Quote Originally Posted by Youkulm View Post
but when they say we're getting primal gear, WHY were so many primals ignored?
I believe you answered your own question in the same thought before this:

I know carbon copy gear is something they always do.
But to comment on it, I'm actually quite surprised that everyone is, well, surprised. As amusing as it was to see people speculate all the 2.0 primals (and some even hoped for HW primals) being represented by one job/one role, why would the devs stop using palette-swaps when they've been doing it for everything outside of artifact gear? You could probably count on one hand how many healer/caster sets are legitimately different outside of colors (Valerian, Eve/Daystar, Ironworks, Satasha/Cashmere sets and the animal-motiff PvP sets, off the top of my head), and the Arachne set doesn't count, they're the same model except the healers got curtains from the waist down.

You don't get disappointed when you don't get your hopes up (when it comes to new gear sets).

As for why DRG got a set all to themselves; I dunno, don't they normally share a set appearance with other jobs? I'm fairly sure I've seen them share with MNK once or twice, their Crystal Tower set looked like BRD's, and I even think they had some very similar sets to tanks (minus accents) once or twice. Not defending them though, honestly I usually pick up a "SE's aesthetic golden child" vibe from them a lot, what with the super-detailed AFs and basically being the poster job for the new expansion among other things.