Any good jackets/robes for mRog?

[NegativeS]

Title.

I play mRog.

I cannot stand the fact that jackets and robes do... this.



It's annoying. the sleeves are always way too puffy, the bottom billowing out impossibly far for no reason. In the extreme case with the blue robe, it makes me look like a little kid poking his head out of the top of a massive mech-suit made out of his dad's clothes.

What sucks is that stuff like this looks great on literally every other race. However, even if I wanted to Fantasia away from mRog (i don't), I don't trust the servers right now to even let me do so.

So, here I am, begging the forum for succor. Anyone have any good ideas?

[Conundrum]

Unfortunately I think the robe and coat problem is clipping. If the clothing article doesn't replace the arm texture they have to make it big too prevent clipping. It's the same reason all floor length robes and coats are shaped like tents, minimize clipping.

[Sylve]

Theres quite a few glove pieces that entirely cut off the sleeves of the majority of chestpieces.

Qitana Ravel gloves for healers turns just about anything sleeveless.
One of the PvP caster glams is quite similar to the Qitana healer one.
Also, you can use Fingerless Leather Gloves for any DoW to cut the puffy parts off most chest pieces.

There are a bunch of chests with sleeves that will override your glove slot, But thankfully they don't turn up often.

Nothing solves the lower part though lol. I just avoid them for the most part >_<

[Iscah]

Unfortunately I think the robe and coat problem is clipping. If the clothing article doesn't replace the arm texture they have to make it big too prevent clipping. It's the same reason all floor length robes and coats are shaped like tents, minimize clipping.

All clothes replace the character's arms, and the gloves can be programmed to not display above the wrists - I think it's a setting controlled by the chest piece whether they appear or not. Wide sleeves are a style choice.

The flared hems, on the other hand, seem designed to sit as if layered over a skirt whether you're wearing one or not, so if you do equip a skirt to the leg slot they won't clip into each other.

[NegativeS]

Unfortunately I think the robe and coat problem is clipping. If the clothing article doesn't replace the arm texture they have to make it big too prevent clipping. It's the same reason all floor length robes and coats are shaped like tents, minimize clipping.

I don't mean to be rude, but look at me with a straight face and tell me that this looks like this to prevent clipping.



This is fending armor.

I look like I'm about to transform into Popeicon and go fight with the Transformers.

[Iscah]

This is fending armor.

No, it's glorious fending armour.

Looks much better on women (as it doesn't have the inexplicable bust of Halone fused to the front like some kind of terrible visual pun), and specifically great on female Roegadyn who can be hard to find gear for.

Obviously that gear design isn't just to prevent clipping, but it does certainly avoid it.


On finding coats in general, I don't have a male Roegadyn character among my alt collection (yet) but I did briefly start one a few weeks ago to have a look at gear on the marketboard. I think some of the coats actually fit them very well - sometimes better than the smaller characters. But it's a matter of taste, of course.

[Packetdancer]

Leaving aside the discussion about clipping et al, to answer your original question: I've seen some male Roegadyn using the Uraeus Coat, which seems to work pretty well as long as you don't mind the bare-chested pirate look. The current level 90 Gunbreaker artifact gear also looked pretty solid on the male Roegadyn I saw wearing it in a roulette the other day.

Beyond that, to get ideas in general, I might hit up Eorzea Collection; you can filter the glamours by the race/gender of the person who submitted it, so you can easily filter glamour results based on that and see if anything stands out to you as matching your taste.

[Illmaeran]

Another suggestion would be to go through the Show Your Roegadyn thread to see what's out there. Don't mind the mass of nearly-naked males or those in Village People cosplay; they mean well and are good people, they just have off the wall fashion sense.

[BaconBits]

Don't know about mage robes/coats but the Crystarium chest pieces for scouting and aiming are pretty legit imo.

[GrizzlyTank]

When in doubt. The swimsuit.