Please reconsider removing job restrictions on glamour armor

[linay]

My issue with this is that imo people needing for actual stat upgrades should absolutely have priority over people needing for cosmetic reasons. You can still roll on it all just fine, but the person who needs it as an actual upgrade has the priority.

Just lift the glamour restrictions and leave loot rules alone. Or maybe add an option to change to greed everything in premade parties or something so you can go do glamour hunting groups... if that option doesn't already exist? Haven't really looked.

Stats upgrades don't matter when minimum item level for duties are so low compared to how easy it is to get gear to meet them. Leveling dungeons have guaranteed drops, raids and trials have tokens and chests (and static which can make their own loot distribution rules), tomestone gears have, well, tomestones, and the rest have vendor gears.

Over time, it is more likely that people are looting for glamour/desynthesis/gc turn ins/other reasons than stat upgrades, so I stand by my wish that if you let people glamour the gear, then it should follow that you let people wear it and roll need on it.

[SerLuke]

I remember back the day before they locked accessories to roles I was in an A5S learning party and I noticed the Ninja has a huge amount of HP, turns out he was wearing tanking accessories. Even more so remember people wearing gathering too

Now imagine if they removed role restrictions from left side gear so people can use it as glam, it would mean that people would actually be able to equip gear with the wrong stats(Dex on tanks, INT on Healers) and you know it will happen too.I don’t want this to happen.

[Aurida]

No one wants the role restrictions on equippable armor removed lmao. That would be awful. Of course I don't want to kneecap myself by putting the level 60 CUL set on my dragoon and going into combat. Why would anyone ever do that?

But you SHOULD be able to glamour it, which is what this topic is about.

[Lihtleita]

I remember back the day before they locked accessories to roles I was in an A5S learning party and I noticed the Ninja has a huge amount of HP, turns out he was wearing tanking accessories. Even more so remember people wearing gathering too

Now imagine if they removed role restrictions from left side gear so people can use it as glam, it would mean that people would actually be able to equip gear with the wrong stats(Dex on tanks, INT on Healers) and you know it will happen too.I don’t want this to happen.

you can actually still do that. i have direwolf striking bracelets on my main glams for every job, even healing. it doesnt mean i stop looking like a healer or that the rest of my gear is garbage. have faith that people arent stupid.

[SerLuke]

you can actually still do that. i have direwolf striking bracelets on my main glams for every job, even healing. it doesnt mean i stop looking like a healer or that the rest of my gear is garbage. have faith that people arent stupid.

You can with older accessories but Stormblood and above gear locks accessories to roles.

[MariaArvana]

No one wants the role restrictions on equippable armor removed lmao. That would be awful. Of course I don't want to kneecap myself by putting the level 60 CUL set on my dragoon and going into combat. Why would anyone ever do that?

But you SHOULD be able to glamour it, which is what this topic is about.

The issue is, as far as the system's concerned they're one and the same.

The Glamour system is built off the equip system as its base. In the backend, you aren't so much "glamouring" as much as you are actually equipping the piece, just the game knows to ignore its stats and only load its appearance. The issue here is that it still uses the equip system, so the system is checking if your current job/gender is able to actually *equip* said piece (notice how the game won't display a glamour if you wear it as any job besides whats listed on the piece?/gender locked even when glamoured?). In their current system, to make everything glamourable by all jobs would literally mean to make everything <all classes> which would unleashe a tidal wave of issues upon the game.

It's not impossible, but it would require a massive re-work of the equip system itself and how the game interacts with our equipment slots, something that must be done with extreme care and would no doubt take long periods of time to accomplish while still putting out content every 3.5 months for the playerbase to enjoy. That's assuming the equip system isn't so entrenched into the game's code that they'd literally have to re-do entire parts of the game's coding foundation to change it.

[Alucard135]

The issue is, as far as the system's concerned they're one and the same.

The Glamour system is built off the equip system as its base. In the backend, you aren't so much "glamouring" as much as you are actually equipping the piece, just the game knows to ignore its stats and only load its appearance. The issue here is that it still uses the equip system, so the system is checking if your current job/gender is able to actually *equip* said piece (notice how the game won't display a glamour if its job-locked/gender locked even when glamoured?). In their current system, to make everything glamourable by all jobs would literally mean to make everything <all classes> which would unleashe a tidal wave of issues upon the game.

It's not impossible, but it would require a massive re-work of the equip system itself and how the game interacts with our equipment slots, something that must be done with extreme care and would no doubt take long periods of time to accomplish while still putting out content every 3.5 months for the playerbase to enjoy. That's assuming the equip system isn't so entrenched into the game's code that they'd literally have to re-do entire parts of the game's coding foundation to change it.

They should then let it work like the "try it" system, where you can mix and match anything. Adding something to lock artifact would be a lot easier, since there aren't that much of them to begin with.

[Hyperia]

I'm happy with the way the current glamour restrictions work, I don't want to see a PLD running around in a WHM robe. The restrictions preserve the job's identity and its role.

[testname]

The OP made critical points, I can't say anything more just

Please remove job restrictions on glamour armor already, it's almost 2020

[MsQi]

The issue is, as far as the system's concerned they're one and the same.

I doubt that. That would be lazy sloppy work. But since rollable is separate form equip-able, and the auto equip feature looks at stats, it would not be the end of the world if they made past expac gear "all classes"