Adding Garlean Gunblade & Glam in the Game

[ElizanderNorisse]

Hello everyone! I'm Elizander Norisse, new to the forums, pleased to meet you all

For those who are interested, I recently made a petition for the developers to add the Garlean gunblade & Centurion/Legatus/Imperial Guard armours in the game!

While it's true that we already have the Doman, Elemental, and Law's Order gears, but we still do not have these yet.

Although in Endwalker, we did get the Imperial coats from a dungeon, which is a good thing because we don't really have much Garlean glam in the game, and that made me hopeful somehow. However I see no reason why these should not be available in the game as well.

I do hope that the developers would listen to this request to add the gears into the game someday!

Here's the link to the petition:

https://chng.it/hBdy55Zx

Also I’m asking the devs in the Q&A thread, your support would be appreciated!

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...tions%21/page6

Yoshida has answered my question in the Q&A session & confirmed we’re getting the Garlean gear in the future!

Clip of the confirmation:

https://twitter.com/eliz_norisse/sta...MEXY_PSqwNYtIg

Sister thread:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...Guard-Armours.

Japanese thread:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...07#post6050107

[ElizanderNorisse]

UPDATE: We have reached 100 signatures!

[LadyEureka]

Absolutely we need Garlean Centurion and Legatus armour. I don't care if it is politically incorrect, it is amazing looking. As many armours should be
I will sign it!

[Terin]

I completely agree those should be in the game. I believe you're even told, they ARE Gunblades, just "inferior copies of the real thing". And since Gaius clearly isn't using that armor anymore (or its gold variation), I say just pop that up on the Mog Station.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I dont really see a need for a Petition on this lol, if you've played Endwalker -SPOILER- .....you are working WITH the Garleans now. So there is potential that Armor will become accessible at some point.
Plus they've given us 2 sets of Imperial Armor before, I see no reason they wont do more.

But yeah, that Armor is pretty sexy, Id love to be able to glam it in the future

[Soge01]

I. NEED. IIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!!!

[Alestorm]

Wasn't it commented by your job trainer that Garleans basically took gun barrels and hot glued them to swords to make an inferior Gunbreaker?

[Enkidoh]

Wasn't it commented by your job trainer that Garleans basically took gun barrels and hot glued them to swords to make an inferior Gunbreaker?

It is. Turns out the Garleans ripped off the hrothgar's design, the later which dates back to the Allagan Empire - the hrothgar regard the Garlean design as cheap inferior knockoffs hardly deserving of the 'gunblade' name, where as the Garleans in turn regard the hrothgar version as "obsolete antiques". And the two are very distinct mechanically wise - the hrothgar gunblade is, like FFVIII's version, basically a sword with a rumble pack attached to give a tremor into the blade (that can also fire 'rounds' of aetherically charged energy). The Garlean version however is just a gun barrel with an extra long bayonet suitable for using as a (rather unbalanced) sword, or, really, guns attached to just about any other melee weapon you can think of, regardless of efficency and usefulness.

The starting gunblade for GNB looks very much like a Garlean weapon that looks like it has been modified to function as a hrothgar version (having the barrel detatched from the muzzle and placed at an angle, thus making it incabable of firing physical bullets), so this is a good standin for those wanting a Garlean glam in the game.

As for why there isn't Centurion armour in the game, or say, Gaius's armour, it's probably simple pragmatism in that they would have to model it from scratch as player gear (the Centurion models in the game are a single model, like many npcs, they don't have a 'paperdoll' model) and SE are probably just more interested in making original gear than bringing in designs of enemy gear, especially for an enemy that is now defeated and no longer really relevant to the story, hence why it's a no-show, and probably will not be added (And if you want to be really technical Gaius's armour was destroyed in the Praetorium anyway which is why he abandoned it there - it was symbolic of the man he was 'dying' there and his 'rebirth' as the Shadowhunter, and so, probably is not even possible from a lore perspective).

Stranger things have happened though!

[kejakalope]

I'd quite like to get the third eye as a glamour option, maybe from the Gold Saucer or whatever.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'd love a simpler, longsword-style gunblade like Gaius's Heirsbane. Kinda surprised we didn't get one, honestly. Maybe in a future patch we'll go back to help the Garleans fix up their city and get one as a reward. Yes, a job-specific reward might seem underwhelming to people who don't play that job, but it's not the first time. Remember the House Fortemps shield?