The Fashion Report

[kuma_aus]

It's definitely a WHM week, right? =p

I was thinking more of a DoH week since healer week was so close. But the theme is confusing. It's week 11, Casters were in week 8 so a healer could get 100 and week 4 was CUL. So I think it'll be strange if it's another healer week so soon unless there won't be another one for a while.

[Hasrat]

I'm not terribly convinced that devs put that much forethought into 100-point class selection (assuming devs even have any input). Seems just as or more likely that it's a random selection of items and dyes, with checks to make sure there are no conflicts. We all know the outfits are usually hideous messes, hard to imagine they're hand-picked, at least until/unless we see outfits repeat at any point. Moreover, with the way we've seen the same hints apply to the same items, or similar from the same "set," I feel reasonably safe in assuming it's not at all selective about the frequency any particular class may be necessary to score top marks.

However, I don't yet have a guess for the origins of the overall "theme." We haven't seen any repeats yet I don't think. Hard to say how the theme ever relates to the outfit. Might be related to dyes, or class, or might even be based on a combination of some of the chosen items. Without more data, I wouldn't really use the theme in any of my considerations (if I were actually dedicated to finding correct items/dyes).

[Moonfish]

For the Brain over Brawn clue I was thinking maybe the Scholasticate Coat? it can be dyed, too.

[Alien_Gamer]

It's definitely a WHM week, right? =p

Yep, and last week was definitely dragoon...

[kuma_aus]

My guesses so far if it is a DoH week.

Hat = Company Hat
Body = Ironworks Body of Crafting
Legs = Ala Mhigan Legs of Crafting
Bracelet = The Vault Bracelet

[Cats777]

The price for dusk leather has already doubled on my server.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I'm not terribly convinced that devs put that much forethought into 100-point class selection (assuming devs even have any input).

I'm 100% convinced that there's no way this is manually done. While I can see several ways in which this could be automated, my gil is on the idea that all of the potential items are tagged with a handful of clues, and those clues are then tagged to a handful of themes. The items/clues each week are pure RNG (as 'pure' as computer-based RNG can be, and there may be some percentages in there to try to get items of the same type, but it doesn't look like it.) Once the clues (because correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the Flat Cap been used for 2 different clues so far?) are populated, the system picks one of the themes that is tagged to one or more of the clues presented. It's likely going to take the theme that has the most hits in the current week, which is why we've had a few weeks where the theme fit more than one item, but even that's hit-or-miss. The only potential considerations would be class/gender-locked items, so there's probably some checks to make sure it doesn't pick items that can't be worn with other items already on the list.

The dyes are likely already tied into the theme, so if you have two items that populate the "gold saucer" theme, RNG then picks one of the colour schemes that has been tagged to that theme. The only reason I think these aren't RNG is because of the duplicate colours in every week, and the colours seem to match the theme better than some of the items do... but it's even then possible to make them purely RNG, with the system being told to choose 2-4 duplicates each week.

Alternatively, the clues -> theme could be populated first, and then it could RNG from all of the items that have been tagged to those clues, but either way... they wouldn't pay somebody to manually do this each week. It's way too easy to automate.

[acolyte]

The price for dusk leather has already doubled on my server.

Trick to those who wanna make money: Buy out the cheap Wind Silk Coattees, desynth them, pray you get Dusk Leather, and resell them.
Did those the other day in my server, where we're not even talking about doubled, the stock just got depleted.

[Cats777]

Trick to those who wanna make money: Buy out the cheap Wind Silk Coattees, desynth them, pray you get Dusk Leather, and resell them.
Did those the other day in my server, where we're not even talking about doubled, the stock just got depleted.

Aw hell, those are even more expensive than the dusk leathers.

[acolyte]

Aw hell, those are even more expensive than the dusk leathers.

Haha the other day, Dusk Leathers were out of stock at my server's mb (was priced at 100k last) while Wind Silk Coatees were 25k-35k, so I had that hand to play.
Otherwise, bug your FC leader to send airship to grab some :3