Fantasia preview gear?

Hello. I maybe wanna buy a fantasia. But I'd like to know what my glams would look like on the new race. Is there any ways to do this?

I wanted to do this too but they make you take all your gear off before you do it.

The only alternative I can think of is to use your retainers as test dummies, if you have one with the right class/level to test your glams on, anyway. And even then you're still going in blind, just spending gil instead of money.

Depending on the gear, you could make an alt of the race and look and preview it at the market or whatever. I guess.

It's not much but the benchmark may help you a bit with that. There are some gear as example in it, you can try them.

Once when I went Au Ra female on my Astrologian character, I wanted to know what the lv.70 AF would look like with my chosen skin tone, hair color, etc. So I made an alt and sent a /tell to a lv.70 AST asking if they could link me the gear. They were kind enough to oblige. You could try that or ask some friends if they have the gear you're interested in.

It would be nice if we could access our glamour plates from the character creation screen or just make an alt and let us do that.

Make an alt or a reteiner and try clothes on them

Depending on your outfits, you could make another character and go to the market boards to try the them on.

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Originally Posted by Greven

Make an alt or a reteiner and try clothes on them

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This, this is what I do. I have alts of different races just to play at the marketboard and try on clothes sometimes.

One method is to put your first six gear sets you want to try on a different race to the top of your gearset list.
Make a new character, then go into your FFXIV folder and looks for your gearset .DAT for your main character.
Copy that to the new character's folder and then level that character to level 10 so that you can take on new jobs.
This will let you open your gearset list on the new character, which you can right-click and hit "Preview Gear".

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Originally Posted by Youkulm

This, this is what I do. I have alts of different races just to play at the marketboard and try on clothes sometimes.

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Also retainer fantasia is pretty cheap.

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Originally Posted by Krotoan

Also retainer fantasia is pretty cheap.

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you can fantasia a retainer? HOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?! TELL ME MORTAL!!!! sorry... but yeah...

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Originally Posted by Velaethia

you can fantasia a retainer? HOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?! TELL ME MORTAL!!!! sorry... but yeah...

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Search the marketboard for fantasia, it should come up. Last time I sold one (which was admittedly a while ago) it was bouncing between 5 and 20k.

I really wish fantasias had like a 30 minute timer once you've edited your character where you could undo the change for reediting.

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Originally Posted by Roda

I really wish fantasias had like a 30 minute timer once you've edited your character where you could undo the change for reediting.

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Would lvoe this.

If maybe some sort of "armor library" was added to the game, this would help. WoW has an "armor library" that can be accessed starting at level 1.

You can see all the gear available in the game for your class/job and how to obtain it. You can also preview all the pieces of armor on your character. This way you don't have to already have it or you can skip the hassle of trying to find the piece on the market board and try it on. Or if it drops from a raid/dungeon, you can still try it on.

I used to skim the library and try different outfits. It was very fun and helpful.

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Originally Posted by Roda

I really wish fantasias had like a 30 minute timer once you've edited your character where you could undo the change for reediting.

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We need a temporary fantasia, One that lasts maybe an hour or so. WoW has an item that just lets you change the gender of your character for 10 minutes. No need to log off / on, The effect is immediate.

i don't think they will add a feature since they can make another quick sale from the "fantasia regret"