Dye-able AF Disappointment.

[Xystic]

This is just an example of the SE devs seeming to think that everything has to be complicated and expensive. It's ridiculous. Stop trying to defend it or explain it as if it were understandable.

The reason why glamours is popular is because it allows an individual to uniquely dress their character making that person UNIQUE. "Barriers" for certain pieces of armor help deal with an issue that is now predominate in a game known as World of Warcraft which runs a similar system called transmogfrication. The problem was that you weren't very "UNIQUE" because everyone else can look like you at little to no cost or effort.

By making things a bit harder to obtain, fewer people are able to obtain that item for proper glamours useage and produces "Uniqueness" as not everyone will put in the effort to dye and properly mix-match it with other glamoured items.

Your post clearly indicates your frustration of not being able to dye these items, which indicates that you are interested in dying these items for usage in the glamours mix-match gear system, which indicates you are interested in making yourself unique or as kids would say it ,"To look cool".

So imagine if you put in the effort and dye the piece you wanted and used it to mix-match with yourself.

How many times more unique are you than others?

Go back to the first page and continue to add up the number of likes to the initial thread and every other similar thread. That is how many times more unique your going to be because that many people are not going to put in the effort to dye these rather exquisite pieces.

[Lemuria]

But there ARE vanity items from 1-50***. How many people use Leather Sandals for vanity? That's a level 1 equip, and a level 1ish craft! What about the Boarskin Skirt? that's a level ~45 craft and looks really nifty.

Therein lies the problem with your argument; both of those items actually have some kind of combat benefit to equipping them. Compare and contrast to, for example, the Spring Skirt which gives you... 6 defense and 13 magic defense. Basically, the same stats as starter gear yet to craft it you need rare components that aren't even farmable, and a crafting level so high that you need maximum materia melds and high level tools.

Another flaw in this argument is that most of the lower level gear looks the same. Many of the items are literal repeats of older gear, with only their stats as the defining characteristic. The 'glamor' items are considered so because they're unique in appearance, which is why they're coveted in the first place.

But of course, wouldn't want people looking nice without grinding the same rubbish for at least a few months would we...?

[KingOfAbyss]

But you fail to understand in order to get it from the Calamity salvager..you have to do the quest in order to get the gear first. But oh well, buh bye lol

She was right: if she lost a piece, it means she got it before.

[Nyalia]

Therein lies the problem with your argument; both of those items actually have some kind of combat benefit to equipping them.

What does it matter that an item gives a combat benefit at low levels? How is that relevant, and how does that make the item any less useful for vanity? Are you really saying that a Hempen Chemise gives someone a lvl 50 a bigger combat bonus than a Spring Dress? Because, well, it doesn't. I'm talking about items used as glamours, not items worn straight. The defense/magic defense of the item does not somehow magically give a bonus to the armor you glamour the item onto. The point is, people create their glamours from items of all levels, and there are some unique looking items that can be crafted below 1* difficulty.

[Yumi_umi]

Too much poor QQ ppl here ^^
I got mine a while back because i was like mmmmm i want it.
So i decided to use some of my saved up gil and go for it.
Took me half an hour to find and hire crafters and buy out some of the market for materials lol.
After i got my Smexy AF augmented body i was like damnnnn i feel poor again ( 100-200k ) so i was like fck it lets make some gil. So i mined soil, marble, crafted low furniture, did DR bonuses ( healer ), crafted demimateria. At the end of the day i made about 700k+ gil because i chose to work hard for it.
Then the day after i got my AAF body i decided to get the augmented cashmere robe. So i used my gil again and bam shiny clothes ^^
Felt poor again so i worked hard and got back up to 600k and i decided to get my AF boots. So i did and bam poor again but like before i took time and went back up to 450k the following day.
Ur only as poor as ur efforts.

[Skivvy]

Too much poor QQ ppl here ^^
I got mine a while back because i was like mmmmm i want it.
So i decided to use some of my saved up gil and go for it.
Took me half an hour to find and hire crafters and buy out some of the market for materials lol.
After i got my Smexy AF augmented body i was like damnnnn i feel poor again ( 100-200k ) so i was like fck it lets make some gil. So i mined soil, marble, crafted low furniture, did DR bonuses ( healer ), crafted demimateria. At the end of the day i made about 700k+ gil because i chose to work hard for it.
Then the day after i got my AAF body i decided to get the augmented cashmere robe. So i used my gil again and bam shiny clothes ^^
Felt poor again so i worked hard and got back up to 600k and i decided to get my AF boots. So i did and bam poor again but like before i took time and went back up to 450k the following day.
Ur only as poor as ur efforts.

You're missing the point.

[Mardel]

After i got my Smexy AF augmented body i was like damnnnn i feel poor again ( 100-200k ) so i was like fck it lets make some gil. So i mined soil, marble, crafted low furniture, did DR bonuses ( healer ), crafted demimateria. At the end of the day i made about 700k+ gil because i chose to work hard for it.
Then the day after i got my AAF body i decided to get the augmented cashmere robe. So i used my gil again and bam shiny clothes ^^
Felt poor again so i worked hard and got back up to 600k and i decided to get my AF boots. So i did and bam poor again but like before i took time and went back up to 450k the following day.
Ur only as poor as ur efforts.

Meanwhile 1hr later after a few merc runs... what's poor again? under 10mil?

[Mugiawara]

I too hate how they make side content that's just supposed to be fun so damn annoying. Like the stupidly rare minions.

hey the bby opopo is 1.5 mill lol i mean you could make a fortune with the thing.
but yeah im tired of this crap to be honest.
everytime they make fluff content its always a pain in the ass so i dont bother
they seriously like meet up and take the time to really think hard to make something what should be a simple
fun thing to do, really difficult. i guess they tryna make a gil sink...start by PERSONAL HOUSING, perhaps? jesus.
they only doing this because the lack of real gil sinks on here. bring Golden saucer while youre at it...

[16bitBounty]

Silliness

This is a ridiculous assumption. People such as myself want to dye our armor because aesthetics are important. If every other monk in the game is wearing the exact same outfit as me I wouldn't care as long as I'm pleased with the way I look. As of now I am not because the only good skirt belongs to miqo'te and my AF armor makes me look like freaking big bird. Cutting me off from things because of a money barrier is just a way to frustrate me and make me question my subscription cost. Go back to your seat on the Ul'dah syndicate.

[indira]

i dont see why they made changeing the color of your armor such a pain in the ass. what ever happened to yoshi and his no stress in the game BS? im pretty sure there more garbage content to come like they been putting out.
it just changes color!! yet you need to pay a billion bucks to do it.

they have the numbers for the subs now so they said F it time to screw these guys over.
dont care what people say this game is becoming way more tedious the FFXI ever was, i mean wow to change the color of obsolete armor.