About the tank gear shown in trailer for 3.2

[Rin_Sato]

It looks like it will be a copy of the monk gear, which is already something I do not approve of, and if that wasn't enough, the fact we already have behemoth gear from pvp, which looks very similar only makes it worse.

Not only will this make PVP less of an incentive, it makes the new tank gear much less appealing, not to mention it would not make sense to have a tank wearing the exact same gear as a dps, which I thought was the excuse for not letting us cross-class glamour items in the first place.

Could somebody please shed some light on the reasoning for this choice?
Or have I misunderstood something?

edit: We get Ifrit & Garuda, but no Titan?

[Nicolepwned]

I agree. Not using all the 2.0 primals is dumb. But why on earth are tanks and monks sharing gear. I understand casters and healers / DEX users (even though I hate it and consider it lazy) but why not pair monks and dragoons. Atleast then they can say, "STR gear is shared" (lol STR tanks)

[Evergrey]

You can see by the trailer that the Tank version has alot more cloth hanging down, just like how the Void Ark gear does, even tho it shares the same basic with a DPS set.



So it would not be the first time Tanks share the same with a DPS.
And I dunno, perhaps a Titan armor would just look, boring? A big rock armor basicly. Nothing I really would run around in.

[Nicolepwned]

Titan armor would be completely nude save for the cloth thong he wears.

[Agonyess]

Titan armor would be completely nude save for the cloth thong he wears.

i'd totally wear that

[Serilda]

Putting monks in a set which resembles that of the tank classes is a strange move.

It's also a little depressing that I play all five 'caster' classes and get a single model to look at with this set; it feels even worse now they have another class (AST) in the mix yet we're still all sharing a single look while they go out of their way to specifically make a different set just for one class (DRG). How does that even make sense? And the caster colour swap doesn't even resemble Shiva any more :S

I'm not terrifically excited about this gear, visually.

[Daemius]

Putting monks in a set which resembles that of the tank classes is a strange move.

It's also a little depressing that I play all five 'caster' classes and get a single model to look at with this set; it feels even worse now they have another class (AST) in the mix yet we're still all sharing a single look while they go out of their way to specifically make a different set just for one class (DRG). How does that even make sense? And the caster colour swap doesn't even resemble Shiva any more :S

I'm not terrifically excited about this gear, visually.

Where are you getting that casters and healers get the same set? I've only seen Shiva being assigned to casters with no representation of healer gear whatsoever yet.

[Eidolon]

It's also a little depressing that I play all five 'caster' classes and get a single model to look at with this set; it feels even worse now they have another class (AST) in the mix yet we're still all sharing a single look while they go out of their way to specifically make a different set just for one class (DRG). How does that even make sense? And the caster colour swap doesn't even resemble Shiva any more :S

Alahara and I already mathematically broke down a number of gearsets.

We found that Fending has substantially more unique gear sets.
Maiming/Aiming have the second most unique gear sets. *When you include this patch*
Healing was next.
Then casting.
then striking.
And scouting completely lacks any unique sets.

I wish people would stop trying to call out Dragoon because it just makes them look bad.

[AlphaSonic]

You didn't count crafted gear or PvP gear.

[Eidolon]

You didn't count crafted gear or PvP gear.

PVP gear, when they're all unique, tend to be unique. Or at least used to - looks like the current sets fall into the trend and are the only ones I can really count (Whcih gives Monk an extra set, and Maiming/Fending shared again.)

Crafting, I'll be honest - I don't know if I'd be able to identify them all properly. I can't tell which one's are unique at a glance like I can with Eso/Raid gear. It's the same reason Asahara avoided the pre-50 sets when adding dungoun gear.... There's too many reskins and re-releases to really be able to identify them all.

Edit:
Taking a look at the crafted 50 sets:
@i110: Fending, Maiming, Striking/Scouting, Aiming, Casting, Healing.
Other ilevels look like reskins but would welcome someone to point out some differences.

Crafted 60 sets:
@i185: Fending/Maiming, Striking/Scouting, Aiming, Casting/Healing

PVP
@180: Fending/Maiming, Striking/Scouting, Aiming, Casting/Healing.


I don't see any other sets that look different from what existed in the game already.

EDIT 3:
so for the reference, that brings sets up to...

Fending: 15
Aiming: 9
Maiming: 7
Healing: 5
Casting: 4
Striking: 2
Scouting: 0