Vanity system feels more complex than it needs to be...

[CrAZYVIC]

I was hoping for something "Easy and friendly like TERA".... In TERA under lv 10 you can start use vanity.

But in ARR the vanity system is just.... "Silly".

Example

If i start play today and i pick Warrior as my main class. Im hoping since lv 1, USE "LEATHER CLOTHES", Because the Heavy clothes are Horrible, antisexy, terrible. "Ohh but wait wait".. I need hit lv 50 for use this services, i will be FORCED wear ugly gear all my level process LOL.

[Giantbane]

I just don't understand why they bothered making 5 grades of those silly vanity cubes. Each grade requires the exact same materials to make. All it adds is extra complexity for complexity's sake alone.

Should have just made 1 glamour cube per craft type.

[Apeachs]

A simple extra tab in character screen. Call it Costumes.
Make costume choices so you can save each costume. Buy extra costume slots.
And then all character gear slots with show/hide option so if u wanna play witthout show any chest piece u can do so. Put in the costume u want the look from. This is a system many mmo games use and it works great.
Why try make something "unique" when you have systems that works perfectly -.-

[Gold_Jacobson]

It's not very complicated.

The diverse set of prims also stimulates the economy and benefits crafters.

I got my vanity-goin on. I'm loving it.

[ispano]

A simple extra tab in character screen. Call it Costumes.
Make costume choices so you can save each costume. Buy extra costume slots.
And then all character gear slots with show/hide option so if u wanna play witthout show any chest piece u can do so. Put in the costume u want the look from. This is a system many mmo games use and it works great.
Why try make something "unique" when you have systems that works perfectly -.-

The extra tab, the extra slots. Even if they aren't on your screen, ie the window is closed, uses system memory. Something they are strained with on the PS3.

[Giantbane]

It's not very complicated.

The diverse set of prims also stimulates the economy and benefits crafters.

I got my vanity-goin on. I'm loving it.

Having 1 glamour type per crafting class makes sense because it gives better rewards for the more DoH classes you have that can craft the glamours.

Having 5 glamour grades for each crafting class that all require the exact same materials to make is stupid and unnecessary.

[JemC]

Ah, someone asked if there were games with less complicated vanity and yeah. Forsaken World, Mabinogi, PWI. They just have an extra tab where you put your vanity clothes. When you put vanity clothes in the extra tab they appear covering your character's armor. You still get the armor's stats. Vanity clothes have no stats. In Mabinogi the "cowl" we wear you can drop the hoody or put it up with a hotkey. You can still wear a hat and get the stats from both hoody and hat.

[dejavutwo]

The prices are only now high. It is the first week/new stuff price. Who expected normal prices on day one expected too much. Give it time and it go down to 500-600 gil.
Or level up a crafter or ask friends


Only if it still involve crafters. SE did the vanity system with crafters in mind, after all.

I never said anything about prices, I know they will drop fairly quickly. I'm talking about how there are all the different types of vanity cubes and that the entire system itself is complexity only for the sake of complexity.

[Astralos]

While both kinds of Dark Matter have 5 tiers as well, they are entirely retroactive; it seems like the devs were actually breaking precedent when designing/implementing this system. They should just consolidate and make one Glamour Prism for each craft.

[PinkDeadly]

I like the idea simply because it provides an excellent failsafe to prevent the prism market from crashing.

If a piece of gear becomes popular so does it's prism. Let's say LW3 for example. People craft tons of LW3 prisms to get in on the profit and you end up with a surplus. Instead of crashing the entire LW market, you've only crashed the LW3 market. By the time the next market crashed LW3 will start to recover slowly.