Does every job need its own glamour plate?

[TTiscancer]

Then educate me, please.

What I see now when I open my plates are a series of images that look exactly the same except for the weapon, with a plate for each job. What I’m asking is: is that the only way to have my weapons look different, or can I just use an “all but the weapon” plate for some jobs, while updating the appearance of just the weapon through a more specific, direct means?

From what I’m gathering from this conversation, the answer appears to be yes, but I’d need to keep the item with the look I want in my inventory, not the dresser, which seems to exist purely to feed plates.

Am I right or missing something?

You don't need to put weapons in the glam plate at all. You cannot glam a DRK weapon with a PLD weapon for example so you just need the outfit.