Does every job need its own glamour plate?

It recently occurred to me that the number of combat jobs has already outpaced the number of glamour plates, so I have a question (asked from work where I can’t look for myself, but it’s still bugging me) as someone who built his character around a job-agnostic outfit to suit all jobs.

Is there a convenient way to glam just your weapon, or am I just boned for customization when I hit 16 jobs? Like I can keep my whole look on one plate if I have to, the only thing that changes from job to job is my weapon, which I’m meticulous about matching to my look.

I could have sworn I saw a thing that let me glam just one piece, but I feel like it was limited somehow to glams in my inventory. I feel like it might actually burn through crystals. Am I remembering that right?

I could easily just rule out a certain number of jobs, but I really feel the glamor plate limit should really keep up with at least the combat jobs!

Only time crystals are used, is when putting an item into the dresser, and when applying manually a look from your inventory to an item. Using & applying plates does not use up crystals.

I'm not sure why you need to glam your weapons differently, because you can't glamour a weapon design to another class/job weapon. But if you have the design in your inventory, you can manually apply the glam onto the weapon you want the look to be changed.

I wouldn't say it's needed, but it would definitely be nice.

Maybe you aren't using the plates correctly?

There's 16 plates iirc and you shouldn't have any issue with weapons, since they remain with that same glam until you replace it with a different one, and even then, you can simply go back to the first plate you used without spending gil or prisms.

Unless you're a maniac who changes every weapon for every single job within 5 minutes, in which case you only have to go back to your room and change it for free as long as you've previously added it to your dresser.

I'm pretty sure the OP doesn't understand how the glam system works at all.

There is a few other things that felt like should have been increased with the addition of new jobs. One being the weekly cap on the highest tier tomestones for a given game cycle as more jobs does lead to more people playing multiple jobs or wanting to play more than 1 role in endgame. A process that in the past felt hampered horribly during phases when every combat job actually ended up with it's own set of gear from the tome vendor. It's still felt on other tomestone gear sets as well though to a lesser degree since those sets for most cases were atleast usable by more than 1 job. NIN and DRG being outliers that just about always had a set to themselves. Though NIN initially shared MNK gear in ARR due to being added mid cycle it split off later to be by itself as melee dex gear. DRG being by itself since the beginning but atleast appears to be getting someone to share outfits with in Endwalker when they add Reaper.

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

I'm pretty sure the OP doesn't understand how the glam system works at all.

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Then educate me, please.

What I see now when I open my plates are a series of images that look exactly the same except for the weapon, with a plate for each job. What I’m asking is: is that the only way to have my weapons look different, or can I just use an “all but the weapon” plate for some jobs, while updating the appearance of just the weapon through a more specific, direct means?

From what I’m gathering from this conversation, the answer appears to be yes, but I’d need to keep the item with the look I want in my inventory, not the dresser, which seems to exist purely to feed plates.

Am I right or missing something?

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Originally Posted by Omedon

It recently occurred to me that the number of combat jobs has already outpaced the number of glamour plates, so I have a question (asked from work where I can’t look for myself, but it’s still bugging me) as someone who built his character around a job-agnostic outfit to suit all jobs.

Is there a convenient way to glam just your weapon, or am I just boned for customization when I hit 16 jobs? Like I can keep my whole look on one plate if I have to, the only thing that changes from job to job is my weapon, which I’m meticulous about matching to my look.

I could have sworn I saw a thing that let me glam just one piece, but I feel like it was limited somehow to glams in my inventory. I feel like it might actually burn through crystals. Am I remembering that right?

I could easily just rule out a certain number of jobs, but I really feel the glamor plate limit should really keep up with at least the combat jobs!

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Yeah, you can use one plate for the outfit then glamour the weapon individually with a glamour prism. Just right click the weapon and click glamour then select the weapon from the list. Yes it has to be in your characters possession in inventory(iirc) or armory chest, and yes it will use a prism up.

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Originally Posted by Omedon

Then educate me, please.

What I see now when I open my plates are a series of images that look exactly the same except for the weapon, with a plate for each job. What I’m asking is: is that the only way to have my weapons look different, or can I just use an “all but the weapon” plate for some jobs, while updating the appearance of just the weapon through a more specific, direct means?

From what I’m gathering from this conversation, the answer appears to be yes, but I’d need to keep the item with the look I want in my inventory, not the dresser, which seems to exist purely to feed plates.

Am I right or missing something?

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You don't need to put weapons in the glam plate at all. You cannot glam a DRK weapon with a PLD weapon for example so you just need the outfit.

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

You don't need to put weapons in the glam plate at all. You cannot glam a DRK weapon with a PLD weapon for example so you just need the outfit.

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Right, but to save on prisms obviously the first 15 jobs get their own plate. I’m never changing my overall look while my character “is who he is now.”

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Originally Posted by Omedon

Does every job need its own glamour plate?

