Combat Glamours

[Aniforani]

As crafting moved into the realm of glamour I thought we would be making some really unique combat sets and dungeon/raid gear would start to become more plain or see repeated designs. Wouldn't that make more sense?

What if dungeon/raid gear was always acquired in a rundown state. The stats would be the same, but the colors would be dull, cloth torn, and metals damaged or missing pieces. Crafters could make the cosmetic version of that gear, sort of like parade armor. It would not have any stats of the raid gear, but would be without any of defects found in the dropped version.

[OPneedNerfs]

Players quitting in 3...

[Aniforani]

My point would be, you can't just say crafting is going to now just be glamours and not take steps to make it so. It wasn't fun for crafters to lose the ability to make effective combat gear. Glamour was going to be one of the top reasons to still craft. Then why are the coolest designs left out of our reach?

[Frostei]

What if dungeon/raid gear was always acquired in a rundown state. The stats would be the same, but the colors would be dull, cloth torn, and metals damaged or missing pieces.

Please no .

[OPneedNerfs]

I don't know how it is in your server, but in mine, I see more people running around in glamours obtained from crafting than people running around in Alex gear.

Your suggestion would be better if it was to add special effects to current endgame gear instead of making endgame gear look worse. People don't want to complete the hardest content in game only to find "broken" gear. It's just disappointing.

[Waeksyn]

While it doesn't sound like something I'd want, kudos for thinking creatively! Crafting is in dire need of a purpose. Currently, crafting (and gathering) are effectively a closed loop. You craft in order to get - better crafting gear!

[Felis]

It would be better to add a second way to upgrading raid gear.
The first way will be what we have now: get gear, get the upgrade item in the raid, give both to a NPC and get an upgraded version of the gear
The second way can be: get gear, get upgrade item in the raid, craft the upgraded version yourself (because character bounded) and get a single materia slot as an extra (overmelding not possible)

[MihaelB]

Players quitting in 3...

So much this

[Colorful]

No, I don't want to pay you crafters obscene amounts of gil to have the original version I should get from the content originally... unless of course you want to run Alexander 1000 times to get the "fabulous" version of the AF2 Crafter set?

[BreathlessTao]

...not to be awfully negative here, but we do see much more "repeated designs" than we should, tbh...