Noob question about glamour

[Voca]

I am a month into this game and have not yet dive into glamour.
Are glamour unlocked and use as you like, like a wardrobe system?
Or do we always need an item to transfer the look onto, destroying the original item in process?

[zeylos]

I am a month into this game and have not yet dive into glamour.
Are glamour unlocked and use as you like, like a wardrobe system?
Or do we always need an item to transfer the look onto, destroying the original item in process?

the second thing u said. There's various guides on youtube that can be very useful such as this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3IE29scW7Y

[Brightamethyst]

It's halfway in between the two. You need to own the item in question, but it's not destroyed when you use it for glamour. You can reuse the same piece over and over.

[Voca]

Thanks! Good to know its a "copy and paste" system, rather than a "cut and paste"!

[Iscah]

I'm not sure if you mean you haven't unlocked the ability or just aren't certain about using it, but the initial unlock quest for glamours is available in two places: Vesper Bay and Revenant's Toll. (Always do sidequests with a blue icon - they'll unlock something.) You also unlock dyes at Vesper Bay but I'm not sure if that quest is in RT too.

Once you've unlocked it, you apply glamours in one of two ways:

1. Directly apply the appearance of an item you're carrying to another item.
Cost: one glamour prism per item.

2. Place gear in the "glamour dresser" at the inn room, which removes them from your inventory - though you can retrieve them later if you want - and use it to build "glamour plates" which are pre-assembled sets of glamours you can apply to the gear you're currently wearing. Once they're set up, you don't have to return to the inn (they're applied from the Character menu) but you do need to be in a city zone.
Cost: one prism to place an item in the dresser. No cost to use plates.

Also note that you can't make an item look like something you can't actually equip. It may let you apply the glamour to the item, but you'll just see the default appearance of the item if you wear it.

[Frizze]

Everything Iscah said. One extra note. You can only glamour an appearance onto an item of the same level or higher then the original. For instance, a level 80 armor cant be glamoured onto a level 5 one - but the flip of applying a level 5 to an 80 does work. The game has many sets of gear with no stats designed specifically for glamour use. These are mostly level 1, so they can be glamed onto anything.

[Voca]

Thanks guys. A question here.
I am doing Anima weapon quests. Technically speaking I can "save" the progress of every stage by transferring it onto another weapon?

[Vidu]

Thanks guys. A question here.
I am doing Anima weapon quests. Technically speaking I can "save" the progress of every stage by transferring it onto another weapon?

First the good news: You dont have to! You'll be able to buy replicas of every step (at the very last after completing the questline once, probably even before that - I dont recall anymore. You can check for yourself and see if theres a vendor-node near the place Gerolt hangs out in Azys Lla that sells you replicas of previous steps) - those replices serve no purpose but glamour, they dont have any stats etc.

To answer your question though, since that brings up a different point:
Yes and No - yes, you can glamour the look of [Item A] onto [Item B] and then get rid of [Item A] - by throwing it away or progressing with a questline like the relic. However that doesnt help much with preserving the look of [Item A], since you need to have the item you want to glamour the look from in your posession.
If you glamour the look of the Hyperconductive Gandiva (second stage of the Anima-quest for bard) onto a Shire Bow, the Shire Bow will keep that look even if you progress to the next stage of the relic quest. However you wont be able to use the Shire Bow as a "template" to glamour the Hyperconductive Gandiva again - you'll need either another Hyperconductive Gandiva or the replica.
I'm mentioning this mainly because it felt like a note-worthy thing - while you dont need to keep the item you glamoured onto anotehr to achieve the look, you'll always need that kind of item again to glamour the same look onto another item.

[Voca]

Wow thanks.
Yes it is a really important note you brought up. That means I cannot just "chain" glamour and I will always need the item with that original look.

[Tyssyn]

We have the glamour chest where you can store up to 400 items - that sounds like a lot but it sure does fill up fast - and 20 glamour plates that you can set up a specific look and apply it to your current armor and weapon if you are in a major city. The plates fill up fast too, but you can change them at the glamor chest any time you want. You can only do this in an inn room.