We all look like clowns!Follow

Seen this on the Beta forums, thought I'd bring it up here. How do you guys feel about how ridiculous the colors are for your starting gear? Seems like a good way to turn people off of the game if you have to be running around with purple gloves, green boots, a red coat, and a blue diaper.

I know you can dye your clothing, but I wish that all clothing would be sold as a default, albeit blander, color. And if you would like to dye your crap green and purple, so be it.

I know that at low levels, you're probably not suppose to look as cool as Spawn, but come on. Just, Come on.

Edit: I should say low level gear, not starting gear.

Edited, Jun 16th 2013 8:07pm by supermegazeke

One of the biggest whines about 1.0, from myself included, was that starter armor made you look like a peasant wearing a burlap sack.

I remember my utter disappointment when I got a new body at level 20 and it was a bleached burlap sack instead of my previous dirty one.

The purple leather harness is rather silly, and the lime green chainmail is even worse, but that's all the more incentive to level myself up and get in more reasonable colored clothing.

How do you dye clothing ?

I love the Lalafell starting clothes.

I got a nice body piece from Copperbell Mines this weekend

It's mage armor (I'm CNJ) but I forget the stats exactly, I wish I could log on and look

I totally feel your pain ; ; Are the loots from the dungeons more powerful than similar loot from quests? Did it drop from a trash mob or from a boss?

I wish I had taken a screenshot of my character. Devaria Ariadne on Ultros, if you see me give a shout out. I had the cotton swashbuckling-esque quest reward shirt that was lvl 14. I did the dye quest at lvl 15 west of Horizon and proceeded to test out my colors. Needless to say, if you like blue like me you'll have to thrown down 300 gil for the good midnight blue dye. It looked gorgeous on that shirt. I then dyed the pants white, and rocked my asuran armbands. I also had blue hair, so I looked what I imagine Sara from Breath of Fire 1 would've looked like (minus the robe).

Edit: Engrish

Edited, Jun 16th 2013 7:42pm by desmar

Ok we all know what i ll be doing with my THM this weekend right? right?

Rejoyce, then, because those pieces are in FFXIV as well.
I had both the harness and the subligar yesterday.

Yeah, I am loving my pink sabatons, with my green body, and my deep red helmet. I think the best part was, when I completed the dyeing quests, I ended up with ingredients to try dyeing... to pink! lol.

There is definitely an incentive to get to the point where you can dye your own gear. And while we are techno-colored balls of funny, it really does create a separation from who cares about their character and who doesn't. And when people start dyeing their own gear there will be an even greater diversity of player looks.

I hope they keep the clown look, it will always be fun to come into town and see the incredible display.

And there is an NPC later in the quest lines that just screams crazy...
SpoilerThe lady who replaces louis is the queen of every possible color in her outfit! I wish I had a SS of her. She is incredible. I actually like the fact that she is an eye-bleeding fashion statement of doom!

Hanes Her Way?

I hate to think of the reason your wearing an eye patch..

Not at all. It's much easier to go out and test stuff when you aren't attatched to your character. Phase 4 on the other hand...