An idea for Glamour

[Dyne_Fellpool]

I'm afriad the fantasy argument is against you

http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/o...31352-0004.jpg

"A garb imbued with the soul of the warrior. It increases the wearer's physical damage and maximum HP.

A warrior soul. Which is a tank in FF14

I said the overall fantasy aesthetic. You are still trying to use lore to make your case.

Again, this is my opinion. But I feel it would detract from the fantasy aesthetic of the overall game.

[Lilyarel]

I said the overall fantasy aesthetic. You are still trying to use lore to make your case.

Again, this is my opinion. But I feel it would detract from the fantasy aesthetic of the overall game.

Coliseum set. Secondly, Loonh Gah. Its the garb of the warrior. Not the job warrior but warriors in general. Thats the type of aesthetic in FF games. If this were something like Skyrim, then yeah I would agree. But this series has its fair share of skimpy armor.

[Colorful]

I said the overall fantasy aesthetic. You are still trying to use lore to make your case.

Again, this is my opinion. But I feel it would detract from the fantasy aesthetic of the overall game.

Personally I think lore enhances my immersion into a fantasy game, and with that immersion comes "fantasy aesthetic". Sure, a warrior wearing a bikini is out there, but I don't see anything wrong with a Mage wearing plate armour. There's nothing preventing them from doing so, they have the same physical strength of every other character. Whatever floats your boat though. I'd like to see this happen, but it's been suggested countless times and SE has yet to say much about it.

[Canadane]

Lore-wise, sure. But it just detracts from the overall fantasy aesthetic of the game.
Remember, Lore can be used to creatively explain ANYTHING. That's a given and not really in itself a reason to justify things. (imo)

Do you get upset when you do a levequest and that sheep was an imp in glamour the whole time!?

[MistyMew]

Definitely agree with op 100%, the more freedom the better.

Whether someone wears a bikini tanking or a head to toe set of armor to me, is totally irrelevant, BUT if the person doing so is happier wearing what he/she chooses then that IS relevant to me and should be the priority of SE.

Not only do we need more freedom but we need a heck of a lot more choices/variety as well. Much much more stylish fantasy gear options like Lilyarel pictured for all to wear.

[kyuven]

They have been pretty hard-lined about class specific gear being class specific even with glamours. The devs have directly stated they're not going to let class specific gear be worn by other classes.
Basically, if you can't wear it, you can't glamour it, and that's the way it's always going to be...for at least a year or two.
You can come up with all the arguments you want but this has been their stance since glamours were added and I doubt it's changing due to the sheer amount of effort required to do so.
And yes, it is a lot of effort.
First of all, many armor pieces aren't designed to work with one another on a graphical level and on an aesthetic level. Wearing the bard AF shirt with PLD AF pants would look ridiculous, for instance.
Second, they went out of their way to make sure you couldn't use the appearance of a class specific item on something that's usable by more than one class. They went out of their way to do this, as in this was a conscious decision on their parts.
For these reasons, and I know i'm being redundant here, they have no plans to make it so you can glamour pieces not usable by your class and be able to see it.

[Mistoltin]

If they weren't going to let us glamour anything, then the least they could do is go beyond the typical looks we all have for our gear. After a point it all falls into the same general concepts, so it'd be nice to see a lot more variation but still be relevant to the aspects of each class, would be a better lore appropriate way of handling the situation. For example, maybe not a fully armoured mage that looks like a tank, but perhaps a mage wearing a small breast-plate, some thin greaves and armoured gloves or gauntlets?

[kyuven]

If they weren't going to let us glamour anything, then the least they could do is go beyond the typical looks we all have for our gear. After a point it all falls into the same general concepts, so it'd be nice to see a lot more variation but still be relevant to the aspects of each class, would be a better lore appropriate way of handling the situation. For example, maybe not a fully armoured mage that looks like a tank, but perhaps a mage wearing a small breast-plate, some thin greaves and armoured gloves or gauntlets?

You mean like this?

You can dye it too.
http://xivdb.com/?item/7546/Light-Steel-Galerus
BTW that link says untradeable but that's a lie.

[Kassiekane]

Some people seem to forget that this is Final Fantasy...