What's up with the Monster Hunter armor?

[Rufalus]

I felt the same, it doesn't stand out from armor we already have. The mount looks impressive though and most of all I'm just excited to try out the Ratholos trial battle.

Would have really liked Phantasy Star armor in this game but that collab only went one way (PSO2 got the Odin battle and items from FF XIV). Guess they decided to never do the PSO2 stuff here because that game isn't available globally. Sega announced a North American version then never delivered one and never commented on it again. Sega downsized a lot and hardly makes anything outside of Sonic these days ; ;

[Alleo]

i think from the live letter they said that the armour lore was was meant to be a "eorzians' interpretation of what the armour would look like" instead of the standard, either way i kinda like it, never was a big fan of the female Rathalos armour from Monster hunter, and i like this new look.

So where is the Eorzean version of the Yokai minions and weapons? (And that mount..) Where is the eorzean version of the Garo stuff? Honestly it feels strange to have them using that reason for this event, while completely ignoring that especially the Yokai stuff looks so out of the Eorzean style..well the gear will just gather dust anyway (since the female version is just another skirt..) and I am just doing this for the minions.

[Wanzer]

I'm not against the idea of an "Eorzean made" thing, but some details are missing or are totally out of place, especially about World. There is no scoutflies, the wings on the female armor aren't wyvern's wings and the colour scheme is not quite accurate too (they went for bronze instead of steel - in FFXIV, the metal pieces are mostly bronze or gold, so I guess we are lucky this time). Even the headpiece is too close to things we already have in the game (a lighter headpiece exists in Monster Hunter, on the rathalos beta variant, but they didn't use it as reference). At first sight, it's hard to tell it's something inspired by Monster Hunter. It could have been an armor from a regular dungeon that nobody would have said "eh, wait a minute, it's rathalos !"

It's not a bad design, and I do like some of the details on them, but it could have been great during Heavensward since some of these details are close to this era ; however, I still think they should have went for the original rathalos armor à la FFXIV. The point of this event is also to celebrate both series, and there is nothing more iconic than rathalos and its armor set.

Oh, and a bit off-topic, I think a wingdrake with the grappling hook instead of Rathalos as mount would have been much better, but I'm probably too picky about that. ( '-')

So where is the Eorzean version of the Yokai minions and weapons? (And that mount..) Where is the eorzean version of the Garo stuff? Honestly it feels strange to have them using that reason for this event, while completely ignoring that especially the Yokai stuff looks so out of the Eorzean style..well the gear will just gather dust anyway (since the female version is just another skirt..) and I am just doing this for the minions.

When I read the reasons behind the Monster Hunter armor my first thought was the mount from the Yokai event, then my character stucks inside and bobbling here and there.

The skirt is another detail that bugs me. It could have been something close to the massive belt from the original design instead of just another skirt.


SE, give me back my scoutflies!

[Aster_E]

I'm glad the guys are finally getting something nice (if they're into that look). Otherwise, the gear's style isn't for me, so whatevs. I'll just get the mount (and minion, and achievement(s)), and go around trying to have it eat the Lalas.

[Maero]

It's not bad at all, certainly much better then gear they have been adding thus far in game
Watch out however for future patches and what not when they will just add re-skins of the gear, lol

[Areic]

I will admit it feels a bit underwhelming. It doesn't look bad sure, but I gotta agree it looks like something that might drop out of a heavensward dungeon, nothing particularly special

[Lord_Umbra]

That's some BS excuse, we have the tortoise armour that is like a less spikey version of rath armour.

[Fourbestintoner]

Male looks like a reskinned smn or some other caster coat, female looks like a reskinned legacy armor
""""""""Monster Hunter armor"""""""""""
It had to have a buttcape somehow

[Nixxe]

A bit sad how male armour looks a lot better. :3

The female armor is much better. I don't want some dumb trench coat.

I need all of the rewards in any case.

[kamenkuro]

The bulkiness of the monster hunter outfits would not have translated well. They're designed with one body type in mind. They probably tried it and found only highlanders look good in it.