Glamour Gear Request Megathread

[Enkidoh]

Is there any good reason why we can't have FFXI-style "free-form" armor glamour?

Because SE themselves said "no"? Like it or hate it, the developers made their choice and although as players we can complain about it like you have done or make requests for it to be changed, they are under no obligation to do so (Yoshi stated back in the Beta test that he wants to keep class identity based on appearence, and that means "no heavy armour on mages" - specifically using an example of a heavy melee like WAR dressed as a WHM, because it would 'destroy' the image of a WHM as a healer. And that was even before glamour was even added - he said at the time that a glamour system was planned for the future, which was eventually added in a patch after ARR was launched.).

Also FFXI never had "free-form glamour". FFXI's glamour system Style Lock is Job specific by default as it deactivates and deletes your glamour if you change your Job (and SE even stated that on the FF website), but players found an exploit using macros to use gear for glamour that a Job cannot normally use, and SE just hasn't bothered fixing it, due to the skeleton staff that FFXI's development team now consists of. Just because SE never clamped down on it doesn't mean it was by design, it's an oversight players are abusing, nothing more, and they do so at their own risk. And it needs to be mentioned FFXI's glamour system came after FFXIV's one - for many, many years of FFXI's long life there was no glamour system at all in the game.

Anyway, this is going off the rails so I digress.