Would it be possible to add visible belts?

[Iscah]

I’d like them to get creative and make it a “bonus” slot you could use to glamour an extra item onto your character - glasses as suggested above, novelty items like wings, wearing tights under skirts...

The only issue is, could the system handle it? Generally we can only glamour items of the same type - headgear into other headgear and so on. Could they make the belt slot accept other items from other categories, or would they have to make a second version of every pair of glasses in the game that are classified as waist items?

[Vstarstruck]

I’d like them to get creative and make it a “bonus” slot you could use to glamour an extra item onto your character - glasses as suggested above, novelty items like wings, wearing tights under skirts...

The only issue is, could the system handle it? Generally we can only glamour items of the same type - headgear into other headgear and so on. Could they make the belt slot accept other items from other categories, it would they have to make a second version of every pair of glasses in the game that are classified as waist items?

unlikely, the way SE speaks, a sneeze can make the servers crash.

[basketofseals]

I would love it if all belts were visible and separate from the chest pieces.. I would hide all of them lol.

[Kogasan]

I wish they would add capes not visible belts. But that's my opinion.

[Iscah]

unlikely, the way SE speaks, a sneeze can make the servers crash.

It's not so much the servers I was thinking, just the way the glamour system handles their categories of items. Select "cast glamour" on your hat, and it will only give you a list of headgear as options. Therefore if you could cast a glamour on your belt, it would probably only give you the option of items categorised as belts.

Therefore, it seems likely to me that if they did implement a "belt slot as general glamour" they would have to recategorise or recreate items from other categories to exist in the system as "belts" (even though they appear as other items entirely) just so the glamour system could detect them as options for that slot.

[Sylvina]

A better way to do this would just be to remove appearances from gear entirely and have glamour be added to character customization like in MMOs I've played with ACTUAL customization. but I doubt the way FFXIV is programmed that it would ever happen. Great game but comparitively poor customization to what I'm used to. Of course I got used to the industry gold standard of customization, even if it was in an obscure game which had nothing else going for it.

[Riardon]

It won't happen although I would like it to. It's the only piece of gear that's invisible.
In order to make it happen they will have to redesign and adjust every single piece of gear for every race and gender.
Too much work for something minor.
This should have been in place from the beginning.
I would like better gear designs for males and more character optimisation options in the character creation screen over visible belts anytime.

[Enkidoh]

As much as I do miss having 1.0's visible belts, it was a necessary change for the game that was ultimately for the better, as having a visible belt appearance restricted gear design greatly in 1.0, in that each body and leg piece needed to be designed with every belt design in mind to avoid clipping, and, well, given we're seeing complaints here in ARR now about clipping issues with weapons and miqo'te/au ra tails and ears/horns in the latest 'flashy' gear, this is clearly something SE are never going to go back to.

It's the price that had to be paid for more elaborate gear design.

[RaynerH]

Maybe a compromise would be more gear with belts? I'm a vote yes for visible belts but I understand the problems so just give us more gear with belts attached. It's not perfect but its a solution.

[Penthea]

Coming from WoW I was honestly delighted to see the belt slot in XIV has no appearance. I had a horrible time in WoW trying to find belts that didn't look awful. That being said if I was able to dye them it wouldn't have been nearly as bad.

I would prefer if SE instead added a cosmetic slot so that players can wear glasses/goggles/masks/etc along with headgear. I feel this would be far more popular and fun than adding an appearance for the belt slots.