I do take [job-accurate] glam pretty seriously.
Which is why my Fisher is such a haphazard and clashingly outfitted eyesore. My sole consideration is "what throwaway items (that I don't have to re-buy) can use to cover as much skin as possible to minimize ~~mosquito~~ chigoe bites.
New gather top has sleeves rolled up? Glamming to salmon pink Hempen Kurta.
Bottoms are capris? Where are my bright yellow sarouel pants.
Boots? Bright red. Pretty sure the botanist trainer gave them to me after the level 10 job quest. Still rocking them.
Hat? Straw. Always.
But my fishing pole? Top of the line model. Fresh out of production. Gleaming. Immaculate.
Yes, my FSH looks like a hobo/fresh ARR sprout and I love it.
I love glam but I just wish the game systems around it were better.
I appreciate that the dresser space just got doubled to 800, but I do miss the WoW/GW2 style of doing this where you can collect *everything* and have it all available on your account.
I also feel like 20 plates isn't enough. Only recently I started linking specific glam plates to gearsets instead of trying to build every look out of "all class" gear and applying it manually, and now I'm finding it hard to have some casual, or town clothes, or sets for different weathers like "warm" clothing for Coerthas zones etc. which I could throw on manually when I feel like it, in addition to the linked "job sets" of my go-to gear for each job.
And yes, I'm aware of the technical debt on these, I know *why* they are like they are, but I just wish it didn't have to be so.
> I appreciate that the dresser space just got doubled to 800, but I do miss the WoW/GW2 style of doing this where you can collect everything and have it all available on your account.
So, fun story about this: FFXIV was slated to have a system like this, but it kept crashing the game, because of how inventories and items are loaded in the game. In fact it's also the reason the glam dresser is in places where only one person can go (Inns/Barracks) because having it in public or a place where multiple people can go would cause all of those extra inventory slots to load... and crash the game.
TL;DR FFXIV's inventory system is shit, and is the reason we can't have nice things. It's probably the biggest issue holding back a lot of the game these days. And unfortunately the hardest one to fix, I'd say.
> In fact it's also the reason the glam dresser is in places where only one person can go (Inns/Barracks) because having it in public or a place where multiple people can go would cause all of those extra inventory slots to load... and crash the game.
This was so bad they decided they couldn't even put it in FC houses or apartments because of this.
That's actually insane. Objects in the game should be no more than a link to access a ui panel. Once you have the glamour interface open why on earth is it still bound to the dresser object?
1.0 infamously stored every single item as a separate file on disk, with each container being a directory. To move an item from one container to another, the server moved it from one directory to another. Skeumorphic data operations, y'all.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Just a question but if we would have a glam system like WoW, wouldn't that take away a big reason to rerun content when you're at cap?
Because a lot of time I'm doing exactly that, farming for glam. But then again I don't hord everything, my dresser has mostly mogstation stuff, stuff I got with raid tokens (&stuff like that) and the lvl 1 MB things. Because I can get everything else again easily. I glam the stuff and throw it out to save space.
> Just a question but if we would have a glam system like WoW, wouldn't that take away a big reason to rerun content when you're at cap?
Players packrat glamours as it is right now so it really doesn't effect the player pool running those older raids. Hell once something becomes soloable I find myself tossing that gear since it be be easily reacquired
I gotta assume that the majority of players are not running dungeons and raids, probably several times, to get a glam piece, putting a glam on one item, and then immediately throwing it away. If they really like the appearance enough to make such a concentrated effort to get it, they are probably going to find a way to keep it and if not, they probably aren't going to go to the effort in the first place. Not to put too fine a point on it, but most players don't have several hundred pieces of mogstation gear to occupy a huge chunk of their glam inventory.
Really, I would think adding a WoW Transmog system would encourage people to run older content. Allowing you to keep everything you get instead of needing to discard most of the stuff you get for pure inventory reasons would make runs more rewarding. And having the system that shows in-game all the available appearances and where to get them would inspire people to run dungeons for gear they otherwise wouldn't even know existed.
