99% good glamours include paid idems - and this is a problem.

[SpiralMask]

As the others have said, it's subjective but I think there are so many gorgeous things within the game itself.

I bought a few things but they only make up a small fraction of the outfits I've made, and most of the things I use regularly are completely made from in-game pieces. (At a quick count, maybe 10% of my outfits would require purchased items, and half of those are the cheap ex-event pieces - some of which I did get from the events.)

MS items tend to have specific looks that are hard to replicate with in-game items, but they're not necessarily any better.

A lot of the time, it's better to mix and match parts of different sets as it makes for much nicer outfits than putting all the pieces of a set together. This goes for both in-game and bought items, but a lot of the bought ones are full-length so they're less customisable.

If you want inspiration, go browse Eorzea Collection:
https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/glamours

https://xivstyle.com/ also has a (slightly outdated) catalogue of every single gearset sorted by ilevel and source. the Gamerescape wiki's gear pages also has every set and individual piece with photos of every race/gender wearing them to help preview them as well (and specific source, down to the exact chests in a dungeon they can appear in).

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on a personal note, i'm not too huge a fan of the majority of mogstation glam gear; on top of them largely being out of my "casually drop money on" pricerange, many of them are separated... oddly, which makes them hard to work in for glams. a big example is hien's glamour set--the gloves are only the hand part, and not the wrist parts literally attached to them--those are part of the torso for some reason)

edit: fixed link (good catch iscah!)

[ForteNightshade]

yes, I've put together many glamours together from dungeons and so, but it's just good. It's nothing that makes you say "wow, that looks nice". And they are more or less same looking. Cheap, plain, just better than default look of eden armor but not more than that. It's nothing that would make people check where you got it from. These ones hardlocked behind paywall.

This remains entirely subjective. I can speak only for myself but a number of my favourite outfits include:

- Midan sets
- Neo-Ishgard sets
- Dalmascan Draped Top
- Rebal/Urban Coat
- Singlet
- Hempen Camise (Miqo preference here)
- Thavnairian Sandals
- Several Artifact sets

Honestly, the list goes on. And not a single item there costs a dime extra. Admittedly, I do think the foot options are a bit lacking. But otherwise, there are plenty of glamour options that aren't Mogstation exclusive that are pretty snazzy.

[XiXiQ]

While I am not one of those who thinks the cash shop needs to go, I do think there shouldn't be anything in there you can't earn in-game if you choose to do so. You could earn some kind of tome or points, or use your achievement points, to spend in there as well as cash.

[Iscah]

https://xivstyle.com/ also has a (slightly outdated) catalogue of every single gearset sorted by ilevel and source. the Gamerescape wiki's gear pages also has every set and individual piece with photos of every race/gender wearing them to help preview them as well (and specific source, down to the exact chests in a dungeon they can appear in).

The sites work together, I guess. XIV Style is a straightforward catalogue of sets; the wiki is less friendly for browsing but more informational if you want to look up something specific you already know about; EC is "what can I do with them?"

(The Gamer Escape link is broken, by the way. I think because it's missing a closing quote mark.)

on a personal note, i'm not too huge a fan of the majority of mogstation glam gear; on top of them largely being out of my "casually drop money on" pricerange, many of them are separated... oddly, which makes them hard to work in for glams. a big example is hien's glamour set--the gloves are only the hand part, and not the wrist parts literally attached to them--those are part of the torso for some reason)

I think it's because of how the pieces interact with each other. Hien's coat sleeve is below-elbow-length and I'm fairly sure it would tuck into elbow-length gloves, so they have to go to the next level down which is wrist-length gloves.

For something similar in-game, look at the Neo-Ishgardian aiming set, which from the concept art has one long glove over the left sleeve and a short glove under the right sleeve. That has also been implemented with wrist-length gloves and the rest of the left glove integrated into the shirt.

[SpiralMask]

yeah, generally I'll browse eorzeacollection for something interesting or flip through xivstyle when trying to find stuff on a specific theme (like "samurai tank" or "armored caster"), then find the pieces on the gamerescape wiki for a closer look and finding where it's from if i'm looking to farm it.

[Morningstar1337]

My personal favorites tend to be the PVP animaliege gear, the Contest winners for Caster and Healer, Thav Dancer set, the Gordean sets and the Tamano headband among others. All of which can be obtained in game.

The few glamour sets I'm interested in from Mogstation would be last year's seasonal glam (Werewolf costume, Songbird get-up and Faire swimsuits) As well as the Legacy Warrior Mail all of which were in-game first(in fact I get the latter during its respective event). And even then I'm currently only use gone piece form these sets (Werewolf ears)

[Burmecia]

If I really, really, REALLY want candy, I'll get out and go to kiosk or grocery store or something and buy the candy : )
What I won't do is sit around on the internet writing seething criticism about other people having candy and my grand self not being just... granted candy, or something.
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"That's not the same! >: (", "hur dur logical fallacy you peabrain"? - I don't care.
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IRL I am poor and disabled mofo of a person. I neither just simply can buy all the junk I simply just want, real or digital or whatever. Gotta save for that if I do want to acquire my junk, and even that is not enough always and in every case. There is lot of junk out of my reach. But Mogstation junk is not part of that flavour of junk.
It'd take forever, BUT if I wanted to buy everything last thing from Mogstation, there is not one item I could not buy if I saved month of two for one item at the time.
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I bought some other junk this month. Probably should not have, but that pushed back my plan to buy Fuga Attire for couple of weeks : ) But it's ok, I'll be more careful with my candy money next month.

[DarkMasamune]

I actually think the game offers quite a bit of nice glamour to buy. Having played a lot of good old koreans P2W, I can tell you they had absolutely zero glamour accessible in game— it was all in the cash shop, which was really disappointing frankly.

Just off the top of my head, there's the Ao Dai, the Dalsmascan set, the Thavnarian dress... I actually think they give us nice options, accessible in game, even thought it could be at the cost of heavy grinding for most.

Sure there are beautiful glamour on the Mog Station, but it's not like it's the only option to get glamour.

[Elladie]

Glamours are entirely subjective. What you think is good might well be horrible to me.

I personally dislike most of the Mogstation glamours because they're too obvious. You can't combine them into different looks to get the effect you're after because they're too much 'themselves'. And why would I want to look like Minfilia? That's completely lacking in any creativity. I love the wings on the Mog Station fae outfit but you can't just buy the wings, so no thanks. I bought the Blackbosom stuff only for the boots (it was on sale at the time). I got the XP boosting set mostly for the XP although that set IS pretty good at mix and match stuff.

My thing is mixing up gear from lots of different places so that my outfit is unique, therefore I avoid the Mog Station stuff like the plague. If they sold more mix and match options I'd buy them. But I totally disagree that the only 'good' options are on the Mog Station