Less robes, please

[TheRogueX]

.... Then they could take the all those lovely polys and shove them back into our butt cheeks! Less clipping, people get their butts back, everyone's happy!

*sigh* It has nothing to do with polygons.

Given that we don't have the ability to wear heavy armor on casters (like they did in 1.0 pre-jobs and like many NPCs can do - I don't know what the problem was with having gear be wearable by anybody but have a 'preferred' class/job/level or why they decided they needed to remove that option, as it was awesome), I'm OK with the robes. I'd just like some more variety, perhaps in length and style.

[Anapingofness]

*sigh* It has nothing to do with polygons.

=| That last part was a joke my friend...

[FallenArisen0990]

I'm all for glamour but not if I gotta go to the ends of the earth just to get.

[KisaiTenshi]

I am pretty tired of many of these frilly robes that many mages must have to wear throughout the game.

I kinda agree. The "traditional" RPG is "cloth for casters" because of practicality reasons (or too much adherance to D&D/Tolkien), Leather/light armor for Damage dealers, that have to move a lot (eg Pugilist, Ranger, Thief, or other dexterity-class), and heavy armor for Tank types. This is all fine in the realm of Pen and Paper, and early games that couldn't have more than one wardrobe change, but with todays 3D games that can actually render cloth flowing, you'd think there would be a more practical reason why all caster gear remains Cleric(full head coverings)/Sorcerer(pointy hats/tiara) cloth styles.

At least the styling aren't being taken from FFX's obsession with belts. Things got a little too silly beyond practical.

*sigh* It has nothing to do with polygons.

Given that we don't have the ability to wear heavy armor on casters (like they did in 1.0 pre-jobs and like many NPCs can do - I don't know what the problem was with having gear be wearable by anybody but have a 'preferred' class/job/level or why they decided they needed to remove that option, as it was awesome), I'm OK with the robes. I'd just like some more variety, perhaps in length and style.

Probably had more to do with the generic animations used by V1.0 for everything. V1.0 's models were a bit more different than V2.0's

[TheRogueX]

seems like I'll have to retire my white mage permanently.

They need to not show these gear sets on just ONE race, but if they must, they need to show it on something NOT a lala.

The "traditional" RPG is "cloth for casters"

These D&D Clerics have some words to say about that:

=| That last part was a joke my friend...

My apologies then!

[Ultimatecalibur]

Going over my copy of the art book and looking up the bodies available to casters in the various databases. It seems that the problem is less with robes than it is with "long bodies." Only 16 (7 healer and 9 caster) of the 60+ post-50 body models available do not have a major extension coming off of them that goes below the waist.

These D&D Clerics have some words to say about that:

:Snip:

D&D Clerics are also off-tanks/mid to frontliners. As they can wear all armor or most of the heavier stuff depending on the edition. FFXIV's healers are on the mage end of the class spectrum.

[Fland]

Going over my copy of the art book and looking up the bodies available to casters in the various databases. It seems that the problem is less with robes than it is with "long bodies." Only 16 (7 healer and 9 caster) of the 60+ post-50 body models available do not have a major extension coming off of them that goes below the waist.

I'd also like more half-robe/doublet variation type of body gear for healer and caster.
I want to be able to see the pants and feet gears of my character.

[Chiramu]

People have forgotten about the Soldiery set for BLM and SMNs already?

Anyway the designers need to think of how the caster set will look on both sexes. You cannot say you want a pretty dress and expect them to put it in, male characters have to have a version of it as well.

[Felis]

People have forgotten about the Soldiery set for BLM and SMNs already?

Anyway the designers need to think of how the caster set will look on both sexes. You cannot say you want a pretty dress and expect them to put it in, male characters have to have a version of it as well.

it can work like the underwears from 1.0
On a male the pretty dress can change itself automatic into a pretty suit.
They could also not only give each gender a own version, but also every race

[Chiramu]

it can work like the underwears from 1.0
On a male the pretty dress can change itself automatic into a pretty suit.
They could also not only give each gender a own version, but also every race

A suit doesn't equal a dress in magnificence, so on males the feeling of the set could be greatly lost.