Petition Against Ifrit Weapon Designs

[CrystalObsidian]

Be happy they are not more of the same. I welcome new designs in any form, no more boring plain-jane weapons/armor please.

I agree with this.

New designs, especially ones that are based off of a freakin PRIMAL *should* stand out, be unique and badass, and have a sense of really strong power about them. (I think the only ones that are odd are the PUG and THM weapons, but I'm not about to complain against them)

This game needs more stuff like this!

[zaviermhigo]

I think that people have grown a little too power hungry with the forum if they can't even stand having a set of weapons they don't like in the game. Because every piece in every mmo should be liked by everyone? There will be pieces you don't like in w/e game you play get over it. Just sayin', nothing you said was bad (to OP) and it was respectful, but you can't go about trying to change everything people don't like about the game. Its still just a fraction of people. I hate my playstation move thm weapon, I'm not trying to petition against it. Its not a tyrannical dictatorship, but in no way should this forum be a democracy.

[DantesAmore]

@ Op ........................................................ Q.Q much? lol

[Klive]

Really? A Thread to remove a weapon design? How dare SE give you options! If you don't like them don't get them. Make your own, equally powerful, HQ+3 materia weapon instead.

[Xionraserei]

Thank you for all those are making thoughtful comments and carrying discussions on. The whole point to this thread was to push buttons and make conversation about the new designs. Like them or not. as I said in my edit, if I could change the thread title name I'd remove petition from it.

Keep discussions going. The thread is getting big enough for SE to see it.

[Xionraserei]

By the way, I'm not the only person disliking for all of those who say there's only but a few us.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...no-we-won-t-go

[Ceons]

with almost ~4000 views and ~200 replies it has only accumulated 15 likes.

Seems to me the majority like the weapons. I'm not really for or against them. I have my opinion of them, but I'm not gonna ask them to remove it! lol

I just hope they add different varieties in the future so that I can find the style I like the best as well.

[Xionraserei]

I don't know if we can accurately base off whether people approve or disprove something based on frequency of click on a like button. I don't press those things, it's like facebook I avoid.

I dunno, I really don't want removal. Re-skin is more like it.

[Ceons]

I don't know if we can accurately base off whether people approve or disprove something based on frequency of click on a like button. I don't press those things, it's like facebook I avoid.

I dunno, I really don't want removal. Re-skin is more like it.

When you say 're-skin' do you mean like rift/aion/guild wars 2 re-skin where you can have stats of one armor but looks of another? Cause thats a whole another thread and I think thats a great idea! Although most likely discussed before...

But certainly you don't mean the SE DEV to take the next 6 months to remodel these weapon skins, just to please you and some others who do not like them? Cause I think that might be a little over the top, even if I am also one of the people who does not like some of the armor designs. But I don't have to like them all. It's an MMO and its suppose to have choices and variety to suit all kinds of players.

[Sephrick]

After thinking about it longer, and having watched the video again, I'm even more excited about these designs.

I just don't get wanting the designs to be more like XI's themes.

Because Ifrit's Blade looked just like a Sapara which looked just like a Scimitar which looked just like a Mithran Scimitar, which looked just like a Tulwar, which looked just like a Combat Caster's Scimitar, which looked just like a Hanger, which looked just like a Leech Scimitar, which looked just like a Corsair's Scimitar, which looked just like a Sinfender, which looked just like a Sapara of Trials, which looked just like a Storm Tulwar, which looked just like a Mighty Talwar, which looked just like a Perdu Hanger and so on.

That list is the scimitar type blades. I think there were in total six different types of swords in XI, and they all looked exactly the same with each iteration. Even the coveted Joyeuse and Ridill were nothing more than blue versions of the same exact model obtainable in the first few levels of the game.

The only unique sword models were Dissector and Organics. Dissector was largely regarded as ugly. But I knew people who leveled jobs just to be able to equip the big, bulky Organics. Which, just like the XIV Ifrit sword, was just a heavily stylized version of the basic scimitar.

Even the Tizona -- the BLU Mythic weapon -- was a poorly and obviously reskinned version of the Sapara.

Heck, a lot of people pretended they macroed in an Optical Hat by equipping a Fungus Hat because they didn't want to get kicked from parties for not having time to get 16 people together long enough to get the one decent endgame piece for DD.

Same goes for bows. Longbow, Wurger, Royal Archer's Longbow, Hunter's Longbow, San d'Orian Bow, Power Bow, Great Bow, Battle Bow, Shikar Bow, War Bow, Eurytos' Bow, Loxley Bow, Sarnga, Selene's Bow, Imperial Bow, Cobra Bow, Martial Bow, Cerberus Bow, Dynamis Bow and Wolver Bow are all the same exact bow. A few are green or grey, but for most of a Ranger's career, their character pulled out the same model.

Even the relic bow, Yoichinoyumi, was nothing more than a red version of a level 30 bow, the Hamayumi.

Hand-to-hand weapons too. Monk's bulkier option were the Baghnakhs: Cat Baghnakhs. I won't list them all as Monk had mainly those, Cesti and Knuckles. But even XI had its H2H weapons that seemed impossible for the common wrist to support like Katars, Custodes, Tactical Magician Hooks, Birdbanes, Sainti and each of their carbon copies and reskins.

The sword from Ifrit's battle in XIV may resemble the Scimitar model in this game, but there's no mistaking it. When people see you run by, they'll know you've beaten Ifrit.

As I said in a previous post, they seem to have done these rewards tastefully. The glow is subtle and the bulkiness is justified. I'd expect Titans rewards to also be bulky -- though I anticipate armor from him given past iterations of the character and the element associated. Then the water, ice and wind primals' rewards to be smaller and more elegant.