Machinist Lunchboxes Should Match Weapons - It is WAY past time.

[3ureka]

I imagine hiding the lunchbox would be easier to do (I actually never heard it called that before until very recently haha), but I'd settle for a smaller form factor as well.

[LauraAdalena]

I'd just rather hide it. If I can hide the weapon, why can't I hide it?

[DumdogsWorld]

You're talking about the fannypack-looking box thing that machinists wear, right?

So let me get this straight:

-It looks the same no matter what weapon you use because of a lore excuse, meaning it is lore-unfriendly for a weapon to make it look like something else by default.
-The lore explanation for glamours is that it's merely an illusion to make an item look like another item. So technically, it IS lore-friendly for tanks to run around in bikinis, because they're really suits of steel.

...then wouldn't the answer be to decouple the 'lunchbox' from the weapon? Like, make it a statless, ilvl-irrelevant 'weapon' for the secondary weapon slot. Then we could use the glamour system on it.

[Esmoire]

Ideally I'd like to just not see the stupid thing to begin with. Clips with a lot of my favourite outfits.

I'd be perfectly happy with being able to hide it. Its main purpose is to justify why we never run out of ammo, but nobody really questions why bards never run out of arrows, or ninjas out of kunai, or any other ranged/thrown weapons.

I don't think that's quite true. I think it is more to explain why guns scale off of the power of the wielder. It is easy to explain why a lance scales with the might and finesse of the user, bows with fantasy materials might require more draw strength, and of course magic rods are the easiest analogy, but guns are difficult. Games have often struggled with explaining why, say, more strength = more gun damage. I always am in favour of not thinking about it, but sometimes writers just can't sleep at night.

If the bullets are produced from your aether, the theory is that as your Warrior of Light becomes more powerful, so does your ammunition. That is quite different from a bow or kunai, and why characters like Thancred or pure-blooded Garleans are at a disadvantage.

[lolicon09]

Honestly, i think it would be better, and probably easier, to just hide it.

[lolicon09]

People wearing bikinis as tanks is totally acceptable though.

We're using glamours tho; the appearance of an item projected on another. I'm pretty sure no one is crazy enough to wear the actual ilvl 1 bikini pieces

[TheMightyMollusk]

We're using glamours tho; the appearance of an item projected on another. I'm pretty sure no one is crazy enough to wear the actual ilvl 1 bikini pieces

You haven't spent much time in the Tales of Duty Finder thread, huh?

[YellowCrystarium]

We're using glamours tho; the appearance of an item projected on another. I'm pretty sure no one is crazy enough to wear the actual ilvl 1 bikini pieces

I ran into a healer today wearing the level 1 mended imperial clothes you receive from the main scenario quests. No they weren't glamoured but they were wearing the actual item. People will surprise you with their forgetfulness or stupidity. Take your pick.

[DumdogsWorld]

People will surprise you with their forgetfulness or stupidity. Take your pick.

...

Are you implying people can't be both forgetful and stupid?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Nobody said you could only pick one option.