Wanna Glam it? Play it!

[BaconBits]

I've been going around making Assassin's Creed-esque glamours for my two characters and I would of greatly appreciated being able to use 1 type-51 hood of scouting/aiming instead of having to farm for both for the outfits I had in mind.

I got lucky on my main and got a scouting hood from my first run, but my alt had to fight through 8-10 runs to get a hood of aiming, and not all of them were all that smooth. And by not that smooth, I mean "oh dear lord why am I tanking an add as a bard, oh dear God here comes a tankbuster save me healers, oh sweet Jesus we wiped to the add phase on 9S how in the-" not that smooth.

Also, it'd be nice to have access to a decent hood for the other roles for the glams I have in mind, especially Red Mage (their aesthetic is the closest in tone to Ezio's and Arno's).

[Avidria]

Yes please there are SO many great pieces that would be fantastic for my brd or whm or dnc or even nin that are for other classes and it's like ??? please
Heck even just caster and healer sets that are recolors of each other there are so many where one just. Looks better. Arghhh

I want both the ability to wear any gear (short of artifact) for any class I've leveled enough AND the transmog system for WoW.

I swear if I could just keep a collection of appearances without holding on to gear I would spend ridiculous amounts of time leveling alt jobs and farming old content.

^^^^YES seriously I don't even bother doing old dungeons at all if I can help it, but I would if I actually had the space for the glams on some of them. There are so many I'd only use every now and then that just aren't worth farming for, ever, but if I could keep the appearance forever? Then yeah, I'd go back and get them.

[Tsiron]

Yes, this is mostly a bump but... god, I can't stop thinking about how much better the Glamour system would be if we could use most everything regardless of current class, even with that caveat (which I think would make it "fair", since you have to earn it first!)

[Jandor]

The only thing I'd change I think is making the glam unlocks be linked to traits rather than directly to level.

For instance leveling Warrior to 50 would unlock 'Fending Mastery I' and unlock all tank armor 50 and below for glamour. The main reason would be to encourage the 'wanna glam it, play it!' idea and stop people bypassing most of the playing it part by getting what they want by doing the first quest for an advanced job and stopping there.

Gunbreaker could have a similar trait of course, but at level 80.

PLD and WAR: Fending Mastery I (l.50) II (l.60) III (l.70) IV (l.80) and V (l.90).
DRK: Fending Mastery II, III, IV & V.
GNB: Fending Mastery IV & V.

[Tsiron]

see above

... yeah, that's a good point, actually! I forgot that starting levels are kind of all over the place, guessing that wasn't really the case back in FFXI

[Tsiron]

Hopefully it won't take 13 years for a feature like this to make it into FFXIV like it did XI... though that said we're most of the way there already (depending whether you count 1.0 or not)

[Iscah]

stop people bypassing most of the playing it part by getting what they want by doing the first quest for an advanced job and stopping there.

But that's exactly what I do now when I want to play dress-up with roles that I don't want to level. :/

[Saraide]

Want to use a level 70 Tank chestpiece as a DPS or Healer? Level a Tank to 70 and it's yours! Jandor brings up a valid point later in the thread, actually. An alternatively method of assessment would be necessary since some Jobs start way ahead of others, and it would thus be easy to cheat the system...

And that's somehow the end of the world? I have never been so unphased by something presented as being bad in my life.

[Tsiron]

It'd go against making people work for it, which I assume the devs would want to, is the thing. But there's no knowing, really

[Saraide]

It'd go against making people work for it, which I assume the devs would want to, is the thing. But there's no knowing, really

The glams that the devs want to take effort unlocking already do and still would like the gear from savage. Artifact gear would still need you to lvl the specific job. Ulti glams and relics are completely unaffected by any of this anyway.