Glamour Plates

[Rhus]

So let me understand this...I haven't logged in yet to try it out.
I have a gear set for all my jobs currently and all assigned with my current glam. That's good. if I go Pld I get my Pld Glam, if I change to ninja I get my ninja glam. That's fine.
If I use glamour plates, I will change to Ninja from Pld and still have my pld glam on? How would that work if it's role specific gear (Sabotons for example)?
Does it mean that every time I change job I need to return to a city, go to an Inn and equip the plate I want for that Job? If so I'll be back and forward from cities non stop.
Think I'll stick to current method if I can. Glam and save as gear sets. seems to be less hassle even if it means taking up Armory chest space.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

So let me understand this...I haven't logged in yet to try it out.
I have a gear set for all my jobs currently and all assigned with my current glam. That's good. if I go Pld I get my Pld Glam, if I change to ninja I get my ninja glam. That's fine.
If I use glamour plates, I will change to Ninja from Pld and still have my pld glam on? How would that work if it's role specific gear (Sabotons for example)?
Does it mean that every time I change job I need to return to a city, go to an Inn and equip the plate I want for that Job? If so I'll be back and forward from cities non stop.
Think I'll stick to current method if I can. Glam and save as gear sets. seems to be less hassle even if it means taking up Armory chest space.

Basically, it functions exactly the same as the prism system. So if you equip a Plate while wearing the Augmented Lost Allagan Surcoat of Fending, every job that can wear that piece will now have the same outfit. If you want three unique glamours for your tanks, you'll need to use three plates. That might have worked... if they didn't restrict it to ten damn slots.

[-Teria-]

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No no.
The real issue is classes with shared gear.
If you have PLD, WAR, and DRK for example, odds are they're all using the exact same gear set.
If you want a separate glam for PLD, WAR, and DRK, it needs to be done in town every time.
Because all the plates do is overwrite the glamour on specific gear items. It doesn't allow you to have separate glams for those three classes without going back to town and changing the plate every single time.
This is dumb, and basically just a fancier version of what we had before, only somehow more inconvenient despite using less overall prisms.
This system is not an upgrade. It's a sidegrade. Because while it does allow you to swap glamours quicker, it's still a deeply flawed system that's not even a day old and already needs an overhaul.

At least let us change it wherever we are. I see no reason to prevent us from casting them outside of major cities when we've been able to reapply glamour to new items on the spot in dungeons and raids since glamour was introduced.

[Freyt]

Ironically it means that you don't have to worry about retainers using this system, since you can just equip what you want them to equip, and then apply your desired glamour for your retainer, and then equip your retainer with the newly glamoured equipment.

Hopefully they'll expand the system to squadrons soon, though.

[Wilan]

Ironically it means that you don't have to worry about retainers using this system, since you can just equip what you want them to equip, and then apply your desired glamour for your retainer, and then equip your retainer with the newly glamoured equipment.

Hopefully they'll expand the system to squadrons soon, though.

Right? Among this whole disaster, this is a small relief.
Although now that you've wrote it out loud, I can't help but think how ridiculous that would be in a RL situation. Now I have this picture of the WoL asking their retainer to take off their pants so they can wear them and apply a glamour, then give them back.