Relic... Armour?

[Kalise]

Disclaimer: This thread is independent of the argument about "How" to create Relics. If you want to whine about ARR/HW/SB Relic farms, make another thread.

So...

After 3 sets of Relic weapons. I'm wondering... Will we ever get Relic Armour too?

Like, I'm not talking about AF gear that you get from doing the max level job quest, nor the stupid grinds for crafting stuff/Anemos crystals to be able to get dyeable versions of the AF gear (Why SE? The gear is already just for Glamour given that it's easily replaced the second you do... Any max level content? Just let us dye the stuff ;_; ), or the meh Role Gear from Pyros/Hydatos...

But like, actual Relic gear. Job specific gear, that you upgrade like Relic weapons over the course of an expansion and it changes in appearance and has some unique effects and what not.

Perhaps with some really neat designs that can make people who see you in your fully complete Relic armour be like "Damnnnnnn!"

Things like:

* A BLM set that has a fiery motif when you're in AF and a frosty motif during UI.

* A SCH set that when you get high enough Fairy Gauge, will give you glowing Fairy Wings.

* A Dragoon set that interacts and alters your Blood of the Dragon effects.

* A Paladin set that gives a cool glowing effect whenever you block an attack.

Etc.

I dunno, I think there could be some cool designs. It'd also be neat to get more than just a single AF set that's designed around each job.

Also, it could make for an interesting story. Like, what if we are introduced to a new NPC who's a Master Armoursmith. One who's making our Relic armour because he wants to make the best armour in the world as opposed to being forced to to pay off debts to Rowena.

Could have an interesting rivalry between this NPC and Gerolt, whom will still be saddled with making our Relic Weapons due to his debts... But also doesn't want to be shown up by this other NPC in making legendary items! (Even better if this NPC also at some point makes his own version of Ultimate Kettle Zenith)

[Vahlnir]

I'm pretty sure the Eureka sets were their attempt at relic armors. A poor attempt but an attempt nonetheless. Not so much because of the appearances in Pyros and Hydatos....they were just no different than any other piece of gear in the game. They don't seem keen on giving gear special procs or bonuses anytime soon, though they did give increased stats for fully upgraded Eureka sets. Sadly it only applies to Eureka and very few people actually bothered to upgrade them beyond getting their glows. In the end such bonuses didn't amount to anything beyond Eureka and BA so...

[alimdia]

17 unique armor sets every other patch for so many races + gender combinations is way way way too much work, the only way relic armor can happen is if we sacrifice all the new skins we get from raids, dungeons maybe even tomestones. One single relic armor upgrade for them would take a much effort to design as all the unique sets across all the three 24 man releases (i mean seriously, a raid has maybe 5 or less unique designs reskinned across jobs * 3 raids, still doesn't match the 17 unique armors from a single relic armor upgrade).

Not even wishful thinking, not even if they had more budget, relic armor can't happen, the rest of the game would suffer too much for it. Besides, who has the armory space for so many sets?

[Alucard135]

17 unique armor sets every other patch for so many races + gender combinations is way way way too much work

They could probably use AF gear. Dyeable version, glowing version (like Hydatos glow), aura version, winged version etc. Instead of creating role sets like the Pyros+Hydatos ones.

[Halivel]

Anemos armor was pretty much relic since it required you to use your AF gear as material. In the end we are able to get dyable versions with slightly better stats. But designing whole new sets same as weapons for every stage, every race, every gender is going to be a nightmare, so "anemos type" relic armor is probably the only thing we are able to get in recent update schedule.

[Duskane]

i think they could and probably should do it at some point

and doesn't have to change look every relic patch update

it could be
default
Augmented
+1
+2
then the final relic patch the armor gets changed

[Shougun]

I think this would be pretty cool!

I could imagine to help divert some more resources to this system that instead of them making AF3, 4, 5, as they do, they could use those unique outfit resources on a relic armor quest. If they really wanted to also give people some sort of gift armor in quest as we have had so far perhaps just take our current AF armor and add a few shiny effects to it- things that don't cost them too much development time. Like "oooh dyeable shadow/corrupted aether AF2++ dark knight armor" would be good enough and probably save them the resources they'd use making a unique armor for these relics instead.

Been wanting to get around to writing a Golbez sort of tank mage job but seeing as that would uneven the tank jobs (4->5) and a tank job wouldn't be due for another two or three expansions lol, I'd love to throw Golbez / Ex-death armor for black mage. With perhaps a special casting animation when the full set is equipped (to make visually even more akin to those OP mages).