If YoshiP feels the need to beg players not to fill their Glamour Dressers

[AmiableApkallu]

I don't think they consider fighting in bikinis or wedding dresses a 'canon' approach to their main story and instead handwave it as 'something the players can wear/glamour to events or casually', while throwing a extra bone to them that some pieces can work pretty well on 'combat' outfits.

Beachwear is proper tank gear, though. Take a look at the Shisui Fending set (drops from the Lv.63 dungeon).

[MrSenriren]

The idea of having everyone run around basically naked for 3 days is pretty funny, so i'll do it too lol

[Silverbane]

Beachwear is proper tank gear, though. Take a look at the Shisui Fending set (drops from the Lv.63 dungeon).

Pop culture (including but not exclusively manga, anime, and video games) is full of people who, clad only in a Speedo, can shrug off hits that shatter mountains. So near-naked tanking in FFXIV is consistent with that. It also explains enhanced agro for tanks: if I was a dungeon mob, near-naked tanking would strike me as either an easy kill (a mistake) or an insult (closer to true).

OTOH, some gear restrictions, like Magic users being unable to cast while wearing armor, have a long history in RPGs, at least back to original D&D.

[NekoMataMata]

Personally I do think if people stopped storing 4 man items they are currently not using but can still be obtained is a waste of space even for future glams. I do think people just need to be more selective and strategic about what they store.

Wow, people actually do defend the game being an inventory management simulator.

[Elucesta]

I wish we could glam our weapons for 1 handed wands again past level 50 for White Mage.

[Arrius]

Beachwear is proper tank gear, though. Take a look at the Shisui Fending set (drops from the Lv.63 dungeon).

I don't consider them beach gear - At the very best, it's appropriate light sentinel/guard/priest equipment for a shrine. Which is under water. At the bottom of the ocean. Where armor would only make you sink like a rock.

Also, it came back at 2017's Moonfire event as a dyeable version, so I see this set as one of those handwave type of outfits for the player to have something nice and thematic.

[Deveryn]

OTOH, some gear restrictions, like Magic users being unable to cast while wearing armor, have a long history in RPGs, at least back to original D&D.

Yep. Every non-tank class has always had a need to be able to move more freely and be lighter on their feet.

[Bobby66]

Wow, people actually do defend the game being an inventory management simulator.

More so expecting them to magically listen now after years of begging seems pointless tbh. You know insanity and all that.

Work around what you got not with what ya wish you had.

[Silverbane]

I wish we could glam our weapons for 1 handed wands again past level 50 for White Mage.

Maybe I'm just not remembering every action, but it seems to me that the supposed two-handed main weapons that CNJ/WHM have are only ever held in one hand.
And SGE's "two-handed" main weapons are all "zero-handed."

It might be cool if they at least made CNJ/WHM auto-attack animation a two-handed baseball-bat swing, to justify the "two-handed" adjective. And maybe SGE could be holding a pair of VR controllers or something in their hands when casting??

[Deveryn]

More so expecting them to magically listen now after years of begging seems pointless tbh. You know insanity and all that.

Work around what you got not with what ya wish you had.

Exactly. Unfortunately, some people seem to be spoiled IRL, so it's a struggle to think that way.