Can we get rid of prisms please?

[Kaurie]

So what if there's only one type of transmutation charge? You still have to go through the hassle of obtaining them. In XIV that means spending a few 1000 gil in the marketboard, the GW2 equivalent being pricier and dependent on the gem exchange rate. And if you don't feel like running the Auric Basin gold train or spending money on gems, have fun spamming city after city map completions.

And yes, GW2 has a nice dyeing system. I don't see how that's related to a topic about the transmutation and glamour system, since they're separate systems.

They are both dependent on in-game exchanges, whether that is fluctuating market board pricing or fluctuating gem stone pricing. In FFXIV, I've never seen a glamour prism for 1000, but it's most likely server market board dependent. In GW2, it's very easy and quick to get gold AND they are given out as a reward for a lot of other content (and if you so choose, you can spend real life money on them). As I said, I had well over 100 of these, without ever having bought any (and had used them reasonably frequently) over my ~1000 hours of playtime in that game before quitting.

It's related to the system of their glamour system, which is the topic. Specifically due to prisms? No. This topic has had quite a lot of discussion about changing armor appearances outside of the glamour prism system. Even if you disregard the dying aspect, GW2's system is still better due to having only 1 type of charge vs all of the different types we have, and the ability for you to unlock these in an outfit window and apply them at any time, without having to track down that armor piece again (or take up unnecessary inventory space).

That's your opinion. I think the glamour prisms are just fine, ever since they reduced the amount of grades down to 1 per DoH. The only other minor change I could think of that'd make it better, would be changing it to a currency.

Quite obviously it is my opinion. It is quite terrible though; it's cumbersome, it takes up your inventory, it's limiting on what you can change for the appearance and it's consumable. Have you experienced (m)any other systems, like WoW new one or Wildstar's? As I have said a few times, one thing I really like with Wildstars system is that it applies to your character as one of your available costumes, rather than applying to your gear. So on your character tab you have several costumes listed, and you can hit the pull down and select which costume you want to apply - and voila you're now in that appearance. You set up these costumes rather inexpensively at an NPC. After that, if you change your armor and upgrade, it won't affect your costumes, so you can just keep your looks without having to continuously glamour over things. The system is cheap, convenient, fast and simple.

EDIT: It appears there have been a few changes to the Wildstar system that I was unfamiliar with (that make it even better) - see Nuanet's post below for the update.