Hoods?

[PEANUT]

Circlet + Cowl = Problem Solved.
I support you.

Circlet + Hood

[Jinrya-Geki]

Aren't all the cowl robe designs actually not attached to the robe visually? It looks like it's own piece.

[Zantetsuken]

The cowl+materia balancing issue is a bit tricky, and it does need to be reworked for ARR.

I could see several paths here:

• Allow at least 2 materia to be melded to the item at 100% - might be less intuitive for beginners though
• Split cowl and hood into two items - this would cause problems with existing cowls that are melded.
• Give Cowls a strong default stat boos to compensate for lack of headgear - Easiest and least disruptive fix, but long term balancing issues may arise
• Change Cowls to be 'hooded robes' - Allow players with cowls to wear other headgear (see WHM AF)
• Discontinue cowl recipes in ARR - Existing cowls follow same path as dated items, become untradable.

[Inaaca]

Yoshi said in an early interview that he would try to make hoods raisable/lowerable when it was first asked.. and later on when the question surfaced again he said that it was too technically difficult to make hoods able to be raised and lowered. When players pointed out the WHM concept art with hoods up and down he said that it was just to show the modellers how it looked, and not representative of actual gameplay.

So no, I wouldn't expect this to happen. Hoods will be static.

[Thebard]

Yoshi said in an early interview that he would try to make hoods raisable/lowerable when it was first asked.. and later on when the question surfaced again he said that it was too technically difficult to make hoods able to be raised and lowered. When players pointed out the WHM concept art with hoods up and down he said that it was just to show the modellers how it looked, and not representative of actual gameplay.

So no, I wouldn't expect this to happen. Hoods will be static.

How is it technically difficult? If it is too difficult then the default should always be hood down NOT hood up.
Sexy and cool.

Thug who beats up grandmas.

[Inaaca]

How is it technically difficult? If it is too difficult then the default should always be hood down NOT hood up.

Probably because it would require two different models of everything with a hood (a hood up version and a hood down version). I don't know much about the technical specifics but that might have something to do with it.

And the default for the WHM robe IS hood down, so I'm not sure I follow on that last part. If you mean that all hoods on all gear should never be worn on the head well...why? A lot of people like the look. Mysterious cloaks, dark robes, etc.

[KaiTBF]

Thug who beats up grandmas.

Sexy and cool.

fixed it for you.

[PEANUT]

Yea the thing is lot's hate hoods up, lot's hate hoods down, if it's possible they should do it so we have options. Also if people are concerned about cowls not being upgradable with separate hats, then crowns/tiaras/headbands etc. should be allowed to be worn with hoods(either up or down) and there you go, problem solved

[Zenaku]

Did they say at all at launch they were going to implement hoods, and be able to turn them on or off? I know they already had a toggle head gear on/off function, but for example the WHM AF, I think they said they were going to make the hood optional as well as other armor/clothing etc. Anyone know?

i heard that sadly hood wont be allow to do this but mask and such would. So whm and such wont be allow to put there hood up and down sadly

[PEANUT]

i heard that sadly hood wont be allow to do this but mask and such would. So whm and such wont be allow to put there hood up and down sadly

Yea unfortunately I think I remember reading the same thing :'( WHM just always looked so bad ass with the hood, I can stand it down with that silver crown(made a rhyme :P), its ALWAYS been worn UP...ehhh :\