Glamour Plate Mechanics

just needs more plates. Fed up with my tanks all looking the same but there isn't really enough to do a glam a piece with all jobs

My wishlist for the glamour dresser, in order of how much I want them:

1. More plates. MANY MORE PLATES.
2. More places plates can be applied (eventually everywhere, please, just like manual glams)
3. More space in the glamour dresser

^ Spot on!...


I would suggest at least one plate per slot in the Armory Chest so 35 in total as of 4.X, even more in the upcoming expansion...


It would be nice if they allowed us to apply plates inside dungeons as there many occasions where one needs a different look but is unable to use it...


Ideally I would have 1,000 slots in the Glamour Dresser but the dev team could start with 500 I suppose, since it takes them so long to do the smallest changes to the game, for some reason!...

Hopefully they double if not triple the amount of plates we can have. Especially since we are getting 3 new jobs.

The glamour system is one of my biggest pet peeves in this game. It's far too restrictive in terms of where you can apply them, and which pieces of gear you want to place in the glamour dresser. It has to be 100% durability, you have to have the required prisms, you have to be in an inn room, and you have to be in a major city to apply any plates. It's like, good lord! Why?! In SWTOR, it's just create a tab on your profile, drop a piece of gear in whichever slot you want to change, and off you go.

FFXIV is actually my first FF game so I'm not used to convoluted systems that require multiple steps just to do something simple. So, this is all extremely annoying to me.

My biggest con right now is not being able to apply plates in the open world.

My biggest pro is being able to apply glamours directly from the dresser without using a prism.

The number of plates seems to have a greater drawback the more classes you have that share gear with other classes, with omni-crafters being the worst off because there are eight of them. It's another big con because the job specific crafting and gathering sets are gorgeous and go mostly unused other than bridging an ilv gap while gearing up. All that time that went into their design too. It's just sad.

That said, I find myself overwriting existing plates more than I am creating new ones. Because it is so easy to re-create a previous look so long as those items are in the dresser, I find little reason to retain any plates other than the ones I am currently using, and I am never using all 10. I would actually get more use out of the dresser by them increasing the amount of items that can be stored; not necessarily the plates. However, I am also not max level anything. Those with my mindset who have 10 or more jobs at max are in a bad position with the dresser.

All in all, I think the next big step(s) are to doubling the amount of plates and storage. That would go a really long way. Being able to apply the plates in more places, and increasing the access to the dresser can come later imo.

I hadn't really cared about the glamour dresser before they added in the feature to take gear out of it.


But since then, I've found it to be a good place to store certain items I glamour into often, having to go into an inn room or the GC Barracks to use it is somewhat of a downside.

The plates, I find it better to ignore the weapon slot on them, and only making rather generalized sets.

In my prefered system, everything would be "in" it by default, and becomes accessible to use on a plate when you place the physical item in the dresser.

Several filter options added to make it more functional too. Filter by: whether you actually have it or not, what job you're on, level required, etc.

Ideally tool tip over items would tell you where to get the items you don't have too.

Of course, none of that is going to happen. So double plates and double space would do for now ;)

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Originally Posted by Gemina

The number of plates seems to have a greater drawback the more classes you have that share gear with other classes, with omni-crafters being the worst off because there are eight of them. It's another big con because the job specific crafting and gathering sets are gorgeous and go mostly unused other than bridging an ilv gap while gearing up. All that time that went into their design too. It's just sad.

That said, I find myself overwriting existing plates more than I am creating new ones. Because it is so easy to re-create a previous look so long as those items are in the dresser, I find little reason to retain any plates other than the ones I am currently using, and I am never using all 10. I would actually get more use out of the dresser by them increasing the amount of items that can be stored; not necessarily the plates. However, I am also not max level anything. Those with my mindset who have 10 or more jobs at max are in a bad position with the dresser.

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The two issues of "individual crafter glamours" and "not enough plates" go hand in hand. If there were more plates, it would be viable to set up unique crafter glamours and set up the (already existing) link to gearsets so it would re-glamour your sets as you changed class.

Technically you can do this already, but it is going to take up the majority of your plates. Just doubling it to 20 plates would free up that option - still not enough to have every class covered, but certainly enough to devote that many to permanent crafting sets if you wanted to, and not be left with only two plates for battle classes.)

I prefer to be able to leave all my plates intact. I know I *can* disassemble them and put them together again later, but I'd rather not have to. Especially if I've dyed something on the plate and I'll lose that if I have to overwrite it with something else. (Already I have a few plates taken up with things I won't be needing again for a while, but I don't want to break it up or I won't have the dyed version instantly available later!)

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Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard

The plates, I find it better to ignore the weapon slot on them, and only making rather generalized sets.

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The plate can still be applied to other classes even if you've put a specific weapon on it. It will just ignore the weapon glamour and not apply it (and anything else incompatible like the glamour piece being higher level than the gear you're trying to apply it to).

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Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard

The plates, I find it better to ignore the weapon slot on them, and only making rather generalized sets.

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I only use the weapon slot if my plate includes job-specific gear, in which case it's already specific to that job. Otherwise I don't bother; I don't change my weapon often enough and I don't have enough plates for multiple glamours with different weapons for each job (OMG PLEASE MORE PLATES FOR THE LOVE OF - ).

The job-specific stuff is what makes the plates a pain to use in the field if you want to switch from (for example) smn to rdm (using the same base gear). My smn plate has the job-specific body piece, so if I switch to rdm in the field I get the base gear instead since it won't reapply my rdm plate. Very annoying. The only reason that a fix for this is below 'more plates' on my wishlist is because it's not something that comes up TOO frequently (mostly just on my fc's map night and in eureka).

I put 'more space in the glamour dresser' below both of them mainly because you can swap gear in and out, so despite being annoying it's not as big of an issue.

And I forgot to mention that I really want a glamour dresser for my house. But that'd be number four on my list.