Glamour Set Appreciation Thread

[jadeharley]

Seriously cannot stop raving about this feature. As a hardcore collector that isn't even that interested in glamour, I've probably spent months of my life farming the transmogrification journal in WoW just to see my completion number go up. In a single patch, CS3 has added more than 400 little objectives to collect by filling out sets in the glamour chest.

I'm fairly far along in XIV "unlockables" (1928/2160) for reference. Adding this feature has increased the number of things to unlock by 20%.

The UI is still a little clunky compared to WoW's and I really wish there was a "simplify glamour chest" button, but overall I am very happy with this feature. If this were to eventually extend out to combat gear (dungeons, raids, etc) and increase the capacity of the glamour chest, I can promise FFXIV would never have a problem filling duty queues ever again.

[jadeharley]

I really hope CS3 sees the huge potential here. I now have a compelling reason to go out and spend Wolf's Marks on something besides ventures. I need to go back to farm Rathalos for the + pieces and variant dungeons for potsherds. I will probably sink hundreds of millions into the market board to buy sets I might not have even wanted otherwise, giving me a reason to spend gil on something besides 50M mounts. I'll be going into old treasure dungeons to craft sets like Whisperfine and New World.

And if this were to stretch out to combat sets, I would gladly farm every instance from Sastasha to the Jeuno: The First Walk just to see the number go up.

[MsQi]

This will be a real game changer when they extend it to higher level gear.

[Keumjo]

As a viera, I've given up on collecting most hats or all the hats I do have are stashed in random retainers that may or may not be active. Just wish the effort to store all these gear sets wasn't just more salt in the wounds when it comes to now having to collect hats I can't wear just to store gear sets. And mostly that it wouldn't cost me real life money to pull some of this stuff out of storage, and not because I get to finally wear it.

That's not to say that I would rather it not exist, I'm glad it's an option and hope it gets expanded upon for more leveled sets soon!

[Fawkes]

Do you really have to take the whole set out of the dresser just to then put it back in as a set? That can't be real. There's gotta be like a button that just does it that I'm not seeing, right? Like I can right click and search and the game knows the other pieces are there in the dresser. Why would it not just do it?

[jadeharley]

Do you really have to take the whole set out of the dresser just to then put it back in as a set? That can't be real. There's gotta be like a button that just does it that I'm not seeing, right? Like I can right click and search and the game knows the other pieces are there in the dresser. Why would it not just do it?

Here's my guess: the glamour dresser stores an item id and 1/2 dye ids per slot. Assuming some sort of fixed-byte storage, I suspect the new system is built by treating an item set as a pseudo-item with an item ID and some flag value for stain in the DB. So inserting sets is roughly the same as inserting a single item, except with a different transaction.

As for why the system doesn't auto-collapse sets, it would probably be a fairly expensive operation in terms of item transactions to fully collapse everything. So they just accept the soft-rate limiting of letting us sort stuff. Plus for new items / new players it's not so much of a problem.

[TheDustyOne]

While I generally like the addition, it's already saved me over a hundred slots, the big downside of not being able to set a dye from the dresser is my biggest issue, since there's quite a few items I like having set to Pure White or Jet Black by default, I've kept a few glamours separated purely for that reason. Even still, I enjoy the extra space saved and there's a few items that I didn't mind losing those dyes to gain a few extra slots.

I definitely look forward to combat gear implementing this, it'll give me a good reason to go through and collect as much old gear as I can if it only ends up taking 1 slot for an entire set. I'd just like to be able to save the dyes for things stored in the dresser.

[Picothea]

I'm far from the limits of my glamour dresser, but the space-saving is useful for the future nonetheless. I just hope they'll be able to improve the feature when more work can be done. Dyes are important, but my biggest dream for the feature is to remove class locks to open new glamour opportunities. I'll keep hoping they find a way.

[ElysiumDragon]

Hear me out.

Glamour plate loadouts.

More active/dynamic plates may be a much harder thing to do, but a system that stores plate data in the dresser and lets us swap them out at the dresser? I'd like that ^^

[MistressMoonseeker]

While I generally like the addition, it's already saved me over a hundred slots, the big downside of not being able to set a dye from the dresser is my biggest issue, since there's quite a few items I like having set to Pure White or Jet Black by default, I've kept a few glamours separated purely for that reason. Even still, I enjoy the extra space saved and there's a few items that I didn't mind losing those dyes to gain a few extra slots.

I definitely look forward to combat gear implementing this, it'll give me a good reason to go through and collect as much old gear as I can if it only ends up taking 1 slot for an entire set. I'd just like to be able to save the dyes for things stored in the dresser.

I am hoping for this...I currently have every set from the ARR Alliance Raids and EW Alliance Raids and it would be amazing to be able to stack them like the cosmetic sets.
Similar cosmetics like various colors of Byregotia Chokers paired together as a set would be a huge improvement too.

I am also a bit frustrated with the dye issue...but I'm so over the inventory overflow that anything I haven't put on my character in the last 6mths to a year I've collapsed into a set. I can't help but wonder if this just a spaghetti code issue or an effort to push more Mogstation purchases of White/Black dyes and the general dye economy as well in the game. Perhaps all of it.

I do find it more than a bit silly that some sets if you want all the pieces still take up 2 slots because they have more than one chest/pant option. Those really should be combined.
Ex. Coeurl Swim Set, Island Sanctuary Sets
There is also a funny issue that if the cosmetic items were crafted at a higher quality and the others aren't he higher quality item has to have its quality lowered to go together.

That said, I have 677/800 slots so far, when I was capped at 800 before, after condensing down Wolf Marks, Series Crystals, MSQ, and Crafted Cosmetics.