What's a fantasy world without capes?

[Zaireeka2025]

Seeing as how this game is making great use of physics-based animation, it makes me wonder why not implement capes into the mix. I would love to be rockin a cape in FFXIV. What do you think SE? Could this ever be possible? There's an elezen rocking a black one over his plate armor in the background of the CG intro when the hyur is picking his leve at the glowy counter. It would be great if capes could come as a separate piece of equippable gear with their own slot and attributes; but as unrealistic as that seems at this point, I'd settle for it being a part of certain pieces of armor/gear. Perhaps in some upcoming artifact armor (paladin/dark knight) or even hooded capes (thief/ranger).

Nothing says high ranking epicness like a cape in final fantasy, especially with the graphics/physics capabilities FFXIV is capable of. Not a priority, but a suggestion nonetheless.

[Lahru_Hukurou]

A fantasy world without capes. You won't see me running around with a cape. It gives the monsters something to grab onto when you're running for your life -__-;;

[Reika]

Only Knights and high royalty wear capes in the final fantasy world....

[Zenaku]

give us capes and allow us to turn them off and on. As long as the cape don't look ugly i wont mind.

[MysteryG]

All I can think of is Gabranth. If He can pull off the look, any gladiator can. I don't think I'd want one as Con or Thaum though unless they found a way for it to cover the shoulders and be more of a cloak.

[Munba]

Hope to see visible capes (with switch on/off) in the future as well.

[Mugiwara]

we could use the cape as LS markers also, they could rep our LS in a cool way, what do you think?

[Zenaku]

we could use the cape as LS markers also, they could rep our LS in a cool way, what do you think?

Ya i was thinking that would be pretty cool way to show off our linkshell. But wont this mess up the point of having capes for more int,str and so on? maybe it could be a cape that we could switch how it look to our linkshell look or just leave it as it is then it wont be bad of a system.

[Xandre]

we could use the cape as LS markers also, they could rep our LS in a cool way, what do you think?

That's how Aion operated.

[Zaireeka2025]

Ya, I remember Aion. I played that and kinda liked the cape representing the guilds. But, in my opinion capes don't necessarily fit visually with every class, and if capes represented your linkshell then EVERYONE would have a freakin cape which would make the cape an eyesore more than a way of showing class uniqueness.

As for guild-related gear... I think it'd be awesome if we were allowed to "paint" or "texture" one piece of our equipment with the emblem colors and crest from the active linkshell/company. That way, everyone would instantly be recognizable as a clan when in groups (which would look so sweet and intimidating when all bunched together doing quests/leves). Body armor may be tricky since it'd look tacky having a whole piece devoted to linkshell colors... but implementing an armband when activating that piece for representation would be an idea (albeit a time-consuming task for the developers). Anyway, just a thought I guess.