Poor Designed Weapon's.

[Arcell]

Not Eorzean, the art direction of FFXIV. Every item has to be kept within certain artistic boundaries. Otherwise the direction becomes inconsistent and detached. No game wants that to happen, and no, it is not common for companies to change their art direction in the same game. Between different games, sure. All you will have is a bunch of artistic nonsense where nothing fits anywhere.

You do realize that all of the current crafted gear comes from only within the confines of Eorzea right? Eorzea is only one continent with 6 major cities on it, 3 of which we don't have access to (Sharlayan, Ishgard and Ala Mhigo). All of the current artistic direction comes from one of those cities on the same continent. It is decidedly Eorzean. The only reason it is the only artistic direction we're familiar with is because it's the only one we've been exposed to aside from the Garleans who we have had limited interaction with. So people are mistaking the art direction of the game with the Eorzean style of equipment because honestly it's all we've really seen and used.

Even the Garlean art direction is drastically different from that of Eorzea and hardly realistic. As I stated before their armor has a much more noble and military look to it and is often comprised mainly of the colors black, red or silver. They have gun-hybrid weapons, something we would not expect from an Eorzean weapon.

There are also other continents out there which we haven't even come across yet. I'm willing to bet that their artistic direction is drastically different from Eorzea's.