Quote Originally Posted by GrizzlyTank View Post
And in FFXIV most gear comes in set so you could pretty much compress the unlocks needed
Gear does not "come in sets", it comes as individual pieces, like most every MMO in existence. You can have a body piece but be missing every other piece of instance gear for your job. A 64k bitmap (because you always need to leave room for expansion) would be fine, if the gear system used bitmaps. But it doesn't. It uses gear slots, complete with information about 'glamour' and dyes. It uses a set of small tables for the glamour plates. SE may well decide to replace this system with a transmog system like WoW, but ...

Have you looked at the cost of transmog in WoW? You don't need to purchase glamour prisms, true, but every time you switch out one bit of gear for another, it costs you gold. I was greatly interested in reading that the cost for a full gear set for a monk could cost 400 gold (based on some valuation of the gear set in gold), and a visit to one of the vendors who you have to go to in order to get changed out.

Personally, I wouldn't want to do more than expand a glamour prism when-and-where I decided to apply a glamour. Can you imagine the outcry if you had to visit a major city any time you desired to glamour a piece of gear? (I can, because that was the fate of glamour plates until 6.0 came out).