Glamour Plates

[Freyt]

Ironically it means that you don't have to worry about retainers using this system, since you can just equip what you want them to equip, and then apply your desired glamour for your retainer, and then equip your retainer with the newly glamoured equipment.

Hopefully they'll expand the system to squadrons soon, though.

[Wilan]

Ironically it means that you don't have to worry about retainers using this system, since you can just equip what you want them to equip, and then apply your desired glamour for your retainer, and then equip your retainer with the newly glamoured equipment.

Hopefully they'll expand the system to squadrons soon, though.

Right? Among this whole disaster, this is a small relief.
Although now that you've wrote it out loud, I can't help but think how ridiculous that would be in a RL situation. Now I have this picture of the WoL asking their retainer to take off their pants so they can wear them and apply a glamour, then give them back.

[Hasrat]

Nah. It's sorta basically like the normal glamour with extra steps. The plates apply glamours to your items (without using extra crystals). It's not gear-set specific is the thing.

So you apply a glamour plate, and it glamours whatever items you were wearing at the time. If any other job/set uses the same equipment, it also gets hit with those same glamours.

Once they tie plates to sets, it might be a little better. But still likely some awkward problems.

[Freyt]

Basically the glamour plates aren't in any way assigned to a gear set. When you apply them, it glamours all of your items in accordance with the plate. This means that if you put a poncho in your plate and apply it to your Chromite Armor of Fending, it'll have functioned as if you used the regular glamour system to do it, and you can unequip and re-equip it with the same glamour in tact, or modify the glamour plate with the glamour in tact.

This means you have to apply it each time you change equipment. It basically means you put it in this system to glamour it for free for life.

[Rhus]

So you need a plate for every job and currently have 10 / 26 spaces allowed...for 1 plate per job AND it gets destroyed when stuck in the dresser. Cool. Thanks but no thanks I guess

[Hasrat]

There is one perk to this system, which is making things a little easier when you upgrade your gear. Changed equipment? Just reapply your plate to get your glamour back (with no crystal cost even).

[ZhaneX]

There is one perk to this system, which is making things a little easier when you upgrade your gear. Changed equipment? Just reapply your plate to get your glamour back (with no crystal cost even).

It is certainly more convenient and cost-effective in the long run as a replacement for glamour prisms, but I'd say it's a safe bet that it's not what anyone was expecting, nor what they wanted.
So we'll just keep offering up our complaints, and hope that they improve the system to make it more like what we were hoping for sooner rather than later. More plates, tying it more smoothly into Gear Sets... these are things that the devs have said they plan to do with the system, and while I cannot fathom why they were unable to make it so on-implementation, I can only hope that we're not waiting terribly long for them to do so.

[Rhus]

There is one perk to this system, which is making things a little easier when you upgrade your gear. Changed equipment? Just reapply your plate to get your glamour back (with no crystal cost even).

This is true. So if you get new gear you don't have to go buy prisms any more and go through that hassle of cast glamour, find glam item, equip glamour using your prism you just bought/crafted. So will make it quicker as you say to reglamour your gear.
Well I think I understand it. Will give it a shot when I can log in and see if I can get to grips with It. Will trial it with some low level stuff I don't mind destroying first though before using any of my prized possessions

[Hasrat]

I'm just chalking it up to a sort of beta test, see how the system handles the load or whatever. Once they've seen what it can handle, they'll have a better idea of how much they can implement.

It's a hope, anyway.

Pros and cons. Alas, so far, the pros aren't very abundant.

[Callinon]

I'm just chalking it up to a sort of beta test, see how the system handles the load or whatever. Once they've seen what it can handle, they'll have a better idea of how much they can implement.

It's a hope, anyway.

Pros and cons. Alas, so far, the pros aren't very abundant.

A beta test that eats your items. Super.

Had they bothered to solicit player feedback on this system, this is something they could have seen coming a mile away.