Design Challenge: Job Glamours

This is an open invitation for anyone who feels like experimenting with glamours.

Gist of this challenge is simple, there are aesthetics associated with certain jobs. Red Mages normally get presented like this:

https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram...NzkzOA%3D%3D.2

Blue Mages are like this:

https://images.jdmagicbox.com/comp/j...e3tqag1wff.jpg

You get the picture.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to make a glamour that defies the default style of your job.

For extra credit, this new aesthetic should maintain one iconic visual element to indicate your class.

So if you consider black armor the most iconic thing for Dark Knight, the type of armor might change but the color would remain. If you consider edginess the most important visual element, you could make a neon pink Dark Knight complete with girlish pigtails and intimidating spikes.

Defying default style doesn't have to mean going for an opposite approach. All it has to be is different. Something you think might be fun and a little surprising to see.

Other than that though, anything goes. This is just an excuse to show what you can come up with and peek at what other people are trying out.

Uploading two glamours I did for fun in this vein as examples:

RED MAGE
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...b895ed5fc8.jpg


BLUE MAGE
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...68b1076aba.jpg

Messing around with glamours is fun! (And part of the reason I have multiple alts...)

I'm not sure if they're "iconic" but I have a few glamours that use unique job/role-specific gear items without following the overall style of the set they come from.


Astrologian glamour using the Lv70 relic sleeves and Boulevardier set - plus Adept's thighboots which are not quite visible in the picture, but the frilly pants tuck into the boots so you end up with normal-looking pants and the fancy belt.
(I love how perfectly the pin on the vest matches the sleeve decorations, even though they're not from the same set!)
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...d9c171125a.jpg


Working out glamours for my Au Ra, I decided I was going to try to keep to things in the vein of "traditional Auri dress" (ie. starter gear), so half-shirts and skirts-over-pants wherever possible... so the Lv50 relic skirt seemed like an obvious thing to play around with. It combines rather nicely with the Pagos shirt.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...074a1279e2.jpg


(And then there's my straight-up role-subverting stealth healer. Ironworks optics and cane; Makai gloves and boots. Just need to find some healer-specific pants and everything but the shirt will be healer gear.)
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...6fd9f5b925.jpg

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Originally Posted by Iscah

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Those turned out really cool Iscah! Honestly I haven't seen a lot of male Astrologians at all so that alone is pretty neat, and the reinterpreted Auri fashion is an interesting idea!

Also, your stealth healer is RIDICULOUSLY cool! I adjusted the guidelines to be a bit looser because honestly, seeing people doing inventive stuff like that is awesome and I don't want to discourage sharing those designs! Made the one iconic element thing a sort of "bonus" and scrapped the bit about the weapons. Opens the door for anyone who has an unusual design but keeps the option for more specific experimenting if anyone wants it!

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Originally Posted by Jaywalker

Those turned out really cool Iscah! Honestly I haven't seen a lot of male Astrologians at all so that alone is pretty neat, and the reinterpreted Auri fashion is an interesting idea!

Also, your stealth healer is RIDICULOUSLY cool!

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Thanks! :D

Still working on actually leveling him as AST - the Lv70 sleeves were 'tried on' from another player. I like the 'traditional' mage robes as well, and for my female main character I tend towards pretty dresses for my mage costumes, but it's also fun coming up with non-standard costumes like this!

I think there's a lot of potential in mixing an "all-classes glamour" body piece with class-specific gear.

Found a few more:

My "travelling" summoner costume that I put together for Stormblood after deciding that my aforementioned pretty dress wasn't all that appropriate for hiking through the desert. All caster gear except the pants.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...352fffafe8.jpg


Mage concept for my Roegadyn alt - I noticed that the design on the grimoire page matches the PVP caster pants really nicely, so went playing around with gear to match. I made this before the Rakshasa set was released, or I probably would have used those gloves.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...66d59b13a1.jpg


And another subverted healer set using the Legacy Warrior armour from Mog Station ($5 well spent - makes good actual tank gear too), Daystar sollerets + Yagrush cane and Thaliak's Armlets. The gold parts are all the same colour, they're just reflecting light differently. Could also be done in other colours with the plainer Aurum Regis sollerets.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...7b26502cb7.jpg
The pose isn't a trick, it's from the Largesse casting animation.

