Does every job need its own glamour plate?

[Omedon]

It recently occurred to me that the number of combat jobs has already outpaced the number of glamour plates, so I have a question (asked from work where I can’t look for myself, but it’s still bugging me) as someone who built his character around a job-agnostic outfit to suit all jobs.

Is there a convenient way to glam just your weapon, or am I just boned for customization when I hit 16 jobs? Like I can keep my whole look on one plate if I have to, the only thing that changes from job to job is my weapon, which I’m meticulous about matching to my look.

I could have sworn I saw a thing that let me glam just one piece, but I feel like it was limited somehow to glams in my inventory. I feel like it might actually burn through crystals. Am I remembering that right?

I could easily just rule out a certain number of jobs, but I really feel the glamor plate limit should really keep up with at least the combat jobs!

[Xerkrosis]

Only time crystals are used, is when putting an item into the dresser, and when applying manually a look from your inventory to an item. Using & applying plates does not use up crystals.

I'm not sure why you need to glam your weapons differently, because you can't glamour a weapon design to another class/job weapon. But if you have the design in your inventory, you can manually apply the glam onto the weapon you want the look to be changed.

[StriderShinryu]

I wouldn't say it's needed, but it would definitely be nice.

[Marc-Vigar]

Maybe you aren't using the plates correctly?

There's 16 plates iirc and you shouldn't have any issue with weapons, since they remain with that same glam until you replace it with a different one, and even then, you can simply go back to the first plate you used without spending gil or prisms.

Unless you're a maniac who changes every weapon for every single job within 5 minutes, in which case you only have to go back to your room and change it for free as long as you've previously added it to your dresser.

[TTiscancer]

I'm pretty sure the OP doesn't understand how the glam system works at all.

[Omedon]

I'm pretty sure the OP doesn't understand how the glam system works at all.

Then educate me, please.

What I see now when I open my plates are a series of images that look exactly the same except for the weapon, with a plate for each job. What I’m asking is: is that the only way to have my weapons look different, or can I just use an “all but the weapon” plate for some jobs, while updating the appearance of just the weapon through a more specific, direct means?

From what I’m gathering from this conversation, the answer appears to be yes, but I’d need to keep the item with the look I want in my inventory, not the dresser, which seems to exist purely to feed plates.

Am I right or missing something?

[TTiscancer]

Then educate me, please.

What I see now when I open my plates are a series of images that look exactly the same except for the weapon, with a plate for each job. What I’m asking is: is that the only way to have my weapons look different, or can I just use an “all but the weapon” plate for some jobs, while updating the appearance of just the weapon through a more specific, direct means?

From what I’m gathering from this conversation, the answer appears to be yes, but I’d need to keep the item with the look I want in my inventory, not the dresser, which seems to exist purely to feed plates.

Am I right or missing something?

You don't need to put weapons in the glam plate at all. You cannot glam a DRK weapon with a PLD weapon for example so you just need the outfit.

[Omedon]

You don't need to put weapons in the glam plate at all. You cannot glam a DRK weapon with a PLD weapon for example so you just need the outfit.

Right, but to save on prisms obviously the first 15 jobs get their own plate. I’m never changing my overall look while my character “is who he is now.”

[TTiscancer]

Right, but to save on prisms obviously the first 15 jobs get their own plate. I’m never changing my overall look while my character “is who he is now.”

You still need to use a prism to put anything in the glam dresser in the first place. instead of doing that, you can just glam the DRK weapon, for example, once instead of putting anything in the dresser. Furthermore, glam prisms cost like 200g to begin with.

[TroySoFab]

I would like for every job to have it's own glamour plate. IIRC they are held client side, so server limitations shouldn't really be a thing holding it up.

Also for the way you are wanting to do things, OP I'd suggest using only one plate, and not having a weapon glam set on it. From there you can use a prism to glam your weapon. It will stick to the weapon so you'll only have to reglam when you upgrade your weapon. Hope this helps.


~~Good Luck!