Embarrassing confessions-

[Kolsykol]

I am always poor because I spend all my gil on mog gear .

I changed my character's gender a few weeks ago because I was just tired of seeing most glamours being modeled for the female physique, playing a male Highlander Hyur it was tough finding a good look so I've stuck with DPS/Tank roles. No regrets. Been a male Highlander since I first started ARR.

On the other hand, if you prefer feminine characters and gear you're usually out of luck ( especially nowadays ).
I appreciate that FFXIV and the Final Fantasy series just in general tbh is a bit more skewed towards the feminine. Even the male characters tend to not be the typical gruff '' manly man '' like you normally see in Western games.
I mean the male characters in FF15 look like they're male models or in a boy band xD, pretty much every male character in FF does.
It's obviously not for everyone, but at the same time I do find it a bit silly when people complain about it because people who prefer the typical stuff are basically catered to in like 95% of all games ( not saying you are complaining, but there are people who just refuse to play anything with any hint of femininity in it and believe that if a female character is to be regarded as '' strong '' she just needs to have masculinity slapped unto her... ).

It's why I have a hard time playing most Western games, it's like they design it for the male characters first as a default and just slap it unto the female characters.
And there's just this general mentality that '' femininty = weakness '' as if ( for the sake of the argument ) dying your armor pink somehow gives you a minus stat in strength or something lol. But oh, dye it black and you get +9000 in strength.
Fashion and even armor has never at any point of history been gender neutral, I often hear that about historical armor but people are generally quite ignorant about history and the mindsets of the times. Armor was considered as male clothing and was always designed to express the masculine trends of the times aesthetically. The few times women wore it they just wore the same because it was the developed standard and blacksmiths weren't going to redesign it for a single exception and war was just regarded as a masculine profession.
At one point breastplates were even shaped like corsets because having a narrow waist was regarded as super masculine, but nowadays it's a wider frame and wide shoulders so that's how they tend to be designed.
So it kinda bothers me when people treat historical armor like it's gender neutral when it just objectively isn't and was never intended to be lol.
People back in the day would laugh if people made that claim.

I am currently using '' Ivalician holy knight's armor '' as a mog on my tanks and I like it a lot, and it's clearly designed to look more feminine.
I just really appreciate that the devs do this and it's a pretty big reason why I play FFXIV and not WoW.
And I also think that it's why JRPG's as far as I know at least is the most popular genre amongst women after mobile games ( remember seeing some statistics of this way back ).
It's just kinda annoying to me how in games and in general really the masculine is treated and viewed as the default and the feminine as '' the other ''.

I've managed to fall off of basically every ledge possible in duties, maybe barring a few outliers in newer content. The most stand-out example was the first time I ran Bismark for MSQ, I got blasted off the ledge by one of the adds less than 10 seconds into the fight. As a tank. It didn't help that some idiot accused me of jumping off deliberately and told the party to report me for griefing.

I've also triggered Superbolide at the start of duties by accident if I've been playing a lot of SMN beforehand, because I keep Summon III on the same keybind as my tank invulns. I should probably change that, but I'm too used to my setup to change it.

Is there a single Gunbreaker who haven't triggered Superbolide on accident xD?
I always feel like every Gunbreaker I am in a dungeon with will trigger it by accident at one point in the dungeon lol.

Not judging, it happens to me sometimes too.
It's just funny because of how much more dramatic it is than with other tanks.