Why are pvp portraits so 'buggy'?

[Denji]

The entire point of a public beta is to get real world data on how actual users interact with the system. No amount of internal testing will ever tell you that.

wow has servers specifically meant to test things on the public before moving it to the actual public. don't give me that.

[FoxyAreku]

I have a feedback thread for the portrait system running here:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...raits-feedback

And yeah, going through a lot of the same frustrations. I assume they've gone into the mindset that – with the exception of your adventurer plate – your portrait is intended to illustrate what your character looks like right now and consequently the system is geared around going back to the default portrait if you've changed anything. Perhaps it's meant to be a safeguard in case the thing you change is your weapon and the new pose doesn't suit it.

Unfortunately all it does in practice is get really annoying that your portrait came unstuck because you changed your earrings.

You can link a portrait to a gearset and it will automatically be set as the instant portrait when equipped, but again the connection is tenuous. Updating the gearset removes the link. Equipping the gearset when one of the pieces has a different glamour on it removes the link. Changing your equipment after equipping the set still resets your current portrait to the default.

Good post. Don't have much to add, but thank you, that was insightful.