All Class/Job Glamour Request Thread

[Iscah]

In the first paragraph you say, "Yoshi-P and devs" think that jobs should resemble certain stereotypes." In the second paragraph, you then go on to say "Tanks are free not to resemble their stereotype." So, everyone has to look like their chosen job, EXCEPT for a lucky subset of the players? That hardly seems fair.

I've read over it a few times but I can't see where Arrius said that "tanks are free not to resemble their stereotype". But in any case, that is a fact for the game as it currently exists.

Aside of pure glamour sets, tanks are free to go outside their designated armour because of the way ARR equipment is classed. Tank gear is for tanks only. DPS gear is for Disciples of War only. Mage gear is all classes.

Thus, you can glamour your tank to look like a mage, but not the other way around.

It would be far easier and satisfy more players just to comment out the bit of code that asks, "Is current job/class in the list that can wear this armor?" and replace it with a universal "Yes". It should be just that easy, unless there's some ridiculous spaghetti code involved. I suspect, though, that the main reason why they haven't done this is because of Artifact Armor. The devs may actually be okay with a healer dressing as a tank, but they're LESS okay with the idea of a White Mage dressing as a Paladin. It is understandable that they'd want to reserve the iconic equipment each job has for that job alone - and it's a lot more difficult to leave some exceptions than it is to just unlock everything.

I think there's a two-layer issue with unlocking glamours (and probably it does come back to spaghetti code preventing them from making exceptions to a blanket rule).

1. They want to prevent role A from being able to equip gear intended for role B. Have you ever tried leveling a tank through ARR while you have gear for other classes in your inventory? It wreaks havoc with the "recommended gear" button because tanks can equip everything, and the recommendation only seems to look at gear level. It can and will put your tank in mages' robes - or your healer in crafting gear.

The more restricted "who can equip what" rules since post-ARR have helped with that a lot, at the cost of also restricting glamour choice (because of glamour being tied to whether you can equip the gear). Which brings me to point 2...

2. (I suspect) glamour restrictions cannot be selectively lifted and the rule that you are limited to items you can equip is "all or nothing". I suspect they cannot set it to "glamour everything" but make an exception that prevents certain items (ie. relic gear) from being used - and they consider keeping the relic gear locked as more important than freeing up the glamour system for everything else.