Request to unlock Hempen set styles

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Personally, I want the bits to stay to the races. Just to give them a bit of them own flair.

What you and many, many others against this fail to realize is that the Hempen Sets are universal sets that have set appearance for each race. They are not separate sets and they never have been. The request is to make all of the sets separate as it makes no sense for a generic set that is already equippable by all races to have VASTLY different appearances despite being the exact same item. That is the problem at hand, one that you are very clearly ignoring or simply not giving the time of day.

I won't lynch you for being against it, you have that right, but referring to it as a racial or cultural item is wholly and completely uneducated when this item set is in fact not locked to any given race as is, only the appearances are.

Furthermore, race means little in Eorzea, in fact the characters that /do/ refer to others by race are often pictured as very rude and offensive— an NPC called my character an "Auri bitch" for example while the others made new reference to my character's race at all in the exact same questline. This is not how Eorzea works, more oft than not, characters are referred to by their nationality or city state rather than their race. This is how Eorzea works and will hopefully always work. Clothes are NOT a determining factor, nor will they ever be.

See what basketofseals above me said for a better idea of what I mean.

To that extent: Few here are championing the idea of removing the restrictions on the iconic starter sets; nor should we but there are a few who are foolishly asking for such, however a glamour set as trivial and somehow as oddly diversified as hempen underwear shouldn't be treated as "cultural uniqueness." It's blasted underwear for the love of god! That would be like saying because I am white I am now restricted to wearing one type of underwear and am limited to what I can or can't wear because of my skin color. That's the kind of argument you are putting forth and do you realize how silly that is?

There is a huge difference between a cultural set like the sets that HAVE the race names in them, and the Hempen Sets which are more or less treated as light fanservice.