors that are equal-opportunity in their treatment of covered vs noncovered, heavily armored vs lithly armored, skirts vs pants.

That's the issue with most MMOs, it's either revealing for females, badass for males, or mediocre non-flattering armor for both. But there's a lot of item bloat if you DO end up offering them regardless of character sex, but in distinct silhouette styles (eg. feminine, masculine, etc.), which I feel may be the issue stopping it from being a reality, because it feels very superfluous from a gameplay standard.

[Snow_Princess]

I'd rather not be forced into sexy/revealing/skirts/etc just because I play a female character. I much prefer armors that are equal-opportunity in their treatment of covered vs noncovered, heavily armored vs lithly armored, skirts vs pants.

You can make gear that is made to be more fitting for female characters without being revealing, and people shown tons of examples of that. Making everything unisex is just shortcuts. A bit ago I was able to see my sissy with another blm using that 63 glam set. At first we thought the lalafall was just a girl with short hair but she pointed out he had to be male because of how the looked. Then the 3 of them playdead (there was someone else using the healer 63 set) and well.. saw the male lalafall play dead on the other female one, and it got suggestive that point.

My point in this story is, the caster 63 looked too much alike on the boy as it did for girls, I was pretty shocked.

[Naunet]

You can make gear that is made to be more fitting for female characters without being revealing, and people shown tons of examples of that. Making everything unisex is just shortcuts.

I'm not saying SE should make everything unisex as in "bland". I'm saying that if a piece of armor is revealing on a female character, then it should be equally revealing on a male character. If it is form-fitting on a female character, then it should be form-fitting on a male character. If it's heavily armored with no skin on a female character, then it should be heavily armored with no skin on a male character.

I replied to the post linking Aion's gear, because I do NOT like when there is such huge a distinction between male and female appearances in the same gear, especially when that distinction is usually "men get the 'badass' stuff and women get the 'sexy' stuff".

[Snow_Princess]

I'm not saying SE should make everything unisex as in "bland". I'm saying that if a piece of armor is revealing on a female character, then it should be equally revealing on a male character. If it is form-fitting on a female character, then it should be form-fitting on a male character. If it's heavily armored with no skin on a female character, then it should be heavily armored with no skin on a male character.

I replied to the post linking Aion's gear, because I do NOT like when there is such huge a distinction between male and female appearances in the same gear, especially when that distinction is usually "men get the 'badass' stuff and women get the 'sexy' stuff".

The fix to that is not unisex though, that is the point I was trying to get at. Like in the caster example the top could been more different while in shorts or something. It was so much alike I thought he was female with short hair =/

[Bourne_Endeavor]

So basically people just want more THOT gear for their catgirls.

Why is a dislike of something automatically assumed people just want lewd outfits? How about many simply want something that isn't ugly?

[Naunet]

The fix to that is not unisex though, that is the point I was trying to get at. Like in the caster example the top could been more different while in shorts or something. It was so much alike I thought he was female with short hair =/

Depends on what you mean by unisex. I've not once posted advocating for boring shapeless armor. I just want the different armor styles to be equal-opportunity.