Armoire

[Niwashi]

glam plates function everywhere. you can only change them in certain places.

No. Both are limited. They only function in major cities. You can only change them at the glamour dresser in an inn room.

[savageink]

No. Both are limited. They only function in major cities. You can only change them at the glamour dresser in an inn room.

once you set your glamor it doesn't change when you leave a city. I said it can only be changed in certain places. Are you misunderstanding me?

[Niwashi]

once you set your glamor it doesn't change when you leave a city. I said it can only be changed in certain places. Are you misunderstanding me?

Your GEAR doesn't change when you leave a city, but that has nothing to do with glamour plates, as they're no longer involved at that point. The glamour plates can only be used while you're in a city.

[savageink]

Your GEAR doesn't change when you leave a city, but that has nothing to do with glamour plates, as they're no longer involved at that point. The glamour plates can only be used while you're in a city.

well, yeah. the way the guy was talking it sounded like he thinks that the benefit of plates only works while in town. It's possible that isn't what he was saying too.

[AnimaAnimus]

well, yeah. the way the guy was talking it sounded like he thinks that the benefit of plates only works while in town. It's possible that isn't what he was saying too.

The benefit of the plates do only work in town because I cannot be out in the field, change jobs and have my glam change to w/e is on that plate. And lets face it, a lot of the default/top gear atm is u-g-l-y. I understand it stays until I change jobs again.

So if I can use plates while I change jobs in the field, which is the majority of the time I change jobs since I am out and about gathering and what not when my roulettes pop or I come across a hunt mob or yada yada yada, then why would I even bother using plates?

If you stand around in cities or your house all day you are fine, but if you are active and out and about playing the game, then they are pointless. I had to go back to the cities every time I changed jobs in ffxi and it was annoying. Having that be a thing in xiv, even for glam, is a really bad design choice, so I don't use it because its not worth using for me.

[Iscah]

So if I can use plates while I change jobs in the field, which is the majority of the time I change jobs since I am out and about gathering and what not when my roulettes pop or I come across a hunt mob or yada yada yada, then why would I even bother using plates?

So what do you do currently about changing jobs in the field? Avoid it? Use a glamour that suits both classes?

Right now the plate system isn't designed to help you share gear between classes. The situation in the field is still the same as it was when we only had prisms. But when you're in a town you have access to a second system that is far more efficient than manual prism application.

What it is very good at is storing a full costume of glamours ready for you to apply over your "ugly leveling gear" in one shot - no spending prisms, no carrying the gear with you, and no digging through menus to glamour your upgraded gear piece by piece. You can have your entire outfit glamoured in the time it would take to open the "apply glamour" menu.

[Niwashi]

Right now the plate system isn't designed to help you share gear between classes.

It in large part is designed for that, but only works effectively in that regard for DoH (and only because that's commonly done in town anyway). You can assign different glamour plates to different jobs' gear sets and then whenever you switch between those jobs, it will automatically update your glamour to match, so you can have a different glamour for each job sharing that gear.

The problem is that it only does that if you're in town at the time. If you change jobs while out in the field, it will either leave you with the previous job's glamour (if it's compatible) or with the gear's default appearance (if you glamoured your previous job with AF that your new job can't use). Either one can be annoying enough that it's better not to set unique glamour per job if you expect out-of-town job changes to come up very often.

[Iscah]

Your GEAR doesn't change when you leave a city, but that has nothing to do with glamour plates, as they're no longer involved at that point. The glamour plates can only be used while you're in a city.

Just to be clear - by plates not "functioning" or "being involved" outside of cities, you mean the ability to apply new plates, yes?

Plate application only works in the city, but the glamours applied by the plates are permanent (exactly the same as if applied with a prism) and don't go away when you're out in the field.

Do people possibly have this misunderstanding when they say plates are useless because they only work in cities?


(You can't use gearset-linked plates to switch appearances in the field, of course, but that's no different to the old system and you wouldn't re-glamour with prisms every time you switched equipment anyway.)