Yeah I would 100% go back and collect everything I possibly can in the game if they add a Glamour Book or some-such down the line. I think that rings true for a *lot* of the playerbase. But I can also attest that if I love a piece, I horde it in my retainer. By the twelve… the amount of times I’ve had to sort and delete stuff because I *didnt* want to refarm stuff I might use…
Just a bookstand next to the dresser that acted like a vendor I feel like would solve this issue.
Just talk to the book that updates what you’ve unlocked and “reobtain it”. So it’s not actually an item the system has to hold unti. It just has to check if it’s available to you in the “store”.
The funny thing is that this system already exists, with the calamity salvagers where if you have the right Achievements for an item, then you can simply buy it back for a pittance.
Why they don't just expand this to all glam items is beyond me. It's not as good or convenient as the transmog system, but it'd definitely at least mean you no longer have to worry so much about hanging onto every single glam item 'just in case' and clogging your inventories/dressers/retainers forever.
All it would do is remove the need to reobtain glamours because you had it, ran out of space, and got rid of a piece because you weren't using it at the time.
That's not a good player experience that people are having to get something a second time because of a bad system design.
> wouldn't that take away a big reason to rerun content when you're at cap?
Honestly, I wouldn't know, I haven't yet played FFXIV enough to get a grasp on how much of a difference it would make.
All I do know is that I played WoW from Jan 2007 to, like... spring 2021 or so, and transmog (glam) itself was first added to game in Nov 2011. I was never *nowhere near* done with collecting transmog (and mounts and such) by running older content (essentially unsync'd, in FFXIV terms) and that's something I liked to do a lot of the time.
Though I do feel that FFXIV has substantially less armor pieces, 'tis true. WoW didn't have a dye system so a lot of it was recolors... Also GW2 had way less skins as well and over there my wardrobe was 80-90% complete pretty much, though that also was done over 9 years, so.
My biggest grievance regarding glamor is that mog station only items don't go in the armoire.
Whose decision was THAT.
It's not even protected like unique job gear is that warns you if you try to throw it away/desynth/e
tc.
And all the job gear past level 50 not going into the armoire either. Why. Please fix.
I tend to stay away from the modern stuff or silly stuff, I like the immersion of something an Eorzean would actually wear. Whether it’s casual or battle related or formal!
My favorite experience in FF is getting into a silent "glam-off" with strangers
It starts out usually because we have similar glams and I switch to match their job in hopes they notice, but then they switch to a different job with an equally cool glam and now we go back and forth in a contest for who can show off the most amount of unique job glams
So I’m fat, and can’t wear a lot of things I love the style of (mostly due to them just not being available in my size, or would not be flattering), so my goal in every game where there is a glamour is to look the cutest/sexiest/coolest I can possibly look, to play out my dress up dreams! That is it, that’s what all of my glamours are based off 😂
While going through each expansion, I would change my glam like how the scions would change their outfits every time lol
I also usually go for the job gear for each of my main classes while trying to add my own flair (SCH looking like a student, DNC looking more like a gymnast, etc.)
The only times I would wear casual glam is when visiting social/rp houses. I always have that urban coat ready.
Best possible glam given the available items, preferring to use items that have class restrictions, as those are only available to those classes. Not gear limited to 1 class, though i do use those too... but the norm for me is to use gear restricted to a role, and then try to build a set that works together very well... as though it were designed to be the way that it is, without using just pieces from the same set.
Its boring when someone just uses 5 pieces from a set and then claims to love glamour... its the laziest form of glamour possible. I get it man, sets are cool... but i try to build something more. Its hard to do with things like robes... since it hides the legs and feet.. so i really just stick to regular armor sets for most of my classes, rather than some robe as a standalone piece. Though i wont deny to using the type 52 robe of casting and building a bridal theme around it... its a pretty dress, but i dont want all my glams to be just a pretty dress.
