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[Nihility]

The symmetry thing really throws me off sometimes too, honestly.

I've also often questioned the weird hanging extra bits on some of the gear, such as the WAR artifact gear for Stormblood (why do they need a massive blade chained to their butt?) or the weird ring of spikes on the bottom and back of the last Omega scouting piece that I imagine clips through the ground when weapons are drawn. The Strife Vest is another major offender, with its sheaths for eleventy hundred swords on the back.

why do you have to use one of the cooler ones as your example?
the thing hanging off the back of brutal lorica is a spare blade for the farsha.
It's possibly the only example in the game of an armor set that ties directly to a matched weapon


and to the original post, I am greatly in favor of some gear having limitations.
Limitations just make things more interesting, but maybe that's just me being old enough to remember trade-offs being the norm