5.2 Crafted Gear: Gender Locked Alterations

[Early_Lily]

Just like they did with 2B coffers. Oh wait, there is no "both", it's just one outfit for everyone with no choice.

I prefer gender locking. At least that way an outfit won't look ridiculous on my character.

Are you implying that if they remove gender locking from gear, there will be less overall gear to choose from?
And your basis for this argument is the outfit that drops from a raid, which is based on a female protag so of course there is only one option. A better argument would be the valentines eve;- .. Oh wait, thats gender locked and HAD two seperate outfits so that doesnt support your argument because it came after the single outfit.

Whats hilarious is, even in my world of free choice for everyone - You can STILL wear whatever you want on your character. You dont have to wear anything you dont want to. Thats the wonderful thing about choice.

[3c-33]

Yes. There is no trend of creating two unisex outfits (feminine and masculine) of the same theme and releasing them at the same time. It's ludicrous to think they would make two versions of the same crafted piece the OP wants.

How does this mean there's less gear to choose from? You have no choice if it's gender locked and if there's only one it still means there's less to choose from as opposed to making two variants. You can't say that genderlocking things gives there more gear to choose from when you have to fantasia for it, most people are not going to fantasia over a single glamour

I prefer gender locking. At least that way an outfit won't look ridiculous on my character.

You're also not forced to wear the unisex item you don't like. I don't really know why this is a prevalent thing people say anyway because, taking the valentines outfit for example, it looks perfectly normal and good for women to wear suits, and then same can be said about men in dresses. Imo it depends on what your character looks like. If you have like a tall edgy bearded guy then yeah the outfit won't look good on them but you can easily make a "pretty boy" in this game that would fit in it. The stigma that comes from the idea that there must be a dress code for men and women otherwise they look bad is kinda uncalled for if you ask me, I believe you can make anyone look good in a certain style it you try for it. It only looks "weird" because you're not used to it or the person doesn't match the aesthetic anyway. It's not the gender that's the problem.

Job design in this game is currently in the gutter when it's arguably one if the core attractions of the game, everyone has to put up with playing at least one job if they want to access just about all of the game's content, if that's the case why is this focal point of the game in such a poor state? Literally where are all these "limited resources" going to anyway if not that? Is everything supposed to be half assed as they focus on 20 different things at once? They can't fix viera/Hrothgar, they can't fix jobs, or blue mage, the list goes on. And maybe when the fishing boat comes out it'll turn out to be bad and people complain about that and then other people say "they're working on other things too much to pay attention to that" and it never ends. If they're going to do literally anything they could at least put the full effort into one thing at a time instead of spreading themselves thin with everything. I'd rather have good job design or good glamour diversity, one or the other, but we get neither instead

Can we also keep in mind the amount of time they spent fixing the ugly 2b legs? Because people had an uproar over it? Over an ASS? So the priorities there are fine but this isn't?

[3c-33]

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Exactly, and I do think it's a bit silly that they would keep genderlocking things after Yoshi himself specifically said that they wanted to move away from that. I'd think it's better to start that philosophy now rather than start piling up more things they may or not change at this point. You'd really think the valentine event would have let you wear both lol

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Thank you!

I at least hope this ends up not making a big difference to me, I was really looking forward to the tank set as well, if it ends up different on females I'll be pretty disappointed ):

On a related note I've really been hoping they unlock the gender specific cposes on jobs as there's several I prefer on the other gender, I know that was a highly requested thing before as well

[Ariane]

Also, I'm really confused, is there an image somewhere that actually shows it's different for each gender? Or is this being made up, I can't find anything on that

Its based on the winning aiming design that had different looks for both genders
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They showed how the aiming set will look in game in the last live letter

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Where can we find a picture of the female crafted tank armor? Haven't seen it yet so I don't now what OP is talking about.

[TwiibieTwuu]

No offense to the artist but I really hope the dress is it's own piece. And not part of the top....

[Leloa]

No offense to the artist but I really hope the dress is it's own piece. And not part of the top....

To me it looks like there's shorts underneath that frill at least for the aiming set, so it might be part of the top just like the healers sky pirate coat.

[SieyaM]

Maybe don't play an ERP bunny?

[Leloa]

People here saying they rather have locked gear than one same gear for every gender but what if we could choose which gear we take with ilvl and then just like with Heavensward weapons we could buy the gear as glamours without stats as well? I'd take that option.

[Fourbestintoner]

We need more gendered outfits not less, then maybe one day we will get a striking set that won't be hideous trash since females should get cute stuffs.