A Thought In Regards To The Glamor Unshackling

[Jeeqbit]

Store a singular list of every single item somewhere (like I'm sure they already have buried in the spaghetti somewhere), then server-side, assign to every character/service account an array of trues/falses that corresponds to those items. When a character soulbinds to an item, set that character's entry for that item in the array to 'true'. (Depending on how spicy they want to be this could be as small as bytes of additional storage load per service account)

I mean I agree with you, and that's why the only explanation a person can come up with is that they think they lack sufficient HDD space for those true/false bits/bytes.

Yet they manage it with the ever expanding list of achievements so there is a certain degree of contradiction. It's why I struggle to have faith in their programming department. They can't possibly know what they are doing.

[Iscah]

I like to think they're going to expand the outfit glamourer system, but most of my dungeon gear is from non-leveling so they are incomplete sets and I really don't want to imagine how long it would be if I needed to farm each piece to fold them into 1 slot too.

That's another thing they need to fix. It makes sense for current endgame gear to be more difficult, but there's no good reason to make it harder to get gear from a level 60 dungeon than from 59 or 61. The dungeons also drop less actual gear than the levelling dungeons, since coffers only have a chance to contain left-side pieces rather than guaranteed in levelling dungeons.

[Tint]

I know the answer is because of the old spaghetti code and console limitations back then. Still it would be nice to just find glamour, unlock it in a little book or something, and then never have to worry about it taking up inventory space. I love FF XIV to death but when you compare their glamour system to other MMOs, FF XIV feels so backwards.

All the ingredients for this are already in the game since the ARR days on PS3.

We have an achievment log, which gets expanded every patch.

We have achievments which unlock when we wear a specific set of gear and then talk to an NPC.

And we have a vendor which sells gear depending on which achievments you have unlocked.

The Garo gear uses all 3 of these steps and is essentially already a working prototype of a glamour log. It jutst needs to be expanded and get it's own UI.

[CCheshire]

That's another thing they need to fix. It makes sense for current endgame gear to be more difficult, but there's no good reason to make it harder to get gear from a level 60 dungeon than from 59 or 61. The dungeons also drop less actual gear than the levelling dungeons, since coffers only have a chance to contain left-side pieces rather than guaranteed in levelling dungeons.

I mean, it would make me super happy if they let us have the old capped dungeon gear and old ARs if I could trade in items for the missing parts.

Sure, if they want to make the newest expansion dungeons have more re-playability, but who cares that much for ShB dungeons gear sets other those few ppl addicted to glam farming like I am would be relieved.

[Reimmi]

No thanks to the 2nd one, i like mix and matching paladin weapons.
Ideally, the armoire would become the collection tab some day

[Toutatis]

The glamour outfit system lets you store several items as a single slot, however, you can still wear individual pieces.

If only we could do this with regular dungeon gear. Spent some time getting gear from Meso Terminal which I really liked but it can only be stored as individual pieces, not as sets.

I also wish we could dye the regular dungeon gear. There are many nice pieces but they often happen to be the wrong colour.

[Asari5]

depending on the abo players can create up to 40 characters. they need enough useable memory space to ensure there wont be a proplem if a lot of people suddenly decide to create several alts each. for exemple armoire and glam chest for each and everyone of them.

if they make an accountwide glam catalogue they could even safe memory space.

just imagine the space 40 full armoires need. space that is unusable for anything else no matter if the armoir is actually full on all 40 chsracters or not.

[Eastwall]

I think They said after they take care of housing interior upgrade, they will work on glamour dresser and plate

[Zakuyia]

Anyone saying this is stupid....why...this is like the best news ever. I saw someone on twitter demanding this never happens...like this is modding for non modders so why would u be against something that modders have been doing for years???

[Khryseis_Astra]

What is ultimately like to see is the Armoire become the glamour catalog. When they started the outfit system, I was hoping it was moving in that direction, however slowly, because the outfits act like Armoire items, no saved dyes and categorized by their set.

But, ideally, if they do turn the Armoire into a glamour catalog, I’d like to see the “no stored dyes” limitation be overcome. I’d also like to be able to try things on from the catalog listing (maybe like Dreamfitting but for in-game gear), and I would like the feature from the Mogpendium that opens up the Duty Finder to the relevant duty if the gear comes from a dungeon, raid, etc. Though I could live with it if that info was only in text form; just tell me where to get the stuff without having to go look it up somewhere else.

With the Armoire as the catalog, the Glamour Dresser can remain just for making plates, which should be increased to a minimum of one for every job: battle, crafting, gathering, and limited. Plus a few extra for future-proofing against the addition of new jobs and/or just having extras for favorite jobs or seasonal events. A bonus would be the addition of hairstyles, facewear and even fashion accessories to the plates. And as some have suggested, a storage tab for glam essentials like prisms and dyes so they’re not cluttering up your inventory. (Although I’d really like a color picker, I don’t think dye pots are going anywhere as long as some of them are rare/cash shop.)