So glamour plates are dumber than anticipated...

Yeah the system is really half thought out and dumb. It's almost as if the SE team has no concept of how to make decent character customization, which to be fair is a problem with most MMOs.

I refuse to use this system because i do not want my gear pieces friggin' Destroyed. So i'll just suffer with the inventory space.

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Originally Posted by Haprimac

I was all starry-eyed when I thought I could have a healer circlet with paladin armour [...]

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Not sure if you're after something more specialised, or something else entirely, but all the basic mage-equipment circlets are 'all classes' so can be glamoured onto your paladin.

I didn't even touch it... placed gear to armoire and chocobo saddleback to make some space. This system is ridiculous and I will only use it when they hire a genius to fix it. No idea what kind of idiot designed this.

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Originally Posted by Haprimac

I didn't realise how flawed the system was until I had already emptied two retainer's worth of glam items to the dresser. It's good to get space, sure, but I'm so annoyed I can't change the order of the glams (like I did with the items in the retainer inventory) or change my glamour easily anymore when getting several gear pieces in a dungeon/raid. Having all jobs at 70 doesn't help. I was all starry-eyed when I thought I could have a healer circlet with paladin armour and have different outfits on each tank, but nope. Should've known it was too good to be true.

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Oh my god, Had the same reaction when I realised restrictions weren't lifted once items were put in the dresser (even though the item descriptions vanished). Starry-eyed for sure...
Literally listed all the gripe I have with this system!! bravo/brava :D

I haven't had time to try the new system because I've been focusing on the other content. I only placed like 3 pieces of gear I was sure I wasn't going to equip anymore. After reading how it actually works, I have a question if anyone could answer it:

So say my plate has all but body piece assigned to whatever gear I choose. The reason for this would be because I want to use a mogstation body piece that I do not want to place in the glamour dresser for obvious reasons, to glamour my genji body. I want to use this mogstation body piece with the old glamour system so I can just store it later. If I equip the plate with the body slot not assigned to anything, does that mean it WILL replace the body glamour I currently have and I will see the actual equipped genji body gear(as in completely overwrite the glamour it already has) or I'll get to see my mogstation body?

Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by Tyla_Esmeraude

So say my plate has all but body piece assigned to whatever gear I choose.

I want to use this mogstation body piece with the old glamour system so I can just store it later. If I equip the plate with the body slot not assigned to anything, does that mean it WILL replace the body glamour I currently have and I will see the actual equipped genji body gear(as in completely overwrite the glamour it already has) or I'll get to see my mogstation body?

Thanks in advance.

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If you have a plate gear slot empty, it means it won't do anything in there. Any glamour you do have (regardless of whether it was applied via another plate or via Cast Glamour) will remain there.

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Originally Posted by Squintina

If you have a plate gear slot empty, it means it won't do anything in there. Any glamour you do have (regardless of whether it was applied via another plate or via Cast Glamour) will remain there.

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Oh ok, so you can combine both systems. Good to know. Thanks a lot! :)

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Originally Posted by Tyla_Esmeraude

Oh ok, so you can combine both systems. Good to know. Thanks a lot! :)

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Yes, because the application of glamour itself isn't a separate system.

The dresser is a new system to store.
The plate itself is a new system to organize multiple glamours.

Using the plate to apply glamour however is not a new system. It's just the existing system being applied in bulk without having to keep using prisms. So if you have 3 glamours on a plate, it's no different than if you were in the old system manually applying those 3 glamours yourself.

Glamour in itself hasn't changed (hence why the job/class restrictions still apply, and why it overrides existing glamour that's in the same slot, no different than if you were to re-glamour an already-glamoured item the old way). It's really just a different way of clicking "Cast Glamour".

And because it's the same glamour system, that's why glamour dispellers are used to remove glamour regardless of how it was applied.

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Originally Posted by Squintina

Yes, because the application of glamour itself isn't a separate system.

The dresser is a new system to store.
The plate itself is a new system to organize multiple glamours.

Using the plate to apply glamour however is not a new system. It's just the existing system being applied in bulk without having to keep using prisms. So if you have 3 glamours on a plate, it's no different than if you were in the old system manually applying those 3 glamours yourself. Glamour in itself hasn't changed (hence why the job/class restrictions still apply, and why it overrides existing glamour that's in the same slot, no different than if you were to re-glamour an already-glamoured item the old way)

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That's actually pretty interesting to know. I guess it was a faster way for them to implement a (temporal I hope) solution to the inventory issue. Hopefully they refine it over time as it's a bit convoluted and confusing the way it is right now. But this clears all my doubts now. I was too afraid of going in blind and messing my glamours somehow. So I had to make sure how it works first.