Famitsu interview confirm RDM use INT and share casting gear/SAM share striking gear!

[Lambdafish]

Did even read my comment I said Robes are going to look fucking stupid on RDMs I miss the hoodies from FFXI. I didn't mention anything about the AF gear which is what you have just posted. My comment had nothing to do with AF gear. Your reply make no sense at all.

My point is that I trust the XIV team to make outfits that fit RDM because they clearly understand what a RDM is visually. This may actually improve the diversity of caster gear and see more guantlets and capes than robes. Casters do have a few diverse options, but I feel like RDM will push the boundary.

XI's RDM looked snazzy dressed in an outfit obviously inspired by the french musketeers (AF1 and AF2). AF3 went off the deep end, though if you dim the lights enough and squint your eyes you can almost pretend it looks like something you'd actually fight in (nevermind the irony in it being called Swordsman's Set despite having no melee stats).

I never said it looked bad, just that it didn't really look like a classic RDM

[Stitches1974]

Redmages in Robes are gonna look stupid as fuck. I miss the FFXI days with the hoodies.

Hoodies? Did FFXI do a collab with Grand Theft Auto or something? Because that sounds stupid.

[Duelle]

Hoodies? Did FFXI do a collab with Grand Theft Auto or something? Because that sounds stupid.

He's talking about stuff like the Vermillion Cloak that was basically a hoodie.

TBF, the red mage that was shown off at fan fest looked a lot more RDM than anything out of XI

XI's RDM looked snazzy dressed in an outfit obviously inspired by the french musketeers (AF1 and AF2). AF3 went off the deep end, though if you dim the lights enough and squint your eyes you can almost pretend it looks like something you'd actually fight in (nevermind the irony in it being called Swordsman's Set despite having no melee stats).

[Stitches1974]

He's talking about stuff like the Vermillion Cloak that was basically a hoodie.

I stand by my original post after seeing that.

[Vexander]

Posted in another thread, but here's the English notes: http://gamerescape.com/2017/03/01/ne...rview-summary/

Personally I'm rather relieved. It's a Caster. I know people wanted a melee DPS which wove spells in between slashes, but Samurai is going to be plenty melee DPS for us as is. It'll be good to have a proper new Caster.

[SigmaOZ]

I'm glad actually, I like sharing gear between jobs because it saves me space and you can do some very interesting things when it comes to looks, therefore I really dislike job-specific gear!...

I hope Samurai shares gear with Monk, that would raise it's usefulness and I wouldn't leave them for last in the gearing order, I miss those sets from 2.X that could be shared by all melee DPS!...

[Jonnycbad]

RDM wore a few light armor pieces but a majority of their equipment were robes. In FFXI, their main gear was caster gear shared with GEO/BLM/WHM/SCH, while BLU wore more armor that fit with Rogue-like jobs (PUP/THF/DNC/NIN/BST/RNG). I would have bet my life that SAM would share Maiming gear, based on the fact that SAM in FF games usually wore heavy armor or middle weight armor. I know SAM wore light kimonos and stuff in town, but in battle their wore actual armor, so its odd they're on striking and not maiming.

[Stitches1974]

RDM wore a few light armor pieces but a majority of their equipment were robes. In FFXI, their main gear was caster gear shared with GEO/BLM/WHM/SCH

And in the original Final Fantasy, they could wear more than robes and caster gear. Chain mail and the likes.

[Alistaire]

RDM wore a few light armor pieces but a majority of their equipment were robes. In FFXI, their main gear was caster gear shared with GEO/BLM/WHM/SCH, while BLU wore more armor that fit with Rogue-like jobs (PUP/THF/DNC/NIN/BST/RNG). I would have bet my life that SAM would share Maiming gear, based on the fact that SAM in FF games usually wore heavy armor or middle weight armor. I know SAM wore light kimonos and stuff in town, but in battle their wore actual armor, so its odd they're on striking and not maiming.

Well, ffxi had all kinds of strange job groupings for different gear sets. There was light cloth stuff that was sam/nin/mnk/pup, there was heavy armor that was war/pld/sam/drk/drg. There was also melee stuff that was rdm/blu/thf/rng etc and then the caster sets that were rdm/whm/blm/smn (and sometimes blu).

Point is, you could make just about any argument you want with ffxi as an example, but we don't need/want ffxi-2.

And in the original Final Fantasy, they could wear more than robes and caster gear. Chain mail and the likes.

And in the original final fantasy there was a piece of gear red mage could wear, but when you upgraded to red wizard, they couldn't. In any case, there's various options for casters to look more heavily armored now, so rdm will be no exception to that.

[ShinMetsu]

Point is, you could make just about any argument you want with ffxi as an example, but we don't need/want ffxi-2.

Speak for yourself.
I'd love a ffxi-2.
Not saying i want ffxiv to become a ffxi-2.