(Dev request) can we get toggleable poldrens please

[Vespar]

What is this. Why are people against shoulder pads!? Soon, you'll be asking to ditch heavy armor altogether, no elbow or knee joints, no tasset, no gauntlets or greaves...

Please stop, let them continue to develop beautiful armor for the tanks. If you don't like it, why don't you go ahead an play any of the (oh so many) classes that don't rely on heavy armor?


We literally only have three classes that can use heavy sets of armor, versus 12 that don't.

Its not just tanks who get shoulder pauldrons. Why do I need shoulder pauldrons as a Bard or a White Mage?
Its not just heavy armor that has these things. For example:


This is just a couple examples of pauldrons on jobs that are NOT tanks or classes that wear heavy armor. (and in the first image, the pauldron off the left shoulder isnt even ATTACHED, it hangs there in mid air.)
I get that many of the pauldrons were there to give an aesthetic touch to the piece of gear, but in some cases it just looks down right wrong.
This is exactly why folks want a shoulder pauldron TOGGLE. So that those who do like it can keep it. And those that dont can turn it off. If they can do that w/ Visor, they can do it with /pauldrons

[savageink]

It seems pretty logical that since the system was never designed to have separate pauldrons, it treats the armor for the chest and arms as one unit. It would have to be a full reskin, just like adding a cloak to an outfit. And would add a full chest piece to the database. Sounds like a lot of work since there are a ton of armor sets with shoulders. If they were separate, it would be easy like with heads where it pretends the head slot doesn't exist.

[xxvaynxx]

I'll like a shoulder pad-less and the huge strip removed from the skyrat top piece, the female version of course as the males are shirtless.
If the devs choose to make this they can add a male version as well.

I don't have a picture but without the huge shoulder Pad and the strip the outfit looks nice with just the tank top.

[Jonnycbad]

Not shoulder-plate, but still related:

Please make a version of the Gnath Thorax without the silly shell in the rear! I love the tattered cape and worn scale armor but the shell on the rear looks very silly.




It would be super mega amazing if we had a version without the shell! Or at least make new sets that incorporate a rolled scarf/cape around the neck:

[Felis]

Not shoulder-plate, but still related:

Please make a version of the Gnath Thorax without the silly shell in the rear! I love the tattered cape and worn scale armor but the shell on the rear looks very silly.




It would be super mega amazing if we had a version without the shell! Or at least make new sets that incorporate a rolled scarf/cape around the neck:

It's Gnath gear.

[TreFernandez]

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!

augmented temple cyclas maybe?

[Paladinleeds]

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 there's headgear that /visor doesn't afffect because there's no visor adjustment... why couldn't it be the same with /pauldrons?

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.

Thank you for the clarification there! Appreciated! That makes more sense now actually.

[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.