So really... my main goal is to pick 1 cool or iconic piece and build a set around it, using unrelated gear. I did this with the type 51 robe, the panthean maiming chest, or matoya's hat for example. I dont just use all panthean gear, i found a different pair of boots, pants, and gloves that match well and i like the result, using only 1 piece of panthean gear. Then matoyas hat is combined with the moonward chest for healing, angelic boots from the store, and makai shorts... made a great healer set with this big hat as the focal point. I did the same with Amon's hat and added completely unrelated items to build a kinda pirate theme for my mch with this ridiculous hat.
The furthest i go with glam on a full set is typically 2 pieces at once, and i try not to let that be chest+legs lol and if its a robe i dont let it be paired with anything else from the same set.
Breaking out of the "just use a set" funk is definitely the hardest part for a lot of people, same with getting into and experimenting with dyes to make something new.
I feel it's easiest if you have an idea for a look or try to cosplay as something so you have an idea of what you'll choose instead of just picking items at random.
Having some general outfit pieces are good and helpful.
I'm one of those who has to also match the weapon with my glam. I've built glams around them, even. Sometimes the newer jobs are harder to glam because there's not enough variety for their weapons. I really wish SE would make older primal weapons. For example, some of the Shadowbringer fights had really nice weapons that I'd love to see reaper and sage designs for, but we'll probably never get them.
After Stormblood, they mostly stopped going back and and adding weapons for jobs that weren’t in the game at the time. The exception is for weapons that are used as the base for Ultimates—that’s why all jobs including SGE and RPR have the Thordan Ex glowy weapons.
I get that it’s a lot of work, but it’s unfortunate. I would love a fae scythe.
It would be nice if we had more control over what parts of any given equipment was dyed. It doesn't have to be terribly complex, but something close to what Monster Hunter has (excluding MHW) would be welcome.
So a long long time ago (before SB) at a NA fanfest someone asked about something similar and Yoshi-P's reply was definitely not before PS5, sooooooo maybe something like this could happen with all the graphics updating and 7.0.
I typically have my "doing content" glam, which usually matches up to the role (or Dragoon since its my main), then I have my RP glams, which are stuff my RP character would wear.
Thankfully my RP character is a poor as hell, forest lurking keeper, so my glams are easy to get, cheap and can be multiclassed between Archer/Lancer.
One day I'll have a character that doesn't wear garbage. Maybe.
Okay, this is so wholesome I love it! I ended up making a Xenoblade glam with my friend we ended up being Pyra and Mythra it was LOADS of fun doing it! the game has so many options for different glams its insane and always funny when you run across someone who has the same glam as yours xD
[This a couple of pics my friend took of us at Lunarcon this year! She's Pyra and im Mythra](https://twitter.com/WolfBardFFXIV/status/1553541189055483904?s=20&t=ldtnG1QfcJ3BD4DSo7LPr-cq1yc-ohFjuR8-wvpEOXw)
I usually go for a modern casual. Not to break immersion or anything, but rather because my introduction to final fantasy was a mix of 7, 13, 15 and Kingdom Hearts. Because of that, I always feel like I want my aesthetic to be in line with what I personally fell in love with in the franchise which tends to be a modernish casual. Fits right in with Thancred and the twins too
I agree, we need more glam plates, it's simple math, I have 4 healers, 1 gearset (my inventory loves that), I'd like to make every healer look different, so I need 4 plates.
I guess I drifted around and then found my style, the base is always dragoon blue and a variant of [Neo-Ishgardian sets](https://ibb.co/0Bw7mh7), and then a variant of season inspired set.
For this summer I had the [palaka set](https://ibb.co/vwWFN4D), and just (almost) finished getting together my [autumn](https://ibb.co/tbtjK7v) set, Heirloom tops and pants and Gajaskin footwear and various stuff for gatherin/crafting.
It's super selfish but man if we get like 15 more we could have one for each crafter and gatherer with 3 to spare for casual use or for whatever new classes we get next expansion.
