[Feature Suggestion] "Glamour Catalog"

Hello,
I don't believe I'm first one to suggest this feature, but I haven't seen much of mention around or during the letters.

Basically, "Glamour Catalog" is a collection of the gears' glamour of acquired geared that no longer has any use for the player other than the glamours images. Additionally, when the player decides that they want to save the glamour of an equipment, they would have to "destroy" the item in order to gain the image of an item.

By implementing such feature, the players would be able to retrieve the glamour of old items at any time without the needs to go through certain dungeons, probably multiple times, to gain such items if they decided they would like to use its glamour later in the future.

Also, such feature would beneficial to game in general as it would increase the population of players that would go through older or lower contents to collect the glamour of various items for their catalogs, especially, when the level/iLevel cap is increased in the future.

Additional feature along with the catalog, is to have a "dressing room" or "Tailor" where the players would be able to check the appearance of combined items collected in the their catalogs.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/4757543808/

my first thought after reading the title was this ^^

https://41.media.tumblr.com/84e4b15f...sxx8o8_500.jpg

That would a really nice way to do glamors. Its interesting about having to destroy the item to add it to your collection since that means you can no longer give said item to your retainers when your done with it, meaning you may want to grab multiple copies of the item.

I'm not sure that destroying the item is actually needed as long as the item is still bound to you, but I absolutely want a feature like this. I have 2 retainers that I use just to hold gear for glamours and they are nearly filled to bursting.

I also think the idea of a dressing room is great. We need to 1) be able to select several different pieces of gear and not just the 1 we are currently looking at and 2) be able to see what pieces will look like when dyed a different color than they currently are.

^^ Proposed similar idea before on other threads

We do desperately need some form of Glamour Library/Catalog. There is nowhere near enough armory/retainer space to hold all the pieces of gear I'd like to use as glamours, so I'm forced to get by with only the pieces that "must" have.

However I'd like a bit of a middle ground on how gear gets added, destroying item seems a bit extreme, especially for some rarer pieces, but binding seems too easy. So maybe gear has to be 100% spirit bonded before it gets added?

Yes please SE...

Ive said it many times since the game is out ( and even during beta phases ) that all i want is a glamour system a la DCUO.

Ive been used to change my look on the fly whenever i wanted to for "free" in DCUO, so imagine the frustration when i started playing FFXIV or when the glamour system's been released.

Anyway, since we already have a glamour system, we would still need to use catalysts but as long as you equip a piece of gear at least once, it should be added to an "Armor log" , "Glamour catalog" or whatever name fits the best. And then you could get rid of said piece of gear and still be able to use its look whenever you want to.

Hopefully the announced Armor/Weapons guide works like that. My four retainers are choking in all the glamour-only armor I'm keeping on them.

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Originally Posted by Phafi

http://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/4757543808/

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Can you get that in that US Amazon? I must have it.

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

Hopefully the announced Armor/Weapons guide works like that. My four retainers are choking in all the glamour-only armor I'm keeping on them.

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Could you please show me where did they announced it? I've tried to look in previous letters and live letters but I've never found a mention about it.

Yes, I hope they add something like this in the near future. I want to clear out my retainers of glamour gear.

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Originally Posted by Zetsubou

Could you please show me where did they announced it? I've tried to look in previous letters and live letters but I've never found a mention about it.

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Unfortunately after trying to find it with google for half a hour, I couldn't come up with anything, but I clearly remember two instances in which a Weapons Guide and Armor Guide being in the works were mentioned in interviews to Yoshida (talking of something similar to the Minion/mounts/fishing guide, with lore bits about armor and weapons in Eorzea). Yoshida had at one point said they were almost ready, and I'm talking about an interview that happened even before the LA Fan Festival and 2.4.

Not sure why I can't find the interview anywhere. Maybe it was taken down? Unfortunately for now I have nothing to back this information up, I'm sorry. I'll try look again tomorrow.

Here what I found regarding this topic
Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIII Q&A Summary
1:51:39
Q: Please implement a building such as a library where we can learn more details about the lore.
A: Maehiro: This is also something for which we've received numerous requests. The Lore Team has some plans drawn up for something similar, but as we're prioritizing patch releases, they're a bit behind on this. There's a ton of lore that is yet untold in Eorzea, and I think we need to go deeper into each aspect gradually, so I’d like to look into this. More than a library, I would like to make it so you can obtain literature from different situations or record parts from dialogue with NPCs, so I’m thinking a lore version of the quest journal would be more appropriate.

Yoshida: A plan for a weapons and armor compendium has come my way. The plan is to allow you to read about the origins of each weapon and armor after you have completed the series, and we would like to implement this as well.

Letter From the Producer LIVE Part XVI Q&A Summary
0:52:08
Q: Is there any update on the weapon and armor log?
A: We've currently finished off a lot of the details, but we have to plans for implementation, we've been estimating the amount of work for each. The first idea would simply have players building a collection of weapons and armor, while the second idea would allow players to read the lore surrounding the gear they obtain. However, this data will affect the player data used in real time, so we are carefully investigating this at the moment. Next week we will reach a conclusion and proceed for actual implementation, but if we decide to go with the first idea it will be implemented in patch 2.4. In the case we decide on the second option, it will be implemented a bit further in the future. In any event, we've progressed quite a bit on this and we will have our verdict soon enough.

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Originally Posted by Zetsubou

Here what I found .

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Exactly what I was referring to, thanks! No wonder I couldn't find it, I kept searching with the word "guide" instead of "log".

I agree that a Glamor catalog would be nice. I also agree that destroying the item may be a bit extreme because sometimes it's actually high level gear you need for one class and want to use on another (Oh Forager's vest, I am looking at thee... how I want thee for glamor as well as a functioning item for my gatherers.) Having 100% spiritbond however is agreeable as a precursor for adding to a glamor catelog - or perhaps any item that you HAVE glamored once will be saved in the glamor catelog and would then be available for RE-glamoring, whether you still have the item or not, or if the item is on your retainer or something.

I say no to destroying it as well. I'd say a viable alternative would be for the player to have to cast a glamour onto the log itself (requiring the corresponding prism). That would result in the armor piece binding to the player. The player would be able to cast the glamour from the log, once it has been recorded in the log.

I agree on this.

The current glamour system has its issues, we need a more simple one that dosnt force us to fill our retainers with stuff.

Aswell as beeing able to tie certain glamour to certain classes so 2 classes wearing same gear piece still can have different looks.

Well, if you have an item that you believe you will be using for something different than glamour then it will remain in your inventory and you would be able to glamour it any time you want regardless.
What I mean by "destroying" the item is to be able to get rid of the item (to save space) yet you would be able to "backup" its glamorous image for later, since your only reason to keep such item is to be able to use its glamour. "Destroying" the item is way of an exchange system that would grants you the glamour of item by "destroying" it, similar to the way you would "loss" the item for GC seals.

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Originally Posted by Zetsubou

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Yea, I'd still prefer 100% SB as requirement to enter an item into the item log. Via the "destroying" method, that gear is lost, and should a new job/class comes out that could of used it, I'll have to find other gear or refarm it again. Also for upgradable gear such as relics or tome weapons, I'd have to obtain the weapon, destroy it, obtain it again, upgrade it, destroy it, etc.

Yah it's disheartening to just throw away, deliver for seals, or just straight up selling your equipment that you worked hard to collect because you ran out of room. I had almost every i80 piece from the dungeons but had to get rid of them.