Question about Job "AF Armor"

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I like the idea of the first JSE to be very traditional looking. We should be getting upgrades that replace it someday anyway so I'm happy with this decision.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Thank you for keeping up a few FF traditions

[Buddhsie]

Good, it was a stupid idea to be able to dye artifact gear anyways.

[PrettyPrincess]

Good, it was a stupid idea to be able to dye artifact gear anyways.

I know you're entitled to you opinion, but could you please not sound so rude about it? You could have said, "I think being able to dye AF armor would have been a bit silly"

[Coglin]

I've confirmed with the dev. team that they won't be making it possible to dye job-specific equipment in the future. For some people, jobs and their equipment hold a special image in their minds and there might be those put off by the fact that the image can be altered by being able to dye them multiple colors. We want to maintain that special image by keeping the equipment uniform.

Its ridiculos that the rest of us cannot wear a color we want because of someone elses delicate nature of what a jobs image should be. If we are expected to pay for our accounts how are we expected to give a rats backside about someone elses opinion of the color of our gear and how it effects there image of the job?

However, in the future, it might be possible to release different colored job-specific equipment as new items.

This is better to read after the above statement. That being said, Its ridiculos that at this day in the age of MMOs, we are still so pigon holed to someone elses image of how a character of a certain job should look.

If I want to play my bard as a vibrant and flamboyant trubador, then I should be capable of looking the part and having multiple colors in my gear (IE. read head gear, green shirt, blue pants, and pink shoes) I chose.

If I want to play a dark hearted dirge, I should be capable of wearing a solid black set of gear if I find it fitting and appropriate, (or a black hooded bear for that matter) hooded gear needs a whole other discussion with it having less stats then helm/breastpiece in the first place, not to mention after you add 2 materia to the previous, yet can only add one to the latter.

[quantumsaint]

They will probably release palette-swapped JSE or AF at higher levels later. If they released the first JSE and allowed players to dye it whatever color they wanted, JSE that looks the same but is a different color then the first rendition would have less of an impact when it gets added eventually.

[Rubicon]

Let the early stuff be traditional. The later stuff can have more color and more bling and the lower stuff can be for traditional dressup party.

[Jennestia]

I know you're entitled to you opinion, but could you please not sound so rude about it? You could have said, "I think being able to dye AF armor would have been a bit silly"

Indeed -- While people want FFXIV to become a competing MMO by copying every other MMO, giving it a defining FF look and feel is what can stand it out (why else would want want to play Final Fantasy XIV: Online?) -- Besides, XI's AF sets from the first to the latest AF2+2 or w/e are all defined differently in color and style but keeping the same general image, so down the line it'll no doubt be more open for customization.

[Velhart]

The thing is, people see one set and think that is it like FFXI.

The way it looks, it seems like dev's have the future of the game setup to have tiered gear. So I am imagining they want to out date AF armor and put in better, more powerful AF, like other MMO's do.

No fact to back that up, but he did mention he wants to out date gear every few months.

[Coglin]

Did they actually state that it would be called artifact gear, or did someone just make the assumption on the name?