Its time to remove job-based glamour restrictions.

[Iscah]

I am a huge glamour enthusiast, so huge that I in fact have 4 alts, all different races, just so I can try as many combinations on as many models as I can

Hello fellow glamour-alt-o-holic... I also have four characters (main + three alts) and yes it's lots of fun finding the right costumes for each!



I don't think your idea would probably work with their programming though. As I wrote (in maybe too much detail) earlier in the discussion, I'm pretty sure it's an "all or nothing" approach and it can only work based on what classes are allowed to equip the item. I don't think they can unlock it to some additional classes but not others. I suspect either everything stays locked down to its designated class or gets thrown 100% open - nothing inbetween, and no way to apply "special exceptions" to stop artifact gear from getting glamoured onto other classes. I think that's the key reason why everything remains locked.

I think that's also why a lot of the "less role-defined" gear does start to share designs in different directions - they're not so worried about those things being interchangeable between classes. I'm pretty sure the relic armour is what they're really worried about for role identity.



And if you try to get around that by changing the gear to be equippable by the other class even if it doesn't suit them... that makes a huge headache for using the "gear recommendation" system. Have you tried gearing up a tank in ARR while you have DPS/mage gear in your armoury? It doesn't care that your Lv32 armour still has higher defence than that Lv40 "all classes" robe, it's higher level and you can equip it, therefore you should be wearing it.

(And then there's the 'human error' factor... "what do you mean my gear is rubbish? It's the right level and the game says I can wear it!")



Crafting and gathering is in a bit of an odd inbetween because most of their unique gear, other than the individual job gear, has been all-classes up to Lv60. My understanding is that if it's all-classes, people can wear it into battle and build up spiritbond for "cheap" materia? I can certainly do that with ARR gear. Haven't tried in Heavensward. I can see why they might want to stop people doing that, and again the further locks on sharing glamour are an unfortunate side-effect of locking the gear itself to the appropriate class, rather than deliberately restricting the glamour options. Most of the Stormblood gear shares designs with gear available to the battle classes anyway.



Just to be clear - I would also absolutely love for things to be unlocked. It's just that, from what I can observe of how the game works and from what I've heard of the devs' opinions on unlocking things (ie. pretty definitely no relic armour), it's highly unlikely it will happen - and also that they can't "be nice and loosen the restrictions" because - I suspect - there's no loosening to be done. It's either on or it's off, and to protect the iconic job-identity relic armours they believe it needs to stay on.