The Glamour options FFXIV needs: Glammable hairstyles and facial features!

[Eisi]

What the lack of such a glam option currently leads to in practice for many people is they either

1. use a combination which fits their main and then are willing to look worse than they could with any other glam OR

2. they compromise by using just a generic hairstyle and makeup selection for every glam, which doesn't achieve the possible greatness of a more refined style for each glam OR

3. they glam exclusively such gear which inherently fits their choice of barbershop options or use helmets to hide their hair and faces, severely limiting their options.

There might even be people who run to the barber every time they change their glam, which would be incredibly annoying!

Those are all tradeoffs which hurt the joy of glamming, compromises which need not be made ! IF we had a system to glam those parts of our characters as well naturally.

There are some ways to go about implementing this feature but the most sympathetic one to me would be this:

Introduce a new option at the barber! In addition to just the makeover for the price of 2,000 Gil you may also have Jandelaine store the look in a prism for you for the price of 20,000 Gil and a Glamour Prism (or both for the combined cost).



You can then slot in this special prism to your glam plates:



As you can see I put a little roman numeral to distinguish between multiple of those items. The info could be found in the item description as well.

It seems like an intuitive solution to me, one which doesn't exclude the barber NPC or a Gil sink.

As far as I'm aware there is no lore reason why we shouldn't be able to alter our features with glam like that at least I hope there isn't!

This is perhaps my number 1 requested feature! What do you all think?

[Eisi]

Bump, because I'd love something like that.

[Eisi]

I won't say it isn't possible. Highly unlikely in the present time, but certainly not impossible in the near future. I once thought they would never actually add flying to ARR zones, and they did it. And when thinking in terms of the next 10 years as the dev team claims they are, then I do think that this is something that they will need to eventually address.

However, the gravity of this project needs to be understood. The dev team is already in a kind of debt as the game is still owed female Hrothgar, and both sexes for Viera and Hrothgar need their CC brought up to at least where the other races are at. They need to accomplish these things before they can even think about revamping the CC and glamour systems as both would need to take place in order to fulfill just this hairstyle-->glamour plate request. And this was precisely why I opposed adding any new races prior to Viera and Hrothgar, and now here we are.

I agree, I think the best thing for the health of the game would be to finish Viera and Hrothgar first, it is the more pressing need. Female Hrothgar > Viera/Hrothgar headgear > better character customization options for Hrothgar and then all other races > Hairstyle/Makeup on glamplates. That's how I would rank those customization issues personally in terms of importance for the game.

Would be nice if the graphical overhaul came along with a bunch of those, I sense it might be a great chance to tackle some technical issues along with it!

Due to the enormity of the task, my proposed solution was more hairstyles. I recognize the juxtaposition with that, but I mentioned updos specifically because they prevent clipping while still giving the impression your avatar has long hair. It's a compromise, which is something we as players must do.

That is one of the compromises I mentioned:

2. they compromise by using just a generic hairstyle and makeup selection for every glam, which doesn't achieve the possible greatness of a more refined style for each glam OR

You want a better generic hairstyle which you can use for all glams, right? I see your issue and hope you get a non-clipping long-hair style which you aesthetically prefer over the ones we currently have.

For me personally that's not an issue I have and my problem would not be addressed by adding new hairstyles.