Feedback: Duty Portraits

[originalposter]

They don't seem to work in the slightest. I set my duty portrait for each job, and yes turned the feature on. Then popped into a duty and everyone is set to the default portrait. GG SE. why am I not surprised.

[Estecka]

They don't seem to work in the slightest. I set my duty portrait for each job, and yes turned the feature on. Then popped into a duty and everyone is set to the default portrait. GG SE. why am I not surprised.

There seems to be a bug that prevents some portraits from working from the get-go. Old ones maybe? Something along those lines, it doesn't fully makes sense to me, but this is what I observed:
- Created today a few portraits for classes that didn't have one. Those worked fine.
- Joined some duties with a class that's had a portrait for a very long time, didn't work because presumably, equipped gear was different. Made sure the equipped gear was the same, edited and re-saved the portrait. Portrait still didn't work.
- Duplicated the old gearset, imported the portrait from the old onto the duplicata. Now both the old and duplicated portrait worked fine in duties.


Since we're into that, why must the portrait be reset when the gear doesn't match? Couldn't the game just automatically update the gear but re-use the same pose and background? That would make a lot more sense, save a lot of manually editing portraits for nothing, and that would always give something a bit more interesting to see.

And why must the equipped gear matter? Only the gear's appearance/glamour should be relevant.
As I'm still going through the MSQ, I'm updating my gears very often, so my portraits are constantly in a "outdated gear" state. On the other hand my glamours change very rarely; if the portrait picked that up instead, portraits wouldn't even become outdated in the first place.