Glamour Dresser and Glamour Plates

[BlackDragon2000]

Has anything been said about Glamour Dresser and Glamour Plates for Shadowbringers like being able to have the dresser in personal homes/ FC house and any word on getting More Glamour Plates and more storage room in the dresser?

[ryouma17]

we definitely need more plates we currently only have 10 slots yet we have 16 battle classes 8 crafting and 3 gathering, 10 slots isnt nearly enough to cover 1 glamour per class which should be the minimum slots available

[Kalise]

I believe they did mention that they were going to look at improving the glamour dresser.

If I recall correctly, they said they will be adding more glamour plates first, then add more storage space in the dresser itself.

Not sure how much they will be adding though, or exactly when.

[Pixiehawk]

At one of the Fests they asked which we would want more, and relied on the whole "whichever gets the loudest applause" method between more plates, more storage or more places to apply the plates. I don't remember for sure which "won". And I don't think they gave any type of time frame on it. It's not listed as part of the ShB package, so probably after that as they are focused on ShB right now.

[Colino]

At one of the Fests they asked which we would want more, and relied on the whole "whichever gets the loudest applause" method between more plates, more storage or more places to apply the plates. I don't remember for sure which "won". And I don't think they gave any type of time frame on it. It's not listed as part of the ShB package, so probably after that as they are focused on ShB right now.

I think the winning option was to make the plates applicable in more areas than just the main city-states. It would be nice to at least be able to do it at any camp. For me personally more plates is a must.

[AngelyLowell]

I really want a function to deposit dyes in the dresser, even if you lose the dye (item) to storage in dresser.

Have to grab from retainers all time is really annoying.

[Kurando]

Has anything been said about Glamour Dresser and Glamour Plates for Shadowbringers like being able to have the dresser in personal homes/ FC house and any word on getting More Glamour Plates and more storage room in the dresser?

It's been said we'll be getting improvements to the dresser, so that's definitely going to have something happen to it come ShB, we'll probably know in May.

As for having it in the house, someone asked this in another thread so I'll repost what was mentioned there.

"Esssentially housing is loaded up every time someone enters unlike the Inns which are always up and running in each area they are located. It's like when we are in a house but enter a duty, on returning we are loaded up outside of the house, but with the Inn we are still loaded up inside after we come out of the duty. Thus the Inn is a stable medium to use to store information (like the dresser), plus housing can suddenly disappear through things like demolition so that could have side effects on dresser data linked to it or something like that."

[BlackDragon2000]

"Esssentially housing is loaded up every time someone enters unlike the Inns which are always up and running in each area they are located. It's like when we are in a house but enter a duty, on returning we are loaded up outside of the house, but with the Inn we are still loaded up inside after we come out of the duty. Thus the Inn is a stable medium to use to store information (like the dresser), plus housing can suddenly disappear through things like demolition so that could have side effects on dresser data linked to it or something like that."

Ok but how is the Glamour Dresser not that different from say the Armoire or the Free Company Chest that can also be in Personal housing/Fc company houses.
Other then making Plates doesn't seem all that Different then normal Storage like said Armoire, FC Chest and Retainers can't see why it can't be made for Housing

[Kurando]

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Because the Armoire and FC chest don't hold as much information as the glamour dresser, and it's also much more unique to each player. Just think, a player has 200 pieces of varied glamour all dyed different compared to someone else. The armorie is pretty simple, any dyes or spirit bound status is removed for things you put in there and the FC chest is accessible by anyone (in the FC) so it's not so unique. You also cannot put untradable items in the FC chest, and Armoire stuff has a special flag.

[Callinon]

Because the Armoire and FC chest don't hold as much information as the glamour dresser, and it's also much more unique to each player. Just think, a player has 200 pieces of varied glamour all dyed different compared to someone else. The armorie is pretty simple, any dyes or spirit bound status is removed for things you put in there and the FC chest is accessible by anyone (in the FC) so it's not so unique. You also cannot put untradable items in the FC chest, and Armoire stuff has a special flag.

Uh what?

There are major differences between data the armoire is storing and the data the glamour dresser is storing.

The armoire is storing only the item ID. And probably only as a boolean value (off or on) given the strict limits on armoire storage. The bizarre categories things are stored in lends weight to this type of design as well.

The dresser is more or less another inventory as far as item storage goes. It's stripping away things like spiritbond levels, condition, and variable stats. So we can call this a "limited" inventory for these purposes. When you put something in, its item ID is stored and (I think) so is the dye, but that's all. Then the plates take item ID and dye and apply glamour that way.

There's no reason you couldn't put a glamour dresser in a house. Just like there's no reason you can't have a retainer bell in there, or an FC chest (a structure that stores much more data than a dresser). SE didn't do it because they were paranoid about server loads from accessing multiple inventory systems in a variable environment. It probably would've been fine, but they opted not to until they were sure.

The glamour dresser system is VERY badly designed. Not even talking here about the number of plates or the restrictions on use. Just the overall design for the system is amateurish and looks like they rushed it out the door as quickly as they could instead of taking the time to do it right. The problem now is that if they want to improve it, what they really need to do is go back and fix that initial design and that's complicated now because now there's existing data they have to deal with.