Raid Gear design,?

[Arohk]

Might be a silly question, but because nothing is more motivating than looking fancy.

Why is Raid and Tome gear so ugly?

Can't we have some visually pleasing raid armor ? The Last good Raid Set was Asphodelos, and the last good weapons were Abyssos, but there is little fashionable beside that and the last Tier of Pandaemonium was peak ugliness.

When i wear the current Tome Gear i look like a stupid parrot.

[Banggugyangu]

While I don't disagree with your opinions, I'd point out that taste is subjective.

[Arohk]

While I don't disagree with your opinions, I'd point out that taste is subjective.

I mean, there are already such great outfits made, but only NPC's are allowed to wear them.

Why not make the Boss Costumes into wearable gear instead of some ugly armor pieces no one wants to wear, that would also fit the theme of the raid.

Black Cat on Human

Honey Bee on Aura


Or stuff like this, it is from that one Boss galatea, instead of giving us the third recolour of the same armor piece.

[Banggugyangu]

Again, I don't disagree. My only point was that taste is subjective. What one dislikes, another may like. /shrug

[Naoki34]

Might be a silly question, but because nothing is more motivating than looking fancy.

Why is Raid and Tome gear so ugly?

Can't we have some visually pleasing raid armor ? The Last good Raid Set was Asphodelos, and the last good weapons were Abyssos, but there is little fashionable beside that and the last Tier of Pandaemonium was peak ugliness.

When i wear the current Tome Gear i look like a stupid parrot.

Yes... ... ...

[Raikai]

Agree with the poster stating that is mostly a subjective theme. I didn't like the current set, but I know some people really do (and they match really well to the 'Mad Max' leveling items) - I personally wanted a more colorful approach with visual reference to mexican luchadores with the facekini masks.


However, there's one objective thing that can be looked upon is to keep repeating themselves - some collections really look too similar to previous items. One example of this is the Neo-Kingdom items kind of resembling the Rinascita sets from Endwalker. With more diversity with the sets they provide, more people might be happy.

[Jojoya]

But should the devs aim to cater to those with bad taste and like garbage? Or should they use their talent and make something that looks good.

First, I'm on board with you. I don't like the current gear appearance.

But whose to say that we're the ones with good taste and those that like the current gear have bad taste? As has been repeatedly said, taste is subjective. I know players that absolutely love the current gear models. They love street gear, they love cyber punk and so the aesthetics are scoring with them.

So I shrug and make more use of my glamour dresser instead of using the new appearances.

However, there's one objective thing that can be looked upon is to keep repeating themselves - some collections really look too similar to previous items. One example of this is the Neo-Kingdom items kind of resembling the Rinascita sets from Endwalker. With more diversity with the sets they provide, more people might be happy.

I never took a good look at Neo Kingdom but Archeo Kingdom is 100% Rinascita updated for the second dye channel and new graphics. I know the crafted sets are frequently older gear models being reused but to be reusing such a very recent crafted set was extremely disappointing.

But I'd still rather use it (or even the original) than the current tomestone and raid gear for glamour.

Who's to say that the devs that designed the pieces you dislike don't actually like those pieces themselves? If I'm designing armor for a game, I'm not going to design something that I think looks bad. I'm going to design something I like. You'd be hard pressed to convince me that the devs of FFXIV are any different.

Except they don't have complete creative freedom. They're going to be given a theme to work around. If the theme is not to their liking, they might well be designing something they don't personally like.

[dwodmots]

You really can't expect more than one good set per role and expansion. For tank we got the Asscreed looking ilevel 700 set (best looking set in years) and now we can't expect anything good until at least mid next expac. For healers we had the one from the first 24man in EW that is okay and before that the one from the last 24man in ShB which is great (combine the top with the E7S leg item), so we should have one coming up relatively soon.

[Banggugyangu]

I don't personally fret about new gear aesthetics very much, myself. I have a few glams that I tend to stick with per job/role. Now, my caster glam changed up with this expansion, but I'm not one to change things up often.

Old Glam:


New Glam:


Both are similar, but I think the mad-max body piece really fit the "hipster artist" vibe really well.

[Valence]

I always find quite fascinating to read that in universe sets are "ugly" and real life casual or carnival attires are where it's at.