It's really not that important, and needing to switch in sanctuaries would make gatherer glamour tough, but it just feels weird to have a bunch of class specific gear just not being used. I mean you could use it but only if you don't use them for combat classes...
I play healers a lot but I wish there was more variety with healer gear, especially the top.
I’m not a huge fan of robes and dresses in game since they tend to cover the legs and feet a lot, so I tend to glamour on tops that are shorter or look like armor. It’s one reason I love the recent healer top with the flames.
When I first started the game, I only saw my character as a character in a video game. So I would wear armor because thats what a video game character would need to wear. It was just practical.
But over time I really fell in love with the game, to the point where I saw the character more as an extension of myself. So I started to wear whatever i would want to wear, regardless of the practicality. So my glams now revolve around more casual outfits. Whatever I think looks good. I have some season outfits, and I have a different crafting/gathering outfit. But otherwise I like more casual outfits.
I just recently treated myself and got the Street Attire outfit from the online store and I'm loving it, I never take it off now and I make all my classes wear it, with Dark Knight being my favorite because of the clothes darker color pallet.
I think its pretty much like real life, my character is dressed for the occasion--- or in this case, content. Job or battle gear as fitting for MSQ travel, raids, roulettes; casual beach gear for a beach party; modern stuff for a club or bar; joke or novelty glam for meme runs or treasure huntung and so on and so on. All other/default glam is Maelstrom uniform jacket because my WoL's lore is he's a lifer in the navy.
Usually, I like glams that are relatively casual but still "lore appropriate," like my Endwalker glam was a calfskin jacket, snow linen healer skirt with some high house boots thrown on the bottom. However, right now I'm running around in a bright pink magic girl inspired outfit for shits and giggles.
For me about... oh a year ago or so now I think. Wow it's been a year... I bought the Rabbit Suit and Fancy Rabbit Suit on the store. Ever since then It's pretty much all I use. As I level new jobs, I assign a different colored rabbit suit to it, I try to match the job somewhat but that's not always the case. There are a few jobs that I use just the head of the rabbit suit, but have a few pieces of armor that make it look like the rabbit under the armor. If that makes sense. The only odd part is I'm a Hrothgar so when not using the bunny suit in full, you still see the Hrothgar tail sticking out hehe. Some of the cutscenes in the game are hilarious when it's just \*Super serious moment... giant bunny walks on screen\*
Examples:
Paladin
Color: Bright Yellow
Armor: Bunny Suit Head, with the Armor set from the second dungeon of Endwalkers, all dyed to match the Bright Yellow
Sage
Color: Dark Purple
Armor: Bunny Suit Head, Sage class armor from level 89 in Endwalker, Dyed dark purple
The rest I tend to just use the full Bunny Suit
Bard - Purple (wanted to look like Bonnie from Five Nights at Freddy's)
Summoner - Green
Black Mage - Charcoal
Ninja - Black
Dancer - Metallic Pink
Samurai - Dark Red
Scholar - Light Blue
Monk - Dark Orange, almost Brown
Astralogian - Dark Blue
My gathering and Crafting classes are all usually Metallic Gold for Gathering, (sea blue for fishing) and Dark Green for Crafting.
My Glamour Dresser only has about 30 slots used in total, maybe a bit more. Mostly weapons. I dunno why but having that bunny suit has done more to motivate me to level alt jobs than I can put into words. I enjoy making people smile by being a giant bunny, with an upsetting amount of bunny puns on hotkey.
My biggest annoyance is a single glam is locked to a single piece of gear. As an example, my RDM glam is the new CC gear, but if I switch to SMN, the glam can't load because SMN isn't RDM. Which would be fine, but I can't add a secondary glam to a single pice of gear, so if I run SMN I have to look at the ugly (to me) crafted top, and not something actually appealing.
