This is getting ridiculous. (Endwalker MSQ and post MSQ spoilers)

[KizuyaKatogami]

Covid is a piss poor excuse people hide behind to mask shitty work. Sorry to be blunt but it's true, if this were 1995 I could buy covid as an excuse but it's not it was 2019-2021 where we have a plethora of programs to use. Programs that let you talk to 1000 people at once, screen share, hell you can control peoples computers from another when you're on the other side of the planet so the idea that covid is to blame in this line of work is laughable.

Yeah this needs to be said. The people who keep using this excuse over and over again just seems deluded tbh. Using it as a deflection to avoid criticism for their beloved game lol. Fact is the game is far from perfect and each expansion it seems like we get less when we should be getting more.

[Lunafreya]

They also reuse models for enemies and only some bosses have unique models. I think the 3 new trials do but I could be wrong. But I do recognize the models instantly for overworld enemies or quest enemies like the healer role quest level 90 had a level 90 titan model. I get that the models are different enough and game development is hard and this is probably the smartest route to take but it has never been any different in any expansion. Now that we are at the end... it won't change and neither will the reuse of gear sets.

[KizuyaKatogami]

They also reuse models for enemies and only some bosses have unique models. I think the 3 new trials do but I could be wrong. But I do recognize the models instantly for overworld enemies or quest enemies like the healer role quest level 90 had a level 90 titan model. I get that the models are different enough and game development is hard and this is probably the smartest route to take but it has never been any different in any expansion. Now that we are at the end... it won't change and neither will the reuse of gear sets.

The thing is, it’s never been this bad, and we should be seeing it less considering the game is making more and more money, and is getting more players. Instead we’re seeing the opposite which is lazy devs. I guess this is what happens when you don’t have competition though and you have a fan base that worships you and denies all criticism. You can afford to be lazy and give less.

[Kuroka]

Shadowbringers has a lot of recycled gear too, from memory, but it still felt exciting. Aiming got those two healer gearsets I wanted for my dancer! Caster got the tank coat from the Arboretum! A whole list of new things per class even though the models were already in the game.

Even SB... the very first set at the Siren sea had recolored color- and role switched gear.... im still excited everytime i see a piece drop lol...

[FrogDog]

I just realized today that male viera got the same hempen underwear that midlander males get.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Here it's just multiple rounds of "that thing I could already equip, in a different colour". Which is sometimes an exciting thing in itself, but not for every single tier of reused gear in the whole expansion.

And the recolors arguably dye significantly worse than the originals. The recolor of the Bonewicca caster set is atrocious as the embellishments of the top are silver while the pants's embellishments are gold. And that set dyes shimmery instead of matte like the original which completely kills off what little works with it.

Here's to another 3 years of using the same 4 Stormblood pieces of glamour gear that I have been using since 4.1

[Nekaru_Infitima]

82 is from Shire tomes

Other than Neo-Ish (as it was so recent).

This one is the most annoying because that's the third Shire gear now. Remember Anamnesis gear was also Shire.

Skallic I understand. As farming that dungeon was always cancer with the low drop rate. That's the one some were glad to get a recolor of.

[Iscah]

I just realized today that male viera got the same hempen underwear that midlander males get.

Female Viera and male Hrothgar are in the same situation (with female Midlander and male Roegadyn body models respectively) and I gather it's because they're just modifying the bodies from those to begin with.

Interesting (and rather disappointing) to hear that male Viera have Midlander gear though. I was certain it was going to be Miqo'te, but then their previous awful posture was from that model as well, so maybe instead of trying to re-pose it they just ditched it entirely and started over again with the Midlander model.

I still haven't started my Viera alt but I was looking forward to using the Miqo'te hempen top on him (not all the time but for something) because it's a kind of cool design that neither of my Miqo'te characters would wear. Bah.

[Iscah]

Here's to another 3 years of using the same 4 Stormblood pieces of glamour gear that I have been using since 4.1

It's not quite that bad, and we do have another... 5 dungeons, 3 raid tiers, 3 tome tiers, 5 crafted glamours, 1 PVP... most of which at least by precedent should be new designs.

Still, there's not much I'm feeling like I can upgrade with at the moment.

On the dye recolourings, one that did come off much better is the female version of the Neo-Ishgardian striking top. The original version has an undyeable blouse in a rather unflattering pink, but now it changes colour. A lot of the colour schemes feel "off" though, at least the pieces I played around with.

I would have liked to see the designs reassigned to different groups though.

[SturmChurro]

I just realized today that male viera got the same hempen underwear that midlander males get.

Called it. These sets aren't unique anymore! I really wish SE would just make them available to all races at this point..