[Req] Gatherer / Crafter Artifact Armor Glamors for Battle Classes/Jobs

[Niwashi]

I honestly think that the best possible solution would be to compromise and do both; make the glamour versions available via scrips for those with DOH/L leveled, but also make them available via cash shop for those who hate crafting and gathering.

Everyone wins in that scenario: Patient people can get their items in-game without paying extra, impatient people can have their instant gratification while SE gets their money, and the mods don't have to read so many topics complaining about the cash shop. I see no downside.

That's the opposite of a compromise, since it eliminates the compromise Felis tried to work into her suggestion. And I see a very MAJOR downside. You've completely eliminated AF. These are class specific for a reason, because the whole point of their design is to highlight that particular class. At least Felis's version gave a crumb of acknowledgement that you shouldn't have them without crafting/gathering, whereas just throwing them up on the cash shop for anyone to get eliminates their purpose altogether.

A compromise would be more like: You have to get them with red scrips, or whatever Stormblood's equivalent is (and a lot of them, since it shouldn't be easy to override the class specification on AF). And to get them you have to have reached max level in the class the original AF was for. (Or perhaps have to be level 60 to get the glamour of level 50 AF, and level 70 to get the glamour of level 60 AF. The level 70 AF wouldn't be available in a glamour version until the following expansion comes out.) Then you can get a level 1 glamour version that's either for all DoH or all DoL as appropriate, but not All Classes.


EDIT:
Just to be clear, I still wouldn't really approve of that compromise. AF is too important to compromise on. But at least I could recognize something like that as being a compromise between those who want to preserve AF for its intended purpose and those who don't. As such I could grudgingly tolerate it.