Small complaint. Job gear designs

[IvoryBadge]

The keynote was amazing to watch! Dawntrail looks promising! And i loved everything presented in the stream.

Most anticipated part for me was the new Job gear designs, some of them were just so good despite it not shown in full picture, like GNB, SGE and RPR. Others were underwhelming and repetitive of some sort, like SAM, MCH and DNC. Now don’t get me wrong the Art team did a phenomenal job but it feels like they’re following some strict rules when making these designs.

Personally my main complaint is the Paladin design, i like it a lot! But the damn Circlet made its way back yet again. Can we stop giving PLD circlets/mini crowns every expansion? How come the most heavily plated class in the entire game has no unique helmet of its own? (Except the wolfs mark lion helmet which dyes horribly). It’s barely visible let alone it clips with most hairstyles.

I really wish SE could change that and give PLD a proper helmet like DRK and WAR.

[Enkidoh]

Because it's artifact armour (AF), and AF tends to follow the 'traditional' appearence of that Job in past FF games - in PLD's case, that's Cecil from FFIV who famously wore a circlet in his PLD appearence.

There's plenty of enclosed or knight helms that PLD can equip already in the game anyway - that's a non issue (my personal favourite was the Adamantite Helm of Fending that I used for my PLD glam for years).

[IvoryBadge]

Because it's artifact armour (AF), and AF tends to follow the 'traditional' appearence of that Job in past FF games - in PLD's case, that's Cecil from FFIV who famously wore a circlet in his PLD appearence.

We already have 5 different versions of Cecil now. Plus John Final Fantasy had a helmet

[Raikai]

Some are very the same note like SAM and PLD... But I noticed that others like AST, BRD, SMN are very distinct from what they had before.

[OgruMogru]

I wanna see the Blm gear but I don't wanna get mad after being pleasantly surprised by today's keynote. I just know it's gonna be another sack >:C

[Eisi]

I think they should do some artifact gear that's completely out of left field and original across the board in a future expansion!

For this one, I really like Gunbreaker and especially Astrologian, Astro really shines with the soft, velvety cloth shaders and is very simple and straightforward.

[Raikai]

I think they should do some artifact gear that's completely out of left field and original across the board in a future expansion!

For this one, I really like Gunbreaker and especially Astrologian, Astro really shines with the soft, velvety cloth shaders and is very simple and straightforward.

As much as I appreciate the fact that AST is different from what they kept getting ever since Stormblood... I hope that this is just an unflattering angle because the robe looks like a 60's granny nightgown -_-;

LOVED Summoner though.

[Rongway]

As much as I appreciate the fact that AST is different from what they kept getting ever since Stormblood... I hope that this is just an unflattering angle because the robe looks like a 60's granny nightgown -_-;

I believe the most significant part about the AST AF and the reason it's included on that slide is because they want to emphasize that it's a velvet material with embroidered stars, which is not something they could have done well before the graphics update. Yeah the design is simpler than some of the other AST stuff but this material is novel.

[Duskane]

I really like PLD because it doesn't have a cape
SGE and SAM got EW MCH treatment where its just got more stuff on their previous AF gear

SMN set looks super comfy and cool tho

[IvoryBadge]

in PLD's case, that's Cecil from FFIV who famously wore a circlet in his PLD appearence.

There's plenty of enclosed or knight helms that PLD can equip already in the game anyway

If we talk about originality, Warrior of Light is the real Paladin/Knight and wore a helmet. Dark knight Cecil had straight sword/spear as his weapons, first ever Dark Knight Leon from FF2 had a straight sword, if i remember correctly FF3 Dark Knight used a katana for a specific dungeon, so where did the greatsword come from?

And sure there are plenty of helmets but i think you missed the keyword “Unique”. I want a helmet resembling a Paladin, and the fact that Paladin/Knight doesn’t have one IS actually an issue.