It's time to remove job restrictions on glamour...

[Oichi]

Considering they just removed the restrictions for housing style in the different residential zones, so you can bump into a forest Glade house in the midst of Shirogane, I don't see why they could not remove the restrictions for glamour (except job/artifact gear, that is reasonable to keep as it is).

[Hezzlocks]

Healers get things that are not white robes.

Even with role-locked gear.

And they can wear a bikini just as easily as the tank can.

Do people just choose to ignore the exceptions so they can keep complaining about "nothing but robes"?

I think what he's trying to say is that tanks, a role that generally requires as much protection as possible, is allowed to do their job wearing nothing but the tiniest little strips of cloth, whereas healers, and casters in general, have extremely few armoured look options.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I look at it like this. Removing the glam restrictions of role based gear (but keeping them for job specific gear), won't make the breaking of immersion any worse than it currently is. In fact it may improve immersion if only because more options will be available for glam that aren't goofy things like frog suits or bikinis.

[MsQi]

Since many jobs often end up sharing gear, at least for a time, you often can't really use your iconic look. If my healers are sharing gear and I us WHM gear to glam, SCH and AST are stuck with the base gear since the WHM glam just disappears and I can't change plates unless I'm in a designated area. There aren't even enough plates for every job. If you want to use gear for one specific crafter or gatherer you are screwed.

[Raven2014]

My guess for while they will never remove it is because if they do that, it removes one of the excuse they can use to recycle the gears in each expack. I bet most of us at one point or another see an armor on a certain class and wish "I want to put it on another class", in fact that's what this thread is about yes? So the Dev can use that as the perfect excuse to recycle gears: "hey, that DRG armor only that you loved and wish to put it on a healer? We just make your dream come true, here is the same armor but healer restricted this time!!"

So no, I doubt there is any complicate reason behind the restriction, but more simple and practical ones for it. They can't reuse the model on another class if they already make it usable on every classes.

[Lihtleita]

So no, I doubt there is any complicate reason behind the restriction, but more simple and practical ones for it. They can't reuse the model on another class if they already make it usable on every classes.

hear me out. what if they make it dyeable instead? im pretty sure they already do that anyway.

[Raven2014]

hear me out. what if they make it dyeable instead? im pretty sure they already do that anyway.

That's exactly what they are already doing with the Alliance gear and craft gears. Alliance get the non-dyable version, an expack or two later we see those gears as crafted gears.

[UnrealTai]

Job wise? eh, I was iffy until you reminded me about that STUPID frog suit, honestly may as well remove job restictions “because” of junk like that. Im here nor there with it honestly, but I dont want to see whm running around with those stupid shoulder padded tank gear from 2.0 thats now also in 5.05 somehow either, the frog is bad enough ty lol


However, I would be die hard and fully agree upon level restrictions bein removed. If I wanna buy that lvl 70 special glam gear and level nin from 1 wearing it as just a glamour then let me, that breaks nothing to the lore

[TankHunter678]

A reminder that to remove glam restrictions means a rework to the entire system behind gearing and glamour, because the way the system is setup you have to be able to wear the gear to glam the gear and the gear used as glam has to be a lower level then the target item.

Even if you try to make it so only artifact gear is glam restricted in your requests it still means a massive rework of the entire system. Which is reason enough for them to say no because its a massive project that would delay their content development pipeline which Yoshi-P has already said is not a problem they can easily fix by throwing money at it.

The "quick" fix would be to make gear all classes, which presents its own host of problems.

[Lihtleita]

The "quick" fix would be to make gear all classes, which presents its own host of problems.

while not ideal, its important to remember thats exactly how 1.0 gear worked and that wasnt a big issue. if you were stupid enough to wear a blm set on your tank that was very much a you problem.