Endgame DRG Armor

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Seriously, I'd love to see the profits SE gets from the cash shop, stuff like the Magitek Mounts and Scion outfits are existing assets, there was no cost involved in their creation (or very little, for painting the Magitek mount red, and giving Minfilias outfit to all races). They're charging 15$ (or whatever) for what exactly? The right to have it? It certainly didn't cost them anything extra to make, considering they've been around since 2.0 (for the white Magitek mount, 1.0 if you want to split hairs over the Scions outfits.

I bolded what I don't agree with. Just because an NPC has access to certain gear doesn't mean that gear is separate from the NPC model. (Npcs don't have a need to change said gear, however I don't know what system SE has in place for their NPCs). Some artist(s) did put their time into making the pieces of gear for the other races.The way modeling works is that you can't simply hit a button and have that gear magically flip to the size for a given race. The textures on said peice would be a mess! No, some artists job was to model out the different outfits for each races body type (the different heights are probably attributed to blend shapes). So unless that artist is working for free, then SE did pay that persons salary.

Now that is if the gear wasn't already in the game. Thancreds body piece is the yellow custom tunic you get from the level 5 rogue quest, just not dyable. Other bits and pieces can be found throughout the game of the other Scions, just about the only one whose gear can't be found is Minfillia. Because the gear comes from existing gear with just different ways to apply the aether scope thingy they use, that's what has me split. This won't happen again do to the new looks of the Scions but well... Most of the gear did exist, so it boiled down to some repurposing and retexturig existing gear.

This is why I actually haven't spent a dime on the cash shop. I get conflicted about things like the above, and with the items being priced as high as they are, I don't really want to spend it. ($10 for glamour enterprising players could make on their own, and $5 for minions.) To be fair hiding the retainer situation doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth either. (I've had to toss out so many pieces of 'glamour' and green dungeon gear just so I'd have space to put other things.)