Face paints update?

[Daralii]

The fact we only have three face paint unlocks is also wild. All three are from old All Saints Wake events, too, so, extremely few players use them, and even then, only seasonally. And I think on a few have been added since launch for everyone.

Very few players use the funky graphic sticker ones, so I wonder if the devs were summarily discouraged from expanding on it like we see with hair

They said in the past that there's some strict memory limitation with the character creator, so they might have looked at the least popular category and decided to largely abandon it in favor of things like more hairstyles.

[Halivel]

Agreed that face paints need to get touch ups and a lot more variety. This would best be done in conjunction with the long-requested tieing hairstyles (and it's colours) to gearsets, thereby to also tie a facepaint and it's colour to a gearset or job/stone also in the same update. I know people have suggested making them part of a glamour plate, but that would now be an outdated change by the time it comes, and people would then ask it be bound to gearset or job/stone anyway, so lets skip adding them to plates.

Tying color to gearset sounds like a potential hassle to make since the process of changing color is tied to going into character creator and that sounds like a relatively big structural change because of that, but honestly would've been dope if it's possible.

They said in the past that there's some strict memory limitation with the character creator, so they might have looked at the least popular category and decided to largely abandon it in favor of things like more hairstyles.

Iirc what they said is that there's essentially a limit on the amount of "slots" in character creator, which is why we don't really get new face models, and also why, for example, Au Ra have their horns tied to face (because there was a limit on an amount of categories within the character creator, too).

I think they mentioned that the limit was greatly increased with updates made in Heavensward and Dawntrail, but it's probably still a thing of concern, so while I'd have loved to see more face paints being added, we probably won't see many of them, if any. Quality improvement should be possible, though.