To be entirely fair, females are definitely catered for. Their outfits tend to be unique and nicely detailed, whereas males is just either a recycled look, or a low-rez onesie. The only male-exclusive set that actually looks good imo is Thancred's
With the plethora of unisex attire especially with Veteran Rewards having costume sets of male characters for everyone Female characters very much can wear a large majority of gear while male characters are locked out. With most costumes being something you can replicate in recycled gear with a few outliers such as Aymeric's Coat.
Females are catered to when it comes to Cash Shop extras which gives greater incentive to play a female character if not for just having more options then males do.
The only baller looking Male only gear has always been HW Thancred and Ser Aymeric.
The thing is, there are multiple ways to "balance" it.
In one way you can say it is balanced because everyone can wear the costumes that were selected as veteran rewards.
In another way it is completely unbalanced because they have favoured selecting male characters' costumes to be those rewards in the first place.
Straighten that out to be "even" with male and female costumes. Now people are unhappy because "women still look good in the male outfit but men look bad in the female outfit".
Back and forth. Balanced and skewed. Someone is going to be unhappy with it at all times.
(But this is the patch notes thread and I am going to try very hard to not turn this into another identical debate on this perennial subject.)
Someone mentioned Tellah earlier in this thread but why anyone would want to dress up like this as a healer is beyond me:
Rydia/Rosa's gear just looks better for both men and women.
While there are male glams on there, i’m pretty certain the female exclusive and feminine sets outweigh the males by a noticeable margin.
I do hope they'll eventually add Ultimecia's and Edea's outfits... but also Seymour's and Kuja's.
When the game's story becomes self-aware:
Last edited by Valkyrie_Lenneth; 12-02-2021 at 06:35 AM.
Here you go.
https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/g...age-of-mysidia
Now I think for Female FF character costume sets they would need to include the hairstyles as well and Tifa's hair as well as Garnet have waist long hair which the Devs seem hesitant on including. Especially since we still do not have Iceheart or Hilda's hairstyles either. Which I'd prefer majestic long hair even if it would end up looking like a cheap blanket.
Not to mention Fran's long hair either.
Moving on regardless of how many male/female sets there are many can agree that girls look better in them in more ways then males do. And this is primarily for a looooooong time all the new gear is some kind of dress, robe or overcoat instead of actual armor.
Which the men and larger characters absolutely SHINE in armor.
Unless it's Halone's Armor because on men that chest piece sticking out is the ugliest thing on the planet making the female version much better by a mile.
Last edited by MagiusNecros; 12-02-2021 at 06:40 AM.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure if they gave us Tellah as "the" mage pick from the FFIV it would only bring fairness because it would be complained about by both genders. I'm not interested in dressing up any of my characters like that.
Also, both the caster and healer glamour are the same model (Rydia). Rosa is far more revealing.
I don't think I'd use the body piece on any of my male characters, but some of the other pieces of Rydia's outfit should be useful. The boots look cool, the gloves are probably just the hand piece and not the flared sleeves and more headpieces that aren't flowers are always welcome.
The pants might work with something, though the "just took the women's thigh-high stockings and filled in the bare bit" look always annoys me when they do that (as does the women getting thigh-high stockings again in the first place).
Last edited by Iscah; 12-02-2021 at 06:50 AM.
Ah, interesting but still a difference nonetheless. And that isn’t even including again all of the feminine style healing gear. All in all i just wish they’d put more effort into at least the male side of things in this case for Rydia’s outfit, or at least made the male version a different outfit like say Fusoya or Tellah or hell, even Golbez. As it is it looks pretty horrid as we can see on that au ra.
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