Letter from the Producer, Glamour details

[L-D-Omlette]

We also get an extra retainer with 2.2

Is there any source confirming this to be the case? Everything I have seen regarding retainers is the venturing system. Would be nice to have more space, especially if we are going to be sending them on "gathering" missions.

[Kyoreore]

I don't get it. Odin's armor was made for the Glamour system, now they're telling us it's not gonna work with it, lolwut? It's like they didn't think ahead when they designed 2+ piece items.

Right, really disappointing.

[Felis]

I hope we can use dated gear
I have a dated chainmail for all classes still in my armory chest

[Velox]

I'm really bothered that casters/healers are going to have a much more limited use of this system. It seems unfair. Most cloth gear (the caster stuff) is for "all classes" so a tank could still use it for vanity, but casters can't use plate, leather, etc since they can't normally equip it. This seems very 1-sided and I hope they change all the cloth gear to "DoM only" to even it out a bit.

[Naunet]

This seems very 1-sided and I hope they change all the cloth gear to "DoM only" to even it out a bit.

No. They should do the opposite and open up all gear to everyone.

Also, they need to let us glamour higher level gear onto lower level characters. If I've earned it, then I should be able to use it. These two, simple changes would make the system a million times better.

[TheUltimate3]

I'm really bothered that casters/healers are going to have a much more limited use of this system. It seems unfair. Most cloth gear (the caster stuff) is for "all classes" so a tank could still use it for vanity, but casters can't use plate, leather, etc since they can't normally equip it. This seems very 1-sided and I hope they change all the cloth gear to "DoM only" to even it out a bit.

I have high doubts they are gonna change it. I mean, WoW didn't change it with their transmog system, I have little doubt they will change things like that here. Sucks but that's life.

Perhaps the new recipes crafters will get will be more specific.

[Velox]

No. They should do the opposite and open up all gear to everyone.

Also, they need to let us glamour higher level gear onto lower level characters. If I've earned it, then I should be able to use it. These two, simple changes would make the system a million times better.

That would work as well, and I agree 100%. Anything to even the odds a bit. Right now the system favors tanks since they have access to 90% of the gear in-game (outside of special circumstances, like AF and such). If anything, if SE really wants it so classes can't wear things that normally wouldn't be "class appropriate" anyway, they would need to redesign all existing gear to be like what you see from end-game drops (where drops can be equipped by related classes/jobs but no one else). This would make the system more limited, so not ideal, but at least it would be more fair in the long run.

[Jynx]

Also, they need to let us glamour higher level gear onto lower level characters..

I'm sure the two days you spend on a lower level class/job you will survive.

It's not like you would be able to wear anything you glamoured for long anyways.

[Naunet]

I'm sure the two days you spend on a lower level class/job you will survive.

I have spent far more than two days on low level alts and alternate classes.

Less restriction is a good thing; there's no reason to be against this.

[LunarEmerald]

Looks like you're gonna use an item to copy the stats of an item onto another. It'll have its own window and function like dyes. There will most likely be an item to remove the copied stats too.