Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Cidel]

DNC AF and Relic? Prishe's outfit? Robes that are too long again?

I wonder if Prishe's outfit will be role locked or from a coffer like 2B's or a cash shop thing.

Eh, I think they're still going with NPC outfits. It just so happens that Lilisette was wearing the DNC AF1 save for the headpiece (which is why it is a feather instead of a rose).

As for robes that are too long, I'm more curious if the white robes only look long because that's how they decided to model it on the Lala? The caster set is Shantotto in her more iconic set, while the white healer version looks to be an alternative version she wore for one of their mini-expansions (I didn't play it), which is basically her wearing the player's Errant set. I'm assuming/hoping the caster and healer set have the same base model (as usual), because the Errant set in FFXI never went that much further beyond the hips. I would be disappointed if they decided to elongate the healer set here for no reason other then to slightly differentiate it from the caster set (which they have in the past) when the body piece it is inspired by is supposed to be shorter.

The male version was in the LL, but it was the Relic version with white and blue instead of red and black.

A part of me is a little worried though that that might have been the Scouting version perhaps... As they infrequently use the same model, just recolored like casters/healers. I'm hoping I'm wrong, otherwise I feel kinda bad for Ninjas and Vipers. The only other explanation is that they decided to model the Aiming set again on a male model to showcase the two dye channels turning it into the DNC AF2 Etoile set (which was basically just a recolor, as most AF2 were)..?

I also find it kind of humorous that this is where they decided not to create gendered differences for the Aiming set, when the male version of DNC AF in XI was probably one of the few pieces to have differences from the female. Their shirt being slightly open down from the neck in the front, rather than some sort of midriff like the females. And of course missing the skirt altogether.

I just wish instead of giving us role gear, they would have added the relic/mythic/empy gear for each class instead.

I'd prefer that too; having more iconic player-centric sets and favorites instead of NPC cosplays. But the problem with relic/mythic/empy gear as an alliance raid drop is that they would obviously be tailored to one job of a particular role, and the others sharing it sort of miss-out. Granted, that bandaid sort of has been ripped-off already, and there are a few examples already (just look at BRDs and MCHs having to wear DNC AF this tier, and the current tomestone tier healers obviously going with a WHM aesthetic).