My take on RDM

https://i.imgur.com/ZyVj78R.png?1

https://i.imgur.com/VEMMZiV.png?1

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Originally Posted by wylantar

My take on RDM

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Nice. I like that tunic.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

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These are really cool too!! Dig the flowy summoner pants, your armored healer I think is my fav of these three because while it still has that light feeling common to WHM glamours the presentation feels almost dragoon in a way to me. It's a fun ???--->!!! thing I think haha.

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That's a really cool take on Red Mage! The tunic and face wrap in combination really emphasize the swordsman feeling of the job I think, almost feels like he could be a mundane melee DPS!

Summoner:

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...83&oe=5CBF542B

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...f3&oe=5CC63098

I got tired of the glamour I had for BLM and this is basically what RDM would be stuck wearing as well...while this could be seen "normal" for BLM, this is an oddity for something like RDM.

https://imgur.com/jzmbF2x.jpg

https://imgur.com/uNraCkh.jpg

https://imgur.com/WUNDwb5.jpg

It may not be the most original theme given that the game itself introduced it but I love the magitek look for healers over the overused priestly/magey robes that we get bombarded with the other 99% of the time.

https://i.ibb.co/rcsXrQm/ffxiv-26012019-061547-167.png

Still on the "alternative healer concept" thought train - working through the Void Ark raid questline and I thought I'd try to make a costume that fitted in with the sky pirates' style and black/red/white colour scheme, and ended up realising that the Wind Silk Coatee not only fits that colour scheme but is actually in "healer colours" by default.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...78de6f0a7b.jpg

(And then I made progress on the Alexander raids in the same outfit and realised it's actually not far off being a male version of Y'shtola's dress, with the black shoulder-cape and red highlights, plus long boots. But at least he's wearing pants.)

I also wanted to point out the gloves, which are actually a neat combination of the Lv55/60 crafter gloves and 'leather wristband' bracelets. Some types of gloves will hide bracelets, but these ones let them show. I think you can do it with the Thavnairian gloves as well, and maybe others. Bracelets aren't dyeable so you're limited to what colours they come in. My best pick for this would have been the Nomad's wristbands (same colour but with a red gem instead of white) from Bardam's Mettle, but he's not up to that yet.



And then I made a caster version! This isn't actually the same shirt, it's the recoloured Ghost Barque Coatee of Casting from the Sirensong Sea. (Rather appropriate that it was used for caster gear when the original looks like healer gear!) This version stays black and lets you dye the cape instead.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...b4a9336d1e.jpg

(I wanted to make it purple for something different, and since black/purple is a common colour scheme for caster gear opposite healer's white/red - there's even a version of that rapier with a purple gem, but sadly there aren't any dyes that match it except for the metallic one.)

Also using the Chimerical Felt Skirt here, which is one of my go-to glamour pieces since it's the only unrestricted dyeable skirt with pants underneath. (Well, that and the Ramie Skirt which is the same model, but dyes differently.)



Also I swear there's no deliberate connection between hair colour and choice of magical discipline...)

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Originally Posted by Jaywalker

These are really cool too!! Dig the flowy summoner pants, your armored healer I think is my fav of these three because while it still has that light feeling common to WHM glamours the presentation feels almost dragoon in a way to me. It's a fun ???--->!!! thing I think haha.

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Thanks! My original intent was for it to look like a tank (and was thinking of the cane as a mace), but it does come off looking more like a dragoon's spear in that pose!

I think it could be quite fun to pair up with a tank glamoured in ARR-era mage gear! Or possibly tank gear that just looks like mage gear.

Here's an unconventional Bard look that I like. She'd be right at home in an '80s hair metal band!

https://i.imgur.com/CQFPtUb.png

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...020a09b606.jpg

I don't have a full body pic atm, but I set this up as a more casual black mage glamour!