Request: Battle Damage

[KaivaC]

After dipping into other games recently (basically Dissidia NT and Dragonball FighterZ), I realize that I miss one little detail that I would love to see in FFXIV - Battle Damage. I'm not asking for something exquisite like clothes tearing as a battle wears on, wounds or anything of the sort...but I wouldn't mind seeing my character have some dirt marks on them after a fight. Make it an optional thing of course, but you know, something little like that would be pretty enjoyable. Can't be glamorous and spotless all the time.

If that could be put in, maybe even allow showers to wash the battle damage off - or really, any type of water that washes over our characters.

[Fhaerron]

Adding an extra slider to miqote customization will cause the servers to crash.

So I'm afraid that this will probably not be added because ...

#serverlimitations

[SenorPatty]

I've personally just given up on asking for what I call "advanced" customization requests until they can give us the basics.

SE has made it clear they can't even give us that.

[Texa]

SE has made it clear they can't even give us that.

I'd be happy if they'd just give us the option to flip hairstyles, which is a very simple thing to do on most engines, but still hasn't happened.

[ErryK]

I don't see this happening, and personally, with the fact that the dev team already struggles with designing gear, I would rather the art/gear developers focus on that than visual wear and tear on our gear.

[Derio]

I dont see this happening. I mean we cant even get new faces in the game.

This is done in FFXV and that feature can get annoying with your clothes getting dirty every mission, even on small missions where you dont even get hit.

[Yorha]

I'd rather get new faces first

[Fredco191]

I'd rather get new faces first

Same. Along with other character creation options.

[Iscah]

I expect it would be another one of those things that maybe could have been done if they'd had the idea when they were building the game, but with the current system there's no way to add in such information now to make an item slowly change appearance with wear.

If such a thing was included from the start though, I think it could have been useful to link it to the 'gear condition' stat! (If your gear is looking worn, it's time for a trip to the repairman....) Or have three setting options of [on] / [linked to status] / [off] so you can opt to have it look like that for actual wear indication or just for aesthetics.

If I ever design an MMORPG, I'll keep it in mind...

[InkstainedGwyn]

I think it would be a cool option. Realistically, we all know that they 'don't have the server space' to do it, but that doesn't mean we can't express what we like and +1 the cool ideas.