Armoury Chest

[Mjollnir]

You can have 1 gear set for MRD and 1 gear set for WAR.
Only WAR would need the soul crystal, so you can place it directly into the WAR gear set.
It doesn't need to be placed on the armoury board if you're only using it in one gear set =)

Ah, I see where our understanding is diverging! I shouldn't think that the Armoury Board has a one column-per-job/class restriction.

[Fantasia]

Ah, I see where our understanding is diverging! I shouldn't think that the Armoury Board has a one column-per-job/class restriction.

I don't think so either =b

As far as I know Gear Sets exist as they did in P1/2, so we can equip whatever to each of those sets. The Armoury Board is only relevant when there's a piece of gear that you want to equip to more than one Gear Set.

You may see where our understandings clash, but I can't see it yet xD

[Mjollnir]

As far as I know Gear Sets exist as they did in P1/2, so we can equip whatever to each of those sets. The Armoury Board is only relevant when there's a piece of gear that you want to equip to more than one Gear Set.

You may see where our understandings clash, but I can't see it yet xD

Hehe. xD

It was stated in the 5th Live Letter that the Armoury Board replaces the Gear Sets altogether (which would only be in use in P1 & P2) in order to enable a single piece of equipment to be used "from a catalogue" (ie this Armoury Chest) in more than one set.

[Fantasia]

Hehe. xD

It was stated in the 5th Live Letter that the Armoury Board replaces the Gear Sets altogether (which would only be in use in P1 & P2) in order to enable a single piece of equipment to be used "from a catalogue" (ie this Armoury Chest) in more than one set.

I don't think it replaces them completely... that'd be the worst thing ever. We already see that each category is limited to 25 pieces, so if you have AF for every job (including the new DoH/L AF) there will be no room for all of them + classes =/

[Mjollnir]

I don't think it replaces them completely... that'd be the worst thing ever. We already see that each category is limited to 25 pieces, so if you have AF for every job (including the new DoH/L AF) there will be no room for all of them + classes =/

It does repalce them, it said so in Live Letter V. I don't think it's bad though, in fact, I think it's very good.... So there's still gotta be a misunderstanding somewhere... lol

How have you got more than 25 pieces of armour in a given slot (eg 25 body pieces)? If you had a different piece of armour for every single job and every class, that would be 27 (unless SCH, then 29). There are going to be a comparatively tiny few who will be able to make use of that, let alone need to do that - this is just so you can change on the fly.

If you're a player that is going to have all the DoL and DoH AF (11), plus have over 14 different pieces of each armour to spec for you DoM/DoW classes, then kudos to you I guess, but even those players wouldn't need to be able to Gear-Swap between all of that on a whim!

You can still carry gear in your inventory and store it on your retainer (and for 99999999 at the MW *cough*), so it's not prohibitive as to how much you can carry.

[Fantasia]

It does repalce them, it said so in Live Letter V. I don't think it's bad though, in fact, I think it's very good.... So there's still gotta be a misunderstanding somewhere... lol

How have you got more than 25 pieces of armour in a given slot (eg 25 body pieces)? If you had a different piece of armour for every single job and every class, that would be 27 (unless SCH, then 29). There are going to be a comparatively tiny few who will be able to make use of that, let alone need to do that - this is just so you can change on the fly.

If you're a player that is going to have all the DoL and DoH AF (11), plus have over 14 different pieces of each armour to spec for you DoM/DoW classes, then kudos to you I guess, but even those players wouldn't need to be able to Gear-Swap between all of that on a whim!

You can still carry gear in your inventory and store it on your retainer (and for 99999999 at the MW *cough*), so it's not prohibitive as to how much you can carry.

But then, how do we select the class/job we want to use? We just repeatedly have to select each piece of gear one bit at a time every single time? There must be something else that they haven't revealed yet, because the only way it would work without Gear Sets is... I don't even know.

Guess we'll just have to wait it out. Hopefully they'll make a video tutorial for it, like they plan on doing with materia.

[Mjollnir]

But then, how do we select the class/job we want to use? We just repeatedly have to select each piece of gear one bit at a time every single time? There must be something else that they haven't revealed yet, because the only way it would work without Gear Sets is... I don't even know.

Oh no! This is the Armoury Chest, merely for storing equippable gear. The Armoury Board is where the equivalent of gear sets will be administered from, using pieces stored in the Armoury Chest. Here's a link to a still from the Live Letter the Armoury Board was showcased in.

[Fantasia]

Oh no! This is the Armoury Chest, merely for storing equippable gear. The Armoury Board is where the equivalent of gear sets will be administered from, using pieces stored in the Armoury Chest. Here's a link to a still from the Live Letter the Armoury Board was showcased in.

I think the Board was renamed to Chest, and redesigned (according to what they said about it when they posted the image, but I may have misinterpreted). Also, I was reading through the new updates and found this:

A variety of elements can be set to the hotbar, including character actions, main command windows, macros, items, emotes, target markers, and eventually gearsets. If you were to select the cross hotbar position first, it would require a menu with a very large hierarchy. We've decided to go with the lighter and simpler option first.

So it looks like gear sets are still going to be used in conjunction with the Armoury Chest.

[Mjollnir]

I think the Board was renamed to Chest, and redesigned
...
So it looks like gear sets are still going to be used in conjunction with the Armoury Chest.

That makes sense. Are you still concerned that 25 options per slot isn't enough? Do you see that having the soul crystal slot is necessary?

ARE WE NOW ON THE SAME PAGE?

[ArkhamNative]

I think the Board was....

I guess this counts as "innocent" breaking of NDA?
Currently the line is very blurry, with SE posting images publicly and ... not making comments about them publicly.

*consults calendar* Oh, just 2 more weeks, thank the dozen. (...or maybe less, since everyone here should get invited into beta testing at least a few days before Phase 3 starts.)