Quote Originally Posted by SilvertearRen View Post
It's not about the graphic. It's about a perceived change in the art direction of FFXIV. I am worried that this is the first step in the direction of WoW-absurd-style art direction.
Well look at it this way: It could attract more players to the game who are actually fans of the style WoW has (there are millions of them).
This is progress.
Sometimes you have to make a few sacrifices down the road (like losing players such as yourself) in order to make progress.

HOWEVER, this could just be a one-off thing considering this is gear dropped from Ifrit and Ifrit, as we all know, is a glowy red thing. It only makes sense for his drops to be glowy red.
The same will go for probably all primal gear, it will match the theme of the monster.