Portraits were better in Beta. Your design is ridiculous.

[LifeupOmega]

"Only a portrait of your currently equipped gear set may be applied to the adventurer plate."

[Gemina]

The funny thing is that the portraits we use for adventurer plates already function similarly to that, they keep the glamour and even hair the same as when it was made- yet for whatever reason the other portraits don't function this way. Very odd.

Oddly enough, it's the adventurer plate that should update depending on what you're currently rolling as. And the coding is already there tied to the gearsets we save for each job/class.

Man what mess this is. I often say the devs shouldn't be wasting time and resources needlessly, so something like this drives me totally batty.

[Ath192]

PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ Let us just attach our adventurer plate and use that as a portrait for everything. In fact I dont think anyone here would complain if they just let the Adventurer plate as the sole option and deleted portraits altogether. WE DO NOT NEED 20 PROFILE PICTURES

[Vahlnir]

PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ Let us just attach our adventurer plate and use that as a portrait for everything. In fact I dont think anyone here would complain if they just let the Adventurer plate as the sole option and deleted portraits altogether. WE DO NOT NEED 20 PROFILE PICTURES

I'd love to just use my adventure plate for everything as well.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I forgot they existed until I went into a trial and had the whole party's plates pop up. Then I turned that off, and now I will continue to forget they exist.

[GTK0HLK]

I'd rather not have my adventplate update.
it should just be a list with toggles.
let us do as we want.
what's on my plate stays.
With the addition Plates before Duties.
They should have an option of those plates change based on the class or role, not geared.

we want a representation of the character/WoL not a mugshot.

[Zfz]

This portrait business is an absolute mess. When I realized every one of my jobs had to have its own portrait set up, and that each would immediately break even if I just hide my helmet, and then I would have to go back to edit and save it, I stopped doing the portraits for the rest of my jobs.

I'm probably just going to disable displaying portraits everywhere and consider the system not there, like housing. This has to be the second biggest disappointment I've had since I started playing this game. (The biggest was housing.)

How does anyone even begin to think this is fine for production? But then again FFXIV is known for its horrible user experience in general...

[Skivvy]

I forgot they existed until I went into a trial and had the whole party's plates pop up. Then I turned that off, and now I will continue to forget they exist.

I turned them off as well. I don't have the need to see the character card of some random people I will never interact with again.

I do like the adventurer plate system though as that's fun to see what your friends come up with. And if you want to check the card of a random person, at least that choice is yours and it's not being thrown in your face.

[GTK0HLK]

I turned them off as well. I don't have the need to see the character card of some random people I will never interact with again.

I do like the adventurer plate system though as that's fun to see what your friends come up with. And if you want to check the card of a random person, at least that choice is yours and it's not being thrown in your face.

But then people shun the terribly set up system, and all you see<this character doesn't have a plate/Private..,>
They better fix this fast else or no one will eventually use it. or it'll be for those who can bother to do so.<or the infamous RP capitals only>

[Connor]

It took me until now to realize the difference between the ‘adventurer plate’ instant portrait, and the ones linked to the gear sets themselves. I feel like a ton of frustration could’ve been avoided if there was something explaining that they’re separate instant portraits.

I kept updating the adventurer plate then kept wondering why it would just revert straight back to default; it’s because I hadn’t updated the gear set portrait. Idk maybe I’m just not very smart but the whole thing feels pretty convoluted lol. At least I know how to stop it reverting to default now lol