Who doesnt want gear restrictions removed?

[Ammokkx]

I feel that I personally don’t always feel comfortable in voicing that because the people who want these changes can be a little argumentative. They don’t get much opposition and I feel that they shout it down if they do. So with respect I’d ask them to stay out of this thread

I mean, solid attempt, but you're not really going to get people to stay out of a public forum thread by asking them nicely. I also don't really think you should bar people from talking in certain threads, 'cause y'know, it's a discussion board. Not a "validate my opinion: 2 flavors of thread" board.

Yeah, I know this place can feel like a bit of a circlejerk at times, but you're still going to get "the other side" hopping into this thread whether you ask them to or not.

That, and I find this thread more than a bit redundant.

[Kaizencorr]

I like gear restrictions.

[Deceptus]

For racial gear:

Old 2.0 code that don't allow for letting certain gear on certain body styles. Same thing that is always holding this game back.

Certain sets clip like hell, racial gear would be worse.

And I support unlocking everything. If you can slaughter voidsent in a frog costume, there's no excuse why a healer can't wear some plate.

[ShadowSolaris7]

All I really want is the 2020 male valentione set for female.

[LaylaTsarra]

Are we allowed to say we like hempen gear restrictions and other role specific gear? I do and hope it stays just the way it is and I would really like to see more along the lines of hempen sets for other types of outfits.

[kaynide]

I'm for a mix of both:

1) Keep restrictions on artifact armor. Though I would almost like to NOT see a new job specific sets at all from the next expansion onward.
2) Any armors that are not in (1) that are restricted to a specific job (eg the Garo tank sets) can be worn for all jobs of the same class (so WAR can wear the PLD set)
3) For most games, I like clear division of armor classes, with some class identity in your gear..but..well.. FFXIV has frog suits and robes that tanks can wear, so why not. For glamour purposes, sure, allow anything to be glamoured except artifact gear. If that's not an easy thing to do code-wise, I'd say just create some glamour sets like skyrat, but start with heavy armor (like Cuirass/Plate or Aketon/Chain)
4) ALTERNATIVELY, just do what they've been doing: take dungeon drops from previous expansions and turn them into leveling sets for the next expansion...but for a wider variety of jobs (Eg. Berzerker's Scale Mail was Tank only, High Steel Scale was available for tanks and DRG)

Though I would say this: Be careful what you wish for. If SE understands this as "Everyone wants to wear what the other jobs can", this could very easily turn into "Ok, let's just make 1 armor set for all the jobs, that way everyone CAN wear what the other jobs have!"

Re: Hempen sets

I would like this to be removed somewhat; As a fem highlander, my hempen set is horrible looking for my tastes; I would much rather wear something like the midlander or miqo'te have; possibly even the more elegant looking elezen set... Anything but the pile of strings/bondage gear..

[MilkieTea]

I've noticed a weird sentiment in some of these comments and it has me confused.

If someone wants to wear a dress as a male character, I see literally nothing wrong with that. Gender restrictions are quite dumb.

[SturmChurro]

I've noticed a weird sentiment in some of these comments and it has me confused.

If someone wants to wear a dress as a male character, I see literally nothing wrong with that. Gender restrictions are quite dumb.

"Resources". If they can spend resources to fit dresses to males, they can spend resources to fit other items, such as hempen.

[GrizzlyTank]

"Resources". If they can spend resources to fit dresses to males, they can spend resources to fit other items, such as hempen.

And if that costs extra resources, then they have messed up somewhere in how they add things to the game.

[SturmChurro]

And if that costs extra resources, then they have messed up somewhere in how they add things to the game.

Agreed, SE apparently can't do anything because they don't have any resources.