Healer/Ranged DPS Magic Contest Entries

[RaijinSupreme]

yes somd of the gear is amazing.
i liked yours too, OP. It should have gotten chosen over some of the others.

[TaleraRistain]

There are some seriously talented designers in this community. The ones which didn't make it into the finals are good too. A skeleton themed robe/hood would be awesome.

One thing which bothers me is that a lot of the final designs are female-only (and in a way which I'm reasonably sure would require heavy modification to meet basic quality requirements for male characters). I hope that they aren't chosen, or that if they are a reasonably amount of time is invested into making them work on all race/gender combinations. I mean, I'm totally ok with wearing the female-only 'fiery draconian robes of casting' as-is but if it isn't heavily overhauled for guys (or is turned into something much uglier for them) I can see a whole bunch of people being rather depressed.

Or big Highlander girls like me. I don't look good in a lot of female-themed stuff, especially anything frilly.

[Zojha]

One thing which bothers me is that a lot of the final designs are female-only [...]

No need to be bothered:

Winning entry needs to be a gear design which can be used by any race/gender, therefore any entry specific to any one race/gender may be removed from the grand prize winner selection

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...3a930a1d5ec5bf

From the design requirements. The winning entry will very most likely be made available for both genders and all races as per the point below that.

[Serilda]

No need to be bothered:

Ah, great! Hopefully they'll choose something that looks equally good on the fiercest female Roegadyn and the tiniest male Lalafell.

[Evumeimei]

Out of all the entries there are only two that make me question why they are in there at all. One was clearly a joke entry (the crepe one) and the fact that they put that as a finalist instead of someone else's serious entry kinda rubs me the wrong way. Honorable-mention it or something, don't put it as a finalist. >__>;

A lot of beautiful entries overall, though.

[Elleia]

As cute as the ahriman/carbuncle outfits are I really hope they pick more serious outfits for the class specific winners, and add the "monster" themed outfits for all roles in the gold saucer or something similar. The ahriman one especially would look nice on NIN, so it would be a bummer if it was implemented as caster only.

[Kingmanath]

OMG I want the carbuncle one, Gold Saucer please

[Ultimatecalibur]

I really favor #36 for the healer gear. It does not include 2 of the 3 biggest complaints about healer gear (robes and pointy hats) and includes the 3rd (uses white) but isn't exclusively white and looks like healer gear.

Out of all the entries there are only two that make me question why they are in there at all. One was clearly a joke entry (the crepe one) and the fact that they put that as a finalist instead of someone else's serious entry kinda rubs me the wrong way. Honorable-mention it or something, don't put it as a finalist. >__>;

A lot of beautiful entries overall, though.

The thing is is that they need to include any sets they are considering using from contest even if they don't win. The carbuncle mascot, adamantoise mascot (from the tank contest), ahriman gear, succubus gear and crepe gear are "joke entries" but are there for when they are added to the Gold Saucer.

[AlphaSonic]

From the finalists I need this one in my life



Or at least the head piece. It's too good for me.

[SaitoHikari]

I really hope this one wins on the Healer side.



Not only is it rather aesthetically pleasing, it's also by far the most gender neutral of all of the Healer designs (very telling when the vast majority of them only have female characters posing in them) and probably the easiest to incorporate into the game with all details intact. Though it seems more of an Astrologian set than anything.

Failing that, I'd take these three.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/healer/mQjY33nEZw/40.jpg
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/healer/mQjY33nEZw/36.jpg
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/healer/mQjY33nEZw/02.jpg