Aiming Gear

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Hi again, Dev team!

Please, for the love of all things precious, stop giving us ugly aiming gearsets for job gear and tome gear. Namely mch, but aiming in general too. We always get shafted for ugly gear. Even the crafted sets are always ugly for aiming. PLEASE STOP THIS and give us at least one really awesome outfit per expansion from either raids, crafted , or tomes. Thanks!

Sincerely, most of us ranged mains.

Nah ugly gear goes to AST Roe majority of sets I look like a lamp shade :P

[Iscah]

Dancer actually gets a fair few good pieces for dancer – I won't launch into the whole list, but Paglth'an, Ravel Keeper, Voidmoon/Exarchic are a few I can immediately think of where the vibe immediately suits dancer over the other two – but I think one part where it falls down is the assigning of accessories, especially in the sets where they only make one or two items and then mix and match them amongst the roles.

For example, the Palaka sets have a choice of either shoes or boots – the shoes would be wonderful for dancer, but instead they get the odd short boots that don't particularly fit the vibe of any of the three.

Again with the Zormor sets, dividing up the gear pieces used for Turali NPCs, there's an arbitrary division between sarouels and short skirts – again, the sqrouel would be suited for dancer but instead they get the skirt which isn't well suited to any of the three jobs.

There's also the Riversbreath (recycled Paglth'an) outfits where they have decided to replace the distinctly Amalj'aa-themed headpieces with other pre-existing pieces, and I think those are poorly chosen all around. Aiming gets a weird face-guard thing that doesn't really fit the vibe. It was also just a really missed opportunity to quickly modify the original headpieces and give us the pretty crown-thing without the Amalj'aa crest part on it.

[Astrus]

the rest of the raid and tome gear from shb is garbs

And this is why people say taste is subjective.
Parts of the Obsolete Android Aiming set have been my defacto Machinist set ever since the last Nier raid came out, I love it to bits and outside of some troian gear getting added to the look nothing has made me want to change up my MCH glam since.

[Eien713]

I 100% agree. Aiming gets the ugliest set of the bunch more often than not, especially when it comes to 8-man raids, for some reason. We're also made to share with Fending sets quite often. Fending. Like, wut? Aiming is supposed to be agile. Why are we getting some of the heaviest-looking sets? When DNC got lumped with BRD and MCH, I was ecstatic as a BRD main since I was hoping this would mean aiming sets would get prettier and maybe slightly more feminine gear every now and then instead of the unisex sets we've been cursed with for years, but nope. No such luck :')

[GrizzlyTank]

Aiming is a fun one.

Bards have a flamboyant motif.
Dancer have varied dancing outfits.
Machinists have guns and more guns...

Yet in multiple cases they are sharing the tank armors but without a cloak!

All in all this issue could have been avoided by very simply DROPPING THE GLAMOUR RESTRICTIONS.

[1313]

I really don't understand why they continue to give us stuff that we constantly complain about. They should probably jsut focus on making more variety and quantity of level 1 glams of decent quality design , kinda like some of the treasure map glams that are pretty kick ass, or crafted glams. We need a ton more of that stuff, and I'm pretty sure theres a large demand for more casual and modern looking outfits. Not to mention modern looking jewelery and accessories...

One of the things I always wanted in this game was necklaces/bracelets/watches/rings that have some bling to em. No I don't mean the the SCOB glowy ones, and not like the 81 dungeon accessories, but like ... a faint sparkle to them , that could come from the "new tech" they used on the faes crown weps and others. would look pretty fancy. Personally would like a chain and cross as glam for my necklace slot but since thats touching on religous stuff itll never make it into xiv, but they could easily just add like a Griever pendant (ff8) or something instead. getting a bit off topic so ill leave it at that , but yeah RIP RANGED cuz we get the least amount of decent looking stuff compared to other roles

[angienessyo]

I too am favor of better aiming sets because they often base the scouting set around it so my jobs also suffer.

[1313]

I too am favor of better aiming sets because they often base the scouting set around it so my jobs also suffer.

honestly if they made aiming look like scouting instead of scouting looking like aiming we would be in a better place lol

[Akonyl]

A lot of Aiming gear feels like it was designed for machinist first. Which is odd considering the job design feels like machinist goes last among the three.

Yeah, back when Heavensward hit, that was definitely the feeling I got too (bard main then as well). In ARR, all the aiming gear was fairly flamboyant (because BRD was the only aiming job, aside from accessories it shared with NIN, but accs aren't much of glam), but then when HW came around aiming gear became this weird mishmash because it had to fit both jobs. It ended up with gear that had almost none of BRD's flamboyance, and probably not much of MCH's aesethetic either, and just basically not much identity (beyond being more prone to long body pieces than melee). Funnily enough, DNC which came in later would have probably meshed a lot better with BRD's aesthetic (music and dancing go pretty hand in hand), but MCH's aesthetic being so much different already made the aiming aesthetic have to be the weird directionless mishmash it is nowadays.

[Ayalu]

I mean what is seen as fem and masc is rather subjective and varies by culture and upbringing. So you would like more USA stereotypical Masculine Gear ?
What kind of visuals and styles would you like as aiming gear?


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