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    Player
    Sagittarian's Avatar
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    Nesshin'na Kasai
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    glam·our
    noun
    1.the quality of fascinating, alluring, or attracting, especially by a combination of charm and good looks.
    2. excitement, adventure, and unusual activity: the glamour of being an explorer.
    3. magic or enchantment; spell; witchery.

    Etymology
    From Scots glamer, from earlier Scots gramarye (“magic, enchantment, spell”).
    The Scottish term may either be from Ancient Greek γραμμάριον (grammárion, “gram”), the weight unit of ingredients used to make magic potions, or an alteration of the English word grammar (“any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning”).
    A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (poet. “moon,” name of a ghost) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”).

    I did a Google search for "glamorous men". This link was one of the top results: http://www.pinterest.com/jeauxdi/glamorous-men/ - Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Mark Wahlberg, Chris Helmsworth, Bradley Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, David Boreanaz .. not seeing a problem here.

    For the multi-slot item issue, I also hope there is a "fix" for that in the future. While I am in general very happy to be rid of the tin cans and don't mind head gear not showing when I am wearing a cowl, there may be people who prefer the cowl look even when wearing a robe and hat and having a use for the Odin armor would be great. I think it would require glamouring a full outfit though, rather than individual items.
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    ITT: I WANT IT MY WAY BECAUSE MY OPINION MUST BE RIGHT.

    Just because you dislike the name and how the system is set up doesn't mean everyone else does too. To ask them to change a fanservice feature to your likings is absurd.
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    Allyrion Windwalker
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    There's a CM post out there that went into detail about this.
    The developers came up with Glamour first and translated it to Mirage Prism for the Japanese because it sounds like something else.

    I don't think they're changing the name when they made it sound like it's the preferred label of the two.
    Personally, I like Mirage Prism more but if the developers prefer Glamour that's their call.
    In the end, it's simply an aesthetic choice that's entirely subjective.
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    Calyanare Vendaurel
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    Quote Originally Posted by Allyrion View Post
    Personally, I like Mirage Prism more but if the developers prefer Glamour that's their call.
    In the end, it's simply an aesthetic choice that's entirely subjective.
    I agree with this, it's just that "Glamour" is so boring.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calyanare View Post
    I agree with this, it's just that "Glamour" is so boring.
    Since yours is the most recent and apparently it needs to be reiterated...

    Glamour= name if the system
    Mirage Prism= name of the consumable item

    This makes more sense as Glamour (regardless of wether or not you feel the definition is "archaic") can be used as a Verb, Mirage or Mirage Prism can't and sound stupid if you try

    (Funny enough I still have some Mirage Prisms in my bank from 1.0)
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    Last edited by Pandastirfry; 03-21-2014 at 06:19 AM.

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    This thread..........................
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    someone has masculinity issues
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    1) I purposefully listed the name change as a "BONUS (OPINION)" because I think it'd be fine that they didn't change it... it's just my personal preference that Mirage Prism is a better name.

    2) I already redacted post 1 as I had a false impression, stop insulting about it; it happens.

    3) Are you all seriously debating the suitability of Glamour over Mirage? Honestly?? Both are suitable. And I'm not whining.

    4) A male can care for fashion without being effeminate or of the opposite gender; also it doesn't make him less of a man to care not to wear earrings; three, I'm not insecure in my masculinity because I don't want to wear a title that generally holds a female-connotation in Western Society, nor does it mean 'feminine things' are bad.
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    Last edited by Gesser; 03-21-2014 at 06:59 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gesser View Post
    I'm not insecure in my masculinity because I don't want to wear a title that generally holds a female-connotation in Western Society
    Actually, that's exactly what it means.
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    Skadi Felis
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gesser View Post
    1) Multi-slot->One-slot doesn't let you Glamour the next slot (e.g. head & chest darklight cowl to healer's robe).

    So I can convert my hooded robe into a plain, bodily robe but am not then permitted to wear a headpiece. That's a bit ridiculous, don't you think?
    No, because you have already a headpiece through the hooded robe, that you still wear

    Quote Originally Posted by Gesser View Post
    Yes but since the gear is required to be usable by the base-class... even if a player has let's say a single 50 MNK... they won't be able to glamourize their WHM or WAR or BRD in any of the gear they want to see themselves in until those classes are ALSO 50.
    The unlock quest is at level 50.
    It would be like with dyes, materia and companion. Once you did the quest with a level 50 class to unlock it, you get a command icon and can use it with every class at every level.
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    Last edited by Felis; 03-21-2014 at 07:31 AM.

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