Emperor's New Gear can't be used on items that aren't level 1?

[BaratanFaenthand]

I wanted to glamour my earrings with the Emperor's new Earrings to hide them. However, when trying to do so I am given the error that I can not glamour an item with a base item of a higher level?

How then, am I supposed to use this item?

[Vandril]

It works fine. You're...doing something wrong. I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but it's something. XD

Are you, perchance, accidentally trying to glamour the Emperor's New Earrings with the look of your actual earrings rather than the other way around? If I had to guess, I'd guess that.

[Elamys]

It works fine. You're...doing something wrong. I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but it's something. XD

Are you, perchance, accidentally trying to glamour the Emperor's New Earrings with the look of your actual earrings rather than the other way around? If I had to guess, I'd guess that.

I received this error once trying to glamour the Shire gear to Shisui gear, when they are the same item level. For the life of me I could not figure out why.

[mosaicex]

I received this error once trying to glamour the Shire gear to Shisui gear, when they are the same item level. For the life of me I could not figure out why.

You can't glamor Shire gear with Shisui gears look because Shisui gears have higher lvl requirement. ilvl has nothing to do with it.

[Hestzhyen]

You can't glamor Shire gear with Shisui gears look because Shisui gears have higher lvl requirement. ilvl has nothing to do with it.

Shire gear can be upgraded to i270, matching what drops in Shisui.

Maybe it's a logic error. Instead of the gear you're trying to glamour the look of being less than OR meeting the ilvl of the base gear, it's only allowing the less than part. So trying to glam ilvl 270 shire top to take on the appearance of the ilvl 270 Shisui top won't work even though it should?

[Rufalus]

Shire gear can be upgraded to i270, matching what drops in Shisui.

Maybe it's a logic error. Instead of the gear you're trying to glamour the look of being less than OR meeting the ilvl of the base gear, it's only allowing the less than part. So trying to glam ilvl 270 shire top to take on the appearance of the ilvl 270 Shisui top won't work even though it should?

can't glam 63 onto 60, not about the item level, it's equip level

[Elamys]

Oh, god, you know what, I didn't even think that. I got rid of the Shisui top because of the event, and I don't have anything else meeting that same requirement so I can't check, but I do recall the error tooltip being worded in a really confusing manner. The phrases item level is definitely included within it, so I didn't even consider it being the equipment level. What a dumb mistake lol

Doesn't really explain the OP's problem though.

[ZelGreywards]

I imagine they selected Emperor's New Earrings as the base item and then selected their equipped earrings as the glamour choice, which is the reverse of what should be done. That's the only thing that I can think of.