Glamours

[Kosmos992k]

This exact thing has been suggested before - and actually got a dev response. While I have no link to the actual article, the response was along the lines of, "Since these jobs all share equipment, each piece of gear would need to store the glamour data for each job. Each piece of gear would have three glamour slots, rather than just one. Maybe more, if we want to account for new jobs in the future who might also share that gear. This would greatly increase the amount of data associated with each piece of gear, which would require more storage space, impact latency, etc, etc. So we are reluctant to do this." In short: No.

Not the response we wanted to hear, obviously. But this is just one of many problems with the current glamour system. The whole thing needs an overhaul, frankly - and one of the things that I'm hoping for for 4.0 is that it gets that much-needed overhaul.

Edit : I see in a later post you suggest the exact same thing I was suggesting below. I'll leave my explanation in place, but recognize your suggestion here.

A fix that does require a bit more data, but not much, would be to greate a glamour set for each Gear set. Each gear set you create would have two item slots for every position, the first is the actual piece of armor/whatever that you are wearing for Stats, the second (if filled) is the glamor piece you are using. You still need prisms to apply that glamor piece to that set, but it's tied to the gear set, not the gear piece. So for every set you have the gear set and the glamor set. When a piece of gear is changed in a set, the corresponding glamour is lost - for that set only.

So, for example, Kos could have some utterly unflattering lump of metal armor in slot one as the actual gear, and then use a prism to put the Thavnarian Bustier in that slot for glamour. If I remove the actual piece of armor from that set, the glamor slot is emptied. But if I have all 3 tanks and want to do different glamors for each despite wearing the same armor piece, I can.

P.S. I'm pretty sure that glamour data is stored server side so that the server can send appropriate information to your client for other players glamours as soon as they appear in view.