Portraits now too complicated

[WindyGamer]

Have other folks complained about how complex portraits are now?

I'd like to pick a background, frame, look etc. Once and have each class / outfit that I wear be fitted to that style. Automagically. Every time I swap jobs or go to a dungeon I get a complaint about how my portrait is wrong. Well how about I do the style once?

Do we have that option? I have not found it.

Isn't this a case of a minor feature growing to overwhelm? I would like a nice portrait, once, and then move on with my life here in the game.

???

[TaleraRistain]

I could see a good QoL being something like "copy settings from X job" or something if you wanted to use the same poses and such on different jobs.

[Merryl]

I’ve stopped using them because system resets every time I glamour change or upgrade my gear. I don’t see why my portrait has to match my appearance exactly…. That’s not how portraits work irl now is it?

[WindyGamer]

I could see a good QoL being something like "copy settings from X job" or something if you wanted to use the same poses and such on different jobs.

I really want a setting that says use this plate design, including character facing camera stuff, for all my jobs. And update it with every costume change same or another button. Set it once and forget it.

[Arzalis]

Portraits are still just fundamentally broken, sadly.

I dream of the day they just work.

[PercibelTheren]

I’ve stopped using them because system resets every time I glamour change or upgrade my gear. I don’t see why my portrait has to match my appearance exactly…. That’s not how portraits work irl now is it?

Same. I tried using them for a bit when they were new, got frustrated by how persnickety the system is and decided it's not worth my time or energy.

[Renalt]

Sometimes I wonder if they do a Bethesda approach of "Put it in now and fix it later".

Or let the community fix it...but we can't talk about that.

[WinglessSeraphim]

Automagically.

New word. Stealing it.

[TaleraRistain]

I really want a setting that says use this plate design, including character facing camera stuff, for all my jobs. And update it with every costume change same or another button. Set it once and forget it.

I think that's a reasonable ask. Hopefully they can look into it. I like to use different poses and such on mine so not as useful for someone like me but I think it would be a good addition so someone can have a basic portrait so they're not stuck with the DMV pic all the time.

[Wissp]

Oh man, I hear you. I dread it every time I need to go a gear upgrade to the newest and greatest I-level knowing that it will make my portraits FUBAR. And I have a LOT of different portrait looks , especially for my WHM main.

Luckily I have gotten pretty good at fixing them relatively quickly now.
If you go to look at the affected portrait, it is STILL there, the game just defaults to the common one when actually using it in an instance.

To fix it; go to edit, character, and change some minor character thing such as facial look to something else then back to what you had it before, then save. Don't change pose or you gotta position it all over again.

It should be back to your normal look after you have done all that, if not, try it again, sometimes it takes a couple of attempts.