Glamours and Gear Preview (03/20/2014)

[Khaoticsuccubus]

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

I have about 4 different characters I play. This is the only one that is 50.

Regardless I still don't like the restriction and those who are arguing for it citing a goal to look forward to.

The other restriction in place would easily handle that. The one that doesn't allow you to glamour using a higher level gear piece.

Which makes sense, so why then do we need an unlock at 50 restriction?

Sigh, I personally care more about glamour while leveling then I do endgame.

Hope I'm sounding coherent here lol. Just woke up so I'm a little foggy still. :3

[Rob11]

glamour!!!!!!

[MiiyoAoi]

Will Pvp models be able to be placed as glamours? If so, what if we don't have the required rank to wear the item, yet we still have the item? So far, it explained that if you have level 50, you can glamour level 50.

[Blackweaver]

SMN / SCH / ACN can cast "resurrection" though, so ... draw your own conclusions. Anyway, we can like this system or not but we can't say it isn't complicated

From a story standpoint, the quest probably will describe the glamour spell casting as complex, even if the games system is not complex. We have not seen the quest yet, so you cannot say it isn't described as complicated or not.

This is absurd. You're really trying to say that there's nothing to strive towards when leveling to 50? Really? How about, oh, the whole rest of the game.

I never said there was nothing at 50 to strive for. However this is a nice perk. Bottom line: This is an MMO. In MMO's you are supposed to do stuff to get stuff. In this instance, you have to work your way to 50 for the first time on the character and do a quest and unlock it. That's doing stuff. That's striving for a goal. This isn't WoW, or some other MMO. This is Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. A small restriction that basically says "Level up and you get this awesome reward!" is not a bad thing.

I honestly don't see what there is to get upset about. 2.2 is going live and playable on the 27th. Two days. The time for protesting is very much over. It's now time to accept, or move on. The system will be in place. Me, I can live with it being locked behind level 50. It means for me, that as I level my own alts, I am saving gil from not glamouring every 5 levels as I replace gear.

[Khaoticsuccubus]

From a story standpoint, the quest probably will describe the glamour spell casting as complex, even if the games system is not complex. We have not seen the quest yet, so you cannot say it isn't described as complicated or not.



I never said there was nothing at 50 to strive for. However this is a nice perk. Bottom line: This is an MMO. In MMO's you are supposed to do stuff to get stuff. In this instance, you have to work your way to 50 for the first time on the character and do a quest and unlock it. That's doing stuff. That's striving for a goal. This isn't WoW, or some other MMO. This is Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. A small restriction that basically says "Level up and you get this awesome reward!" is not a bad thing.

I honestly don't see what there is to get upset about. 2.2 is going live and playable on the 27th. Two days. The time for protesting is very much over. It's now time to accept, or move on. The system will be in place. Me, I can live with it being locked behind level 50. It means for me, that as I level my own alts, I am saving gil from not glamouring every 5 levels as I replace gear.

You know what really says "Level up and you get this awesome reward!"... end game gear. You know... gear you wouldn't be able to glamour pre 50 anyways.

Some of us ONLY care about the pre 50 glamour ( me) and the time for protesting is never over. If you never voice your concern nothing will ever change. Will it change by release? No, it won't but, that doesn't mean it won't be changed later (potentially).

The only thing I'd care about glamour end game wise is to get one decent looking set of gear I feel represents that character properly... and then quit.

That's right quit, I just don't care about progression n the like.

I might log on from time to time to advance the story some more (through Duty Finder only) but, that's it. The vast majority of my time in game is spent designing and leveling characters and something that helps me level is when my character has a "look" i can appreciate (certainly not random crap from diff sets).

Anyways, frivolous restrictions like this remind me of the pointless and asinine dye restriction that keeps you from dyeing anything that's not crap (ie. anything you might actually wear). Makes me wonder what other pointless roadblock restrictions might be found.

[Zirael_Foxfire]

Greetings,



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.



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.

A system with limitations to it's core function is a bad system.

[Ildur]

I'd prefer if the whole "something fun to look forward to at 50" was "get access to more and awesome armor models to mix and match at the player's leisure to come with an unique look of their choosing" instead of "you can stop looking like a clown at level 50!" This developer answer is basically Square telling us they designed the system to hold it hostage. I have no idea why they'd do that unless there's a ton of people that aren't bothering reaching level 50 and endgame.

[Andres_Lonegrief]

From a story standpoint, the quest probably will describe the glamour spell casting as complex, even if the games system is not complex. We have not seen the quest yet, so you cannot say it isn't described as complicated

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At the moment I'm not interested in the lore behind glamours. If i need to reach level50 with a character and possibly with every single DoH in order to avoid buying prisms from the board market, then the system is complicated.
And the more i think about it, the more all this vanity system seems pointless. Why should we change the appearance of our gears now, when starting from tomorrow we are goin to be busy farming new set of equipment? It could have been a nice feature, a plus. It could also have been something nice to look forward and reaching level50, but the way in which it was designed made it useless.

[Andres_Lonegrief]

You can argue as long as you want but this won't change. If you need an award for all of your hardcore gaming, there are plenty of achievements that should make you feel proud of yourself.
You don't need glamours to distinguish yourselves from noobs and casual gamers. We are not talking about nerfing dungeons ...
If you still think you are right, why did SE make the aesthetician available so soon? He's a vanity feature too ...

[Lamentations]

Prisms will be crafted.

This was done most likely to assuage crafters who want some profit potential for their crafts, it wont work for long though, if they get too expensive players sitting on lockouts will just level the craft and make them themselves.