Enough with this Armor Silhouette! Enough!

[Hycinthus]

I've had enough of this Armor Silhouette!

You all know what I'm talking about. It's the TENT-SHAPED, A-LINE, Silhouette!



The ENTIRE HW, SB, ShB, EW, quest rewards, dungeon drops, token rewards, PVP rewards, Store items, crafted items, EVERYTHING, like 80-90%+, are in this SILHOUETTE, doesn't matter if it's fending, striking, healing - everything comes in this shape. Like why?

I'm not saying it's ugly. Actually some of them are very beautifully designed. And some do fit the theme of certain areas, and many characters do glam this very creatively.
But honestly, we've had a lot of this shape already. Truly a lot, alot. And I'm just craving other variety of silhouettes. You have a very talented and creative designer team, please, I'm not saying to get rid of this, but can we be inspired with other types of shapes for 7.0?

We truly need more variety, especially if you are melee or tanks, sometimes we just want other stuff rather than fighting in combat with a METAL CLUNKY TENT wrapped around your legs. I know, I know, we have more ridiculous glamours, but I'm talking about the more realistic armor designs here. And for sure casters are craving for other shapes too.

What do you guys think?
Do you still want MORE of this shape?
Is this spaghetti code excuse again? Please don't start with this.

SE, be honest please - are you really an absolute fan of this style? Are you truly still inspired by this shape after 10 years? If you still are, I get it. I'm not here to impose anything, but hope you understand we have too much already.

Surely even EORZEA's Fashion Industry evolves? Or is it still stuck in in 2012? Are we still blaming the calamity after all these years??

I've posted here before in 2017 https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-looking-armor
and I really didn't want to post here again, but after seeing EW still being the same, I can't anymore.

Anyway, Enough please. Thank you.

[Seraphor]

Yes please.
As a Hrothgar, I feel like 90% of tops and bottoms are literally tents.
The bottoms have to cover so much, and the tops have to flare out to sit over the bottoms.
So I struggle to find all the 'fitted pants' and 'tops without attached skirts' options instead.

[Shialan]

Yes please. And while you are at it, please also introduce healer gear that is not just a recolor of the caster gear. Thank you.

[Tint]

Yes please. And while you are at it, please also introduce healer gear that is not just a recolor of the caster gear. Thank you.

Especially a recolor of the caster gear but worse. They add a cool caster armor but then they remove some details from it when they use the same model for healers.

[SassyAssassin]

Yeah the A lines started to bother me too. I liked the new lunar tank bottoms but they should have been for healers not tanks.

[Enkidoh]

No, you'll wear your long armoured skirts and you'll like it!

(I'm joking by the way)

Seriously though, I agree variety in gear design is never a bad thing - ironically for tank, especially PLD, glamour, I prefer armour where the body curiass/breastplate are seperate, thus allowing greater creativity in glamour (I admit I have a preference for the Spring Skirt in this regard). Funnily enough, most tank armour pre level 50 was usually a plain breastplate or something similar without an armoured plate/chainmail skirt below it - it was only with later ARR and into HW did they start with the 'armoured trenchcoat/ballgown' look and have stuck with this almost exclusively.

I don't know if this is because the gear designers are different to the 1.0 ones and are designing what they like, but the variety creativity in gear design is starting to stagnate like the last years of Amaurot...

[Themarvin]

they should fix clipping for good if anything... above barely is relevant.. tails, long hair, certain other types of hair and more to it as it is.

[VelKallor]

As a Hrothgar, I feel like 90% of tops and bottoms are literally tents.

You can have one or the other..but not both. That would make you..two tents

[Jybril]

We need a new designer in gear. So sick of it.

[aveyond-dreams]

I'm so, so sick of battle dresses. Enough of them already.