Your thoughts on the Nightsteel weapons?

[edwind]

Terrible precedence and I'm still pretty miffed about it. Waiting for them to swipe the Anima model for the i380 set in 4.4 to be honest, and don't trust them to not take other forms of the Zodiac and Anima - maybe even including one or more of the glowing versions - in future releases.

If anything the fact that they look like crap just makes it worse. At that point just use some generic lv1 model and be done with it; why grab something like the Zodiac? Who does that please?

Dark knight already got one of their anima weapon reskinned (Nothung), so everyone else getting theirs later is very likely.

And machinist basically got a generic leveling weapon, though it can be dyed for the first time. Armageddon must have been too cool to be given as crafted weapon at this point in time.

[Felis]

Past seasonal events in mogshop, sure. But brand new items going directly to the store in a subscription based MMO will always look greedy no matter how any white knight spins it.

They are not new.

[Remedi]

Honestly they look like a much worse replicas of the zodiac weapons, like we tried to recreate what gerolt did but failing miserably, it's not really a big deal in the end

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Past seasonal events in mogshop, sure. But brand new items going directly to the store in a subscription based MMO will always look greedy no matter how any white knight spins it.

This is a frequent misconception. All the Asian inspired outfits are not technically new. At least not for us. They're designed at the behest of whatever third party publishing company SE allows to release FFXIV in China and Korea. Bear in mind, people's perception on cash shops, and even P2W, are decidedly different in those regions. Because they perceive time a far better investment, many Korean players won't even look at a MMO that doesn't have a pay option. (Crazy, right?) It's among the biggest hurdles when Korean MMOs get ported State side. Many companies don't realize just how utterly despised P2W is outside Asian Countries. We only have these outfits due to player demand. As they had to pay, so do we.

Anywho! Back on topic. I really don't care. The Zetas are nearly three years old and look better overall, regardless. Now from an Omni-crafter perspective. Please buy all of them! I like your gil.

[Chevronone]

They are not new.

You know what I mean.

[Rinuko]

These items should have been free and in-game. They need to stop supplementing their profits with new items behind a your wallet and make content that keeps people subbed longer.

Past seasonal events in mogshop, sure. But brand new items going directly to the store in a subscription based MMO will always look greedy no matter how any white knight spins it.

Yeah won't happen with promo items. They could added them to the shop for same amount and account wide however. I'd be fine with that.
Also slightly OT from the thread.

[RiyahArp]

The ingredients aren't bad to make, and the weapons aren't specialist locked, so that is an improvement. There's still generally low supply since in practice people become omnicrafters to make them. The model; eh, most of the in game models are bad anyways.

[Istaru]

I have all the zetas and idgaf. They don’t glow like the real zetas do. They are a cheap imitation at best.

[Kohdo]

Kinda disappointed they used a re-skinned Schlaeger for the Silvergrace Rapier. It took ages to get that to drop and I like having a unique and exotic looking weapon. I don't care much for the nightsteel stuff though.

[ObsidianFire]

I don't like the precedent it sets. That said, most of these have horrible coloring jobs. Actually, that was true of the last crafted WoD set too. Yeah it's dyable, but the red jewels + green-gold metal? Really doesn't go with much like the original raid gear. Or in this case, the original weapons. So long as this trend continues and the weapons don't have the glow effects, I'll be okay with it.