.DAT mining Lots of Gear....

[Ropeydonkey]

To be fair, I really like SE's gear style for the majority of gears, its just a bit lazy sometimes with multiple gears with same skin and lack of difference on HQ items.

The sets coming out look really really nice, but it begs the question why more nice gear hasnt been implemented in the past - a small team of junior modellers/texture artists could churn out sets on a daily/weekly basis np (its not THAT hard or time consuming).

It also makes me even more excited about the way gear will look in XIV - sweet designs in beautifully rendered HQ/HD environments :O____

[Gtype954]

Just want to point out how alla always does a wonderful job on .DAT mining, yet every other website wants to call alla the noob website and the crap website.
Alla is a wonderful site, for all those haters out there... appreciate alla and what they done with this nice post.

kthxbai.

[Ropeydonkey]

will be new npc army gears!!

Eww is this a possibility? We;re getting excited and these might only end up on new Campaign Units?! *sniff* someone did say they were in a funny place - say it aint so!

[Starr]

guys, guys, clearly they are Aern weapons used to lock AV

[Ropeydonkey]

Just want to point out how alla always does a wonderful job on .DAT mining, yet every other website wants to call alla the noob website and the crap website.
Alla is a wonderful site, for all those haters out there... appreciate alla and what they done with this nice post.

kthxbai.

Alla has its uses - forums are ok etc but compared to other sites, a load of Alla info is horribly out of date D:

[Tomino]

is it just me or there's a certain Kingdom Heart feeling in these new equipment sets and weapons? Weapons are certain inspired from Aerns but those crosses and shinies remind me a lot of KH too

[knifebait]

FUCK ALL THIS SHIT, MOVEMENT SPEED +8% ON MY GODAMN SAM!

HOLY SHIT CAN I GET AN AMEN TO THAT!!!!!

[Shamaya]

This looks like junk you'd find on ffxidats.com.

I agree the weapons looked like aern skins, lol. I can't decide if I think they look cool or too out of place. At least the dagger is small, so the funky look doesn't matter so much.

So this is just one-upping augments. Not only do you get to customize the stats (as I'm guessing will be the case with this as well), but you can change the color (etc?).

[Caliburn]

This looks like junk you'd find on ffxidats.com.

I agree the weapons looked like aern skins, lol. I can't decide if I think they look cool or too out of place. At least the dagger is small, so the funky look doesn't matter so much.

So this is just one-upping augments. Not only do you get to customize the stats (as I'm guessing will be the case with this as well), but you can change the color (etc?).

I'll lol if the stats you put on them change their look/color. Would be quite ironic if the perfect PLD setup based on augments ends up with a fucked up mix of spiky black and random blood red instead of the classic white look they seem to be aiming it all toward. Or worse, if the DRK set ends up being completely white.

[Miraun]

I'll lol if the stats you put on them change their look/color. Would be quite ironic if the perfect PLD setup based on augments ends up with a fucked up mix of spiky black and random blood red instead of the classic white look they seem to be aiming it all toward. Or worse, if the DRK set ends up being completely white.

That wouldn't be a change from PLDs wearing a mix of White Valhala, Black Ares, Red Homam, Grey Koenig, and White AF+1 (feet), or whatever color(s) you want to call IR set?

[Not Kuno]

I like the weapons a lot.

Post gear using hume f or mithra, anything that a hume m or elvaan m wears looks ugly no matter what.

[Kaslo]

Did anyone else thing:

"Welcome to the Thunderdome Bitch"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vWihfifjey...600-h/set7.jpg

[Caliburn]

That wouldn't be a change from PLDs wearing a mix of White Valhala, Black Ares, Red Homam, Grey Koenig, and White AF+1 (feet), or whatever color(s) you want to call IR set?

I thought of that as I was writing it, thus the DRK as a different example. Many things have changed from the pure white PLD, to the blue PLD, to the Captain America, red-white-and-blue PLD, Black body, and now this random smattering of colors you get should you ever really get to see a PLD with their blinking, lol. Oh how the game has changed in these years.

[Spira]

afaik so far.. 36 new dat sets.

tho u can kinda split them into 3 groups of 12 based on mage/melee/tank gear looks

and from there 4 groups of 3, since each group is basically red-black-white tricolor.


in other word, split them askar/denali/goliard style and each group has got 4 sets.. they'll most likely be useful sets since its kind of a waste to do them Salvage (15/25/35) style eq.

edit: heavy armor looks REALLY heavy lol

[Mayura]

is it just me or there's a certain Kingdom Heart feeling in these new equipment sets and weapons? Weapons are certain inspired from Aerns but those crosses and shinies remind me a lot of KH too

Well, MKE mage hat is already KH~ish !
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7...33589small.jpghttp://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6...an20cap1hf.jpg

[Gtype954]

I want to say that there will be a weapon for all the jobs or at least a weapon for all the types of weapon. (like a dagger weapon which will be equipped by brd/thf/dnc, and the staff will be on blm/smn). Either the .DAT mining isnt done yet or it will be on the november 9th update. Assuming their is another update to download I forgot.

The armor I think is the same armor but you can now ".DAT swap it". SE has been paying attention to our windower and made one of their own and now they probably have it so that you can change the look of the armor but it will have the same stats on it just different skin it looks like.

Lol at the fancy "aern weapons". In one of the interviews from SE, they said in the future they could possibly adds items or gear to weaken AV and PW but as of that interview, they currently did not have anything to do so.
I doubt those are for AV lol but it would funny if it was.

I just think they are MMM exclusive weapons which have similarites in the stats.
Like the original MMM weapons all had a killer effect and 7% crit hit rate vs that killer effect. They look so fancy though, I wish they let us have "ultimate weaponskills" with them. Like a new weaponskill for each weapon type that has the highest Mod for that weapon type, like 5.00 or something and 6.00 for ranged WS .

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mini expansion thoughts.

-Once again pet jobs gets hooked up on the augmented gear.
-SAM finally has movement speed.
-MNK once again needs nothing from those legs.
-Lots of new augments, like Conserve TP and Magic crit hit damage+ is pretty peice.
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Looks nice so far, but I still think they are sneaking in the new avatars on the november 9th version update instead, the .DAT mining isn't over yet as we haven't seen the rest of those "blue weapons"

[Spira]

one of the tank armors has the ACP-ish spartan comb thing too

[Evane]

Maybe the 6 weapons are for the..

Spoiler: show

spite wardens and their boss.

Edit: although in the update notes pic it was on a mithra :/

[Spira]

tank gear really is kinda nice.. quadav helmet-ish, antlion jawish, the comb thing and the spiky helmet..

the head designs are all nice

added them all to what i've found anyway.

http://wilddragonchase.blogspot.com/...at-mining.html

now searching to see if i missed out anything

[Spira]

it seems there are new guild aprons (i think).. and im pretty sure i spotted a bow and horn.. will post findings soon