Question about Job "AF Armor"

[Jinrya-Geki]

Nice Job Topheru.

I am hoping for two things from AF:

1. Being Crafted so materia can be slotted into, or atleast has stats on it that materia can't beat otherwise what's the point.
2. Would be coloring the gear. Red Wizard needs to dress in Red.

To clarify for those who don't know. I don't change the term Red-Mage to Red Wizard. I simply mean Red as in the element of Fire, and I love Wizards, hence Red Wizard.

[indira]

wonder if AF armor will be like FFXI opening coffers @_@;;;

[Saburo]

Are we really gonna wear AF anyway?
I mean for now, crafted gear is better than most ra/ex AND they will raise the level cap which means our 50 AF will probably be useless.

If it's only a fashion gear then let us dye it >.>;

[Jinko]

Personally I feel that if you want to look different and colour your armour you shouldn't be looking to wear AF.

AF is suppose to respresent the typical look of a specific class, ie white mage, white and red.

Plus its unlikely that AF being U/U will even compare to 2 slotted materia pieces so its unlikely its going to be the best choice.

[Engineer]

Personally I feel that if you want to look different and colour your armour you shouldn't be looking to wear AF.

AF is suppose to respresent the typical look of a specific class, ie white mage, white and red.

Plus its unlikely that AF being U/U will even compare to 2 slotted materia pieces so its unlikely its going to be the best choice.

I feel as if the Job Specific gear will Boost your job specific abilities to strengthen your optimization for job role.

If that's the case, job Gear would be better for Jobs than class gear.

Class gear would be best suited for classes, and job gear would be better suited for jobs.

[nibelunc]

Goddamn no. what the hell is wrong with you? I hate the cartoon colored armores out there and I dont want the special job gears which look very cool and traditional to look like that. -.- I dont understand what happened to the world of games.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Goddamn no. what the hell is wrong with you? I hate the cartoon colored armores out there and I dont want the special job gears which look very cool and traditional to look like that. -.- I dont understand what happened to the world of games.

What happened is that everyone is trying so hard to be unique, that in the end no one is unique.

[Chinook]

In my opinion, AF gear is as symbolic as soldiers or any other kind of uniforms to me.

I also believe jobs are tied to Grand Companies, so that'd make sense.

Only allowing color differences based on different tiers would be logic in the same way.

[Teuciont]

The only logical way to handle this would be the same way in which they handled it in XI. Different tiers, different colors. To those who consider not being able to dye rare armor "barbaric" and "outdated," just because it's what you'd like to do to fulfill your own sense of fashion doesn't mean it's wrong. To me, that's the point of AF, is to be able to tell who is what, and how powerful they are just from looking at them. Having multicolored Black Mages from the get go doesn't give much room for tiers unless you expect them to make radically different armor for each tier, which they might. This is of course all my "outdated" and "barbaric" opinion, but it's how I feel. I say no to being able to dye unique, non crafted armor. As someone else said earlier, if you want to look good for the sake looking good, get your gear crafted and go through the risk of attaching multiple materia to it. Yoshi even said That crafted gear with multiple materia on it would be close if not on par with boss gear.

Craft = Color changeable
Unique = One color, to be able to acknowledge a persons accomplishments by just looking at them.

[Arcell]

You know, people are constantly throwing around AF and all, but I can't recall the dev team ever calling it that.

Personally I'm thinking of it more as just job-specific armor. It is armor that only Monk or Paladin or Dragoon can wear but it works like any other gear in the game. As such, I've got no problem with dying it. The basic shape and look of the armor would denote the class wearing it, the color shouldn't be a huge issue. If you want to wear the "classic" colors, go ahead by all means but don't force others to do so, especially if they don't like that set of colors. I mean it helps alleviate the job clones issue. Everyone won't look EXACTLY the same.

On that topic though, if anyone wants to do a recolor of these:

http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/...ard/mnkpug.jpg

http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/...ierard/pld.jpg

feel free Someone I know found these pictures out in the vast expanses of the internet, they look rather unfinished though. Leaving the character in question's name out of it for obvious reasons though.