A selection of ideas

[Ren_Tsune]

I'll be updating the original post, giving credit to people who contribute ideas I add to the list. Loving the responses so far, if there are ideas here you want to see then please spread this around. The more attention said ideas get the better.

[Floortank]

A lot of your ideas are things they're aware of that people want, but they've been unable to implement due to server limitations. We'll never have enough glamour plates, for example. Ideally we could have as many as we want, but they can't give us unlimited plates.

[Ren_Tsune]

Quite right. I heard some time ago that they had server space issues with the glamour plates. But as things change that situation could also change. I don't think it can hurt to keep the notion fresh in their minds. And I'm not sure infinite glamour plates is really the ideal...that is why I put forth the idea of one per class (and I mean every class), with maybe a few extras for things like civilian wear or swim wear. Shouldn't really need more than five extras, if that.


Appreciate the civility. :3

[Cinno]

This way I can have my PLD+GNB+WAR all wearing tomestone role gear, but each equipping a different glamour plate that makes them look different, including the weapon and shield slot.

It's not an exact solution, but theres a current workaround to this; you can assign a glamour plate to a gear set. So in your example, say you have PLD, GNB and WAR all level 80, all with tome gear. You make three glamour plates for them, using plates 1 2 and 3. You can assign plate 1 to PLD, plate 2 to GNB, and plate 3 to WAR. Then whenever you switch to that gearset, it will auto apply the glamour to the items.

The downside to this current system is that if you change jobs outside of a main city, the glamour will not apply, since plates can only be applied in main cities. Another drawback is that you can't have the actual tome gear visible for one of the jobs, if you want. (there's a workaround for that as well though, put the tome pieces in the dresser and save them to a gearset, then remove them from the dresser and equip them.. the plate will remain saved regardless of if the items are still in the dresser. But that's taking up a glamour plate slot in order to glamour the items own appearance onto itself.. which isnt ideal.)

Anyway I think you do this in the submenu for the gearsets. It's a little clunky but for the time being its better than nothing :|

[Raikai]

Crafter and gathers are not required to play the game. While people can (and do) skip other combat classes just to avoid actually putting in the time to level them themselves, it is not exactly the intent for why SE added level skips to the shop. So, adding skips for supplemental content isn't likely to happen, and in my opinion, shouldn't. As stated, leveling gathers and crafters has been greatly expedited by the addition of the Ishgard Restoration and Diadem. Additionally, Grand Company leve turn-ins grant huge experience for crafters and gatherers. So, yeah... Lots of ways to level those jobs quickly if it's something you'd like to do.

On a similar note, would be nice if Crafters and Gatherers had a way to progress through expansions without the MSQ (thus, w/o a combat job), but that would probably be way too much work, so I'm not hopeful it will ever happen.

[Zfz]

main city

Yeah I've tried that before, which is why I don't use it, because half the time I'm changing jobs outside of main cities.