Quote Originally Posted by kidalutz View Post
The problem with that line of thinking is that maybe just maybe if the endgame gear was really good looking people wouldn't glamour it?
As I'd previously said in reply to the same post you were quoting, there isn't a direct correlation between whether the endgame gear "looks good" and whether people will choose to switch to wearing it instead of what they are currently wearing.

Why (and how) is the newest set always expected to be better than the one before? That's the only way you'd get everyone choosing to wear it instead of glamouring to their personal taste out of the full range of gear available to them. The older gear pieces also still look good and adding another choice doesn't change that.

I use a fair few past endgame pieces in glamours, and the newest sets are going to add to my collection but that doesn't mean I'll be wearing them immediately or all the time.

The Eden designs are really pretty, especially the mage and striking sets, but I'd only put it on one or two of my characters.

The Cryptlurker aiming coat will look nice once I can dye it, but I can't do that yet and it's terribly dingy in its base state - and again I'd only use it on one or two of my characters and I don't think it would suit the others.

Cryptlurker mage... well, it might make a nice Halloween outfit, and I don't understand why the hood doesn't visor off the helm underneath. But as I said, Eden is pretty and last tier's Neo-Ishgardian dress was also lovely - or maybe I revert to wearing the Lv60 Hailstorm coat which was endgame gear in its time.

There's also a matter of supply, at least at this point. People can't just be buying whole outfits immediately, and might not currently be playing as the class they bought the gear for.

On the other hand, quite a lot of people do seem to immediately wear the crafted designs which are a lot more available. It was particularly noticable with the Neo-Ishgardian designs but I'm now seeing quite a few wearing the Exarchic gear.