Quote Originally Posted by Esmoire View Post
Gosh. FFXIV has one of the worst systems I have ever seen when it comes to conferring the appearances of gear from one item to another. With how many people are mentioning the improvements glamours have seen, it must have been really bad before.
The overall system hasn't changed, but previously the only way to apply glamours was using prisms to apply one glamour to one gear piece at a time. Plates make the process quicker and you don't have to carry the glamour items in your inventory. The actual prisms were needlessly complicated as well.