Would you want the hardest raids to drop vanity gear instead of useable gear?

[Kiote]

Imagine that instead of having elite gear drop from the hardest raids that only hardcore players can manage, rare vanity gear drops instead.

Casual players and semi-hardcore players will still get a chance at all the end game gear and content that way, but SE can create really difficult raids for the hardcore players that give them vanity gear.

And by vanity gear i mean gear that you wear over whatever armor you have. Some high-demand examples may be:

• angel wings
• cute moogle wings
• dresses
• tuxedos
• demon armor
• magitek armor
• Garlean judge armor
• Goblin costume
• Ixali costume
• etc

They could either do it so you equip the gear and it is diplayed instead of your main gear, or create scrolls that let you enchant any item in the game to make it look like the corresponding scroll's gear. So you could you're favourite tri-materia'd haubergeon but make it look like garlean judge armor.

Could also add in little special things like if you wear and ixali costume they won't agro you. Or if you wear a Garlean judge armor random Garlean npc's will kneel when you walk past.

This would create a seriously strong incentive to do the challenging endgame content, while allowing all players to take part in the "game play."

What have you done....

I will hold you personally responsible if any of this crap becomes a permanent fixture in this game...

[Ava]

People are probably going to hate the idea but I actually wouldn't mind these items in a cash shop, or if people absolutely insist, maybe via quests or achievements. I would not want vanity items as a part of content. I love vanity items to death, in WoW i had an entire mule of different outfits. But don't make them a drop from bosses unless it's done extremely sparingly, and perhaps a part of events.

[Chardrizard]

Technically there is already a lot of vanity gear (Templar's Helmet, for example). Tons of stuff has always been worthless and only worn for the visual appeal.

There's a lot they can do with vanity items, but I just hope it doesnt become tacky..

I believe this is what materia system wish to achieve, you are free to enhance vanity gear/pretty looking gear that you like aesthetically, bring them up to level where it match the gear from raid/NM crafted so you can wear'em without people calling you gimp.

[Anty]

i hope this won't happen....

[Anty]

People are probably going to hate the idea but I actually wouldn't mind these items in a cash shop, or if people absolutely insist, maybe via quests or achievements. I would not want vanity items as a part of content. I love vanity items to death, in WoW i had an entire mule of different outfits. But don't make them a drop from bosses unless it's done extremely sparingly, and perhaps a part of events.

i think the shop is a good idea. If anyone wants it, they can pay for it and will. Would be a nice way of increasing the revenue anyways.

[weeble]

i hate the idea of a shop for it, specially since they probably make it wantable by all to make money. like the mounts in wow. if it's just straight costume dlc i will cringe but not mind but really ....this is a pve game we pay monthly, we pay for a box set, we pay for expansions, it should be enough. but ...i did pay for the 3 mini expansions in ffxi so i guess i can't say i wouldn't pay for it, probably why i don't like the idea the most lol. but at least with mini expansions u get a full quest line and a few bosses with a story, with a nice item at the end ...little bit of everything in it for 10bucks.

[Konachibi]

People are probably going to hate the idea but I actually wouldn't mind these items in a cash shop, or if people absolutely insist, maybe via quests or achievements. I would not want vanity items as a part of content. I love vanity items to death, in WoW i had an entire mule of different outfits. But don't make them a drop from bosses unless it's done extremely sparingly, and perhaps a part of events.

This is a good idea and has worked on lots of MMO's, have vanity gear but have it sell on a market instead of being obtainable as part of the in-game content.

Also, no one ever said the wings were gonna be 'real', they could be decorative strap-on wings or some kind of comedy thing. I'd love a little pair of moogle wings to go with a little black dress and some uber beefy high-hells, maybe even some long sleeve gloves too so i could look pawsh 8-D

[Snuf]

If anything at least this idea would somewhat combat the power creep, if they keep adding new dungeons and raids with better statted gear every time older content is just gonna become pointless, though with older content being reduced in difficulty over time so more people can do it I guess this point is moot anyway...

I'm all for a few vanity items, but people are never gonna want to raid for them unless they're die-hard rpers who want to PvE too. On the other hand if the odd boss in the dungeon/raid dropped a bit of vanity gear occasionally with his regular loot, I'm all for that.

[BloodPact]

i hate the idea of a shop for it, specially since they probably make it wantable by all to make money. like the mounts in wow. if it's just straight costume dlc i will cringe but not mind but really ....this is a pve game we pay monthly, we pay for a box set, we pay for expansions, it should be enough. but ...i did pay for the 3 mini expansions in ffxi so i guess i can't say i wouldn't pay for it, probably why i don't like the idea the most lol. but at least with mini expansions u get a full quest line and a few bosses with a story, with a nice item at the end ...little bit of everything in it for 10bucks.

^ This. Plus idk why but for some reason a cash shop gives me the feeling of a cheap game.

[Konachibi]

If anything at least this idea would somewhat combat the power creep, if they keep adding new dungeons and raids with better statted gear every time older content is just gonna become pointless, though with older content being reduced in difficulty over time so more people can do it I guess this point is moot anyway...

I'm all for a few vanity items, but people are never gonna want to raid for them unless they're die-hard rpers who want to PvE too. On the other hand if the odd boss in the dungeon/raid dropped a bit of vanity gear occasionally with his regular loot, I'm all for that.

That's a good point, on WoW people usually only went and did the previous expansion packs raids just to get gear to dress up in.

If bosses dropped good gear AND a vanity item it'd be interesting to see what would happen. The gear would probably get distributed easily but then a fight would break out over who gets the sunglasses XD