Noir Hat (and others)

[frostmagemari]

I honestly prefer this to the ridiculous ear-pouches we had before.

I mean.. you say they're ridiculous; but they made sense. Having ears crammed down under a metal helmet isn't a good thing, there would need to be some allowance for head-shape and ear position on helmets made. Maybe not earsocks, but something to show that "hey, this helmet/hat was made with a miqo'te in mind". Heck.. i'd take just cutting a hole in the helmets so our ears can stick out.
Edit: And there are historic examples of animals used in war to have their ears taken into account when making items for them. Actual horse armour is a thing, and always took their ears into account when crafting the headpiece and Spanish Conquistadores made equipment for their attack dogs that allowed their ears to be exposed.

Beware. Enshroud is there to prove that now skills can also remove all racial traits from you, and your horns are definitely gone here too.

Yeah.. I can't say I'm too happy about the Enshroud thing either. The job is fun, but this is just another grain of sand that will be on the scales down the line.

I don't know if I should, but I want to blame XVI for a lot of this. We had gear that took racial traits into effect until end of Heavensward, and some of Stormblood; And I think that's about the time that SQEX started shaving off XIV team members off to work on XVI. Maybe I'm wrong and I just want to grasp onto the hope that when XVI is done, the team members will return and there will be an uptick in quality.. who knows. All I know is that I'm not happy with the direction this stuff is going in and want something to change.