Aiming Gear

[DaveFishnomer]

I dont know I think Aiming gear looks better than most, I wish I could wear some of it as a tank.

[GrizzlyTank]

I dont know I think Aiming gear looks better than most, I wish I could wear some of it as a tank.

Some of it IS tank gear, but without the cape. Like the alliance sets from Ghimlyt Dark or late allagam pvp set.

[sindriiisgaming]

I don't agree. The new mch tome peice is easily my favourite so far. This is completely subjective

[Raikai]

The big problem stands in "the middle".

Like, usually (there are outliers, though) they make just 3 silhouettes for the collections, so I often see the aiming set sharing most of its model with one of the DoM, for example, or the scouting niche. It doesn't feel as if they actually design most of what the Aiming group gets with them in mind and instead they just randomly pick one of the silhouettes.

[Carin-Eri]

The gear doesn't need to look like an aiming set, most gear doesnt look like it belongs to a specific job or role, since everyone wears tailcoats and robes. we are all a buncha mages on the outside. or just severely over dressed. i just finished looking at all the tome gear and all the raid gear, its all bad lol same styles we have had for ten years for the most part with maybe 1 exception, and maiming set looking like red cross healer outfit (due to the red and white colors, it looks like early whm theme, and the healing set matches the maiming set but has sleeves)
lets go have a gander at the bads shall we.
diadochos aiming set is kinda meh, not awful like the rest of the typical aiming gear.
rinascita ... not even worth describing how bad it is
classical is ok, if youre female character.
exarch is kinda uggo
neo ishgard is great, if youre female.
facet is just a reskin
all the tome and raid gear from hw for aiming is not hot
i kinda like the aiming set from omega savage raids , the rest of the raid/tome/crqafted gear from sb is uggo
edenmorn looks ok, but its the same crap we have in 50 different versions and continue to get more of
crystarium coat of aiming is good when dyed , the rest of the raid and tome gear from shb is garbs
do i really need to continue? ask around in game , most people will agree most aiming gear is not something they would use as a glam , but rather they would glam over it immediately with anything they have just so they dont have to look at it.
im currently using the pvp reskin of high allagan aiming set , and thats pretty much alll i have for aiming atm that looks decent on a male character

They aren't all bad.

The Panthean Aiming Set from 'Aglaia' looks decent:
(changed the bottoms and boots in this one)


And the Obsolete Android top mixes well with other items:

[Khryseis_Astra]

Aiming is a fun one.

Bards have a flamboyant motif.
Dancer have varied dancing outfits.
Machinists have guns and more guns...

Yet in multiple cases they are sharing the tank armors but without a cloak!

All in all this issue could have been avoided by very simply DROPPING THE GLAMOUR RESTRICTIONS.

Exactly. More than any other gear grouping, Aiming is the one that suffers the most from these arbitrary restrictions, with DNC and BRD mostly having to wear things designed with a MCH in mind from the looks of it. And now that we have PCT, the DNC of the Casting group, I worry there won’t be anything that really caters to their aesthetic.

But sure, glamour restrictions are there to preserve job identity. lol

[Astrus]

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But sure, glamour restrictions are there to preserve job identity. lol

Yes, the job identity of "does it wear X weapon?" because even the restricted glamour system has no recognizable silhouettes or anything without even trying too hard.
But sure, can't give the caster roles anything but dresses. But the PvP full plate outfits are fine.
The restrictions are dumb and I swear they're mostly there because they can't divorce not being able to Need roll off-role items and being able to glamour the items.

[Sated]

I think the reason why Aiming tend to look like a rag is because the design mostly based on the assumption it's for archer/hunter as it's the original aiming class. Outside of relic gears we rarely see aiming gear made with a MCH/DNC aethestic. That's said there are some good piece for MCH if you look at the PvP section.

?? It's felt the opposite to me, it's a very frequent pain point actually.
Most of the time we get these grungy, post-apocalyptic looking sets with guns on them for some reason - which makes no sense for 2/3 of the role's aesthetic. They seem to HIGHLY favor the MCH side of aiming to the point that it's a constant thorn in my side as a dancer.

Why do striking and scouting often get sets that look like they were designed specifically for a bard? Hell that one Scouting Eden set looks like it could be a BRD AF, but aiming got some MCH thing again.

Where are the fruity bard sets for aiming?
When will there be an aiming set that remembers that dancers will also be wearing it?


I still have specific grievances about the neo-ishgard set... not only because of the gender issues (which are due to the player who designed it, not SE for once), but because SE didn't even follow the player's direction. The player designed it with a gun on the slacks - that's fine, we have 5million pairs of slacks and I wasnt going to keep another pair, especially if it had a gun on it. But SE didn't put the gun on the slacks (because that would make the slacks actually unique from the other 4.9million slacks - halone forbid), and instead they put the gun on the chestpiece. So now I can't even enjoy an otherwise fitting top on my DNC because it has a GUN on it.

I think the most DNC/BRD favored sets we've had lately are the Lunar Envoy and Rinascita, both are great. More like this please.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Yes, the job identity of "does it wear X weapon?" because even the restricted glamour system has no recognizable silhouettes or anything without even trying too hard.
But sure, can't give the caster roles anything but dresses. But the PvP full plate outfits are fine.
The restrictions are dumb and I swear they're mostly there because they can't divorce not being able to Need roll off-role items and being able to glamour the items.

Agreed… I mean they could still keep the roles for rolls! lol Just unlock the role restrictions on wearing of it. Or phase things out to “All Classes” after it’s no longer current content.

[Loonastra]

One thing that irritates me is they're still forcing us to use the machinist lunchbox and they did not do a graphic update to it i'm pretty sure...
You also cannot dye it if the weapon does not dye.