Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
I find myself repeating this a lot in these threads. Someone else inevitably refers to how they attempted to copy WoW's transmog, but that failed.

Some people seem to think the solution is to make gear all class. That would just make a mess of things. One need look no further than ARR and the gear that exists down there. Many have seen people wearing gear with incorrect stats. It would also cause a problem with looting as you would likely have people needing on gear they can't even use for combat.
All-class gear is simply referring to the replicas that get added as a level one glam piece. I don't think I've seen anyone, across all these threads, suggest that the gear itself become functional stat-gear for all classes. We're talking glams.

With XI, all the gear becomes usable as glamour only once you can equip it normally. So as mentioned earlier, in order to use a level 90 PLD body piece as glamour for any job, you have to have your PLD at level 90 first. The gear itself isn't changing. It still retains the stats and role restrictions if you want to equip it as gear, but it's now usuable as a glam piece.

For a visual, this is my THF in XI:


The squares show the gear that I actually have equipped for stats on my THF, which are all pieces that are for that job (e.g. the pillager's cullotes which are being shown), but I'm sporting a WHM glam. The list of items to the right shows all the items my THF can equip for stats/actual gear in white, while the grey items are for other jobs. However, if I wanted to, I could glam any of those grey pieces since I have all the jobs they are for leveled to the appropriate levels.

Now, can that system actually be coded into XIV? Who knows. But you seemed to be arguing against a point that no one asked for, so figured some clarification might help.