Quote Originally Posted by Kanehon View Post
That is my genuine confusion too. Why can't it work like the Adventurer Plate portrait where you set one and keep it. Why can't it simply pull from the Adventurer Plate?

Is it because they're afraid of, say, a Tank wearing Healer Items/weapon on their adventurer plate? From the same like that Yoshi-P Claims it would be "weird" to see a black mage in plate?

That is the only reason I can think of that would stop us from using it. But then at least let us set a portrait for each job that won't break every 5 minutes.
It's probably a technical limitation. When you're in a duty they already have to send your character's description and glams to everyone. If they use the adventurer plate portrait then they need to also send the description of what you're wearing in that.
It may also be a matter of how much memory budget they allocate to each character in duties. Loading twice as many player character glam models and textures might risk to go over the memory budget depending on the duty.