Request: Racial Gear Expanded (Dyeing, Interchangable)

[SeleneVenizelos]

The starter gear is among what little visible amount of racial culture there even is in the game at this point.

The problem is, there is no racial culture at all anyway. There's zero mention anywhere in 2.0 about the different races, their backgrounds, their cultures. This is something that largely is down to the races at 1.0's launch catering to the large XI playerbase they were expecting to migrate, making their transition into Eorzea a more familiar experience. Do you really think the equipment races can or can't wear in anyway makes up for this lack of lore? Do you think it even contributes slightly? It doesn't for me. It's been a frustration since launch that there isn't any immersion anywhere into the races and their backgrounds and a piece of clothing hardly fills this void.

Or just keep begging until the devs cave since they don't seem to care much about lore anyway, like most others.

You say that I don't care about lore, but I don't really understand where this is coming from. There is zero lore about the way races dress or why other races don't follow their fashion trends. How can you break what isn't there? I'm normally a champion of the "It's lore breaking!" justification for dismissing suggestions but its use here is completely irrelevant. There is no existing lore to be broken.

The only reason I'd suggest race specific gear not being exclusive to its original race is because the whole concept is outdated with the advent of the glamour system. It was originally designed to stop every new player looking identical - but we don't anyway thanks to glamour. Mission complete, handshakes all round. Time to let it go and raise the exclusivity, in my opinion, or at least release some remotely similar gear for other races to glamour in.

Let people be wannabe posers I guess.

I did my best to ignore the needlessly belligerent tone in your replies, but this is just too much. You're using pink Gallant armour, so I think it's safe to call you a hypocrite here?

[Dannythm]

+1 I agree completely.

[Gilthas]

I wouldn't be surprised if they some day allow us to dye our racial gear.

The problem is that it'll probably require soldiery mats and 4 star synths...

[BreathlessTao]

Dying - yes.
Making them interracial... I'm not so sure about that. I mean they're racial for a reason, no? Even if there's zero actual lore about the different races/cultures in the game.
But while we're at racial gear changes - please also make them unisex. Yes, it requires some work, but well, we are paying for it, aren't we? Most of them is already pretty much wearable by both sexes (judging by looks and design) anyway.

[raelee]

A thousand times yes. I would love to be able to dye this gear, because then I could glamour and wear it with outfits that I want @_@ I hate creating a glamour around a certain color over a color that I like because the pieces are cute ;-;

[Gaelu]

omg, yes pls!
i would rock that pink skirt so hard!

[Taaku]

I would love to be able to dye the outfits.

each race does have its own lore...(some of it you can read in-game when you make a race.)
there's even some set of subquests involving the duskwight elzen the underground ruins that they used to live in to avoid the elementals wrath ages ago in the black shroud.

most races don't originate in Eorzea, however which is probably why there isint a whole lot of talk about racial things.

Even so i wouldn't have much of a problem allowing others to wear it.

knowing SE it would be crafted vanity though~ (which i wouldn't mind either. but i know some people would lol)

[Skivvy]

I'd love to be able dye starter clothes, as well as wear the styles from other races (hello Hyur boots and Elezen top!), but I will totally settle for just being able to dye what we have.

[Jeykama]

The problem is, there is no racial culture at all anyway. There's zero mention anywhere in 2.0 about the different races, their backgrounds, their cultures. This is something that largely is down to the races at 1.0's launch catering to the large XI playerbase they were expecting to migrate, making their transition into Eorzea a more familiar experience.

Hm, last I checked there was a pretty good bit about the Sunseeker Miqote culture between the U Tribe arc of the MSQ and the Amaljaa quests, a bit about the red Roegadyn (sorry, I forget the subset name) in the Warrior questline, a bit about Moonkeeper Miqote in the Archer questline, Highlander Hyur story is mostly about Ala Mihgo/Monk story, Uldah is all desert Lalafell back to ancient history... I'm sure there's more but that's all 2.0.

Dyeable RSE though? More options are always good b'-')b Maybe as an RSE2 quest or something like FFXI. I dunno about interchangeable though, nothing wrong with keeping them one of the few race-specific/dimorphic gearsets in the game.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I would love to use other race's outfits. Even thought the dev team will probably never make it happen from a design perspective, I support the idea. I would love to use these lovely miqo'te boots ;_;