Regarding Recycled Gear...

[Tsiron]

Not a complaint, necessarily, the realities of asset creation are what they are, but... why do the devs seem so resistant to mixing sets up?

That can mean two things:

1) Mixing sets from previous batches as they are, but just in different colours and/or dye patterns, especially now, with a second channel (e.g. Sirensong Sea, Holminster Switch gear)

2) Mixing sets down to individual pieces, design permitting, with the textures adjusted to match. This is how they've been handling Job starter gear! For example RPR's uses the (Striking, funnily enough) top and pants from Void Ark with boots from Sohm Al (the... exact same ones that VPR also reused. Could you really not find some different ones...?)

This is something I've been thinking about for a while, but the new crafted gear in 7.05 being... Rinascita, which we only got just recently, again prompted me to make a thread. Cryptlurker sets have a similar aesthetic, of... idk, Souls-y armour and Bloodborne coats (and would probably benefit from slightly less chewed up variants, even if it's only textures), as does Crystarium gear, the latter also matching FFXI in some cases (Fending/Maiming set especially), so... why not reuse some of those instead? Give Striking the Crystarium brigandine or Casters one of the Cryptlurker coats (perfect for Red Mage!), or something...!

Throw in a Role swap or two and I think it would really help give reused gear some novelty, at the very least! That's how I feel, in any case.

[DaveFishnomer]

They are just lazy at this point, I'm sorry if this seems negative but I cant think of anything else, the quality of gear actually only went down with the years, some gear had holes for tails when specific races used them, ear bulges in hat gear, all of this is gone, no verity, copy paste from previous xPacs, new gear is same gear but dyeable, just lazy.

[Tsiron]

Not even dyeable in some cases lol...

[OgruMogru]

I'm quite upset about the fact that I'm looking at another months-long wait before I get another shot at some glam I might actually like. There hasn't been a single gearset so far in DT that I do not hate. They didn't even shuffle the roles around for the crafted gear. It hurt enough the first time that set came out and everyone but casters got the gorgeous striped sleeves, so to see the set re-used so soon really comes off as completely lazy and uncaring.

[Hyperia]

Recycled gear, it’s good for the environment and ok for you.

[GreenLeafy]

This is something I've been thinking about for a while, but the new crafted gear in 7.05 being... Rinascita, which we only got just recently, again prompted me to make a thread.

Straight up speechless seeing this today lmao. This is a new low of lazy. But tbh not too surprising considering this expansion we got to see trial and raid boss models repurposed and reskinned into dungeon bosses. Guess its the trend to just repackage anything and everything for DT. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Willemdarke]

I didn't expect much, yet I'm still disappointed. At least Classical gear in 6.0 looked better than the originals colour/texture-wise. These 7.0.5 sets are horrific - what even are those colour choices??? That's just the hallmark of DT though - all reused/recolored gear has horrible colours and the dye options are abysmal.

[Iscah]

Straight up speechless seeing this today lmao. This is a new low of lazy. But tbh not too surprising considering this expansion we got to see trial and raid boss models repurposed and reskinned into dungeon bosses. Guess its the trend to just repackage anything and everything for DT. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You say that like they haven't been doing it since Heavensward – both the gear and the bosses.

[GreenLeafy]

You say that like they haven't been doing it since Heavensward – both the gear and the bosses.

They have , for certain , but the examples this expansion feel more egregious than before. Rinascita is a crafted gear set literally from last expansion and they just dye swap it for the expansion after as a crafting set again. Eden , Nald'Thal and Hades are incredibly unique bosses that did not deserve to just get repurposed with a new paint for something like a forgettable dungeon boss.

Just because they've been doing it to some capacity doesn't mean they should keep doing it , and on top of that picking such models. Imagine if you just randomly encounter Hydaelyn as a shit dungeon boss. It sucks.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Yep, it's absolutely pathetic. I woke up this morning and remembered the patch. As I lay in bed, I thought to myself I wonder which gearset they'll recycle for the crafted gear, but still thinking it'd be a set we haven't seen in awhile.

Nope, reskins of Rinascita gear. And then I checked out the Picto weapon. Yup, all of the metal on the weapon doesn't even match the metal on the outfit. Then, I checked the dyeability. Yep, you can change the color of the metal on the clothes, but you can't change the color of the metal on the weapon. This is a new level of bullshit.