Why healer armors are all ugly?

[MiniTofu]

All the set and armors I get from quests to dungeon in Stormblood and so on. All looks so ridiculous. Sorry, I am not here to flame the designer but it's all copy and paste lack of design.

I want to shorts, actual pants and variations. I have been wearing armors from 2.0.. nothing really from 3.0+ 4.0 ... etc.

Too much robes... can we have less robes? Actual armors? I mean caster don't have weak legs...

[Vidu]

Thats what glamour is for?

And, excuse me for saying so, but there is actually quite a variety with healer gear designs - maybe a bit robe-heavy, but still quite a lot of different designs. And if you dont like those, just pick non-role specific gear...

[Jybril]

Thats what glamour is for?

And, excuse me for saying so, but there is actually quite a variety with healer gear designs - maybe a bit robe-heavy, but still quite a lot of different designs. And if you dont like those, just pick non-role specific gear...

A variety of healer designs but we only know how to be in dresses.

[Anienai]

Healing is an ugly job.

[Mistyregions]

I dunno what focus test they did that said "Robes? You like ROBES? Well we got full robes, half robes, 3/8ths robes, side robes, left robes, right robes, we got so many fricking robes we turned them upside down and POPPED your collar! You like collars? We got collars for days, so many collars you are forced into a pony tail or shower hair because that hair is gonnnnnaaa clip through your upside down robe on ya neck"

[Violet_Galaxy]

I feel like I'm the only one by default that just glams everything no matter the role. There are just far too many outfits to really worry about being stuck to robes in my opinion.

[UnrealTai]

Thought I was the only one thinking this.
But ya I have not stayed stuck to one single healer outfit since 1.0, all of them eye sores. Glamour or bust.

Would help if SE made decent looking healer gear.

The only outfit I like on them that is still a dress is the spookie black halloween gown. But then the pumpkins on her hips kinda ruin that.

If were gonna be forced into dresses wheres all of the thin tight ones with slits on the sides.

[Shougun]

I think it could be quite helpful to show some example armors you think would feel healer-y and yet also not too robe like, might give them an idea for upcoming armor then .

Maybe anything like one of these? :

(I know basically all of them still have cape components but they stray away from the tent robe looks at least lol)

Personally I think some overtly over the top light or dark robes could be really fun (yes I know they're robes still ):




With a extra personal note that anything with really any particle effects or that have that extra dollop of fantasy/over the top-ness should probably be saved away for relic armor and stuff (like the next Eureka set and such). I like wild fantasy armors but it'd be nice to not saturate the screen space with every single person wearing a halo, having giant wings, and emitting over 9000 particles. So I'm for it, for those wild armors, but like.. with discretion and pacing between them lol.

Would be interesting to see what people want. Or run another armor contest, those are always fun- though a bit sad when you see excellent armors that didn't get put into the game lol. Good work to those who enter. I could perhaps add some stick figure art next time, real serious stuff over 1 point of defense surely! XD.

[Ksenia]

There were copyright issues with making healers look the part

[Enla]

I personally wouldn't be adverse to some combat medic gear. The Skalla stuff came pretty close but it has that ugly collar on it, but we really don't have much in the healer category that doesn't have a delicate or robe like feel to it. At least not without having to mix and match Lv. 1 gear in at some point.



^ I'd love something like this. Or to go back to the old healer design contest winners... This runner up was pretty unique. Still robey but at least it looks like something you can actually run in. (Well, if you cover up the exposed part of the foot but you get what I mean.)



I don't necessarily mind the limitations in regards to AST and WHM as their aesthetics have always been on the more delicate side. But when I'm rocking SCH I'd like something like the first image or like a fantasy version of Lifeline from Apex Legends. We're supposed to be part of the M A R I N E S, I'd like to see us be able to dress like proper soldiers. Maybe even have some gear with bandage packs and protective armor.