Weapon design contest winners is out!

[Raikai]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...efe7860ff65dc4

And I couldn't be more excited for many of those designs!

My favorite so far:





I hope those come out soon, but there are so many that will probably be material for years to come, much like the hair design contest.

[GrizzlyTank]

Pizza cutter ftw.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

As usual, I like a lot more finalist entries than I do the grand prize entries lmao. Here's hoping most of them make it into the game in a reasonable amount of time.

[Jybril]

A lot of these are beautiful.
Malum Ignis (BLM), the first DRG one, 2nd DRK, first Brd one, 1st PLD, and Bunny Cane (WHM) are very nice.
I really love the Umbrella Samurai one.

I'm not a fan of that Bouquet at all on MCH though...
No offense but it's ehhh. I guess they got the idea from Elphelt from GG but eh.

BLM:

DRG:

[Iscah]

I would definitely like to see a lot of the non-winning finalists added as well – though I suspect several of them might be there because they look fantastic but are difficult to implement.

Definitely excited for a lot of them though! I might go through and post my favourites later.

[StrongWilled]

I'm so sad for the scholar weapons. That summoner Carby book is super cute though.

[Jin-]

I like DRK 2 the most, very pretty. SAM and BLM 1s are also pretty.

[Raikai]

I would definitely like to see a lot of the non-winning finalists added as well – though I suspect several of them might be there because they look fantastic but are difficult to implement.

Definitely excited for a lot of them though! I might go through and post my favourites later.

Isn't that what happened with the hairstyle winners back in the day? Thought they went through every winner and finalist until there was none left.

But come to think of it, usually with the armor design contests they design a whole collection based on the winner entry, like the Neo Ishgardian, which won with just the aiming set.

Might be that I don't remember how they handle weapon design contests... Do they pick one and theme all other weapons as a collection, or they release them individually?

[Raikai]

I'm so sad for the scholar weapons. That summoner Carby book is super cute though.

At least one of the entries is not a book, but a watercolor pallete, which seems interesting enough. Though, the most out-of-the-box designs are just finalists...

A scroll instead of a book:


A nice high-tech book that isn't made of paper:

[Tsiron]

Can't say any of their picks really wowed me, but I've known for a while that my tastes kind of ran counter to FFXIV's overall design aesthetic...