Why is Square Enix reusing the Forgiven Manatrigger AGAIN?

[Rollout]

For those unaware, the crafted gear for 5.2 was shown on the special site for it and, lo and behold, the tank is a Gunbreaker and is using a retextured Forgiven Manatrigger.

This marks the second time this model has been reused since the class came out less than six months ago. It's already bad enough that they reused the weapon model for Alexander Ultimate, but they're reusing it again a patch later for a crafted weapon?

By comparison, Red Mage and Samurai had Dreadwyrm weapons added after the jobs were added to the game, prior to the release of Unending Coil of Bahamut, so they could have Ultimate Dreadwyrm weapons that matched the rest of the jobs. They also had brand new models made for the Ultimate Weapon's Refrain, completely unique from anything else they had.

Meanwhile, Gunbreaker (and I assume Dancer will be getting a reused model again) has not received the same level of attention as previous jobs. They haven't gotten any weapons modeled after the old trial weapons and they've reused the same model twice now. I understand that they are adding a lot of new side content and reworking stuff, but I don't believe it's that difficult to model and texture weapons. Humanoids and monsters, sure, but not weapons.

I do not like this precedent that Square Enix is setting for gear design going forward. It's a slippery slope that is getting steeper and steeper.

[MitsukiKimura]

Personally I think it looks better than the GnB weapons we have now. I'm definitely using it as my GnB glamour until the relic weapons release.

[frostmagemari]

Personally I think it looks better than the GnB weapons we have now. I'm definitely using it as my GnB glamour until the relic weapons release.

Who knows.. maybe the relic will be another retexture of Forgiven Manatrigger and you won't lose your look at all.

[MitsukiKimura]

Who knows.. maybe the relic will be another retexture of Forgiven Manatrigger and you won't lose your look at all.

Well then feel free to give your ideas to the dev team instead of complaining about it

[DJMau]

Well then feel free to give your ideas to the dev team instead of complaining about it

That would require the person in question actually having an idea. Why come up with a reasonable idea when complaining about it is so much easier?

[WhyAmIHere]

I'm more curious as to what the development team is being put through to lead to this situation in the first place.

[Theodric]

If they're struggling with ideas, maybe they could hold a contest for weapon designs...?

I don't think it's due to a lack of creativity but more a matter of strained resources. I just hope there's something big being developed in the background to surprise us.

[SturmChurro]

If they're struggling with ideas, maybe they could hold a contest for weapon designs...?

I don't think it's due to a lack of creativity but more a matter of strained resources. I just hope there's something big being developed in the background to surprise us.

I'd laugh if there is actually nothing big coming out that is straining those resources. Better be grateful and pay the sub though!

[Iscah]

We didn't get weapon models to go with the PVP gear either - not entirely unexpected since the Republican set didn't have them, but disappointing nevertheless since it's a rare chance to get new Lv1 weapon models with some interesting designs.

That definitely seems like a lack of gear modelling resources in general, rather than GNB/DNC being singled out for neglect. They just arrived at a bad time.

[Vaer]

Skysteel Tools (That is assuming they are going to change as they are upgraded, maybe they won't.) and Umbrellas if I had to guess.