I'm tired of everything and everyone looking like pilgrims.

[Eyervan]

What's the deal with the gear in FFXIV? I'm not really all that far in the game, but I look up everything that's coming up once I'm a higher level and it's all the same. It seems like you're not really being rewarded with your pillow like arms, and your weird jackets made of linen. Ocassionally they throw some plate armor, and some chain-mail on an item, but still... it doesn't look cool enough to make you feel awesome. I'm not saying go WoW and have glowing skull pauldrons, but there should be a massive change in the overall image of your character as you level up. I want spikes, I want colors, I want shiny glass stuff, I want badass helmets, I just want to look cool.

I think it all boils down to me wanting to look like a Final Fantasy character. Not some poor serf. Wouldn't it be sweet to look like Cecil or Gabranth? Hell, it'd be sweet to look like Bartz or even something like Rikku.

Final Fantasy has a long line of visual badassery when it come to the characters overall image, so what happen here? Even in FFXI you look moderately awesome by the time you're level 20. And the 'cool' factor of your gear goes up like a J-curve. I just want to have another MMO that I can fall in love with. FFXI filled that role for me 5 years ago, but then it got all crazy. FFXI did something for me that no game has done before. While I was playing I felt like I mattered in the world. And it was fun getting together with random people and working together. I didn't like endgame too much but I loved partying and skillchaining, and making the best possible party setups. I had 3 Lv.75s and none of them were necessarily awesome. I was never outfitted in Homam gear, or the cool armor from Aht Urghan. I never had the weapons that were millions of Gil, but I still had fun because the game was incredibly fun before the whole endgame thing.

I just want to have fun again... ; ;

[syntaxlies]

in 1.21 job specific armor will come out. alot of the designs now were made by the former ffxiv team. you can expect to see some better stuff down the road a bit.

[Rentahamster]

"everyone looking like pilgrims." lmao

We could use more gear choices, yes. I agree about the acton with the pillow arms. Who the heck thought that was a good idea?

[Zahak]

I like actons

[buritoslicer]

"everyone looking like pilgrims." lmao

We could use more gear choices, yes. I agree about the acton with the pillow arms. Who the heck thought that was a good idea?

Haha, I loled when I saw the pillow arms myself.

@OP
With the dev team working on new sets of armor, I can imagine they will be on the level of the Ifrit weapons and possibly even better looking (in a more reserved way of course). If only SE could find a good balance without crossing the WoW line, we will be ok.

Just give it a bit, it seems you have joined the game at a funky time seeing were in the midst of another patch that will change the game quite a bit. If it bothers you, I reccomend taking a break and checking back in around the 14th/15th.

[Rentahamster]

Haha, I loled when I saw the pillow arms myself.

@OP
With the dev team working on new sets of armor, I can imagine they will be on the level of the Ifrit weapons and possibly even better looking (in a more reserved way of course). If only SE could find a good balance without crossing the WoW line, we will be ok.

Just give it a bit, it seems you have joined the game at a funky time seeing were in the midst of another patch that will change the game quite a bit. If it bothers you, I reccomend taking a break and checking back in around the 14th/15th.

"Buritoslicer Buritosandwich" is one of the best names on Lindblum.

[buritoslicer]

"Buritoslicer Buritosandwich" is one of the best names on Lindblum.

Thank you! Glad to see people appreciate my name, this one is going to be quoted for my siggy lol!

Back To topic:

I seriously looked like a hobo in my low level 20's crafting gear. Shepherds gear didn't really call out "I'm a crafter!". Shepherd's gear and a skullcap.....wtf kind of combination did I get myself into for crafting gear?

Yeah, things are going to be a bit wonky for a while... As soon as the dev team fixes FFXIV's gear direction you'll see more consistancy in our gear.

Hopefully they won't be using the "gear takes 3 months to make" excuse to delay stuff.

[Rentahamster]

Thank you! Glad to see people appreciate my name, this one is going to be quoted for my siggy lol!

I remember when you first started the game. You were running around Limsa and ran past my party. We were like, "We should invite that guy to our LS just based on his name alone" lol

[buritoslicer]

I remember when you first started the game. You were running around Limsa and ran past my party. We were like, "We should invite that guy to our LS just based on his name alone" lol

Haha I should have a story to my lifespan on FFXIV:

Since Beta Burritoslicer Buritosandwich has been walking past people and captivating their hearts with his incorrect spelling of the word burrito. :P

[Rentahamster]

Haha I should have a story to my lifespan on FFXIV:

Since Beta Burritoslicer Buritosandwich has been walking past people and captivating their hearts with his incorrect spelling of the word burrito. :P

lol that's exactly what happened. Our Mexican player was like, "He spelled 'burrito' wrong", to which the rest of us nodded our heads in bemusement.