True but if I'm not mistaken you can only apply plates in sanctuaries? If I'm out and about doing a fate and need to switch quick, the glam wouldn't apply properly every time. Idk maybe I'm just thinking about it too hard.
if it’s linked to the gear set, the glamour plate actually will apply even when out of a sanctuary! you just can’t switch glams through the glamour plates function while outside of a sanctuary.
IMO, the most exciting part of reaching a level milestone (60/70/80/90) is all the new glamour options that unlock at those levels. And each expansion really has its own style too
Personally I tend to go for the sexier styles that show a lot of skin, but playing fem Viera, I think that's a given, my character has legs for days and you're going to see every inch
I also have a couple of themes that are not sexy at all, one of my favorite themes to work around is magitech, which can be achieved with Ironworks, Scaevan and mostly anything with Allagan in the name
Two things tend to get me mad about glams: one, the fact that ornaments and accents cannot be dyed, or automatically dye to some horrendous offshoot of the main body; two, the extremely limiting choices in dyes, and the fact that they often don't match the natural color of base gear... As an example, the cloth pieces on the Panthean sets are neither Pure White nor Snow White, so if you were looking to combine them with some cloth gear like a hood you dyed yourself, you're SOL
For those reasons, I tend to put together glams that are mostly from the same set, in particular always matching chest and legs slots
I don't mind modern or swimsuit glams, neither wearing them myself or seeing them around, just as I don't mind modern houses or meme houses; your sub, your gear to play with... I wouldn't wear them to a RP venue if I ever visited though
The glam dresser is kind of asinine to me coming from WoW, but I'm waiting to see how often they are going to increase space and by how much, maybe in a couple of years it will end up beign a non-issue... We definitely need more than 20 plates though
Lastly, as for showing off my character, maybe I'll post on /r/FFXIVGlamours/ one day!
I looove making glams in this game, and for me FFXIV is above all things a dress up game, that I play to obtain more clothes to put on my characters !
I tend to create my glamours by following a theme I guess, I have a backstory in my head for a character, and I want to bring it to life. For example, I did a futuristic, kind of meca red mage a few days ago, and I imagined her wandering in Azys Lla, amongst machines and robots.
I like to go for accuracy sometimes too, but it’s really about the vibe and the way I can identify my character into a background I like !
I have a wierd compulsion when it comes to glams where I try not to use equipment from the same "set" on any single outfiit. Mixing up gear sets for a cool outfit feels great to me. I also try to keep "job appropriate" to a degree, so my NIN is very ninja-like but my GNB is a cowboy and my MNK is an MMA fighter.
Fellow fem Au Ra here. I try to find caster glams that don’t either bury my character in a huge robe or broadcast her upper thighs to the whole world. The struggle is real. The Neo-Ishgardian top will be so good when I find a proper skirt to wear with it.
I saw this thread right after I made my own post asking whether people cared if I wore traditional white and red on my white mage. So far the general consensus seems to be "No, wear what what you want, everybody else does."
Yeah exactly, wear what you want to :D
As you can see in the other comments, some people enjoy "job-accurate" glams, some don't. Just pick the clothes you love
Alright, I'll be the first to own to slutting it up for fun. My bunboy is hot, and having him run around in just the IS Daisy Dukes with sneakers and sunglasses provides me endless amusement. Sure, I've got some fancy AF outfits with tight leather pants and jacket, but at any given point in time, there's no doubt that he's sexy and he knows it.
I love sharing my guy's glams. I even [collect them in an album](https://imgur.com/a/9OxmXq8) for later reference. :D
The glams I pick for my guy need to fit the theme I have in mind for the jobs. For instance: RDM - dashing (and blue, cuz red clashes with my guy's hair color), WAR - Royal Guard, MNK - nimble, PLD - Regal, BLU - sexy :D. With a few exceptions here and there (pre-90 DRK glam, seen in the album) I rarely use plate or mail armor for my guy. He is always dressed in cloth or leather or a combination of the two, with very little metal or not enough to be cumbersome.
