It's time to remove job restrictions on glamour...

[Jandor]

It'd be nice as a reward for leveling more classes and jobs.

If you have a level 60 Dragoon for example, you would be allowed to glamour level 60 and below maiming gear on to anything.

Essentially, if you can wear it under some circumstances then you can glamour it under any.

Bring back that old encouragement to play around with more than just one or two jobs, but without the mandatory feeling of cross-class skills.

Only restriction I would make is AF gear.

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you're a viera, your opinion doesn't matter

Odd statement for a cat.

[347SPECTRE]

With the exception of artifact gear, I'm all for this idea. There's a ton of DRG gear that I'd love to be able to use on tanks, it irks me how some of the DRG versions of armor just look better.

Before you say play DRG, I can't stand the lack of control that dps have, that's at least how it feels to me.

[Nims]

they are not going to take off the glamour check for 2 major reasons that are very valid
- Job Exclusive Gear
- Grand Company Exclusive Gear

they can't flip that switch off and still enforce this. so anything they do will be flipping off the switch and doing a lot more work to put those two things back in.

They can easily make a glamour item that changes certain items into an “image” item. Or a level one item, that way they don’t have to turn the off switch for everything. It’ll just change certain items entirely.

Archeage actually does this and it works just fine.

[Schan]

Archeage actually does this and it works just fine.

We really need to stop assuming just because X game does it it can be easily applied to FFXIV.

You do realize FFXIV uses a custom made engine right? so no. it can't be easily copy pasted into a completely different game engine.

Would actually make more people look different if you could glam items from different classes/races.

Cute that you are that naive. I used to play an online game where you could customize so much stuff. each piece gear had at least 3 dye channels. It was a sandbox game so there was a lot of horizontal gear progression (well honestly all heavy / light / cloth armour had the same stats until the devs decided to power creep something which was usually hellish to get). Same thing applied to weapons so basically you could wear whatever you wanted and guess what. EVERYONE STILL WORE THE SAME STUFF DYED WHITE OR BLACK. You need to understand something. Humans are mostly sheep.
You can see in the glamour department even though there is some choice the most popular are always the same basic sets.

[Eldevern]

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One the other hand, not everyone like to be original or excentric, not because of some kind of "follower" behavior but also because of tastes. Tastes are pretty personal, whatever people who want to think it is education thinks or tells. And... somehow people kinda lack of imagination. We can't blame them for that.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

We really need to stop assuming just because X game does it it can be easily applied to FFXIV.

You do realize FFXIV uses a custom made engine right? so no. it can't be easily copy pasted into a completely different game engine.





Cute that you are that naive. I used to play an online game where you could customize so much stuff. each piece gear had at least 3 dye channels. It was a sandbox game so there was a lot of horizontal gear progression (well honestly all heavy / light / cloth armour had the same stats until the devs decided to power creep something which was usually hellish to get). Same thing applied to weapons so basically you could wear whatever you wanted and guess what. EVERYONE STILL WORE THE SAME STUFF DYED WHITE OR BLACK. You need to understand something. Humans are mostly sheep.
You can see in the glamour department even though there is some choice the most popular are always the same basic sets.

I don't think that certain things being popular necessarily makes people "sheep". Just that certain styles are more aesthetically appealing than others. The issue I see is that SE doesn't look enough at the trends of what's popular and why and then designs new gear in a similar style. Here's a look at some of my glam plates:



Am I a "sheep" for liking these things? Am I supposed to not use the glams I find appealing just because they are popular and used by many others as well? Most of the pieces I use can be used by any class, and I use some of the "popular" pieces in black & white too. That doesn't make me a "sheep". It just means there's certain styles that have a broad aesthetic appeal. Insulting people by calling them "sheep" for what they like (whether its quirky/uncommon or trendy/popular) does you no credit.

Something many people will notice is that I primarily favor WHM in particular and casters in general and yet you'll find nary a robe among my glams with only the Uraeus Coat being anywhere close to one. Why? Because I'm not interested in wearing a dress and yet healers/casters have a veritable cornucopia of robes/dresses/longcoats foisted upon them, yet little to nothing that doesn't fall into those categories. To escape that I have to rely on "all classes" glam for an alternative. I work with the options available to me though that means my choices are relatively limited since none of my role gear fits the aesthetic I find appealing. Removing class restrictions on role based gear would open up my options tremendously.

[Haruka_R]

Cute that you are that naive. I used to play an online game where you could customize so much stuff. each piece gear had at least 3 dye channels. It was a sandbox game so there was a lot of horizontal gear progression (well honestly all heavy / light / cloth armour had the same stats until the devs decided to power creep something which was usually hellish to get). Same thing applied to weapons so basically you could wear whatever you wanted and guess what. EVERYONE STILL WORE THE SAME STUFF DYED WHITE OR BLACK. You need to understand something. Humans are mostly sheep.
You can see in the glamour department even though there is some choice the most popular are always the same basic sets.

Sounds exactly like DCUO. They added in a 4th color palette btw. Also DCUO has an entirely different playerbase.

"Cute that you are that naive." Uh no, Naychan is absolutely right. Don't think you realize just how many people wear the same stuff due to these restrictions and the insane amount of avatars that have heterochromia.

[Schan]

Sounds exactly like DCUO. They added in a 4th color palette btw. Also DCUO has an entirely different playerbase.

"Cute that you are that naive." Uh no, Naychan is absolutely right. Don't think you realize just how many people wear the same stuff due to these restrictions and the insane amount of avatars that have heterochromia.

It's not DCUO. is it really due to restriction or do people have no imagination?

[Haruka_R]

It's not DCUO. is it really due to restriction or do people have no imagination?

XIV's playerbase definitely has imagination. But that imagination cannot be expanded on due to these restrictions. Each job has gear that looks like it belongs to the other job. For example, the Eikon set. Rog/Nin Eikon gear looks blatantly switched with the caster dps Eikon gear. Then it gets recycled later in Shadowbringers. The Shisui sets. Literally all the same.

Plenty of Dragoon gear that would fit the aesthetic of a tank. Plenty of ranged dps gear that would fit the aesthetic of a rog/nin. There are so many times where I, a ninja, look at a gear piece belonging to another job, (usually ranged and other melee dps) will think that it would look good on me, then get depressed..

So really, it is due to restriction.

[MsQi]

Cute that you are that naive. I used to play an online game where you could customize so much stuff. each piece gear had at least 3 dye channels. It was a sandbox game so there was a lot of horizontal gear progression (well honestly all heavy / light / cloth armour had the same stats until the devs decided to power creep something which was usually hellish to get). Same thing applied to weapons so basically you could wear whatever you wanted and guess what. EVERYONE STILL WORE THE SAME STUFF DYED WHITE OR BLACK. You need to understand something. Humans are mostly sheep.
You can see in the glamour department even though there is some choice the most popular are always the same basic sets.

Maybe you were playing a particularly uncreative server. This is the exception, not the rule.