MELEE GEAR CONTEST WINNERS

[Rymm]

While I'm not a huge fan of the melee winner, I'll wait to pass judgement until we see what it actually ends up as ingame. That being said, I really wonder how they are going to take such a minimalist set (it's a friggan catsuit with gauntlets/boots/helm slapped on) into distinctive gear sets for all the different jobs/roles for that tier. I have the terrible feeling that it's either just going to be a recolored catsuit for everyone or they are going to have to greatly depart from the original set's aesthetic in order to make them distinguishable.

[CosmicKirby]

Tank contest winner: High-allagan MK-2 (boring indeed) . JAP designer

Magic DPS contest winner : devilish-like black coat , mostly ok but the IG model look not so good thanks to bad clipping. JAP designer

Healer : White coat (extremely boring) that look like cr*p on male characters because it's not the same model. Jap designer

Melee : kinda ok but not the best design. I wonder how it will look like IG. JAP designer

Ranged : Machinist AF MK-2 , so yet again no originality and "surprise" : JAP designer


I won't say that those contest were not totally fair but I sure have doubts...
And SB skins (and not only skins) are just bad in general. Very few "good" design.

Whatever... Continue to give the same thing over and over again, we don't have enough of white robes/coat for healers.

Worth noting that 2 more winners were Japanese if you count the hair design contest winners.

Only the Furniture contest, with it's 100 winners, had non-Japanese winners as far as art/design contests go.

A couple of times is a coincidence, it's firmly in the 'pattern' territory now.

[Ruinfeild]

Man I wish this would have won. The design is pretty damn nice to look out and being a Roegadyn, get to show off our muscles for sure.

Well, this or the delinquent set.

[Corue]

Love that melee set. It's nice to have something not overdesigned to hell.

[MicahZerrshia]

Grand Prize Winner:

[IzVale]

Tank contest winner: High-allagan MK-2 (boring indeed) . JAP designer

Magic DPS contest winner : devilish-like black coat , mostly ok but the IG model look not so good thanks to bad clipping. JAP designer

Healer : White coat (extremely boring) that look like cr*p on male characters because it's not the same model. Jap designer

Melee : kinda ok but not the best design. I wonder how it will look like IG. JAP designer

Ranged : Machinist AF MK-2 , so yet again no originality and "surprise" : JAP designer


I won't say that those contest were not totally fair but I sure have doubts...
And SB skins (and not only skins) are just bad in general. Very few "good" design.

Whatever... Continue to give the same thing over and over again, we don't have enough of white robes/coat for healers.

If I remember right, the last few contest winners/runner ups were mostly Japanese too.
As if the rest of the world doesn't have any great ideas :/

[Skivvy]

We don't know how many NA submissions are being received compared to JP submissions. It could be as simple as JP having a larger amount, which would make it a greater chance for a winner to come from there.

ETA: I suppose if all submissions have to be made on the official forums, I suppose you COULD compare numbers. Is that how it works? And if so, has anyone actually looked?

[Enla]

We don't know how many NA submissions are being received compared to JP submissions. It could be as simple as JP having a larger amount, which would make it a greater chance for a winner to come from there.

ETA: I suppose if all submissions have to be made on the official forums, I suppose you COULD compare numbers. Is that how it works? And if so, has anyone actually looked?

People from all over NA submitted via tumblr and posted their entries that weren't picked. I'd be surprised if the number wasn't decently even.

[xxvaynxx]

Dammit...I don't like that melee outfit...Oh well...at least the range looks good. Hope the melee version for it isn't trash.

[Bright-Flower]

I like both sets, and they don't feel like things we already have. As much as I like the lost allagan set, seemed like we had similar stuff before with high allagan. That said of course we'll have to see when they come out.

I wonder if one will be the dungeon gear in 4.5, or if we'll be waiting for 5.0 and beyond for these.