Instant Portraits - Annoying??

[Kemiko]

I've never understood why other people seem to struggle with such a basic system. The only way I end up with a broken portrait is if I, for example, get new gear for BRD and then later on quickly update my gear for DNC and then queue for something without checking it. The system isn't broken, you're just lazy with no problem solving skills.

The system can break quite easily from just minor changes. Once you get used to its silly nuances, it becomes easier to fiddle with but these nuances don't need to exist in the first place.

I'd also like to add that a particular nuance the system has is its inability to handle multi-sectional glamour. That causes it to break instantly and the only fix is beyond silly.

For example: If I glamour a piece of gear over, say, BRD that covers the body, hands, legs and feet but I don't have a glamour piece consuming all those slots on, say, MCH, if I ever switch to MCH my BRD glamour will never work again until I remove the glamours physically from the hands, legs and feet. Period. It just will always and forever break the portrait.
And I cannot say in good faith that the system with it as it is like that is a basic system with no struggles. My only options here when dealing with this is to just not use that kind of glamour, not use any other jobs in the same role (So, in this scenario, play only BRD but not MCH or DNC), only use these kinds of glamour in all jobs of the role or invest in always having glamour dispellers on hand and manually remove glamours on the hands, legs and feet every single time I want to queue with that job.

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

What you're saying isn't wrong but TheMightyMollusk isn't wrong either. Merely changing gearsets in the wrong place will break the portrait because of how the system is currently setup. Until they allow glamour plates to function everywhere not just where aetherites exist it'll always be possible to break a portrait just because you changed gearsets.