We really should be able to glamour other jobs' sets

[Arzalis]

I don't get why they're so stubborn on this one, honestly.

It's a very easy win for the dev team and it doesn't change much of anything gameplay wise. It's just something the vast majority of people really want.

For the longest time I just assumed they were saving this change for a rainy day because of the above. Sadly, I'm starting to believe they just think they know better than the people who actually play their game.

[Tsiron]

Yeah I share your frustration, and do agree that keeping AF gear restricted would be... disappointing, especially since some Jobs have basically ended up having a monopoly on specific articles of clothing (like SCH having some of the nicest skirts in the game...).

IDK how others feel about it, but me specifically I'm dressing my characters up the way I feel they would choose to, not so that they can be walking billboards for one Job or another, which is why I've never particularly cared for AF gear, barring maybe one or two pieces. Gear swapping a la the ShB trailer doesn't strike me as canon, so it makes more sense to me for characters to have one outfit and multiple weapons they can (potentially) swap between than both at the same time. And although I've been able to create that one outfit a few times using the available All Classes gear, it was a pain in the ass every time, and ended up dependent on gear that USED TO be restricted (e.g. Replica Sky Pirate Coat of Maiming) anyway, so really does it even count? Just... come on, dude...

[ty_taurus]

It was funny to me how during the keynote, they specified that Dawntrail’s AF gear will this time be a return to roots rather than inspired by the new region. As if that hasn’t been literally every expansion’s AF gear theme.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It was funny to me how during the keynote, they specified that Dawntrail’s AF gear will this time be a return to roots rather than inspired by the new region. As if that hasn’t been literally every expansion’s AF gear theme.

I was gonna say....wait so the AF expansion sets correlated with region theme before? Its barely noticable if that was the intention

[ty_taurus]

I was gonna say....wait so the AF expansion sets correlated with region theme before? Its barely noticable if that was the intention

I think they have literally said every time that the theme is basically traditional. They have never been given any other unique theme to make them stand out, which is a real shame. Even something like FFXI inspired. You know how cool it would’ve been to have FF8 inspired AF gear in Shadowbringers?

[SieyaM]

It was funny to me how during the keynote, they specified that Dawntrail’s AF gear will this time be a return to roots rather than inspired by the new region. As if that hasn’t been literally every expansion’s AF gear theme.

Maybe this means they will use older FF titles for inspiration or even 1.0 to design this round of gear. All I know is I am so tired of casters getting the same robes over and over again. Aside from a few ornamental changes on the pieces most of the caster gear looks the same, and healer gear is just a palette swap which cheapens the whole thing anyway.

[Raikai]

I was gonna say....wait so the AF expansion sets correlated with region theme before? Its barely noticable if that was the intention

They rarely step out of the AF 'cohesion box' except for a couple of outliers, like SMN and SCH heavenward sets that look like something completely distinct compared to all what they gave in the subsequent expansions.

For some jobs, like Dancer or Reaper, due to being still very new, I don't mind keeping the same theme from before, because it makes great mix and matching between different AF sets. But I can only imagine how tired WHM mains must be to get the almost the same thing for the 5th time in a row (since we got to see WHM's set concept art in the keynote slide). They could keep the white with red details theme but go for another silhouette, honestly.

[Palin]

Finally decided to stop lurking in the shadows, get an account and add my voice to the choir. Yes this change is what glamour system needs. The previous rules were arbitrary and grow more so with every all class pvp armor or casual gear, with every gear set that shares designs among jobs at seemingly random. Besides i really think if they removed glamour restrictions and added glamour log instead of limited dresser, that would add so much more reason to run old content. People revisiting old dungeons, trials and raids, grinding hunt and pvp currency again, just to get glamours "they always kinda liked, but it wasn't for their main class" or just to fill out the log.

[Razraptre]

i really think if they removed glamour restrictions and added glamour log instead of limited dresser, that would add so much more reason to run old content. People revisiting old dungeons, trials and raids, grinding hunt and pvp currency again, just to get glamours "they always kinda liked, but it wasn't for their main class" or just to fill out the log.

This is how WoW and ESO do it, and most other MMOs implement a similar system. I believe the FFXIV team did test out a glamour collection tab, but due to the way the game servers handle requests it made each player load every single item in their collection every time they loaded into a new instance, which quickly crashed the test server. That's all we heard about it, though I hope they didn't shelve the concept and are finding a workaround.

[Zolvolt]

As long as artifact gear is still restricted to job I'm happy.