About Tank Design Winner

[loreleidiangelo]

Here is a picture of both sets (I'd paste the images here but they're both huge and don't want to blow up the forum page). There are...a lot of similarities in design; I had looked some photos up originally thinking that my original assessment wasn't quite fair, but honestly, a good number of things seem "borrowed" from the HA set. Not EVERYTHING, but in particular the chestplate/coat area and the greaves are strikingly similar in design, and the weird strips below the little ADS dongle thinger are taken from the Ironworks fending armor, just moved from the back to the front.


HA Fending set
HA Recolor of Fending


I can't wait to see what recolor of the Dreadwyrm Robe of Casting we'll get, and thank god I don't have to farm the mats for that dyeable HA healer robe, I can just wait for those contests to come and go!

But you know, at the end of the day, these contests are fun, and it's nice that the devs do them, even if I don't like the outcome. Even though I still maintain that there were better alternatives in the runners-up, I do feel like the developers approached the contest from a way more objective eye than the hairstyle contest, which I feel was largely judged by the community's opinion of the artwork, and not the actual hairstyle designs.

[Freyyy]

BUT PEOPLE THE SIMILARITIES ARE NORMAL, IT'S INTENDED TO BE ALLAGAN GEAR

[Jadub2k]

Here is a picture of both sets (I'd paste the images here but they're both huge and don't want to blow up the forum page). There are...a lot of similarities in design; I had looked some photos up originally thinking that my original assessment wasn't quite fair, but honestly, a good number of things seem "borrowed" from the HA set. Not EVERYTHING, but in particular the chestplate/coat area and the greaves are strikingly similar in design, and the weird strips below the little ADS dongle thinger are taken from the Ironworks fending armor, just moved from the back to the front.

HA Fending set
HA Recolor of Fending


I can't wait to see what recolor of the Dreadwyrm Robe of Casting we'll get, and thank god I don't have to farm the mats for that dyeable HA healer robe, I can just wait for those contests to come and go!

But you know, at the end of the day, these contests are fun, and it's nice that the devs do them, even if I don't like the outcome. Even though I still maintain that there were better alternatives in the runners-up, I do feel like the developers approached the contest from a way more objective eye than the hairstyle contest, which I feel was largely judged by the community's opinion of the artwork, and not the actual hairstyle designs.

And that point to win the DPS and Healer design contest. All you have to do is to remember to take a design that looks like its in the game already (not interesting, fun designs like the others were. Oh no no no), use it as a base and design your artwork off of that.. You'll win *sigh* It doesn't matter now Gratz to the winning and all (pretty sure 50-60% of the player base will glam over it anyway so it doesn't even matter lol)

[LadyKairi]

I'd like to point out the didn't say that the designs had to look practical for tanking.

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[LadyKairi]

Dang phone submitted on its own before I could complete.

"When you envision the perfect tank, do you see a hulking fortress of metal and chain? Or do you value style more and prefer aesthetics over function?" Also reading further down in the requirements, nowhere does it say the design has to look practical for tanking, nor do they have to fit with any lore. If they wanted designs similar to what they already have, they should have stayed so, instead of giving people the option to draw more "pretty" designs. There isn't even a theme outside of "design what gear you'd like to see implemented to ffxiv". So the whole "those other designs don't go with any lore or don't look like something a tank would wear" is invalid, since there were no rules stating they had to look a certain way. Just that they had to be able to be worn by every race and gender.

[Shurrikhan]

I absolutely loved the winning set and all the runners up. Unfortunately for some we were talking about TANK gear of course the plate metal look would look like so much of what we have, tanks arent supposed to run around in bikinis getting beat by 10 x enemies

You can have metal armor that doesn't look like a BCoB Fending reskin. Doesn't have to be Allagan to be practical. If anything, the inverse seems more often true as certain motifs get more extreme among Allagan sets...

[Marxam]

Congrats to the winner and its was one of my top 5 that I would like to see win. The other two choices by Berurur Beru and OnionHolic, I hope would be seen again in some sort of fashion. We need more "Hunter" style armor. Especially OnionsHolic since the lore is perfect for the Dravanian Forelands hunters and the area they reside in.

[DarkblueMateria227]

RIP the dream. FeelsBadMan

I feel yah dude. This gear would have been perfect for my Warrior

[Remus]

I feel yah dude. This gear would have been perfect for my Warrior

But the question is does it match a paladin/dark knight? Looks great on Warrior but sadly I don't see that set looking great on the other tank classes.

[Sakuraluna]

Well, none of my favorites were selected even as runner ups. I can understand their reasoning though, I'm glad we got little blurbs of explanation for each of the entries. The winner is a little more generic than I would have liked but it's not bad. If the finalists that weren't included weren't tanky enough, there's a few of them that I'd love to see implemented with no class restrictions.