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yes, every job does. this shouldn't even be a debate

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Originally Posted by Omedon

Right, but to save on prisms obviously the first 15 jobs get their own plate. I’m never changing my overall look while my character “is who he is now.”

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You still need to use a prism to put anything in the glam dresser in the first place. instead of doing that, you can just glam the DRK weapon, for example, once instead of putting anything in the dresser. Furthermore, glam prisms cost like 200g to begin with.

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Originally Posted by znushu

yes, every job does. this shouldn't even be a debate

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I disagree, every job needs at least 10.

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

You still need to use a prism to put anything in the glam dresser in the first place. instead of doing that, you can just glam the DRK weapon, for example, once instead of putting anything in the dresser. Furthermore, glam prisms cost like 200g to begin with.

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Right, I hear you and get what you’re saying, but as someone leveling many jobs right now, the idea of burning any consumable every time I upgrade a weapon is less attractive than just using a plate.

But put that way, going beyond 15 seems less annoying, so thank you for that perspective!

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

I disagree, every job needs at least 10.

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lol I like your style

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Originally Posted by Omedon

Right, I hear you and get what you’re saying, but as someone leveling many jobs right now, the idea of burning any consumable every time I upgrade a weapon is less attractive than just using a plate.

But put that way, going beyond 15 seems less annoying, so thank you for that perspective!

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I have all jobs except astro, which I just started, at 71 - 80. I know it's annoying but you just have to compromise on what you use the plates for, and you can always modify them without additional cost.

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

You don't need to put weapons in the glam plate at all. You cannot glam a DRK weapon with a PLD weapon for example so you just need the outfit.

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There's no point to not putting a weapon on the plate, though. You might as well put it there for one of the three/four jobs you could be applying it to – preferably the one that you need to reapply the most.

Also if some of your plates are "situational" glamours rather than jobs (eg. beachwear) then you could have the DRK sword on the tank plate and PLD on the beach plate, and if you need to glamour a PLD sword then you apply the two plates one after the other. The weapon glamour from the second plate won't be applied because it isn't compatible.

You can also apply single glamours directly from the dresser to your current equipment at the inn room or barracks, at no cost.

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

I have all jobs except astro, which I just started, at 71 - 80. I know it's annoying but you just have to compromise on what you use the plates for, and you can always modify them without additional cost.

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Good point! I think my problem here is I’m looking at things from the point of view of leveling multiple jobs at a time. How many times do you truly update your umteenth-priority job once all the bulk of the leveling is done?

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Originally Posted by Iscah

You can also apply single glamours directly from the dresser to your current equipment at the inn room or barracks, at no cost.

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Wait, what? This is news to me!

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Originally Posted by Omedon

Good point! I think my problem here is I’m looking at things from the point of view of leveling multiple jobs at a time. How many times do you truly update your umteenth-priority job once all the bulk of the leveling is done?

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I just wanna have everything at 80 before Endwalker, I only actually play 5 of those Jobs and don't really care about the glams of the rest.

my feeling is it must be a legitimate issue or they would just give everyone 50 glamour slots or so, they have absolutely no other reason to hold back
Apparently inventory is so messed up in this game they had to kill belts to increase the other tabs in the armoury chest

That being said my workaround is usually just not fretting over jobs I rarely play and weapons get updates so infrequently just manually glamoring is not a big deal. A single stack of 999 prisms is lasting me to the point is may as well have been infinity

Not really caring at all while leveling helps too, character should look a little ragged and weird while training imo

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Originally Posted by Nihility

my feeling is it must be a legitimate issue or they would just give everyone 50 glamour slots or so, they have absolutely no other reason to hold back
Apparently inventory is so messed up in this game they had to kill belts to increase the other tabs in the armoury chest

That being said my workaround is usually just not fretting over jobs I rarely play and weapons get updates so infrequently just manually glamoring is not a big deal. A single stack of 999 prisms is lasting me to the point is may as well have been infinity

Not really caring at all while leveling helps too, character should look a little ragged and weird while training imo

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It's a database bloat issue. When you add 1 plate slot, you're not adding 1 entry into the database. You're adding millions per gear slot, so tens of millions.

I would like for every job to have it's own glamour plate. IIRC they are held client side, so server limitations shouldn't really be a thing holding it up.

Also for the way you are wanting to do things, OP I'd suggest using only one plate, and not having a weapon glam set on it. From there you can use a prism to glam your weapon. It will stick to the weapon so you'll only have to reglam when you upgrade your weapon. Hope this helps.


~~Good Luck!

yes we need more plates and more slots in the dresser, i don't care about limitations, older games with less money manage just fine. in game appearance is a staple to most players, whats the point of being able to be every job if you cant even dress them, the armory chest limitations are terrible as well, god forbid i have more than one crafting/gathering set of gear, good luck fitting all your rings.

the basic systems of this game need significant QoL improvement.