Announcing The Shield Design Contest 2020!

"Calling adventurers and artists alike! We're pleased to announce the return of the popular Shield Design Contest returning to Vana'diel once more! Furthermore, the winning shield entry will be implemented into the game! So fetch your Stationery Sets and pick up your quills to draft a shield so ornate and elegant that it captures the eyes of all!"

Read on for details.

I plan to participate in this activity and offer SE a shield never seen before:
An Aegis ilvl119 (with enouth skill to block like the 75 era!)



What do you think? With this never before seen visual (lol) and skill (+120 or more) has you the cheeks of a shield that serves a purpose!

All crafts skills +10

I've gone for something simple.

AAEV Shield, Can I have it?

Pummels

I like this, to do you one better, I would write up all the ***that is actually wrong with PLD shrink it down and put it on a generic shield.

Honestly, it may get some eyeballs. Does it matter? maybe not. We already know it's going to be a "cheese sandwich" anyway, so why not.

Get a consensus of "the problem" as "the pld community" and updoot the ***out of it.

So basically... I'll win since I'm the only one that submitted something for real. Nice.

Hold. My. Beer.

Is the shield blue and black, or white and gold?

Maybe I'll try to make one lol

Here is my Kei Scale shield, made with dozens of sad unwanted Kei scales, because Ammurapi won't drop.

Did they add the shield from the 2013? contest into the game and if so which was it?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35136
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/28661/glinting-shield

Ok, that actually is pretty good.

Wish they offered a better shield model but trying this one, supposed to be Khimaira.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35136

This one is Beatific Shield, right?

The 2013 winner model, yes

I still have the one I entered last time that I threw together just to get a "participation" item, but this time the participation prize is a white/purple Byakko helm only. >.< I already have one.

I know it is ***, but since others were posting what they entered, this is what I made seriously using MSPaint and cutting one of the floors from Altana View and maybe 3 minutes of cropping. It's so cringe, but I did seriously only make it just to get the "also ran" prize. I guess I'll enter it again to get a Byakko Helm I can... mule.



Zoomed in, you can see how little *** were given and how MSPaint'd it was:

Please note: It was kind of pretty IN THEORY, but I simply can't be bothered to care about the prizes enough to make it work in practice. If anyone wants to take the idea, clean it up, and enter it as theirs, I would totally be 100% okay with it.

I believed I used the floor from AltanaView "Field: Grand Palace of Hu'Xzoi.



Me: Uses a skin SquareEnix already had in the dats to create a new item.

SquareEnix: The student has become the master.

Damn, if that last winner is the actual quality of what they get, I don't stand a chance with my mspaint *** job I did

Someone should make a shield showing Lillith, with 4/5 pieces of armor at her feet.

I was going to make one with the Shadow Lord instead, but I don't have the skills to pull it off.

Sad thing is, I doubt barely anyone even knew it was a contest winner shield. I always just thought it was a normal developer created shield.

You would think they would mention it in the description somehow.