Thread: 3.4 New Scripture Gear and Dungeon gear

Would've preferred a set of the DoL/DoH-only Ironworks/Carbonweave for all classes to wear than anything I'm seeing so far.

This just occurred to me, but has there always been a catgirl posing for the new sets?

Originally Posted by Riardon

Both dungeon and scripture are from the most dull and boring designs I've seen. No imagination and a generic feeling with dull colour schemes. I feel like I've seen similar designs too many times. SE must really hire some designer. The current ones lack imagination or designing gear sets is not their normal job. Meanwhile community designs are fantastic. It makes wonder what went wrong with them the last months with the designs. Lore gear sets were also ugly (the MNK fists are exception). C'mon SE. The average FFXIV Blogger can design way better gear sets.

I don't like the scripture and dungeon gear either, but i respect the developer for what they've done. Because designing gear for fun without any restrictions is, if you can draw easy, but doing it with restrictions is much harder. I don't know what they at Square have to deal with, but seeing their gear and one comment about polygon count on the community gear makes me think, they probably have to design gear, which...

- fits the theme
- fits the other gear of the same set
- fits into the polygon budget of the gear and looks great after the designer put it into the game
- fits the class/jobs
and more.

I really liked the community effort for the tank gear. Some great additions, but a lot of them didn't even looked like tank gear or fit into the world at all. Keep in mind that the only real restriction for them was to design tank gear. No offense to them, but they probably would have a hard time working anywhere as a designer when they can't even meet this requirement.

Of course everyone has different taste and opinions on the gear or anything else. I really liked the healer midan gear set for example and this time only the crafter healer set looks good to me. Dunno about the healer alex 3 set yet, but imo we should respect developers more for their work they are doing week and week out under conditions designer, which are doing this as a hobby haven't to deal with. Doing something as a hobby is easy, but doing it as work is much harder imo.