Shadowbringer Suggestion: Meaningful Tattoos and Tattoo Artist as a Trade

[Hercub]

I thought of this recently because I have one Tattoo in real life. What if we could get Tattoos on FFXIV?

What I'm thinking is you can buy tattoos from tattoo artists, but the tattoos are symbolic to Class, Skill, and Achievements (I don't know the lingo, sorry) among other things. What I mean is supposing you beat a primal on Extreme then after beating him you can tattoo of him on a part in your body from a tattoo artist. The design of the Tattoo depends on your class, so a Sumarai would be allowed to have a different design than say a Machinist or Black Mage. These Tattoos would based on Class and Achievements.

Other Tattoos would be based on Skill and Achievement. The same, you have to earn your tattoo in order for you to buy it and because they are tattoos they would be very expensive.

There can also be tattoo removal which is also very expensive just in case you want a different tattoo.

And finally there would be regular vanity tattoos, which require no achievement but look nice.

Then there could be a Crafting Trade of Tattoo Artist who would be able to design there own Tattoos based off a Tattoo Palette just like creating your character in the game. These Tattoo artist could Tattoo themselves and other people. This Tattoo artist would be able to Tattoo things about your FC or even about your personal life on your character by that I mean your real world life.


This is just my primary ideas. If you like the idea add to it and see if we can get this into the Game. All ideas and suggestions welcome. There are no stupid ideas. We are a FFXIV community, all for one, one for all.

[Rymm]

I thought of this recently because I have one Tattoo in real life. What if we could get Tattoos on FFXIV?

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Not saying it wouldn't be cool, but we have been begging for more/better character customization for years and it keeps getting shot down.

[Akonyl]

somethingsomethingSystem limitations due to 1.0 spaghetti codesomethingsomething

Not saying it wouldn't be cool, but we have been begging for more/better character customization for years and it keeps getting shot down.

I can't really imagine it being impossible to implement, considering legacy characters (players subbed during 1.0) actually already have tattoos. Though then there's still the question of just how customizable those can be, where they can be placed on the body, whether the dev team even wants to make those tats less special by making other tattoos, etc.

[Kurando]

There are also a few pieces of gear in the game that have tattoo designs attached to them as well, so it's not like it should be impossible to implement them as a stand alone customisation for your characters.

[Derio]

We cant even get new faces and makeup. I doubt we will see tattoos.

[Sylvina]

Now that we have a bike mount this is needed for all the biker gangs.

[Iscah]

It comes back to the character customisation menu, and whether they can add more options to it - in which case this joins the same queue as all the other options that people keep asking for.

The legacy tattoo is built in as one of those currently existing options - it's a simple yes/no question of whether to display it or not, which is different to choosing one of several designs like you would for hair or facepaint.

If they're not going to add new settings, then there are two potential ways around it:

1. More clothing that incorporates tattoos into the design when equipped

2. POSSIBLY using the facepaint menu to instead add designs to other parts of the body, if it's set up to do that.

3. Ask the Lore team to explain what the existing racial tattoos are supposed to mean.
But seriously. I'd love a proper explanation for Duskwight tattoos in particular.

[Melichoir]

I remember a thread from a while back that talked about customization rewards and things. I felt that yeah, tattoos should be a thing that everyone can get (Tattoos ranging from any skin modification, so tattoos, blemishes, scars, etc). They should be treated like Hairstyles, so you can modify them as you wish for a price from a menu. The tattoo artist has a base set of them, and more can be unlocked via GoldSaucer or other in game side things/quests/etc. More stuff to spend MGP and Gil on essentially that are completley cosmetic.

As for legacy players, part of me is "Screw em," because I would hazard the legacy players are extremely small in comparison to players who want this as an avenue for customization. Thats just my pragmatic view. Why limit a customization feature in a game for something from years and years and years ago that probably wasnt really thought out. That being said, it's not like I dont get teh argument being made for legacy players, its that I dont think their argument or position out weighs the player base at large. A simply way to keep this consistent is a compromise: Legacy Players will get that Specialized legacy Tattoo available account Wide, and not achievable to anyone else in the game under any circumstances. Meaning, they get a cosmetic they only have access too, and it is expanded to account wide. I mention the account wide aspect is that from my understanding, the legacy tattoo is only applied to pre-existing characters or something of that nature, and not to the account itself. You get your tattoo whic only you have access too, and is account wide, at the expense that everyone else gets tattoos in the game. For me, that seems reasonable and fair.

[Shurrikhan]

Now that we have a bike mount this is needed for all the biker gangs.

But then each tat would have have to be $30 a pop off the Mogstation, too...

Using crafters to augment a purchased experience? Barbarism, I tell you, barbarism.