Letter from the Producer, Glamour details

[Tupsi]

They needed a way to make crafters relevant without actually making them so in end game.

Everyone is going to want prisims forever.

Two birds, one stone.

Yeah, but as you're on Legacy, you should know better - You should know the market will crash within minutes and be pretty much a useless market in terms of relevance as most people will be able to craft their own :3

[Docent]

But you do have to get new prisms if you want a different outfit correct? If I were to prism my AF gear, I would need an entirely new prism to make prism my Coliseum gear.

Depends. As far as I understand, if you want your character to look like you're wearing, let's say, one pair of level 8 kecks and one level 8 shirt, you only need 2 level 10 prisms. Copy these over, and then you have the "look" saved, and can overwrite any gear body/legs above level 8 to look like them.

If you want to change your AF body or coliseum body into that shirt, just wear the prism. If you want to make your AF look like a chainmail, though, you'll need another prism.

At least, that's my understanding of it.

One prism = 1 "look".

You could overwrite 8 different job's outfits with the same prism.

[TheUltimate3]

Yeah, but as you're on Legacy, you should know better - You should know the market will crash within minutes and be pretty much a useless market in terms of relevance as most people will be able to craft their own :3

Oh without a doubt. Quickly and ruthlessly. But, provided the prisms are cheap enough to make, they could still sell to those that don't craft.

[hamsteak]

welp

no reindeer suit for me :-(

[Naunet]

You don't actually "change" your armour into anything, and the prism isn't "used" (as in consumed) when you display it - it's simply equipped.

Where are you getting this? It looks to me like the prism is consumed.

[Docent]

Where are you getting this? It looks to me like the prism is consumed.

Good question. I don't have sources, so I'm guessing either old interviews or just people discussing how it ought to work. Guess that means we'll need some kind of Terebinth to restore our old looks?

Guess we'll know for sure in a few weeks.

[Mixxy]

Although I'm not going to be one to obsess over the glamour system in FFXIV at all, I am disappointed in the way this is going to be done.

I had hoped that they would take a page from the way DCUO does "styles" as it gives such a level of flexibility and uniqueness to how a person can make their character look.

In DCUO if you obtain a piece of armor and equip it, you forever have that "style" available to you as an option to wear while keeping the stats of your current gear.

It's the simplest implementation of a "glamour" system, and offers the most customization to the player.

Oh well...

Right? Instead of forcing us to keep the gear, we should have a "Glamour Log" that just keeps track of every armor skin you've ever owned. As an armor and weapon hoarder, I shudder to think how quickly I'll run out of retainer space...

[L-D-Omlette]

I hope they only limit it by items that can be used by the class/job itself. And not by type of armor.

The last bullet point (you can copy the appearance of any gear equippable by your current class or job) should help answer that.

Where are you getting this? It looks to me like the prism is consumed.

I took it to mean that it is consumed by assigning the image. In that regard that prism would always have that image copied to it. I could then "equip" that image numerous times, as I level up. This is speculation, of course, but I am hoping that is the case.

Right? Instead of forcing us to keep the gear, we should have a "Glamour Log" that just keeps track of every armor skin you've ever owned. As an armor and weapon hoarder, I shudder to think how quickly I'll run out of retainer space...

Since you can store the item in your retainer after copying it to a prism, it is likely that you don't actually need to keep the gear. Since the system already doesn't know if I have something on my retainer when I go to lot on a new one, it stands to reason that the glamour system will work the same way.

If I can copy a look to a prism, and if I can re-equip that prism at a later time without needing to recopy, then I should only have to keep a stash of prisms, and be able to get rid of any gear that I have already copied to a prism.

[Naunet]

I took it to mean that it is consumed by assigning the image. In that regard that prism would always have that image copied to it. I could then "equip" that image numerous times, as I level up. This is speculation, of course, but I am hoping that is the case.

It looks more like a re-skinning system, where the prism is a reagent used up when applying Look B to Item A.

On another note: This system is seriously 99% useless to me with the restrictions currently in place. For one, as a DoM job, my options for vanity are next to none - not only can I not use leather or plate stuff, but I also can't use gears specifically labeled SMN, SCH, or BLM. And for another, I can't use high level gear that I already have to glamour onto lower level classes I may be leveling. Both of these restrictions are flat out nonsensical.

[Swagcity]

It looks more like a re-skinning system, where the prism is a reagent used up when applying Look B to Item A.

On another note: This system is seriously 99% useless to me with the restrictions currently in place. For one, as a DoM job, my options for vanity are next to none - not only can I not use leather or plate stuff, but I also can't use gears specifically labeled SMN, SCH, or BLM. And for another, I can't use high level gear that I already have to glamour onto lower level classes I may be leveling. Both of these restrictions are flat out nonsensical.

The story of this game; from my personal experience.