Please, let us cast glamor plate anywhere.....!!!

[Lunalepsy]

Glamours Without Borders!

[CazzT]

Limited inventory space.
The Glamour Dresser is an additional inventory system that can only be accessed in cities, because accessing it in the field (along with retainer inventories) would put too much strain on the servers.

Whether this is still the case? Who knows, they might be able to fix this soon.

Sounds like a flaw in design, then. And if the reason is "strain on the servers", consider that there's more people INside cities than OUTside as far as population present in single zones. Just look at Limsa on pretty much any server. It's got dozens upon dozens of people within spawn radius of the main crystal. I've seen people spam through classes and outfits without issue. If the servers can handle that, they can handle it outside the cities.

[Krotoan]

Sounds like a flaw in design, then. And if the reason is "strain on the servers", consider that there's more people INside cities than OUTside as far as population present in single zones. Just look at Limsa on pretty much any server. It's got dozens upon dozens of people within spawn radius of the main crystal. I've seen people spam through classes and outfits without issue. If the servers can handle that, they can handle it outside the cities.

Indeed there are many flaws in the design. Mostly stemming from the way this game came to be a success. Glamour links to an item database that checks our inventories several times every few seconds. Denying a further link to the separate glamour inventory is likely the reason it's limited. Also people cannot enter battle in instanced cities, allowing for more bandwidth to be dedicated to the item system (also why there are likely no MB's outside instanced cities). There are other considerations I cannot confirm but suspect such as allowing for possibilities like glamourspamming and setting it so it does not crash a server if a significant population in any given area does it.

Yes the system could have been better, but it's what we've got now and it's relatively useful. Would it be nice if they reworked the whole thing? Sure, please sign me up. But the chances of that happening are slim to none since it would require chucking the current inventory or glamour system altogether, both of which are now pretty interwoven in every part of the game. I wouldn't count on SE ever greenlighting something of that magnitude or cost.

[EmoPanther]

O_O It's kinda mind boggling what people see as important these days.

[heynowjose]

i would love this but i doubt they'll do it

[Knahli]

The mentioned this at a fanfest a while back. It is coming but they can only work on different elements one at a time. Yoshi gave the crowd three options from which to choose the most important to them. One was being able to apply glamour plates outside of cities, another was having more plates.... and I can't remember the last one.

For whatever reason, the crowd decided more plates was a bigger priority than being able to change glamours outside of cities.... which was really disappointing to say the least. Personally, I have various glamours I like to change into for when I am in cold and warm areas, a simple cloak for when its raining and then just general swim wear (because swimming and diving in full armour looks ridiculous to me) and honestly I'd like to be able to do all that without having to sacrifice my primary gear's stats. I can live without this feature in dungeons but it would be nice to have too since, if you get a drop in a dungeon that's an upgrade, the plates won't overwrite the new piece - which is admittedly a small issue but hey, if its possible then why not?

[CazzT]

O_O It's kinda mind boggling what people see as important these days.

hey! The Light may be trying to destroy an entire world, and the Garlean Empire may be trying to extinct all life on Eorzea, but if I don't look smashing while fighting them, why am I fighting at all?!

[Kobalos]

Yes! I hate grinding levels and looking like an explosion in a charity shop with ugly mismatched gear.

[foussi]

Allow us to glam plate during fights, changing glam during the fight to apply dominance and beauty.

[Avidria]

Imo they need completely rework the glamour system
Something like wow. You get an item, its "copy" is automatically stored in glam dresser, and you can not interect with that copy by any means outside of drag'n'drop on plates
Moreover they can do that system client side with a backup on the server
Boom, easy solution

The one thing I wish they would take from WoW tbh. Transmog has its own problems, but it's way less limited and way less painful for my inventory than glamour is right now.

O_O It's kinda mind boggling what people see as important these days.

Nothing wrong with people valuing different things in a game. Personally the look and style of the gear and characters is one of the things that drew me to this game at all - I like customizing how my character looks, and I change up my look very often. It's important to me because it's something I enjoy. I don't see anything "mind-boggling" about that.