FFXIclopedia Developer Questions and Answers

[Darkmagi]

The curse effect really can be a life saver, don't forget that curse slows movement speed too.

[Corrderio]

Not this argument again D: Not even gonna get into it, there were already like 7 pages about it in another thread. I will say that even though RR isn't the most awesome looking gear ever, I think penance robe is way uglier. Maybe because I'm a girl but RR's color scheme doesn't really bother me that much, whereas looking like I'm wearing a bunch of rags is gross...

ZOMG Gurl!

Seriously though, I do gotta feel sorry for SMNs with their body slot gear.

[Not Kuno]

The two bodies I use on smn (YYR + AF2) look good to me so I'm happy lol.

[Corrderio]

I never liked YY Rob since well... I never considered it a robe and it felt out of place to me on SMNs.

Can't comment on Relic body though. I got SMN to 66 and was damn proud to be done with it.

[Silenka]

YYR would make more sense if SMN was a martial mage of some type, but it's not, it's a channel for otherworldly beings which is about as far off from a martial anything as possible. SE is just too fucking lazy to come up with any good-looking new armor and chooses to recycle the same old models due to PS2 limitations or some other bullshit excuse that simply doesn't fly anymore. I always hated the hobo armor (seriously, why ever make something that looks like that? why?) and the AF looks alright from a design standpoint but the textures are extremely messy, the colors are bled into each other everywhere and the lines are not very defined at all. It's like whoever was making the AF models finally got to the end of the list and said "fuck it, I'm done" and didn't bother cleaning it up any. All of the other jobs' AF looks cleaner than SMN's (both versions). Which brings us back to the point that SE has been shitting on SMN from day one and the only reason the job's so good for VNM is because they want to lull us into a false sense of security before ripping away our last bastion of usefulness when they finally unveil the upcoming bloodpacts which will invariably consist of NO PIERCING SKILLS YET AGAIN I HATE YOU SO MUCH SE DIAF /rant

[Altanass]

Chausable RDM 0/5
Barone WAR/DRG 2/5
Dragon THF 1/5
Igqira BLM 2/5
Bison/Khimaira BST ?/5 (I never see it used...soooo)
Unicorn WAR 1/5 (debatable due to the fact its a latent)
Hachiman SAM 1/5 (and thats generally requiring HQ hands)
Black DRK 1/5
Austere @50 they're mostly all good, @75 I think only HQ robe due to perp cost
Yasha NIN 0/5

Do you really want JSE?

ya forgot bard JSE too - shair manteel etc

[Celebrindor]

agree completely on the JSE argument, although I use 4/5 BLM set every time I play the job. And I was damn proud of my huaraches when I got 'em, and I still love'em.

TBH Hands are probably the best non zenith/morrigan piece for the casual BLM too.

Now RDM......I never liked the baker's mitts and condom hat....damn you SE for using that model for Oracle's set.