Consensus about lifting job glamour restrictions

[Ryaz]

I believe everything should be glamourable except for job specific gear. If tanks can run around in speedos and Hawaiian shirts, a healer should be able able glam up some heavy armor.

[myahele]

He's mostly worried that it will confuse new players to see things like mages wearing heavy armor, but he's at least open to lifting some restrictions.

Q: Can you ease up on the class and job restrictions for glamours to expand their use further?
A: We’re gradually easing restrictions, but since FFXIV’s setting strives to be a real fantasy role-playing game, there is a possibility that players who are new will become confused, so we’d like to maintain certain rules for glamours such that you cannot be a mage that is wearing heavy armor.
I’m not saying that this rule will still hold true 10 years down the road, but currently the upcoming expansion will have a dark fantasy setting and we’d like to preserve that aspect of the lore.
However, we received a lot of feedback asking to make it possible for males to wear skirts to expand the use of glamours.
The game is being development by a large amount of people, and if we don’t have easy to understand rules in place things will likely become a mess, so I’ve given the order to separate glamours for role and class, but if there are a large volume of requests for something in particular, there is a fair chance it will be addressed. We’d like to expand the ways you can glamour yourselves bit by bit.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...801-08-2015%29

[Moonlite]

Ok this was just a quick random google for rdm ff11 lvl 40 gear and not the set I was looking for. But I just wanted to say miss the more armour type sets https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki...Scale_Mail_Set Maybe they could hire the cash shop gear designers and get them to make some more sets that blur the boundary of caster, tank, and dps.

[Lihtleita]

everyday rdm cant wear amons hat is another that they are robbed

[GrumbleBeard]

Rather than releasing restrictions, they should just expand their idea of what each role wears. Not every caster set has to be a robe, not every tank set has to be a tin can, etc etc. They do this to an extent, but it still feels like when every set comes out it's just one of a few variations of possible gear.
Unrelated, but I would love for them to tone back on the accessories on gear too. I hate that each chest piece has 400 little things hanging off it. it looks so uncomfortable.

[Vahlnir]

Rather than releasing restrictions, they should just expand their idea of what each role wears. Not every caster set has to be a robe, not every tank set has to be a tin can, etc etc. They do this to an extent, but it still feels like when every set comes out it's just one of a few variations of possible gear.
Unrelated, but I would love for them to tone back on the accessories on gear too. I hate that each chest piece has 400 little things hanging off it. it looks so uncomfortable.

Yeah, pretty much this. Every job in every role has a specific aesthetic. As an example, DRK and PLD both wear heavy armor, usually looking like knights. GNB, meanwhile, thematically wears heavy jackets. Eden's Promise is the first time I have seen them actually add a jacket for tanks in general since Shadowbringers started. They need to get more creative. I'm a fan of the theme with the current tome gear, but it just doesn't mesh well with what GNB is.

[Deceptus]

Rather than releasing restrictions, they should just expand their idea of what each role wears. Not every caster set has to be a robe, not every tank set has to be a tin can, etc etc. They do this to an extent, but it still feels like when every set comes out it's just one of a few variations of possible gear.
Unrelated, but I would love for them to tone back on the accessories on gear too. I hate that each chest piece has 400 little things hanging off it. it looks so uncomfortable.

Except there are designs where tanks wear cloth, dps have some hard plate, but next to none where healers and casters get anything but robes.

[Canadane]

Limitation just restrict players towards the same options.

Correct, which is why I said what I did.

[Veloran]

Before the issue of glamour restrictions, they really need to address the problem of glamour SPACE. The glamour dresser's 400 limit and the armoire's very selective inclusions are NOWHERE near enough. I have no idea why they have to save specific item IDs rather than simply unlocking the item's appearance upon aquirement. This is one area in which WoW's system, the transmogrification tab, is drastically superior.

I know there are some technical issues here, but we're getting to the point that there is WAY too much stuff to collect to even hold on to a fraction of it. I guarentee you people would find they have way more variability in gear appearance than they think if everything they could glamour on a job was actually visible at once.

Frankly I think this is priority #1 for a systems overhaul next expansion.

[Vickii]

I’d be against this.

Sometimes I think ‘oh I’d like this on this’ but there’s already way too many badly glamored people out there that you don’t know what they’re playing.

I’d rather go the other way and have more restrictive and job distinctive gear.