Glamour restrictions: a hinderance to creativity

[Raikai]

One can disagree but I feel restrictions help facilitate creativity. Makes one look for creative ways to create the outfit they desire. I wish SE would add more race / gender / class items. I would love for higher level cultural attire for each race and clan within the race.

That's great and all when you're just looking to achieve a general silhouette. I can think of many ways to make a plated healer... Or a Paladin that looks like it's a Dancer in a distance. XIV's glamouring already let you do that.

But then, the argument falls short when it comes to more passionate glamour users that want a bit more intricate design options with mix and matching. For example, a tank not being able to have the chestpiece - but with a much better dyeing pattern - that a Dragoon uses, even though it's literally the same item model. Or a caster not being able to wear the Late Allagan beret that comes with a built in microphone+earsets that the healer has, but there is literally nothing else in that game that looks like that.

Maybe you want your sleeves cut short for a simpler design? Well, too bad that the only 3 options that sort of do that are Caster, Scouting and Healing respectively.

Also, someone that sees the restrictions as some sort of token -putting their creative brain to achieve hard-to-get silhouettes - would be able to take that much further with less restrictions.