I need to change my glamour plate.. whenever

[artyport]

Ok this drives me insane.
Que for a dungeon all of a sudden I’m in coerthas and I’m still wearing my costa de sol look.

If I don’t have the right outfit gurl I’m stressed,

Lemme change my gd glamour plate

[Niqote]

Ok this drives me insane.
Que for a dungeon all of a sudden I’m in coerthas and I’m still wearing my costa de sol look.

If I don’t have the right outfit gurl I’m stressed,

Lemme change my gd glamour plate

You'll simply have to get dressed before you leave the house like all good boys and girls do.

[Iscah]

This is why you plan ahead and bring your Costa Del Sol outfit pre-glamoured onto a second set of gear, so you just get changed when your queue comes up.

[wereotter]

I mean the way this post is framed aside.... I don't like that I can't change between my black mage and red mage looks when I'm not in a city-state/Idyllshire/Rhalgar's Reach. All it's doing is mass applying glamors, so I don't understand why applying the plate is restricted to only certain locations if glamors can be applied anywhere.

[Alestorm]

They did a poll on what we'd like to see with glamour plates and the top winners were more places we could use them and number of plates with more storage being 3rd. We could see expansions on the system during Shadowbringers lifetime.

[Sabora_Makingai]

SE made a statement at one point in the past about why you can only change plates in city states/the reach. It has something to do with getting killed in a PvE area and that messing with the glamour code. Because you cant "die" in a city state and they are considered safe zones, it just made more sense to limit it to there. Id be interested to see if a BLU can self destruct and then apply a glamour while dead inside a main city.

[LineageRazor]

Ok this drives me insane.
Que for a dungeon all of a sudden I’m in coerthas and I’m still wearing my costa de sol look.

If it's a comfort thing (like, brr, my character looks cold), at least you can rest easy knowing that glamour is just an illusion. You might LOOK like you're ready for the beach, but you're actually wearing a nice, warm gambeson under a layer of full plate! Not only do you stay cozy, but when those nasty monsters try to take a big bite out of your soft, exposed midriff, they'll actually be nomming solid armor. If you're lucky, their tongues will get frozen to you and you can finish them off that much more easily! It also provides a mental image not easily dislodged!

If it's a fashion thing, then yeah, sorry. It sucks, no lie.

I mean the way this post is framed aside.... I don't like that I can't change between my black mage and red mage looks when I'm not in a city-state/Idyllshire/Rhalgar's Reach. All it's doing is mass applying glamors, so I don't understand why applying the plate is restricted to only certain locations if glamors can be applied anywhere.

I suspect that it has something to do with the Dev's constantly worrying about loading too much info along with a character when they enter a zone. They've several times expressed that as a reason why we can't have one thing or another (such as FSH's tackle box), and I'm guessing that this is a case of trimming corners in order to get the feature in. You can have your glamour plates - but only in specific areas, which will then be souped up to support them. Just a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's on the mark.

[MsQi]

SE made a statement at one point in the past about why you can only change plates in city states/the reach. It has something to do with getting killed in a PvE area and that messing with the glamour code. Because you cant "die" in a city state and they are considered safe zones, it just made more sense to limit it to there. Id be interested to see if a BLU can self destruct and then apply a glamour while dead inside a main city.

You can't, It says "Unable to execute command while unconscious."

If that were an issue they seem to have fixed it by disabling glamouring while "dead".

[ADarklore]

SE made a statement at one point in the past about why you can only change plates in city states/the reach. It has something to do with getting killed in a PvE area and that messing with the glamour code. Because you cant "die" in a city state and they are considered safe zones, it just made more sense to limit it to there. Id be interested to see if a BLU can self destruct and then apply a glamour while dead inside a main city.

Well this doesn't make a whole lot of sense because we can manually glamour individual pieces anywhere... so the only difference is a one-shot mass glamour with the glamour plate versus doing them one at a time manually. If you can manually glamour in a location, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to utilize a glamour plate.

[Iscah]

Well this doesn't make a whole lot of sense because we can manually glamour individual pieces anywhere... so the only difference is a one-shot mass glamour with the glamour plate versus doing them one at a time manually. If you can manually glamour in a location, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to utilize a glamour plate.

It could make sense actually, at least in limited circumstances. If you're applying a single glamour, the game can do a check "yes, you're alive, let's process that glamour instruction" - but perhaps it would do strange things in the small but not impossible window if you die after setting the "apply these glamours" macro (essentially what the plate is) but before it finishes processing. The possibility of a one-shot death would mean that not even blocking plate usage during combat would be enough to fully prevent the possibility.

So if something like that is a risk, then it might be easier to just prevent the situation outright, by not allowing plates to work anywhere that death is a possibility. (Blue mage actions would be a safe exception, since you can't cast spells and apply plates simultaneously.