Can we get rid of prisms please?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

God that'd be nice. I really want to have different glamours for my PLD and DRK, or BRD and MCH, but since they share gear it's impossible except when wearing Artifact Gear. Which happens all of, what, once in an expansion cycle? At least if I want to keep them all reasonably well-geared.

YES. I'd love this system. Part of my greatest woes about getting DRK to level 50 is that I'll have to share its glamours with PLD... I'm surprised that this isn't common in games that have what you wear affect your appearance already, tbh.

Right? Like this is my Dark Knight set. It's all edgy. But it doesn't suit my PLD, like, at all, xD.

As for the lore argument. Frankly, not everything needs to be tied into the lore. I do like how FFXIV does attempt to tie together plenty of things, but not every single gameplay feature needs to be roped into it. I'm hopeful the talks of relic armour might allow us to boost the stats of existing items. While that wouldn't solve being able to glamour different sets to each job, it would at least remove the cumbersome way we glamour stuff now.

What exactly would be a better system? Spending a flat gil amount to glamour?

They're not going to let you glamour for free if that's what you are wanting. This system is fine as it is.

Why not? Most MMOs do. Blade & Soul, you literally just equip what you'd like to wear and bam, that's your "glamour." It's not like glamouring actually costs anything. With the bear minimum of gathering, you can have a retainer get mats and pay 200 gil for clear crystals. That's isn't even chump change levels.