The female DRG AF belly window needs to be closed

[Theresa]

I thought it was some kind of troll but... I agree with this.

[Snugglebutt]

PLD AF armor doesn't HAVE to be uniform and could instead look like this for women: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A8DauRTvih...mailBikini.jpg

However, there should be SOME accounting for good taste and practicality. A Chainmail undershirt could very likely prevent a mortal stabbing wound right to the trachea. I mean, unless you're saying women don't deserve to wear chainmail to protect an exploitable weak point in their armor. Then that's a different issue entirely.

You mean fictional armour on fictional characters in a video game that most of which is pure fantasy and cannot possibly exist in the real world? Practicality is almost as bad an excuse as trying to justify your dislike by using the "it's not realistic". More than half the women and not just men on female avatars I actually play with choose to glamour their items to look like short skirts, soft and squishy dresses, halter tops and belly showing armour and such by choice even when running dungeons because they think it looks 'cute' so your preference for what you deem fashionable, in good taste or ideal is not the benchmark of which everyone else must comply with.

If wanted practicality or realism then more than half the existing gear in the game would fail that standard including the very armour you do not like and not just because of the tiny gap around the belly either since even without that gap it would still not be practical or realistic. It's funny how dresses made of cotton and wool, leather and such is somehow immune to bursting into flames when hit by a fire spell or does not get cut to shreds when sliced and diced by enemy claws and blades, spikes and such on armours not slicing your throat open when turn your head or impaling yourself all the time when jump or run, sit down or dance, armour and weapons so heavy or big that 'practicality' and 'realism' goes flying out the window despite the fact that armour might cover your belly button or when bombs explode your legs do not fly off even though wearing light armour...

As said earlier the only thing that matters is you have the freedom to change it if do not like how it looks, you already have that freedom creating a male character for the male version, using the gender change potion if can't be bothered to level a male one...even wearing a different armour or glamour change the one you do not like to one you do. But sorry this 'realism' or 'practicality' nonsense can sod off and I have no patience for it being used as an excuse because it's nothing more than a load of hogwash regardless of how harsh I may sound about it.

[Seiryuukishi]

How about adding the hole to male's armor? Now everyone is equal.

All those Jumps... it chafes, it chafes...

[Kallera]

Please close the female DRG AF's belly window, SE. It's been ridiculous for long enough...

To be honest, I'm not really against the window (or for it, for that matter)..

So, basically you are doing an impression of Rokien then?

[Teirafon]

I agree with OP. I never liked the stomach showing, I wish there was a way to close it.

[FritoBandito]

Don't forget... DRG isn't meant to tank.

But there are going to be numerous occasions when DRG will be fighting things solo (quests, farming, etc) and will need proper protection.

[Edellis]

The hole being there makes sense when you consider what a DRG does, and when you look closely at the armor itself.

Zoom in on it, you will notice that the area surrounding the hole is ribbed, which is in turn connected to a chain 'shirt' before going up to the shoulder area. A Job that jumps a lot would need a lot of flexibility in the stomach region. In my opinion, the ribbed armor and the hole reflects that.
The leveling scale mail armors are similar in that they appear to be quite flexible. So it really isn't such a weird thing.

Uh...the armor being scaled kind of already takes care of the "flexible armor" problem.


Ultimately, there is just no logical way to justify bare skin in combat armor. Cotton cover would be better than bare skin. If she ran past a branch and it skimmed her belly, now she's bleeding.


Not that i have a huge problem with female dragoon armor, FFXIV does a very good job at managing practicality over style. But it always sounds silly when people try to justify extremes of the latter.

[Ghastly]

Better yet remove male and female characters. Add robots instead.

[HakuroDK]

Better yet remove male and female characters. Add robots instead.

>Topic about giving men and women the exact same gear options regardless of how practical or skimpy a piece of armor is.
>Suggesting turning everyone into unisex drones as if gender uniformity in gear removes any and all shreds of creativity from the game.



Double-standards in gear just don't make sense. There's a wealth of gear options out there, why make a special variant one gender or the other?

[TeaTimeBear]

No thank you. I love that part about the armor.