Glowing weapons : a visual plague

[sindriiisgaming]

Firstly, I want to open this post by saying, i am a manga/visual artist with experience in designing costumes, weapons and armour. And i want to give my personal feedback about something thats been bothing me since early endwalker

Latley every second weapon is a glowing weapon, and tbh... its ruining glowing weapons and making this game look ugly. Let me explain. When a glowing weapon was a rare thing, like the odd relic or ultimate weapon, this wasnt SO much a big deal... but now EVERYTHING glows. every second relic stage, every savage weapon, even some job weapons now glow and for the health of these weapons.. this is deeply damaging

the glow was meant to be a great reward for completing something very hard or very long and was meant to make your weapon stand out. (NOW I KNOW CRAFTED WEAPONS EXISTED, but i allways saw them as there for budget players or sprouts to get into it. the weapons never looked HALF as good as relics or ultimates.) and latley the obscenity of them has been for me personally ruining the joy of getting glowing weapons. I feel latley like a small child being given a squeeky toy to shut me up by square...it all feels very transparrent

Why we dont need glowing weapons to make weapons stand out. For this part, i want to use asphodelous as my reference, i Loved the armour and weapons from in there, they all matched, had beautiful effects ONE colour and even a little glowing effect that wasnt super obnoxious. In the visual arts scene were told that you make a piece pop out by keeping it simple, working with less and that less is more. and these weapons are a beautiful example of that. ONE colour. flat, but extremly noticable and presteigous. and tbh i hope we get more like this..

The new tome weapons too, all of which are extremly beautiful with NO effects (ignore 665 criterion augment! ) and i love them regardless of no glow. Now im not saying NO MORE glowing. but lets reduce it again back to just 2 types or weapons... relic and ultimate. savage should be like asphodealous. striking, but not obnoxious.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Ehhh I get what you mean, but I personally dont see the problem with the glowy weapons.

It be a problem if there wasnt a "non-glowy" version of the item but because they usually have both types, this feels like a non issue.

Sorry

[Saraide]

Yelling at clouds I see.

[ChrysOCE]

So no more crafted EX glowy weapons? No thanks, I want my glowies. SoS crafted weapons when?

[Zeastria]

I pref glowy weapons, and this game barely has glowy weapons..
IDK why this is even a complain in first place..
Glowy wep options shouldn't be limited to hardcore players only..

[Xirean]

I actually would prefer if we had more of them. One of my biggest frustrations with new jobs is that SE stopped backtracking all the EX weapons from before that job existed. If you are going to add in a job then you should add the fancy equipment for it as well. Not having that makes fun glam options for new jobs far too limited on release when they wouldn't need to be.

[Reinha]

As a fan of this game and a fan of beautiful equipment, please add more glowing weapons and armor. Thank you.

[SeverianLyonesse]

I think this is a meaningless complaint, honestly. Go look at GW2 and come back here, FFXIV is still quite tame aesthetically.

As long as effect-heavy weapons are locked behind some sort of accomplishment like relics, extreme trials/crafting, savage raids, and ultimate trials, I think their scarcity/value is reasonably gated.

I think if I have any problem, it is that relic weapons have become increasingly meaningless, both as a reward for playing content and as aesthetic designs. Most designs after the Eureka relics just...don't seem justified as relic designs. I stopped doing the relic grinds because they just didn't feel like their designs communicated any grand in-world accomplishment...they just had random effects tacked onto mediocre models.

[CamuiKushi]

I think this would be easily solved with a /weaponeffects off command or something, similar to pet sizes etc.

[Absurdity]

While I'm not super big on the glowing weapons either they don't even register as visual clutter, the game's ability VFX effects do a much better job at obscuring your vision than any weapon could.
If anything bothers me visually it's the abundance of straight up modern kpop outfits and lack of actual fantasy clothes.