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)