Why are some of the level 1 glamour items in pvp class locked?

[SpOwOpe]

And I'm not talking about the remade artifact gear, I am referring to the Prestige armor sets (Such as the Armor of Light and the Onion set).

It makes absolutely no sense for these to be class locked, not even in consistency considering almost every other level 1 glam item can be equipped regardless of class so long as it isn't tied to a classes' identity (isn't artifact armor)

I wanted to make a good Red Mage outfit with light armor aesthetics, but this kinda ruins it ;~;

[Alicie]

Because if SE removes glamour job locking, they will give players so many more options that a lot of them won't need mog station sets to make good glamours. That can not happen.

[Astronis]

And I'm not talking about the remade artifact gear, I am referring to the Prestige armor sets (Such as the Armor of Light and the Onion set).

It makes absolutely no sense for these to be class locked, not even in consistency considering almost every other level 1 glam item can be equipped regardless of class so long as it isn't tied to a classes' identity (isn't artifact armor)

I wanted to make a good Red Mage outfit with light armor aesthetics, but this kinda ruins it ;~;

They are based on armor that is class and job locked (I think the armor you're specifically talking about is based on stuff from the Crystal Tower alliance raids), so that's probably why. A lot of level 1 glamor-only gear that's based on other armor is locked in a similar way, so it is consistent.

Maybe they'll eventually change that, I'm hoping they will.

[Underscore]

For the same reason most other gear is class locked.


That is to say... no good reason at all.

[Valence]

PvP gear has gone through multiple stages:

- ARR/HW: gear was still relevant in pvp because pvp mostly relied on pve skills and gear, so it followed identical design than pve.
- SB/SHB: gear was no longer relevant in pvp and that's when they started introducing glam pvp gear that was grey gear, but still was designed around roles sadly.
- EW+: full lvl 1 glam.

[Amarande]

They are based on armor that is class and job locked (I think the armor you're specifically talking about is based on stuff from the Crystal Tower alliance raids), so that's probably why. A lot of level 1 glamor-only gear that's based on other armor is locked in a similar way, so it is consistent.

Maybe they'll eventually change that, I'm hoping they will.

This gives me the impression that SE may very well have only implemented animations for the fancier "job-iconic" armor models for those specific jobs, i.e. they may literally not have the necessary data to work properly with others.

If that's the case, it might be a while (just like walking back gender locked gear sets has been a slow process due to the number of additional models that must be drawn and tested, which in turn is similar to how much work it was to add new races or even race/gender i.e. male bunnies or female hroth to the game; evidently, this is no small amount of work given the general impression of cut corners people felt when trying to glam femhroth).

[Infindox]

Still waiting on some crafter and gatherer sets to be made into all job glamour (looking specifically at alchemist sets) like I believe Korean servers have, but nothing yet.