Glamour restrictions: a hinderance to creativity

[Iscah]

There's a bunch of instances where restricted glamours are seen being worn by npc's with the restricted jobs. It's insulting.

I don't see why it has to be insulting. It just tells me that there's more to the restrictions than a deliberate "we don't want you to wear these things as that class" – I really think it comes down to a technical issue of how the glamour system relies on equippability but the NPCs don't have the same limitation.

i want access to individual pieces to create glamours that are not currently possible. which is, inherently, mathematically, more creative than using a smaller selection of pieces.

If your "chef with five ingredients" has to come up with the same number of unique dishes as the chef with 20, then yes, they are arguably having to be more creative for the same end result.

Yes, we can mathematically create more glamours out of 20 sets than five, but there's also (unless you're wearing a new glamour daily) a limit to how many glamours you can realistically create and wear on a regular basis.

We have a lot more than five sets per class to work with in the current system, and while having access to other roles' gear would add more, that's not the same thing as having "not enough" currently. It would simply take us from "lots of options" to "lots and lots of options".

I'm not immune to finding impossible outfits that I'd like to wear if class locks were lifted, and I wouldn't argue against them being listed, but I still think the current system gives me a good number of options to work with.

[Bellsong]

SE probably doesn't know how to unlock glamour without also just letting people wear any gear they want, which they don't want to do and lead to another run of jobs using a different jobs gear shenanigans, like tanks and old strength accessories. Which is why their go to option for unrestricting things for all jobs has always been replica's so far. That's what I think anyways.

Kind of unfortunate but it's something I hope they can figure out one day, I'd love to be able to glam gear freely, with the exception of AF gear which should stay job locked.

[Siddiax]

I don't see why it has to be insulting. It just tells me that there's more to the restrictions than a deliberate "we don't want you to wear these things as that class" – I really think it comes down to a technical issue of how the glamour system relies on equippability but the NPCs don't have the same limitation.

Constantly repeating how there might be technical issues doesn't mean that everyone who wants glamour restrictions removed will suddenly change their mind.

We have a lot more than five sets per class to work with in the current system, and while having access to other roles' gear would add more, that's not the same thing as having "not enough" currently. It would simply take us from "lots of options" to "lots and lots of options".

Nobody is arguing that there's a severe lack of variety, its just annoying how many good pieces there are that are underutilized because of the role restrictions. Also, considering that more often than not, sets share the same theme between roles, most pieces are interchangeable and would give us more options from that specific theme. There's also certain pieces that I wouldn't wear on a certain role, but would look amazing on another.

Of course, if they ever remove the restrictions, people can still stick to a single role if that's their wish.

[Darthgummibear]

Constantly repeating how there might be technical issues doesn't mean that everyone who wants glamour restrictions removed will suddenly change their mind.



Nobody is arguing that there's a severe lack of variety, its just annoying how many good pieces there are that are underutilized because of the role restrictions. Also, considering that more often than not, sets share the same theme between roles, most pieces are interchangeable and would give us more options from that specific theme. There's also certain pieces that I wouldn't wear on a certain role, but would look amazing on another.

Of course, if they ever remove the restrictions, people can still stick to a single role if that's their wish.

I honestly don't buy technical limitations as the reason, anyway. In terms of modeling, the NPC's have the same parameters as us(with a handful of obvious exceptions). They don't make custom versions of gear models for every NPC in the game.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

This game has a lot of restrictions to a lot of things like no mounts in cities make no sense. I would be happy if they decided to temporarily shut down the game one day and do a complete overhaul. Maybe if SE would stop draining the funds for this game in their other IP's that never do well FFXIV could be a better game with a brand new engine and graphical overhaul. Though this is just a pipe dream that will never come true. Imagine having character creation like Lost Ark in FFXIV, housing like ESO/GW2/ETC. Yet here we are playing something that has an outdated code and engine from 2010

[Glenfiddich]

This game has a lot of restrictions to a lot of things like no mounts in cities make no sense.

No thanks.
Oh it makes very much sense. People flexing afk with their Mounts on Summoning Bell's, blocking afk the Market Board and so on.
There are many Aetherytes in Towns. No Mount needed.

[Raikai]

because necessity breeds creativity.
Even real life has limitations.
People wants no limits because they can just slap a gear they want that other class have. Instead of finding alternatives.
My typography teacher once said, "how can you think outside the box when you never tried thinking inside the box first?"

Well, what if I want to have shorts with long stockings (YoRHa scouting leg piece) on a caster? What if I want a long cape that is not tattered as a Ninja? There's literally no way to achieve those silhouettes.

It's easy to find, for example, ways to make a caster use heavy armor... But when it comes to details, the limitations are more of an annoyance than anything else. For another example on that... sometimes the same item on different armor sets have missing details, like a shoulderpad, and that also can impact the ending result of what I'd want to achieve.

Another thing that is hard to access with the limitations are gloves that simple and sleek and cut your sleeves up there... the only two examples of such are the Republican Caster gloves and Bozjan scouting gloves. There's no way I can achieve the same effect with other jobs.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I don't even think it's a technical restriction issue just a universal design choice, as FFXIV isn't the only MMO with equipment restriction transmogs based on class. Yeah NPCs wear mish mash of clothing items that don't reflect the class because the people that work on npc designs are obviously only going for making them look unique or cool

Which further alleviates the idea that YES it would be really nice if there weren't any class restrictions for glaming equipment.

[hagare]

What if I want a long cape that is not tattered as a Ninja?

cape of happiness? it's a lvl 1 item, so your new level 1 NIN can actually use it.
moonward of scouting? This one's a lvl 90 though, so you might have to work a bit.
*shrug*

[Raikai]

cape of happiness? it's a lvl 1 item, so your new level 1 NIN can actually use it.
moonward of scouting? This one's a lvl 90 though, so you might have to work a bit.
*shrug*

Cape of Happiness is really tattered at the edges and the Moonward one is not what I think about capes that go all the way to the ankle.

You could rebuke most of the examples, but never get to a close result when the glamour enthusiasts are asking for this because how they want to fine-tune the ensembles, as opposed to getting alternatives that aren't quite there.