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.

[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.

[Darkstride]

instead of some ugly armor pieces no one wants to wear

As the other responder said, it's subjective. I wish you would frame your post in that way, rather than trying to state your opinion as fact. I quite like most of the raid pieces, personally. I actually don't really like the ones that you posted pictures of. You don't want to look like a "stupid parrot", but everyone else should be expected to want to look like a "stupid bee"? In my experience there were a lot of people who wanted the "parrot" armor when it was only on Tuliyollal NPCs. I was happy when it was released as tome hear.

There's nothing wrong with voicing an opinion on what you would like to see, but yours is not the only one that matters. Gear visuals are never going to please everyone all the time, because there is a wide range of what people enjoy.