Crystal Tower Preview (lodestone post)

[Madsamurai]

What.. all that wait for 2.1 and there's still armor re-skins? Pfffttt..

[Sinth]

What.. all that wait for 2.1 and there's still armor re-skins? Pfffttt..

Every piece of armor is a skin. What is this "re-skin" nonsense? If you mean duplicate, as in DRG AF and DRG Myth gear (one purple one blue), then I don't see any here.

[Tupsi]

Every piece of armor is a skin. What is this "re-skin" nonsense? If you mean duplicate, as in DRG AF and DRG Myth gear (one purple one blue), then I don't see any here.

Reskin is the term used for reallocating assets for higher use, i.e The Mage CT gear looks very similar to the Battle mages (level 32 set) which means it's a level 50 reskin of the level 32 set. DRG AF body and DRG Myth body are similar yes, because it's the same armor set basically and follows the style of how they did it in FFXI (AF/Relic/Empyrean) and keeping the same design so you know it's a Dragoon, but here what some mean by reskin is instead of something different, it's very similar to Battle Mages, just different coloring and a slight shift in patterns. Even the Healer one looks similar to Allagan Tunic.

Battlemages looks good, but some people in the MMO world hates seeing reskins lol.

That's not the Onion Knight gear I was expecting. Looks really disappointing compared to what this concept art showed.

Because it's not Onion gear, it's Warrior of Light gear.

[Addicted]

Because it's not Onion gear, it's Warrior of Light gear.

What. Maybe you should look at the Roegadyn again. Tank classes aren't the only one in this game.

[MageBlack]

Because it's not Onion gear, it's Warrior of Light gear.

Actually it is onion knight gear in that pic. Look at the hat. Its the "Onion Helm" from 1.0 CE.



And the armor looks almost exactly like the concept art. Regardless, its the "Concept" art and may be subject to changes.

I still dont see any dragoon armor in that pic...

[saber_alter]

I still dont see any dragoon armor in that pic...

the roe is a dragoon, suprisingly.

you also see a roe using invigorate with that armor in the eorzea collection 2013 vid.

[Nayto]

Battlemages looks good, but some people in the MMO world hates seeing reskins lol.

Yet building an MMO heavily requires the use of modularity... ironic.

[Kyomih]

Reskin is the term used for reallocating assets for higher use, i.e The Mage CT gear looks very similar to the Battle mages (level 32 set) which means it's a level 50 reskin of the level 32 set.

Actually, reskin in armor context means using the same 3D model of an armor and use a different texture. Non of the CT armors are reskins because all the models are unique.
It's not the same as Battlemage like some claim. Different model (collar, chest, sleeves etc).

[Madsamurai]

Every piece of armor is a skin. What is this "re-skin" nonsense? If you mean duplicate, as in DRG AF and DRG Myth gear (one purple one blue), then I don't see any here.

Then i'll rephrase it as "Re-color". Basically taking an existing model and doing a different color variation on it. And to have it on new content that was supposed to be part of 2.0 but had to be retweaked and then delayed for a month is just quite disappointing. If the mage hat and the monk eyepatch in that picture is just a placeholder then i'll hold my shots.

[Remus]

Really not impressed with that dragoon gear was expecting much better...