AF toggle

[Akumu]

I have been looking at the concept art and wonder will the players get the option to have our face guards on/off or will it be set in stone like most(if not all) MMOs currently out.

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Looking at the DRG, WAR, and WHM you can see how the first two look with their face guard on/off and how the WHM look with the hood over her head. While it is all aesthetics I know it would just be really cool if we could do it and maybe an animation to go with it.

Like Raubahn in this.

[Estellios]

I'm hoping this will mean that we can have cowls with the hoods up/down finally. Then I wouldn't mind wearing one...

[giottoV]

sure if AFs is not going to be useless like in ffxi

[Nayt]

sure if AFs is not going to be useless like in ffxi

If you found AF's useless then you certainly didn't know how to macro equipment swaps. The were only a few useless pieces, and even less after Limbus.

To me, taking the hood up/down is an unneccessary feature IMO. We have Display Head on/off. That's very much enough for me

I don't think it will happen, but if WHM gets a cloak without a separate headpiece, then that would be like the only job which didn't get one, so I don't think that's likely to happen.

[Estellios]

They could easily make a hooded cloak that has stats good enough that you won't miss not being able to equip headgear, and seeing as how it's only for White Mage they can balance it out since it's most likely going to be the gear you'll fulltime when playing as that job. They've already been looking into having hoods down and apparently the framework to be able to display helmet visors up or down has been in the game for a long time. Not to mention even the design art for White Mage has a hooded robe with the hood down. The display head on/off feature is wonderful but hoods still conceal your character head.

[Sakasa]

They could also restrict head gear of the job making all head gear available worth then hooded attire. But on that same line of thought they could also allow specific head gear with hooded attire. For instance head bands. Both ways will allow them to control stat allocation and give players what they want with hood up and hood down or display off. But because of how little info is available about the changes specifically the slot changes, and new gear/display opportunities with 2.0 engine and design it could be that more slots will be available in accessory slots or even whole new categories **Pure hypothetical speculative example** Such as capes.