Instant Portraits - Annoying??

[TheMightyMollusk]

Switching jobs isn't what breaks it – the trigger is changing the appearance of the gear in your current gearset (or your actual character appearance) compared to the last time you saved your portrait. If you switch any gear and don't reapply the same glamours to match what is in the portrait, even if the item isn't visible in the portrait, that is what causes it to break.

Fixing it requires you to save the updated gearset, then go to "edit portrait" and save it even if you're not manually changing anything in the portrait.

And changing jobs changes my current gearset and its appearance. So, my post still stands.

[Iscah]

And changing jobs changes my current gearset and its appearance. So, my post still stands.

No, you're misunderstanding how things are connected up.

Each gearset has its own portrait. You could have gearset with a working portrait and another gearset with a non-working portrait, and if you switched between them and went into duties you would see that it works or doesn't work or works again accordingly.

Equip gearset X, and the system tries to load portrait X for duties. The portrait saves its own list of what you were wearing when you saved the portrait, and if your current gear doesn't match, the portrait breaks.

Switch to gearset Y, and the game now uses portrait Y. It doesn't matter whether portrait X was working or not, now it checks whether your clothing matches portrait Y.

You can't break a portrait by switching gearsets. It's all about the appearance of the equipment you're wearing right now compared to the portrait linked your current gearset – every piece of jewellery, even your invisible hat – needs to match what was saved to the portrait.

To be clear, I'm not defending the current system. It's shockingly clunky even if you understand how it works, but at least understanding it lets you get your portrait working some of the time.