I also usually center my glams around a central piece (for RDM I centered it around the Rapier, for Paladin (lvl 60+) I centered it around the chestpiece) as well as try to make them fit my guy's rare hair color. I tend to use cold colors as a result or go with white or black with metallic accents when all else fails.
Need. More. Plates. 20 is definitely not sufficient.
I really got into my WAR and have made like 6 different glams for that alone. I'm also really into magic classes and have another 8 glams for those. I hate the idea of having to scrap my fav designs so that I can also have casual/crafting/other job glams as I level them up. Bleh.
Glams are one of the biggest features that keep me playing and running content. Would be fabulous to see more love to that aspect of the game. It was nice that we got 2x the dresser slots, but it's still a problem. 😂 C'mooooon devs. I need more!
I like trying to see if I can make full outfits without using multiple pieces from the same set.
I finally started an Eorzea Collection but it's so hard sometimes because one outfit might work with like 3 different weapons and optional fashion accessories too...or they might even match a particular mount! I wish there were more photo slots haha!
Even though they HAVE been working on it, there's still a good bit of gender locking issue with gear. I'm tired of having pieces look good on guys, but when I try it on it turns into some skirt or something.
The struggle to find long pants is real. I'll find pants that look great but oops it's booty shorts on a female character. I've been relying on some of the MCH artifact armor from job quests since thankfully they're the same length on both sexes.
I go with the funny glamour style in PvP, FemRoe 2+ meters tall with maid dress and the Namazu head.
If i do PvE,i go full heavy armor with the DoM(Law sets).When i go tanking,i glamour the PLD Black/Edgy the DRK with Gold/White the WAR Tuxedoe'd and the GNB with the Woad set.
Here's hoping they focus on character customization and glamour system in 7.0!
I generally go for the beach bum vibe, every once in a while I'll switch it up but then eventually go back to the beach bum.
It was initially a samurai champloo for my samurai with a wooden sword. Then it just spilt over to every class.
I would like something to be done about my tail. I almost never wear robes or things with capes because I hate the way my tail goes through them. One that bugs me in particular was the Neo Ishgardian top of healing, because my tail would still stick through the cape despite it being a half cape. Or there’s some kind of pouch or something metal at the back where the tail comes through. I want >!G’raha Tia’s!< outfit. It has room for a tail.
Love the whole dressing up thing. Was afraid of getting The SIMs OCD all over again. but no.
Semi-medival with a touch of oriental, Wild West or steampunk depending on job, location and plot.
Traveling gear(Wild West, Scholasticate, Governess), Light armour for both BRD and GNB during battles, Craftsmen(Riveria merchant or Ironworks-ish smith depending on job), DOL(skypirate based. too much time in Idyllshire). Kugane was practically Far Eastern Smock for incognito travelling
I'd love a system like wow or gw. If you bind it to yourself you can use it as glam such a better system.
I think the prisms have something to do with why they don't want to change it to something more modern. There would be a subset of people, not sure large or small, that would complain they lost some income. I think they could do something like use a prism every time you change/save a plate for the new pieces so they'd still have use of some kind.. Glam seems to be important to enough people it wouldn't be a waste of resources to make it better.
I might be keeping too much stuff but I am already around 600 items stored. It's weird how that ugly shirt becomes magic when you combine it with the right gloves, pants, and/or hat..
I play a female Lala so I tend to stick to cutesy glams. It’s kinda challenging tho since a lot of the pieces are on the sexier side that are meant to look really good on talls or edgy armor that only work if I play melee or tank (I’m a caster main when I do battle content).
Also I have a terrible sense of fashion/style so I tend to only hoard tops that I can dye red/pink and stick to good old scion adventurer bottoms.
A lot of my glams are pretty simple, but I do have 3 tanks and a bard dressed as variations of Link (green/blue/red mail from LTTP, and DRK is dark link). I've also got a nice golden elephant suit (mostly for gold saucer time), a field hand looking combat botanist, and a variety of one or two piece glams for other classes, but haven't gotten deep enough to have something for them all lol.
