We really should be able to glamour other jobs' sets

[GrizzlyTank]

Coming from GW2 where you're practically locked into using only one silhouette...I think FFXIV offers way more variety per job, and I am happy with the options we have.

They do have costumes though which ignores the armor classes.
And the reason they never let us mix in GW2 is because they never bothered to implement proper fail states for conflicting seams so conflicts result in invisible limbs, in contrast to ffxiv which hides sections or the entire piece instead.

[Tsiron]

Just a bit over a day and we'll (probably) find out whether this is in the cards or not...

But surely if even an old-school MMO like FFXI could do it, it should really be a no-brainer for FFXIV to as well, given it's known for Glamour (the true endgame etc.) far more than its predecessor was...?

[Siddiax]

I'm on insane amounts of hopium that it'll be addressed in the live letter.

[GrizzlyTank]

I'm on insane amounts of hopium that it'll be addressed in the live letter.

The best time to address it was during the mass interviews since then he would have a harder time dodging with the "glamour weapon" excuse...

[Haruka_R]

I'm on insane amounts of hopium that it'll be addressed in the live letter.

I strongly advise you to not get your hopes up, or you will end up with insane amounts of disappointment.

[Enkidoh]

Just a bit over a day and we'll (probably) find out whether this is in the cards or not...

But surely if even an old-school MMO like FFXI could do it, it should really be a no-brainer for FFXIV to as well, given it's known for Glamour (the true endgame etc.) far more than its predecessor was...?

FFXI only did it because the game has had a skeleton staff maintaining it for over a decade now and is more or less in it's Indian Summer now (also glamour wasn't available from the beginning, they didn't even get glamour at all until after FFXIV got it), so there is little concern now for maintaining such niceties as 'Job image' and pretty much anything goes (for much of FFXI's long life it actually had even more rigid gear restrictions than XIV has - for instance if you ended up in a level synced area like a boss fight, your gear was actually stripped from you - rendering your character practically naked, only being changed circa 2009ish).

Now, I do support freer glamour to an extent, as long as Job specific equipment (as in, Artifact Armour/AF), or racial gear (starting armour/old 1.0 smallclothes 'hempen' sets) remain locked. Of course though, it's the slippery slope arguement - if those few sets remained locked, there would inevitably be someone who would complain about it and want it unlocked "just because". And no doubt SE are all too aware of this paradox. Hence I do not see any real change with this moving forward.

[Tsiron]

I've seen unlocking racial gear come up quite a bit, but to my knowledge no one has complained that you can't wear PLD AF gear as a WAR and so on, so I don't think you need to worry about that particular grievance. I (and plenty of others, turns out) would be fine with AF gear staying locked, considering it already is even with current restrictions... though DoH/L sets probably would benefit from being unlocked. Korean players can buy replica All Classes versions of some of those with real money, which is a bit... eh, but it's nonetheless an option we don't have

[Raikai]

Now, I do support freer glamour to an extent, as long as Job specific equipment (as in, Artifact Armour/AF), or racial gear (starting armour/old 1.0 smallclothes 'hempen' sets) remain locked. Of course though, it's the slippery slope arguement - if those few sets remained locked, there would inevitably be someone who would complain about it and want it unlocked "just because". And no doubt SE are all too aware of this paradox. Hence I do not see any real change with this moving forward.

Why do you feel like the hempen sets should be locked? I get (and agree) about the Artifact armors and racial starter gear... However the hempen sets have nothing especially unique about them that says "race identity". They are just undergarments, to the extent that even Viera is copy pasted from midlanders. Despite being very simple pieces without any kind of special appeal, the chestpieces in particular, can do well in complementing many other glamour ideas.

[Iscah]

They are just undergarments, to the extent that even Viera is copy pasted from midlanders.

I don't think it's so much that the outfit was copy-pasted to Viera as that the Viera body model is a copy-pasted and resized Midlander, so the hempen gear came as a ready-made part of the model and they just went with it instead of making a new specific one.

[Tsiron]

All the female models, even Roegadyn, are modified Midlanders lol. The only exception at present are Lalafell, who look very similar (if not identical) to the males