Glamour restrictions: a hinderance to creativity

[Corbeau_Roncenoire]

This topic has been probably covered a million times. I just wanted to share a glamour I would love to make if we were allowed more creativity:



What do you guys think? (I hope the picture works)

[SeiyaSoiya]

there is no lore reason why glamouring is ilvl restricted and job restricted, it is literally just an illusion spell

[Corbeau_Roncenoire]

I feel the same way obviously. As long as we can equip it, we should be able to glamour it. Weapon should be the real focus of class identity (artifact armor excluded)

[Arcadious]

There is this one suit jacket locked to GSM that's been sitting in my glamour dresser waiting for the day they remove glamour restrictions.

Their basic reasoning behind the restrictions hasn't been valid since they've added all of this immersion breaking glamour gear, so why keep it around at all?

[XiRon]

lichrally no reason for glam restrictions when numerous npcs wear outfits that dont fit their job.
Bajsaljen wears the alliance tank coat from Ghimlyt despite being a white mage, Hilda wears a gatherer coat despite being a machinist, etc etc.
Feel like as long as gear levels match (ie a lv90 tank can wear lv90 caster gear if both classes are 90) there shouldnt be an issue.
And of course they keep making godtier outfits for crafters/gatherers which WHY BOTHER if you cant wear any for more than 5 minutes worth of weekly delivery turn ins.
Remember when they made special lv1 glamours based on lv80 crafter/gatherer gear...only those specific classes could wear in the first place? What was the point?

[Shriv]

I personally don't mind having restrictions. To achieve the look I want, if forces me to work around restrictions, do some research on where to obtain the items I need. It grants me some sense of acomplishment when I suceed in obtaining said stuff and completing the look I envisionned to satisfaction.

Having no restrictions would probably trivialize the whole glam thing for me, and be an net negative in my enjoyment of XIV.

[hfang]

...Hilda wears a gatherer coat despite being a machinist...

this is doubly frustrating to me, because it's not even a gatherer coat (some earlier gatherer pieces of gear were for 'All classes'), but hers is dragoon gear of all things. just stupid

[Arrius]

There is likely a technical limitation on this, since the Sky Pirate pieces specifically had to be remade as replicas to be worn on every job/class.

[Restonance]

Tanks running around in mage robes? X
Tanks running around in a bikini? ✓

Small indie company please be patient.

Will say I like the glam though! Countless possibilities would open up if SE would actually bother putting in the effort to fix the system instead of the band-aid solutions they come up with.

[Equitable_Remedy]

What do you guys think? (I hope the picture works)

I don't really agree that any restriction hinders creativity nor do I think that 'creativity' is the only measure of the glam system.

For instance, I think it valuable for different classes and different armor weights to generally look different - it keeps things interesting. In fact, a complete lack of restriction can ultimately lead to lots of sameness - you see this with certain unrestricted glams that then become ubiquitous.

So no, I don't think that the restrictions that exist are a hinderance, and I think that, in fact, some increase creativity by keeping everyone from making the same choices.

Let me borrow a quote from Prof. Mordin Solus:

All scientific advancement due to intellegence overcoming, compensating, for limitations. Can't carry a load, so invent wheel. Can't catch food, so invent spear. Limitations. No limitations, no advancement.