Armor - How can you tell?

[FFfan321123]

When buying armor, how can you tell what it will look like on you before you buy it..?

[tdh]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Not really. It shows the picture, and gives you an idea about what it looks like, but it's basically one size fits all. So you'll looking at armor, and it will look like that on an Elvaan or a Hume, but it's obviously going to be too small for a Galka and far too large for a Tarutaru.

But you can usually find somebody that's wearing it, to give you an idea. You could of coure buy it and then put it back up for auction if ya didn't like it. lol Not a very efficient way of doing things, but it's a way.

[Kailo]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Well, the short and blunt answer is that you can't. Not entirely anyway. Each item, including armor pieces, have an icon representing their look. With this, you can get some idea of what the piece looks like, but you won't really know what it looks like on your own character. However, they do have what's known as a "Model Viewer" available for download. Using this program, you can select your character's look (race, gender, and face type), and put armor pieces on them (for all armor and weapon slots) in order to view what your character would look like wearing the piece. I can't even remember where I got my own model viewer, else I'd help you out for finding one, but googling "FFXI model viewer" should bring you to one.

[FFfan321123]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Thanks everyone...

[DakAttack]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

You wont be wearing armor for the looks anyways. It's all about efficinecy.

[FFfan321123]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

When I'm outside of battle, just hanging out, I want to look good. It's fun to look good. And it is a game, not work, so I do intend on having fun.

[tazirai]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

You wont be wearing armor for the looks anyways. It's all about efficinecy.

Not necessarily!! Im fashion king haha, let my accesories be for efficiency hehe.
Seriously you can look good and be efficient. Its not abotu levelling all the time.
I know tons of NA players that have more jobs levelled than I ever wil. Killed more NM and HNM than I could ever dream.
and Ive been playing for 3 years....

So kick ass ...but look good doing it!(￣。￣)y-～～

[Agnastar]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Artifact Armor.

Efficient? Yeah
Fashionable? Hell yes.

Of course, most armor will look good, no matter what it is. Just as long as you keep it within the same set. Mixing Iron Musketeer's Armor with Royal Knights armor isn't my idea of good looking.

[Kitashi]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Artifact Armor.

Efficient? Yeah

Only for a few classes. The full Paladin set is great and can last until 70+. Dark Knight AF basically sucks except for a piece or two for macroing in for boosting a couple JAs: it's mostly for wearing around Jeuno to look cool and that's about it. Other sets tend to be midway between the two extremes... usually a couple decent pieces and the rest is junk compared to reasonably affordable gear. Some pieces are just flat out worthless.

That isn't to say there's not room for fashion... but some AF pieces just totally blow and have no real advantage for the class in question. But I definitely understand a male Monk wearing no-stat pants instead of Republic Subligar until Byakko's Haidate or whatever.

[DakAttack]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

My Dragoon AF will last me quite a long time.

[Kafeen]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Download the character viewer or shout out in the area, see if anyone else is wearing it so you can see what it looks like on them.

[Fockr]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Trial and error

http://graphipedia.squares.net/
Generally there are a number of styles, and there is a small icon in the item description.

Nice site you got here.
Answers a lot of questions, heh.

[Ziero]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

Artifact Armor.

Efficient? Yeah
Fashionable? Hell yes.

This isn't always the case. Take the War AF boots for example

Efficient? HELL Yeahs they are, one of the best damnpairs a boots a War could own
Fashionable? My toes are cold ; ;

p.s.

http://www.folye.net/

^-- Model Viewer

Download, unzip, and enjoy

[neighbortaru]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

pps Model Viewer is PC only (and requires you to have the game installed).

[Ziero]

Re: Armor - How can you tell?

knew I forgot to mention something >_>