Quote Originally Posted by Gula View Post
IPlayers always revert to items that came out several years ago anyway because without some *cough* ""edits"" you have unnecessary bits and questionable choices that turn people away from wearing it in the first place.
This part is largely down to how everything recent is similar. And quite often comes up on the forums. There's 3 main reasons I think.

1- Why does nearly every body armor since 3.0 come with a full length Cape, long coat or even a full blown gown.

Whens the last time you saw a healer jacket that was literally just a jacket or maybe dalmatia style thing without being full length all the way down to your ankles?

Whens the last time you saw tank gear that didn't have a blooming cape on it or wasn't again a full length coat of fending?.

These are why people keep going back to the old stuff for glamours. Because new stuff just sucks.

2- another issue is much of the newer stuff doesn't even look thematic. Most of the time you see like hey here's a "x coat of striking" it doesn't look like something a martial artist (monk) would wear. Nor does it look very samurai like.. it just looks. Well questionable at best..

Similar thing with how much casting gear doesn't really look like something a red mage would ever wear. It's all to generic.

And 3:- gender bias or whatever you want to call it.. when virtually all healer gear looks incredibly feminine. Frilly cuffs and skirts and the like. Never a pair of trousers or slacks or anything in sight..

All of this is why the old stuff is more popular because notnonly is alot of it more thematic to the jobs / roles. But its also easier to work with.

It's why people frequently ask the devs to stop making everything the same dam stuff. Release some heavy armour without capes or caster gear that isn't full length coats and robes. Etc etc.