Appearance Tab Please

[LemmingKingXXX]

I'll support any "Wardrobe-esq" functionality in so far that the changes only affect your vision of your own character and no one else's. There is no reason to force a feature like this on people who don't want it, so don't.

[HiPotion]

No... i liked when i see someone and know whats his Job and Level back in XI..
in XIV i'd only recognize if he's DoW or DoM or DoH, but nothing specific :|

so i wouldnt like to see someone wearing Hauby with a Mage Stats :/

[Rhomagus]

No... i liked when i see someone and know whats his Job and Level back in XI..
in XIV i'd only recognize if he's DoW or DoM or DoH, but nothing specific :|

so i wouldnt like to see someone wearing Hauby with a Mage Stats :/

Just like you could tell if someone was wearing a Whalalarararar Turban.....

Your idea, while a good one, is not the same as mine. You appear to suggest having an on/off toggle for the player that is displaying their cosmetic gear.

I, on the other hand, am suggesting an on/off toggle for the player that is viewing. For example, if I were to set my toggle to "off", I would not have to view anyone else's cosmetic gear, and would instead view their actual gear. That way those of us that tire of the "joke gear" don't have to be visually assaulted by it constantly.

I support the OP's idea mixed with this one. Let people be who they want to be. Let people see the game as it was designed.

[Yazoo]

No, I don't agree with OP.
And I don't like games with Appereance tab, where you can't understand who is infront of you.
But I think, if we could choose amoung huge amount of gear. Just need more options, more hats/helms, more gloves etc. I guess mostly everyone would be happy.

[Haledos]

I don't think an appearance tab is right for a game like this where equipment means more than just a flashy, shiny sword or gigantic pauldrons that shoot beams of light into the sky.

As with FF11, FF14 has a very particular style where I can honestly say there's not a single garish or ugly piece of equipment which really isn't the case with a majority of other MMOs. I really don't think there's any need for an appearance tab. It ruins the glory of showing off the equipment you've worked so hard for if you can just slap on any old equipment you've picked up before. It's optional, but it still sets a precedent where people *can* put anything on.

[Konachibi]

I don't think an appearance tab is right for a game like this where equipment means more than just a flashy, shiny sword or gigantic pauldrons that shoot beams of light into the sky.

Spotlight pauldrons, you heard it here first folks

[Natabant]

I like the idea of both the appearance tab and the dye'n npc, but I don't really see them adding the appearance tab. The dye'n npc is alot more likely though (much later down the road of course), they could just make it where you trade the armor piece/pieces along with the color dye you want to use, that way it would'nt make alot of items already in the game worthless and let crafters still be able to craft dye's.

[Kailok]

I'd like SOMETHING like this, but not exactly.

What I would like is something like what Guildwars 2 or Aion has, where:

You are wearing Piece A, you LOVE the style of this piece, but you get a new, better stat piece of gear (Piece B) for your class which looks horrid.
Through the arts of magic (typically requiring an item) you are able to take the stats from Piece B and can mix them with the style of piece A.

Now, before people start saying: "You're thinking of the Materia system", I'll say they're quite different.

The new materia system is allowing us to take old pieces of gear and mix them with the NEW piece, not allowing us to adapt the style but only the stats from the previous gear.

This system would allow us to conserve the style we like while being able to use the gear we need. It would also help the economy because it would be yet another item for Crafters to make and sell.

Essentially, it is what the OP is saying, however I feel like the OP's idea would make it so that you would end up seeing Mages wearing Heavy armor (like they can now), which would kind of ruin it for me.

[AlphaDragoon]

I'd LOVE the option to have "appearance" gear or gear remodeling, especially if we could custom color every aspect of it.

[Eruantien]

I agree, when I saw Yoshi Post that, I thought everyone will almost always go with the stats option. But with this option you get both, and there can be a broad range of looks across the world. Making new gear with better stats every 3 months, artificially makes a range of looks, but it wont be what alot of people would wear if something like this was implemented.