Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
It's not perfect, but it's better than no glamour at all. As for restrictions on gear, restrictions are necessary for AF and Job-specific gear at least, because that is the whole purpose of AF in the first place! It's meant to emulate the traditional appearance of that Job in past FF games (like a WHM's traditional appearance is a white robe or clothing tinged in red triangles, a BLM's traditional appearance is a dark blue or black robe with a yellow witch's hat and stripy pants, DRG's traditional appearance is purple draconic armour etc).

Allowing another Job or class to equip it, even for glamour, completely throws that whole idea out the window. Which is why the glamour system has Job restrictions on it. Given that Yoshi stated this ages ago it shows he's pretty firm on this subject (and rightly so), so I do not see that changing at all.
That isn't the point of contention though. The point is that, because of those restrictions, along with the fact that a piece of gear can only have 1 appearance glamoured on it, if you use Artifact Gear for Glamour, you will lose the ability to have a unique glamour for at least one other Job. The system as-is forces you to pick and choose. Most don't want to be able to look like a Bard as a Machinist, but they would like to have a glamour for their Bard without leaving their Machinist out to dry. As of 4.0, the only Job that will not share gear with another will be Dragoon.

This extends, to a lesser extent, to just the concept of wanting to have different aesthetics for different Jobs. The Wrangler's Set for example looks perfect for a Machinist, but few would find it fitting for a Bard.