Why are cosmetics so restrictive?

[ty_taurus]

Or how about going into dungeons as a Bard (after 20 minutes in queue) and to see the ...of Slaying / ...of Scouting armor 3 times each but not a single ...of Aiming drops when the armor is all just a palette swap of the same gear anyway. Even in that regard, with the piece of gear I've been hunting for, the scouting colors have a much nicer blue and white color scheme rather than the diarrhea brown that aiming gets.

[SenorPatty]

That's because the devs like to make assumptions about the playerbase when it comes to QoL additions.


Can you imagine how far this game would go if they decided to speak to us lowly mortals first, then take action?

[Rysir]

The restrictions are even weirder when you consider that theres event gear that is straight up heavy armor that all jobs can wear and other more armored looking sets magic users can use.

Healer in legacy warrior armor and a tank in robes. Its okay when SE does it but we are not allowed to mix and match ourselves.

[AlphaFox]

Do wish they would ease up on the glamour. Sure Artifact gear, keep it to that one class but let us glamour whatever else we want. A Tank in a Bikini makes as much since as a Tincan Blackmage.

[Jaibamon]

I can't agree more, Glamour restrictions should be gone.

The main reason Square places these limits is to avoid confusing players. So, considering this, I recommend:

* Keep the exclusive class/job restrictions. This means a gear made only for BLM can only be glamoured by BLM. This respects Square desire to avoid confusing players.

* Remove any restrictions to glamour gear from other Disciples or role. Allow BLM to glamour Disciples of War gear, or gear made for PLD WAR DRK, for example.

[Naunet]

* Keep the exclusive class/job restrictions. This means a gear made only for BLM can only be glamoured by BLM. This respects Square desire to avoid confusing players.

Honestly this doesn't need to be respected because it's complete phooey. Players don't get confused by another player's glamour.

Ayeee.

If they are wanting to keep roles clear, I would say make it so that you cant glamour weapons cross-class, but let everything else be fair game. The weapon is what decides our job anyway, so there could be our one tie-in to show what jobs people are playing.

Agreed.

[Jaibamon]

Honestly this doesn't need to be respected because it's complete phooey. Players don't get confused by another player's glamour.

You don't. Consider others. I am all up for tanks wearing bikinis and mages wearing Disciples of War gear, but a monk wearing the classic White Mage set can be confusing.

[Serilda]

You don't. Consider others. I am all up for tanks wearing bikinis and mages wearing Disciples of War gear, but a monk wearing the classic White Mage set can be confusing.

In terms of lore though, once our character has earned their WHM AF it makes no sense that they cannot continue to wear it while fishing, dancing at Gold Saucer or waving a sword around. They're still the same character; that's the theme of the game's job system. If people can cope with a gigantic metallic red pigman punching enemies as a Monk, I think they can cope with a really angry career WHM punching enemies as a Monk too.

[Kallera]

In terms of lore though, once our character has earned their WHM AF it makes no sense that they cannot continue to wear it while fishing, dancing at Gold Saucer or waving a sword around. They're still the same character; that's the theme of the game's job system. If people can cope with a gigantic metallic red pigman punching enemies as a Monk, I think they can cope with a really angry career WHM punching enemies as a Monk too.

Hell, you could make that a running gag, what with all the "angry healer" trend that is all the rage these days.

[Lukha]

they can cope with a really angry career WHM punching enemies as a Monk too.

This made me smile so much. Especially since it's more or less my character's backstory at this point.