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

[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.

[ShinMetsu]

I just hope they won't screw over samurai's gear style. :|
Ninja already barely has gear that fits Ninja as a job imo, Monk is a similar story to me.
Really hope they go more of a FFXI-kinda route from here on out and give MNK/SAM/NIN jobs more eastern themed sets of gear.
At least i feel that would fit their job's identities much better.

[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.

[Feidam]

I don't mind sharing gear. I love my casters. The redmage aesthetic just doesn't fit for a robe user though imo. Granted I am set for gear for leveling now though. Maybe we'll see more tunics for casters in stormblood.

[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.

[Stitches1974]

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 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.

Was just pointing out that RDM was there before XI and that they used more than light armor.

[Lambdafish]

Really hope they go more of a FFXI-kinda route from here on out and give MNK/SAM/NIN jobs more eastern themed sets of gear.

I can guarantee that this will happen, Kugane will cause a all jobs to have a eastern theme in at least some gear sets, if not most, ESPECIALLY NIN/SAM/MNK.

[Vexander]

As long as the AF set looks fantastic, I don't think I'll mind what everything else will look like. All we need is the ability to glamour multiple job-locked appearances onto a single piece of gear. I remember a suggestion of doing so through the Job's Soul Crystal a while ago. That'd be pretty great.

[Felis]

I can guarantee that this will happen, Kugane will cause a all jobs to have a eastern theme in at least some gear sets, if not most, ESPECIALLY NIN/SAM/MNK.

I also hope that the new gearsets will be styled around Ala Migho and the new continent, like the HW gears were styled around Ishgard and Sharlayan.

[Kemonologist]

But crafted leveling gear will reuse 3.0 gear surely. We can hope only dungeon gear and end-game gear.