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

[Neptune]

I think this discussion has gotten a little off track actually, and I am partially to blame. As for job identity, well my suggestion is that we can pick a piece of gear within our job that we want to use for appearance. I don't wish for anything more than that.

[Rjain]

The vanity slots concept is a much easier solution.

[Zurya]

You have my support too.

[Hycinthus]

Also, I feel that calling it fashion slot or vanity slot are not helping this idea to gain track anyway. Because people are then saying "This is a MMORPG not a fashion show" or "this is not Barbie online".

We should start calling it Appearance tab, or appearance slot, or something, post your ideas. Fashion/vanity just carries negative connotation to it, and it carries a narcissistic flavor.

[Velhart]

The problem I have is, Yoshida focuses real hard on making this a true Final Fantasy MMO, and vanity slots only helps push this. Everyone has that dream look of their character and like to show off their uniqueness. This is something I thought Yoshida supported. Bartz could use a sword and shield with his normal clothing, why can't we?

If you are scared it creates less incentive to collect new gear. It is understandable, but people still keep going after the new gear in RIFT and WoW, I have a feeling the same will apply here.

[Onisake]

I think vanity slots are a better solution, and more feasible.

Vanity slots can also have restrictions so we don't have mages running around in full plate and paladins in skimpy robes.

[Syris]

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.

That's not how the transmog system works. I'm pretty damn sure that if you have a plate chest piece that you can only choose a plate chest appearance. So basically a cloth wearer cant choose plate just because they like the way it looks. Same goes for weapons I believe.

As for doing every fight naked... no comment.

In all honesty I really don't care for this kind of system. Perhaps more freedom with customizing our armor's colour (similar to GW2's dye system) would be a good start.

[Duelle]

That's not how the transmog system works. I'm pretty damn sure that if you have a plate chest piece that you can only choose a plate chest appearance. So basically a cloth wearer cant choose plate just because they like the way it looks. Same goes for weapons I believe.

That's right. Weapons are the big point right now because some people have asked for two-handed weapons be flagged withing the same category for transmog. That way if a current tier best weapon is a two-handed hammer but the player likes two-handed swords, they can transmog the two-handed hammer to a two-handed sword rather than endure a weapon type they dislike.

Of course, this issue is moot in XIV because our classes are locked into their respective weapon classes. Thus we wouldn't need to bend the rules already set when it comes to weapons.

That being said, what XIV currently lacks is the armor categories that games like WoW have that makes it easy to implement transmog. Gear in XIV is not labeled as plate/leather/cloth. That might be the only really big change needed to make it possible in this game.

[elreed]

Wouldnt be better making gear last longer and harder to get (no low drop rate, just hard Boss impossible to gauge fight), that imo made FF XI a good game you always could look forward getting something for months and after getting that it would be still very useful for a long time.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Trans..no..effing.thanks!