Starting Clothes Available for All Races

[thepalehunter]

I'd love to glamor my gear with the starting clothes for races not my own - some are really cool and go totally unused. Please make all starting clothes available for all races and I promise the game won't become unbalanced. Ty!!!

[ispano]

Those are racial clothes, so unlikely.

[thepalehunter]

Those are racial clothes, so unlikely.

If they aren't called racial clothes then they aren't. Simple.

[Shioban]

If they aren't called racial clothes then they aren't. Simple.

Whilst they're not specifically called RSE, they are. Their entire design is a reflection of that particular race/gender.


That's Race Specific Eqipment, similar to FFXI;
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Ra...ific_Equipment

It was designed as a way to give new adventuers in ARR a distinct look from everyone else their particular race, rather than giving them starting out Hepmen Gear Sets (like 1.0 did).

Instead of having 20 people running around with the same Hempen body piece, there's a chance for variation.



The reason they won't adjust this, is that it would require going back to the source material and making huge adjustments per individual race which is a heavy time consuming process with a 5 races each with two genders, that's a total of 10 different armour sets to adjust across 8 variations, that's an insane amount of work for something originally designed to be race specific.


FFXIV ARR although the game is split into various "team" working on different content, eg.

Patch 2.3 Team
Hotfixes/Bugs Team
2.4 Team
Expansion Team (etc)

To do something like this would take away from the current 3-month development cycle, which is still a very very short time to get anything done already.

So race specific gear is off the table for vanity because "It's only for certain races!" Yet crafter specific gear is fair game despite similar reasons?

Once the graphics have been finalised for something, they move onto the next "thing to be done", they're not particularly fond of going back and adjusting it.

[ispano]

If they aren't called racial clothes then they aren't. Simple.

Considering when they were introduced by SE, they were indeed called Racial clothes. So, yeah, they are.

[thepalehunter]

You seem to be an ESL student so I'll rephrase that - the only reason they're 'racial clothes' is because they've been so named. If they were called 'starting gear' then they would be starting gear. I get they were designed around races - that's why it would be fun to mix it up. Or don't you like variety?

[ispano]

You seem to be an ESL student so I'll rephrase that - the only reason they're 'racial clothes' is because they've been so named. If they were called 'starting gear' then they would be starting gear. I get they were designed around races - that's why it would be fun to mix it up. Or don't you like variety?

More like EFL, and better than most, thanks. And no, they're racial clothes because people ASKED for racial specific starting gear before ARR even went into alpha.

[monochromicorn]

they already have that, im certain... could have sworn i was looking at roe clothes for my newly phantasia'd beauty of a femroe

edit: after re-reading the OP, i dont think that will happen for cross-race clothing.

[PureEclipse]

I dunno maybe add some more racial clothing in? Since glamour is fully in game now, a lot of people are taking advantage of it including myself, more race specific clothing would be cool to see, or maybe some kind of armor system like what first eq had for each race, make it a level 50 race specific set that is available to any job and be some kinda really cool quest to get..... or I could stop suggesting something neat....