glamors don't appear in frontlines?

[Gilraen]

I happen to like that your name in Frontlines is your class/Job and that your gear is immediately obvious. This is PvP, not PvE, if you run in glamoured to look all weak and helpless then proceed to melt faces then that gives you an unfair advantage over everyone else. Same can be said if you glamour yourself in your best gear to give the appearance that killing you will take more time than it's worth given you aren't alone. And with the names replaced as they are you can't turn around and start harassing the players you kill once the battle is over.

Call it whatever derogatory term you want, but I like how they are handling it and I wouldn't want it any other way.

[Yshnal]

I happen to like that your name in Frontlines is your class/Job and that your gear is immediately obvious. This is PvP, not PvE, if you run in glamoured to look all weak and helpless then proceed to melt faces then that gives you an unfair advantage over everyone else. Same can be said if you glamour yourself in your best gear to give the appearance that killing you will take more time than it's worth given you aren't alone. And with the names replaced as they are you can't turn around and start harassing the players you kill once the battle is over.

Call it whatever derogatory term you want, but I like how they are handling it and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Gear stats also give you an "unfair" advantage over everyone else, at least if you forget that you can get the same gear if you want. So the same can be said if a player wanted to be deceptive and hide behind a glamour, you could do the same too. It would be part of the strategy of "open world" PvP, as it once was.

Moreover, it was more than that. More than once that strategy was used to hunt that kind of players that always want to play with a 100% advantage, abusing of players that couldn't properly fight back against them. Say, for example, that we get a player on frontlines that always attacks people when he sees them in fresh AF gear, and runs away when he sees someone else. With glamours you could trick that player into attacking someone that would actually be a challenge for him, thus making it fair, not unfair.

And I can say more. If you see these kind of tricks as unfair, what do you think about using a player as bait to bring other players towards your party and slaughter them? That's the same kind of deception.

Keep in mind that Frontlines are somewhat open world PvP, so there's quite some things that can be done there that can't be done in arenas, and that could give you a reason to not have this glamour restriction in place.

And I don't know what to say about the harassment part I've always found that a bit childish (not directed at you, as I don't know if you do this or not), being games and all. The best fun I've had doing PvP has always been when all parties were competitive but could share a good laugh at the end -and even during the battles- without starting a ridiculous flamefest (or e-peenfest). It can be fun when you do it as a joke or as RP with close friends, but with random people it would be just foolish and disrespectful, as you wouldn't know how they would take it (or maybe you would and that would make you look even worse in my eyes).