Glamours and Gear Preview (03/20/2014)

[Akoree]

We spoke to the development team about this, but they currently do not have any plans to modify this armor to fit the Glamours system.

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So after getting frustrated for missing Odin tons of times because of his sometimes ridiculous spawn times (night/work hours). You're telling this entire community that the armor is virtually useless outside of wearing it for fashion inside towns despite the existence of a glamour system which COULD allow it to be worn in battle. And why? Because of a random limitation in the vanity system and the armor's poor design from the ground-up?

I don't think people will rise up in anger like it happened for the housing so I'm not hoping for a fix anytime soon, hell its a really minor thing compared to the rest of what the patch brings, but it's an other example of Square Enix and the design team sometimes just making random choices that invalidate an entire activity within the game for no reason at all.

[Mortechai]

Please enlighten us on the use of Odin's Armor then.

Herpaderp....town gear. I dont get most peoples confusion here. It was never intended to be anything more than town gear. If you EVER had any thought that they put it in game to be used in battle, or for any other reason than to look cool standing around town, then you were fooled somewhere along the way.

Edit: I have the full set, sword and barding. So please don't think I'm talking from the peanut gallery.

[alhandra]

even the most casual player could get a fresh character to lvl 50 in a week, especially post 2.2. this entire thread is nothing but pointless whining

not to mention the gear in this game gets cycled out fairly quickly (and looks mostly the same depending on job) pre lvl 50. you would literally be applying new glamours every 4 - 5 lvls, how do you plan to pay for all these prisms pre lvl 50 anyways?

[Gramul]

Herpaderp....town gear. I dont get most peoples confusion here. It was never intended to be anything more than town gear. If you EVER had any thought that they put it in game to be used in battle, or for any other reason than to look cool standing around town, then you were fooled somewhere along the way.

Edit: I have the full set, sword and barding. So please don't think I'm talking from the peanut gallery.

So...vanity gear with even less use. Really I don't see the point of adding interesting looking gear if it's just something to wear when you're doing nothing.
And if It's supposed to be an incentive to encourage people to get to 50, reason supporting that it's relatively quick to do so, why do we have leveling at all?

[Khallell]

We spoke to the development team about this, but they currently do not have any plans to modify this armor to fit the Glamours system.

Will the glamour system be modified to fit the armor? I see they said currently, so I'm assuming that might change down the line, however given the near iconic history Odin has within FF and the sheer badassness of the armor itself it is strange that the development team did not think to ensure it be compatible with the feature.

One can only assume it was a conscious decision. In which case I'm curious as to the reasoning behind it since even at game launch the armor was strategically unsound and so of pure cosmetic value. Value now drastically diminished since the system that was basically thought up to accommodate such items negates it.

[Seraphe]

Might as well give us a Leviathan Chocobo Barding which we can't use since it gives the chocobo -2 Speed.. or how about introducing a new race that can't wear any armor at all -__-

[Andres_Lonegrief]

hello. sorry, but frankly i find this very limiting.

we should be allowed to use Galmour before lv50. [...]

honestly... i can understand the class restriction thing. we don't need posers running around trolling people with their petty tricks. but the level restriction is a bit absurd.

I totally agree with you. This vanity system is too limiting and there are too many restrictions, but since you will need lots of prisms to change your appearance it makes sense that it's unlockable only after level 50. Before you reach your level cap, you are constantly changing your equipment so you would have to buy expensive prisms just to keep your "look" until the end. Actually, it doesn't make much sense also for lvl50players, since they will be farming iLVL 90 /100 gear and their equipment will change quite often. Anyway, that's the way they decided to go through, I don't like it but ... there's little we can do...

[KiraVaela]

Shouldn't the motivation to get to 50 be the game itself?
I just feel like a system like this should be open to anyone.

Yes, it should. And most likely it still is. It's not like they are somehow making this the only reason to get to 50. It's just a bit extra motivation I think.

Anyways, I was just trying to figure their reasoning to set it to 50. I agree with you that it feels a bit limiting.

I didn't think it is such a big issue. But apparently it is, since this thread gets bigger and bigger.

[Khaoticsuccubus]

Greetings,


The development team designed this system with the concept that it would be something fun to look forward to using once you reach level 50.

And with one sentence 80% of my enthusiasm for 2.2 just withered and died... Sigh.

[Felis]

And with one sentence 80% of my enthusiasm for 2.2 just withered and died... Sigh.

But you have already a class at level 50 to do the quest.