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You know, I've always thought about how boring it is always seeing everyone in pretty close to the same gear. Sure, there's variety, but especially with the implementation of AF3 (Empyrean) Armor you see so many people wearing the same thing. This has been a problem for a long time though, going back to the days of the Kirin's Osode's, Optical Hats and Walahra Turbans.

My idea is this.

Why not allow people to do a quest or some such, something fun and easy but time consuming enough that you don't do it every single time. The quest will allow you to transfer the stats of a piece of gear to another piece. The piece of gear you transfer the stats TO will become the same LEVEL and possibly Rare/Ex (where applicable) as the gear you're transferring stats from. Also, you will have to be already high enough level and of proper job orientation to wear said gear that you are transferring the stats TO.

For example. You get a AF3 Empyrean Body +2 for Warrior, but you don't like the style. So you do the quest and are able to transfer the stats and level of the Empyrean +2 body to say, your Warrior Artifact Armor Body, or a Darksteel Cuirass.

Think of it as basically, adding the appearance and style of a piece of gear of your choice (that you can equip on the job in question) to a piece you've already obtained (for the job in question).

This would give people a reason to do Dynamis more, to do Artifact Quests and other quests and missions.

This could even breathe in a big breath of life to Crafting and previous events that people no longer wish to do.

This could be just what the game needs to rejuvenate old events.

This would give a lot more variety to people's appearances and allow people to be more unique with their individual fashion.

And once more, this would bring forth a new reason to craft gear and obtain gear from older events.

I think this would be great, please consider it.

So it's basically a different take on the fashion or appearance tab/settings that other games have (or people beg for but is never implemented). I certainly wouldn't be against the idea. It might be pretty cool. There always have been nice looking armor sets that were saddled with bad stats. It might bring some use to those.

People who hate to be checked will really hate this. Not that I really care about them. I never understood why this is so insulting, even knowing that the dialogue translates differently in Japanese. Also, PS2s may burst into flame or gain sentience or something.

With AF3 having desirable stats, this may be the first time in the entire history of the game where people wearing full sets of armor that actually look good for their job. Unless they're a BLU, that is. Yuck.

Interesting idea EndlessJourney. Honestly though, i'd rather SE put all the graphical tweeks on hold for a bit and fix the annoying gameplay problems that have been let go far too long(zoning into oblivion on PC, the various NPC lockups on PS3).

Like this new 3d icon business i think they have slated to drop soon. They coulda just held that. Need to tighten up the current game issues before messing about with graphical shinies that do nothing for playability.

Modifying equipment itself is likely not possible, due to PS2 restrictions.

However, it should be very possible to lock the appearance of your current armor, so that you always look the same on a job. This would also have the added advantage of getting rid of the blinking.

Weapons should be excluded, otherwise you get weird stuff like greataxes attacking at dagger speed and damage.