(Dev request) can we get toggleable poldrens please

[GrizzlyTank]

This would probably require that they add new armors with the pauldrons removed, seeing how there is no simple box to check off to hide it like in other mmos.

Do you want to lose an arm? Because that's how you lose an arm. Unlike in WoW, where spaulders and pauldrons are used for style, in FFXIV, tanks and dragoons (along with some other pieces on other Jobs) have these pieces of armor for the same reason we have them on real suits of armor, to protect the joint from attacks from the side, above, head-on, or behind.

Unforutnately some armors seems to have shoulder pads that are solely for Roes, and end up floating 2 inches above the shoulder on most races. Even on armors that do have shoulder/neck protection in place.

[Rysir]

It would be nice for the armor pieces that have extremely floaty pauldrons such as ishgardian knights set which fully disconnects and floats beside your head during sprint.


And with sprint not costing TP and thus likely to be used much more in stormblood we are gonna see flailing pauldrons even more so it would be a good option to be able to turn them off.

[Kosmos992k]

I would like to be able to toggle on and off the sholder of some armor sets with large poldrens such as the sky rat set as well as a some other sets I don't feel this will be to difficult to achieve since I've seen screens hots where they are hiden client side but if I'm wrong please let me know

Yes. Please yes. I hate shoulder spikes.

[Luxpheras]

Greetings, adventurers.

Thanks for the request! As a glamour enthusiast myself, I can certainly understand why some pieces of body armor would look great without shoulder gear.

Some gear that currently exists in-game is designed with shoulder plates, while others are designed without it. For that reason, if we were to implement an On / Off toggle for shoulder gear, all of the existing gear would need to be redesigned to have two versions: one with shoulder gear visible and one without. This would be a lot of design work that would take away from new designs being implemented in the future! For that reason, we currently have no plans to implement this type of feature.

But don't fret! If you have any specific gear that you'd like to see designed without shoulder plates, tell us here. I'll relay the requests over to the dev. team for future consideration!

[Azper]

Greetings, adventurers.

Thanks for the request! As a glamour enthusiast myself, I can certainly understand why some pieces of body armor would look great without shoulder gear.

But don't fret! If you have any specific gear that you'd like to see designed without shoulder plates, tell us here. I'll relay the requests over to the dev. team for future consideration!

How about just less shoulder pads in general? I've never once looked at a piece of gear and said, "You know what this is missing? Shoulder pads."

[storm]

Greetings, adventurers.

Thanks for the request! As a glamour enthusiast myself, I can certainly understand why some pieces of body armor would look great without shoulder gear.

Some gear that currently exists in-game is designed with shoulder plates, while others are designed without it. For that reason, if we were to implement an On / Off toggle for shoulder gear, all of the existing gear would need to be redesigned to have two versions: one with shoulder gear visible and one without. This would be a lot of design work that would take away from new designs being implemented in the future! For that reason, we currently have no plans to implement this type of feature.

But don't fret! If you have any specific gear that you'd like to see designed without shoulder plates, tell us here. I'll relay the requests over to the dev. team for future consideration!

this isn't the case for the visor on/off toggle though?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

this isn't the cast for the visor on/off toggle though?

They did have to animate or adjust them for /visor

[Niwashi]

They did have to animate or adjust them for /visor

But not for "all of the existing gear" as Luxpheras' post suggested. The vast majority of gear doesn't do anything with the /visor setting. It's only used on a few select pieces, and this would be no different.

[Naunet]

all of the existing gear would need to be redesigned to have two versions: one with shoulder gear visible and one without.

I don't understand why this request is much different from the /visor feature we got. It's not like you'd have to go back and ADD pauldrons to pieces that don't have them.

[Rymm]

I don't understand why this request is much different from the /visor feature we got. It's not like you'd have to go back and ADD pauldrons to pieces that don't have them.

Probably a lot of armor skins have nothing underneath the pauldrons, as in, taking them off would just leave a either a gaping whole where you could see through your character's digital skeleton or some weird flat color chopped off at an odd angle. It's highly unlikely that when armor is designed in the first place they bother to texture the shoulder areas that will eventually be covered over with the pauldrons.

Best you could hope for is for them to include that as an option when designing new pieces of gear. Makes more sense that way. It would be much easier for them to do and a more practical use of devs' time to include it from the start than go back and do a ton of editing on all the old armors. Especially since getting SE to make any sort of change/upgrade to any cosmetic aspect of the game is always like pulling teeth.