I really want to be able to use crafting and gathering gear as battle glamour again

[LuciRelanah]

A lot of older crafting and gathering gear was wearable and glamour compatible for All Classes. This really opened up a lot of possibilities for designing unique outfits that we stopped getting when they started making all of that gear restricted to Disciple of the Hand/Land only. I understand that they want to stop people from using this gear to get past item level requirements, but I wish they could still accommodate glamouring all of the new crafting/gathering sets onto other gear some other way besides making it fully equipable by all classes.

Maybe the solution is to just loosen glamour restrictions across the board to not rely on the item being able to be worn by the class you're glamouring it on top of? I have a similar problem with needing two dresser spots for Healing/Casting gear that otherwise shares the same model, and could save space if I could share glamours between these roles for example.

The main thing that got me frustrated with the current state of Crafter/Gatherer gear as glamours is that I desperately want to be able to use the AR-Caean Velvet Work Shirt of Crafting and the rest of the level 90 crafting set as a glamour for Scholar. To me, it fits the scholar aesthetic better than most of the other outfits in this game. If making major changes to the glamour system is never going to happen... please, please make a version of this outfit that's usable by Healers.

[Chasingstars]

The simplest solution lies with an already existing method: Replica Gear. That being, gear that is purely meant for cosmetic appearance and glamouring.

Example:

Replica Landsaint's Coat
Body
All Classes
Lv.1

Crafted by Leatherworker

[Kalinas]

I miss this too. Sometimes you want just a more simple/everyday look and the crafting/gathering gear often fits that nicely. They even use the gear for NPCs in quests so SE knows it's versatile in its uses. I think they are selling replica versions of crafting gears on the Chinese or Korean servers through cash shop though and my fear is that they would want to charge us to have the ability to glam those again.

[Hanaya]

I just wish that, in general, gear wasn't class restricted for glamours. Obviously with artifact gear I understand why it's locked, but for everything else, why??? If hrothgar beefycakes can show up in my msq roulette in a speedo and a pig hat, then why am I not allowed to play a healer while wearing platemail? It's clearly not because of immersion. I just really don't understand the point. There's so many cool glams that I never ever use because they're only allowed for like, ninja or something, and since I never play the class I just end up trashing them because it's not like I'll see them more than once every 3 months lol

[Illmaeran]

What about letting us wear DoW/DoM gear on our DoH/DoL? I want to be in full combat armor when out in the wilds gathering. Wearing flimsy cloth and leather gear when out around an area full of monsters is unrealistic and scary.

[Airget]

The simplest solution lies with an already existing method: Replica Gear. That being, gear that is purely meant for cosmetic appearance and glamouring.

Example:

Replica Landsaint's Coat
Body
All Classes
Lv.1

Crafted by Leatherworker

Simple yes, but I do think something like being able to craft "class specific" gather/craft gear should be something more Robust, like say a "Dedication" system, where each week you have a set option of HQ items you can turn in and you get points that provide you with "Dedication" to say Carpenter and the likes.

So you could basically have 1(50) 2(60) 3(70), 4(80) and 5(90) "ranks" of Dedication and with each rank it allows you to equip that level range of X craft/gather gear at that level on any role.

To get Dedication experience, you turn in things like HQ crafts, maybe collectables and on the gather side it would be similar, turning in X amount of gatherered items, whether it's bought on MB or not, and collectables.

Basically the idea is to incorporate a system that can help to diffuse the excess amount of materials within the game by providing another means to expel the ludicrous amount of items gathered in the long term. If you prepare the system just right, not only would it potentially create a thriving market, but it will also help to put some control on how many gathered items exist at any given time.

[Id-Lua]

I just wish that, in general, gear wasn't class restricted for glamours. Obviously with artifact gear I understand why it's locked, but for everything else, why??? If hrothgar beefycakes can show up in my msq roulette in a speedo and a pig hat, then why am I not allowed to play a healer while wearing platemail? It's clearly not because of immersion. I just really don't understand the point. There's so many cool glams that I never ever use because they're only allowed for like, ninja or something, and since I never play the class I just end up trashing them because it's not like I'll see them more than once every 3 months lol

This! Seriously! I don't use any of the job-specific stuff since I switch between the jobs so much, and I don't like dealing with glamour plates, and don't want to have to re-glamour my gear every time I'm feeling a different job that day. Like just let me have my gorgeously frilly white mage robes on my tanks. That wouldn't even come CLOSE to the weirdest immersion-breaking stuff we can do with what we already have.

Edit: hehe just reread that quote. I would honestly make artifact gear usable by other classes *somehow*, even if it was locked behind some sort of challenge, along with gathering, crafting, etc.