In a recent interview at E3 ( http://gamerescape.com/2016/06/17/e3...naoki-yoshida/ ). There was this stated "Yoshida: In terms of being able to glamour job specific gear that’s not for your job… I don’t have any intentions of doing that. I don’t want a black mage in full plate armor casting spells. There are some MMOs that allow tanks for example to use robes, but if you’re a mage or caster you can’t wear full plate armor. If we were to do that in FFXIV people would complain. I don’t want to lift that restriction just yet."
Now, I personally would love having some bulky looking plate armor (Especially some that looked super bulky armor and not a sheet of metal a millimeter away from my character's body or cupping her breasts) and I don't get the reasoning behind not having any full metal armor for casters/healers. Especially not when when there's even just base armor for tanks that has zero metal on it period (The Holy Rainbow Shirt of Fending for example, a good chunk of crafting gear, and a plethora of glamour options that range from casual clothes to maid outfits to wedding dresses to literally bikinis and other swimwear. On the contrary, anything resembling armor for casters/healers seems limited to the rarer and harder to obtain or just lacking in that plate armor feel outside of some metal. Our options seeming to be limited to some a veteran reward (The Rank 11 Wild Rose Set which takes 840 days to achieve), some sets like the Midan set (Which is fairly skin tight for metal armor) and the Daystar set (Which is a cloth robe with metal hems, pauldrons, and random metal bits slapped on), and maybe stuff like the Gnath set (Which takes a bit to get and its made out of bug people chitin and not metal).
So the request is simple, just some add some big bulky plate armor for glamour options, preferable some that don't show off my character's breasts like the hellfire coat of fending, something like the Heavy Wolfram Cuirass, the Wootz Cuirass, or even the Adamantite armor of Fending would be so great imho. Even a new set would be great as long as it was all class, bulky, and relatively easy to get.