Sq. Enix hosted its Fan Fest for Ultimate Fantasy XIV as we speak, spotlighting all of the updates coming to its large MMORPG. Among the many bulletins of an growth and new platform being within the combine, one of many greatest rounds of applause got here for one thing that appears rather less grandiose, a minimum of to much less XIV-familiar people: two dyes per gear piece.

It sounds plain, but it surely’s a notable piece of what’s wanting like an enormous replace for the style followers of Ultimate Fantasy XIV. Which, actually, is everybody. The large non-secret of Ultimate Fantasy XIV is that the endgame will not be Final raids, or hardcore Crystalline Battle, and even essentially maxing out all the roles. These are all belongings you do in service of the true Ultimate Fantasy XIV endgame: style. And boy howdy, did the feral style aficionados get some good content material as we speak.

For the unfamiliar, Ultimate Fantasy XIV has a transmog system—a instrument that allows you to put the looks of 1 beauty merchandise on one other—referred to as Glamour, or glam for brief. Consider it like placing a pullover on prime of a shirt. Whereas your precise stats are decided by the “shirt” under, your outward look is the “pullover.” These glams can be utilized on armor items and set on particular presets, letting gamers have a closet stuffed with style at their fingertips, and people glam items will also be dyed to vary the colour, and typically materials look, of the beauty piece.

Eyes go vast for 2 dyes

Two dyes per gear piece implies that as a substitute of getting a single level of shade customization, would-be look-book creators can have two channels of shade to dye. If you happen to’ve visited the Eorzean Assortment, you already know what a gifted designer can do with the instruments out there. Including one other? I can’t wait.

That wasn’t the one replace, although. Additionally included was the information that glasses are getting absolutely separated from headgear, so you may don a cap and glasses on the similar time. All of this arrives by means of the graphics replace that’s due alongside Ultimate Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, the newly introduced growth.

However even the graphical replace itself is an enormous win for style followers. Previous garments will get a pure spruce-up from the improved textures and graphics. Ultimate Fantasy XIV director and producer Naoki Yoshida mentioned as we speak that the crew is steadily going again by means of content material for the replace, stretching again to 2.0.

Come on, vogue

And for the GPose followers, who like to snap photographs of their Warrior of Gentle utilizing the in-game group pose (a.ok.a. GPose) instrument, get some nice advantages from the graphics replace too. Extra lush surroundings and backgrounds for snapping pics is at all times a bonus.

It’s charming to outsiders, it appears, seeing Ultimate Fantasy XIV followers get so excited over merely having the ability to use extra dyes. However it actually is a part of the enchantment. It’s that method for many RPGs, not simply XIV; video games like Elden Ring and Future 2 usually see gamers pore over their style in the identical method Ultimate Fantasy XIV followers do.

Having extra choices, with so many alternative decisions for shade customization and glasses getting rather more malleable? It’s unbelievable for the gamers that like to design their characters and put cool garments on them. So sure, new jobs, dungeons, raids, and extra are at all times thrilling. However two dyes? That’s an enormous win for the Ultimate Fantasy XIV style fanatics.