[Suggestion] Fashion/Vanity Slots.

[Luhy]

I hope some scenarios allow Party leaders or instances to turn off vanity slots. It would be weird to find a group with Content Finder and everyone is in a Santa costume. Who is playing what job? Kind of annoying.

PvP could be frustrating, too. "He was wearing a reindeer costume! How could I know that he was a BLM?"

[Rubyxiii]

I hope some scenarios allow Party leaders or instances to turn off vanity slots. It would be weird to find a group with Content Finder and everyone is in a Santa costume. Who is playing what job? Kind of annoying.

PvP could be frustrating, too. "He was wearing a reindeer costume! How could I know that he was a BLM?"

This was Yoshi's original stated reason to not have a vanity system in place. There are actual practical reasons why the vanity system will interfere with game play, while there are no practical reasons for having it. It's pretty short sighted of people to not realize this even if they are for the vanity system. The toggle option alleviates all issues involved.

[Velhart]

This was Yoshi's original stated reason to not have a vanity system in place. There are actual practical reasons why the vanity system will interfere with game play, while there are no practical reasons for having it. It's pretty short sighted of people to not realize this even if they are for the vanity system. The toggle option alleviates all issues involved.

This was actually annoying in WoW when I did PvP. There was a group of all gnomes who all wore santa gear and it was simply awful to tell who was what. They all use the same character model and details and all wore the same stuff.

I understand how the system can be abused, but with the right restrictions, it can be a fair system. Something as simple as "Only what your job can wear." and "No seasonal items" would already do wonders.

This is a system I want people to use to not look so mismatched if they don't want to. That is my intent at least. I have very nice looking Heavy Darklight Gauntlets, but my Felt Bracers with melded STR on it are obviously better, but look awful on my character. I would love it if I could use my Heavy Darklight Gloves looks on the Felt Bracers to make my character more pleasing to my eyes. This is how I want people to look at the system.

I have no doubt SE will set the right restrictions for the system. If not, we just do what we do best and complain about it till they make it right.

[KoujiGeki]

I hope some scenarios allow Party leaders or instances to turn off vanity slots. It would be weird to find a group with Content Finder and everyone is in a Santa costume. Who is playing what job? Kind of annoying.

PvP could be frustrating, too. "He was wearing a reindeer costume! How could I know that he was a BLM?"

..... seeing their staff on their back? Its display is off? well Im pretty sure if you see someone without their weapon out its safe to assume its a mage job.

[Shan]

Sorry my bad english,

This feature sounds interesting at first, but I AM STRONGLY OPPOSING THIS.

Look at wow,maybe for nostalgia or cosplay reason,
there are so many player go back to the old dungeons everyday
solo & one-shot those mobs,grab the dated high-end gear, then walking around,

Because it's too easy to do this,
people can switch their gear appearance to almost any kind in a few seconds.
that make the gear appearance worthless,
make the old high end & some story based gear like a joke, have no soul.

Now in WOW,the only difference left is the attribute numbers:
1.Grab the new gear for more attribute number,
2.Change to the appearance you like.
3.Grab the next new gear for few more attribute numbers,
4.Change the appearance again.
Thats REALLY BORING

WOW is full cosplay shit now, not like a RPG anymore,
no more dream for high end gears.
the gear designers are lazy & don't care how bad the new gear looking.
because they know if they don't do it right, player will just use the old designs.


The problem in FF14 current version is,the spiritbonded gear are overpowering.
the status point are much(2x-3x) higher than non meldable gear.

What I thought is:
SE may give player an option to upgrade their existing gear.
& it should be not a easy task ( like the AF weapon quests,).
You need to defeat some bosses, grab some ores or stones to upgrade your favorite gear.

With the upgrading, the gear appearance may change a little (add some gold wires, add some metal pieces over it, color changes etc,)

And it can be a side-grading: I can grab a fire stone, then revamp my lightning wand to a fire wand etc.

You want to use your favorite old sword or armor to against the strong monsters?
fine, you need pay some efforts to enhance them, then you may have a even better one.
& because the changes of appearance characteristic ,people will know you have accomplished something.
this make sense IMHO

[ShivenCasull]

WOW is full cosplay shit now, not like a RPG anymore,
no more dream for high end gears.
the gear designers are lazy & don't care how bad the new gear looking.
because they know if they don't do it right, player will just use the old designs.

That's a pretty bad assumtion - that the art team would purposefully degrade their own work.

It's also not true that this makes it "less RPG" as character development does not always = better gear.

[moriandrio]

That's a pretty bad assumtion - that the art team would purposefully degrade their own work.

It's also not true that this makes it "less RPG" as character development does not always = better gear.

A game that is not about getting better gear you can change "RPG" with "Fashion show" ^^

[ShivenCasull]

A game that is not about getting better gear you can change "RPG" with "Fashion show" ^^

There is a lot more to an RPG than chasing better gear. :|

[Shougun]

There is a lot more to an RPG than chasing better gear. :|

Lies. This is an mmorpg :P

[Zantetsuken]

WOW is full cosplay shit now, not like a RPG anymore,
no more dream for high end gears.
the gear designers are lazy & don't care how bad the new gear looking.
because they know if they don't do it right, player will just use the old designs

That's a pretty bad assumtion - that the art team would purposefully degrade their own work..

Wait, WoW has an art team??

About time...When do they start?