Gender Locked Items (Lightning Edition)

[Shioban]

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...361.1404374524

The Calamity Salvager NPC has been changed as follows:

Gear introduced during the Hatching Tide seasonal event is now available for purchase.
Gender-specific gear introduced during seasonal and collaboration events can now be exchanged for gear of the opposite gender.




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UPDATE:

(From another thread but relevant to this one, hopefully the lightning set is also included)

Good news!

I just wanted to let you know that the team is planning to implement an NPC in patch 2.3 that will allow you to swap gender-specific gear!

UPDATE:

Community Rep said this will only be added if the community shows its support/recognition that they would like an event gear exchange added. [IE Tread comments, views and likes]


A similar problem I had in the past;

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...cked-Gender%21

Where I swapped from a female > male character, meaning I couldn't access my seasonal items, so I ended up swapping back (for other reasons).

Now that Phials of Fantasia are being offered in the near future again, i'll (like some others i'm sure) will be making a return to a male charachter.
(Others may be swapping male > female | female male, the same issue occurs)

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-Mogstation

The team is still discussing the details around this, but in the future we definitely want to offer more phials of Fantasia as well as something that allows players to change their name.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who has considered this, where-in we can only obtain ONE set of gear for the Lightning Returns Event, which means missing out on picking up the male gender-gear set (or vice-versa).

With a game offering multiple chances for your gender to change, I feel this is a grave over-sight and although these items are cosmetic they're a 'one-off' thing. Once the quest is completed and Phials of Fatasia are finally offered in the future, my inventory (along with many others) will suffer a -4 block of useless icons with these gender locked items.

The summer event easily offered both genders, why can't this one?

(Perhaps when it returns in February, the gear can be offered via the vendor towards the end of the event?)

[Items for consideration]

Yukata's [Lady / Lord Set]
Swimwear [Event+Veterans Reward]
Lightning Event [Guardian / Bohemian Set]

[If i'm missing any please do comment and let me know!]


TL;DR

Please consider offering both gender sets of items for the Lightning Returns event (as well as previous Seasonal Events), or at least some form of exchange system where-in, so that if a phial of Fantasia is used we're not missing out on the other gear set.


Old Update from a previous thread;

Greetings,

This year's Moonfire Faire is right around the corner, and during the event, we will be making it possible to obtain all of the swimwear from version 1.0. Likewise, next year, there is a good chance that we do the very same thing with the yukatas.

While we don't have any plans for it currently, if there are enough demands for it, the development team can look into setting up an NPC that would allow you to exchange your items if you've switched your character's gender when remaking your character.

5th April 2014 :: Additional Edit ::

With the addition of the Calamity Salvager's "Item Reattainment", currently 1.23 items are missing, but even more strangely the Lighting Returns Event gear is missing, yet all the other 1.23 events seemingly remain.

So the possibility of the addition for the Lighting Returns Gear-set(s) and weapons becoming increasing more reasonable, I'd like to also point out that gender-locked gear isn't an issue any-more as both gender sets are now available via the salvager (see below for proof)

[Vactus]

Do it again February like other people that complain about these things.

[EmSix]

Do it again February like other people that complain about these things.

So every time an event comes out your suggestion is to use a Fantasia? Man SE is going to make a ton if they sell it on the Mogstation.

[Shioban]

Do it again February like other people that complain about these things.

The quest CAN'T be re-done, hence the reason i've made an entire thread about it.

The event will be repeating in Feburary, the quest won't (if you're already done it).

Seeing as the quest is the only way to obtain the gear, of course i'm butt hurt about it.

[Reiterpallasch]

I've never understood the purpose behind gender locked items anyways. Unique* ideas aren't always good, and this is a good example of a bad one. It's just an extra set of items that need to be added to the game. It's not even like the stats are any different.

*They had this in FFXI, and it kind of made sense a little bit with the RSE quests, but even in that case it would have been easier to just have a single item.

[Alhanelem]

But I've seen nothing that suggest the quest will be repeated, just the FATE's.

They specifically stated the event would be repeated. The ps4 version will be in beta by then and the ps4 players deserve a chance to get the gear.

If the quest would be re-triggered then surely people would end up with two sets of gear (the same problem with the AF quests).

The AF quests and gear don't differ by gender. The male and female Lightning gear are all seperate items with different names. It checks your character's gender when you take the quest, otherwise it wouldn't know what to show as the reward.

I understand you being cynical, but i'm not talking out my behind here.

[EmSix]

They specifically stated the event would be repeated. The ps4 version will be in beta by then and the ps4 players deserve a chance to get the gear.

The event will be repeated, but unless they make the quests repeatable or make a second version the quests will still be flagged as completed on your character and thus preventing a player from getting a second set of gear.

[aray0002]

As the event went live.. the dropped items from Lightning Fates are called Unworldly Parcel x 2 per FATE. One is for the weapon and one if for the clothing which opens up every 2 days real time. So.. basically there is no limit on how many ( Unworldly Parcels ) you can collect. If and when you change your toon Male/Female using the Fantasia ... you still will have available the Parcels in your inventory...
The NPC in Feb. will offer the same items and since you triggered the quest already.. there should be no reason you cant trade for the other gender stuff in FEB. But by doing this you render the previous gender gear as 5 spots in inventory you can never use. So basically.. your complaint goes back to why cant you just Gender Swap (at will) like changing a job class.

[Shioban]

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No, my problem is we don't know /when/ Fantasia's are being offered, it could be June 2014 before we see them being offered again, so I naturally obtained the gear from the quest, so that theory goes out the window.

The gear can ONLY be obtained via the quest, once the quest is completed it can't be repeated.

[TawdryClay]

To be honest, I would like gear to be gender neutral in a sense. Sometimes a girl just wants to rock out in some sexy man pants, not a freaking ugly skirt. Let me CHOOSE the male variant and also be allowed to equip it on my female character, same goes for my male characters, sometimes I would like to show more midriff.

But back to topic, if they made the gear like most other gear, as in changes when male or female equips(but also had a right click "equip male or female" option) then both our issues would be solved