Currently, if you link a portrait to a gear set, the link will only be there for as long as the gear in the portrait is the same as the gear in the gear set at the time of the linking. If you obtain a new piece of gear or change your glamour, updating the gear set will break the link. So, every portrait-gearset link needs to be manually reestablished every time you update the gearset.

In addition to this, there is sometimes an issue where you don't change anything about the gearset in question, but it will still say that there are inconsistencies once you swap to it.

Wouldn't it be easier if linking it made it so that every time you update the gearset, it automatically also updates the linked portrait, keeping the link? I don't know if that would add so much more strain to the servers, since now players have to update the portrait manually, anyways.