Trans..mogrifi..ca..shun?? or The Art Of Wearing Clothes You Like With Stats You Like

[Neptune]

Amongst the bleak landscape of MMORPGs with churning mill style gear progression wherein treasured items Soon Become Obsolete there is at least one game that has solved this problem, even though it took them 7 years to come up with the solution. For from time to time an individual may form an attachment to certain pieces of what we can refer to as Art Assets!

For example consider this:



It looks so cool and yet it is so not cool to wear it In Times of Need.

So how about a player can visit a certain NPC and apply the stats of an Equivalent Piece of Gear to the appearance of a Beloved Piece of Obtained Gear? And thus preserve the hard work of Final Fantasy XIV's talented artists across many generations of Final Fantasy XIV content whilst assuring much excitement amongst the playerbase as they ruminate their cosmetic ..cosmos!

Imagine That.

EDIT: You know, I was just thinking about the reason Yoshi-P doesn't like vanity slots. They want to keep the job identity. Well this actually solves that. Look how lame my dragoon looks "now":



I much prefer the appearance of the AF. Under this system, I could simply "transfer" the appearance of the AF to the gear in the picture, and fully represent my job identity. Problem solved.

[NefarioCall]

I fully agree with and support this idea.
It's necessary.

[Jynx]

.dat mods people.... .dat mods.

[Duelle]

I'll support this thread, much like I support Buttons' vanity slots thread. Either or, I want control over how I look.

[Rokien]

I don't support this, how is a cloth armor going to have the same defense as plated armor. Sorry but no. Also there is materia, just stick the materia on it.

Wait, you can do every fight naked, why do you care about stats? Just wear what you want right now anyways.

[Ricky]

I do like it, on BLM I am wearing what looks like a woman's blouse right now, as a Roegadyn that's pretty bad... but I also think it's difficult because the art team puts a lot of effort into creating new item looks for us and as we've seen from games like WoW people will find a look they enjoy and then never change it. Personally, I would like to see it happen but I wouldn't be upset if it never did for the sake of the art team

[NefarioCall]

I don't support this, how is a cloth armor going to have the same defense as plated armor. Sorry but no. Also there is materia, just stick the materia on it.

Wait, you can do every fight naked, why do you care about stats? Just wear what you want right now anyways.

Yeah ... true ... but i don't like a system where say for paladin, there's just one or two decent pieces and the majority of paladins you ever run into will be wearing it. Materia melding helps offset this a little, but not entirely. I don't want to see a paladin taking the most epic boss in a blouse either. ... but the current gear options in battle are a little more limited than they should be.

[Raldo]

I'd rather just have vanity slots. I don't want to permanently (or even temporarily) change a piece of gear. Vanity slots just seems easier.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I'll have to say, I used to really be against this because it was a "WoW" idea, but it's really grown on me since then.
I really hope they add this.


Edit: I now know WoW didn't come up with it. You can stop replying to this saying which MMO's did what.

[Neptune]

I don't support this, how is a cloth armor going to have the same defense as plated armor. Sorry but no. Also there is materia, just stick the materia on it.

Wait, you can do every fight naked, why do you care about stats? Just wear what you want right now anyways.

Um no bad Rokien! No you can't do every fight naked. Maybe Ifrit Hard but that's about it. Gear matters a lot now. Also level and class restrictions would still apply so you wouldn't be able to put plated armor on cloth if it was restricted to class. And also, eff you because who cares if I'm wearing cloth armor with "plated armor" defense? What is this anyways? Rokien's Island Retreat of Angry Old Men?

Also to the dev team's recent argument: let's try making AF not suck before thinking you want "jobs to be identified with it". I'd like my job to be identified with my balls if I want. If my party can't tell the difference between a tank and healer with TA01 displayed on the screen God Help Us All.

I'd rather just have vanity slots. I don't want to permanently (or even temporarily) change a piece of gear. Vanity slots just seems easier.

This is a lot more work than what I'm suggesting. You know how this dev team is, I would suggest the path of least resistance and then if you want vanity slots later.