Please make Living Shadow copy the player character's model

[LeoLupinos]

They probably don't have the talent to create an AI that copies your appearance and would have to make a shadow figure for every possible model and armor in the game, though if they do decide to mirror image your character, they could probably just use your face and race model but keep them in the 60 DRK armor. The Nin's Bunshin is just a special effect rather then an actual AI which is why its able to use their character model.

Isn't the level 50 Job quest basically your DRK fighting a copy of your character? I don't see how they can't just do the same as a Copy that fights alongside you.

[Gemina]

Isn't the level 50 Job quest basically your DRK fighting a copy of your character? I don't see how they can't just do the same as a Copy that fights alongside you.

Esteem (who we fight in lv50 quest) is one of several physical manifestations the WoL projects from his/her guilt. In all honesty, we really don't know how deep this rabbit hole goes but that is for a thread focusing on DRK lore and how batschite they are. I bring it up solely because Living Shadow could validly take on many forms.

In the case of the poster you quoted, having Living Shadow be a direct copy of you and your current gearset, I could point to the Lost City of Amdapore HM. The first boss in there creates copies of each party member. They don't do anything other than set out a large cone AoE, but from a coding perspective that really doesn't matter. This along with NIN's Bunshin goes to show it can be done if that's what the devs wanted.

I simply think Fray was chosen due to being the common denominator in the lore, and to a lesser extent NIN's shadow clone.