Quote Originally Posted by Ariane View Post
Yes, there's always guys complaining that they don't like casters wearing dresses. And, I've seen a lot of topics about how the gear overall in FFXIV is too feminine, and they also go on about how SE hates men so much.
Life is rough if you want to be a manly caster/healer. I say this as a heal main who plays RDM and BLM most often when DPSing- you have to try really, really hard to avoid wearing dresses, robes, super long coats, etc. Some of the sets do look cool (can't wait to get a dyable version of the Bardam's stuff!), but a lot of the time I just want to see myself actually wearing pants or shorts, no frills or sweeping robes attached. SE is stuck in a rigid design mentality across the board and these sad excuse for seasonal "shorts" is just the latest in a long trend of not being in touch with what people want to have their characters wear.

I've been wearing the Garo set for ages as a caster since it's simply the most aesthetically pleasing "battle mage" gear in the game, and that was designed by someone outside the company. I want more stuff like that. And shorts. For the love of god can we get some real shorts so I can have something approaching variety PLEASE.