We really should be able to glamour other jobs' sets

[Erinellza]

I was bored so I made this, the struggle is real. bUt MuH JoB iDeNtiTy!!!

[Siddiax]

I was bored so I made this, the struggle is real. bUt MuH JoB iDeNtiTy!!!
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Good one! Just more evidence that no one should be taken seriously when they claim that "immersion" will be ruined by the removal of glam restrictions. Could come up with 500 more similar examples, but why bother. Just run around any of the major cities and you'll notice that most players are already wearing outfits that don't "fit" their role, job, or armor type.

[SeriousPan]

Good one! Just more evidence that no one should be taken seriously when they claim that "immersion" will be ruined by the removal of glam restrictions. Could come up with 500 more similar examples, but why bother. Just run around any of the major cities and you'll notice that most players are already wearing outfits that don't "fit" their role, job, or armor type.

I've been all for unrestricted glams since a final boss cutscene had me summon 5 bikini miqotes + 2 armoured dps. The epic feeling of fighting a final boss is somehow lessened when you summon a bunch of people in bikinis. Might as well just unrestrict them at this point, the 'immersion' is loooong gone. lol

[Raikai]

I realized that the Metian top is the first time I've seen an armor set display non-job weapons. It just further torches the idea that gear restrictions exist for any kind of "job identity".

Not that I'm complaining about the set, but if my Scholar can already have a sheathed sword why is it too much to ask for chainmail or leather?

We have a few instances of those. like the Neo Ishgardian set of striking got a revolver built in:


I also noticed that the Pictomancer artifact set does have a dagger sheathed on the back of the waist. I guess when you run out of paint all you gotta do is go stabbers.

Good one! Just more evidence that no one should be taken seriously when they claim that "immersion" will be ruined by the removal of glam restrictions. Could come up with 500 more similar examples, but why bother. Just run around any of the major cities and you'll notice that most players are already wearing outfits that don't "fit" their role, job, or armor type.

Another cool experiment to do is grab random pictures of the YoHRa sets and ask a sprout who didn't get to those raids yet what set is what armor class. It's literally impossible without luck.

Now that they're adding a dedicated glasses slot, mostly unrestricted cross-class glamming is one of my big asks. I'm feeling the itch to switch main jobs for DT but I've got a lot of glams I am very happy with that are maiming specific. Every time I go looking through striking, scouting, or aiming gear, I never find anything I find compelling. I really wish that everything but the AF sets was unrestricted so every time I was thinking about how viper looks cool, I didn't immediately also think, "but scouting gear ugly."

I also hope that slot can have masks too, there's quite a handful of them and I suppose they could fill in a similar niche of 'stuff that goes on top of your face'.

[Boa-Noah]

I also noticed that the Pictomancer artifact set does have a dagger sheathed on the back of the waist.

Not just sheathed to the waist, it's sheathed RIGHT where the tail clips through the gear, so if you're a Miqo'te or any race with a tail it will be clipping through that dagger... It's one of the most baffling design decisions I've ever seen. Not only did someone on the design team have to insist on the Pictomancer AF set having a dagger but that it had to be holstered right on the middle of the back, not to the side to adjust for tails, not on the hip like a normal person, NO, directly over the tail...

Then someone else on the team had to adjust the set for races with a tail and see it clips with the tail and just go 'yeah that's fine' and push it through, it makes no sense.

[Enkidoh]

We have a few instances of those. like the Neo Ishgardian set of striking got a revolver built in:


I also noticed that the Pictomancer artifact set does have a dagger sheathed on the back of the waist. I guess when you run out of paint all you gotta do is go stabbers.

Ironically, that kind of does make an odd bit of sense lore wise if you've done the MCH quests - part of the questline involves arming the smallfolk of Ishgard with guns to provide a volunteer militia in Foundation, due to manpower shortages in the Temple Knights leading to a security issue. Given that armour set is meant to be Ishgardian (or at least emulating what outsiders think Ishgardians wear), having a set of armour for a melee class/Job have a gun attatched as decoration could be a reference to this.

Or I'm just grabbing at straws here... (probably this really).

Also, wasn't the Neo-Ishgardian set in the first place actually a winning entry in a 'Design your own armour' competition? If so, then it was actually a player that would have come up with that design and decoration....

[Raikai]

Ironically, that kind of does make an odd bit of sense lore wise if you've done the MCH quests - part of the questline involves arming the smallfolk of Ishgard with guns to provide a volunteer militia in Foundation, due to manpower shortages in the Temple Knights leading to a security issue. Given that armour set is meant to be Ishgardian (or at least emulating what outsiders think Ishgardians wear), having a set of armour for a melee class/Job have a gun attatched as decoration could be a reference to this.

Or I'm just grabbing at straws here... (probably this really).

Also, wasn't the Neo-Ishgardian set in the first place actually a winning entry in a 'Design your own armour' competition? If so, then it was actually a player that would have come up with that design and decoration....

IIRC the player designed just the aiming set (which was the category they won), and all of the variations were made based on that, so the choice of adding a pistol on the striking set is deliberate, just like they replicated the aiming top for healers but chose to remove the pistol.

Another one that I remembered is that the HW and ShB bard sets also have dagger holsters on their pants.