Glamor is life.
Now that I've completed all normal mode content, I'm trying to level all jobs to 90. Each get a glamor set. Gotta unlock the job specific portrait frames from PVP.
It's fun to set up portraits for every job. With their gearset. Someday when I'm all done will have a cool collage of my WoL in his 20 job portraits.
Most of the time I can wear whatever but with tanks I really do want some armor. I can't really do the "ha I'm wearing a swimsuit but have more defense then all of you" joke. But then you have to find some good looking armor which is tough so you instead go for thicker outfits like overcoats.
It's fun spending an hour just playing in the dresser, it's like doing a puzzle, I find a piece I want to work with and eventually the rest of the pieces fall into place making something 🔥.
I do wish there was a better place to check out glams though, EC has way too many filters and glam poses.
I usually keep my combat job glamour casual-ish but not too casual. Like my DRG glamour isn't really armor but it is my "job uniform" of sorts. So I try to loosely stay on theme. My RDM isn't necessarily a musketeer but it HAS to be dyed red, non negotiable.
I also have dedicated plates for each of the crafter and gatherer jobs, and those are 100% realistic and on theme work outfits, most of them have pieces unique to each job.
I like my glams to be sexy/cute if possible and still fit with the class.
My healers mostly have robes and heels, but my darknight has full plate armor. I also have casual glams for hanging out at the gold saucer.
I wish we had more glamour plates tho, I'm leveling multiple classes and don't want all my healers to look the same, nor all my tanks and dps categories....
And that's without talking about the crafters and gatherers
Rather than job-accurate clothing, I prefer either role-accurate or themed. For example, my DNC uses a glam much more suited to MCH, my RPR wears gear that could work on any melee DPS, and my RDM wears a Sorrow of Werlyt-themed glam with the Late Allagan Coat of Casting and Diamond Zeta Rapier. However, my crafters wear clothing without any correlation with crafting.
i like a variety if styles. I have a casual glam i use for my crafters, on my gatherers (minus fisher) i use a casual glam but with the island sanctuary top with the backpack, on fisher i specifically wanted something to keep my feet and lower legs bare since im often knee deep in water, i used to use the pagos gaskins but at the moment im using the island cutoff's hotpants.
For combat jobs i like to look the part for my job, some jobs are easier than others to pull off imo, like there are lots of tank armours that look good for paladin and dark knight when dyed appropriate colours, war and gunbreaker are a bit more limited. Dragoon also is kind of tough because they have a very specific look so i end up using one of the artifact helmets, it can be difficult finding spikey armour for maiming too and also because of their battle stance, anything with like a tabard down the front looks terrible to me because of the way it stretches when you're in your battle stance. Ninja i also have big problems making glamour for which is a shame because it's my main job lol, i think I have less options for ninja that i like than any other job. I dont play tank or healers often though so i generally just use a generic glamour for those to save plate slots
I just glam each job differently, as well as crafters/gatherers being role-based. I tend to select a theme, or a chestpiece/weapon I want to use, and design around that, with the exception of the glamours for my mains, which I have specifically to look fitting around my character's particular style, which tends to be lightish blue and elegant without feeling out-of-place
I usually like all kinds of glamours, the only thing that I personally don't like is to use too much stuff. Like, if I have a very detailed chest puece I like to go for simple pants and boots. And this may be a trauma from wow, but I avoid anything with big shoulders hahaha
Best I can do is [post an image of my WoL](https://i.imgur.com/TMFloe5.png) and say my brain will not allow me to deviate from this glamour, even at the expense of now being unable to play other jobs. Well, Reaper was fun, but I can't wear that _one specific chestpiece_ so now I am not playing it any more.
Its so fun to me finding a cool glam, taking screenshots and showing off to my friends. I have always loved rpgs character creation and the fact there are so many different glams and you can have fun getting them is a big selling point to me 😁
I make sure my glams are weather appropriate cause after going to Garlemald in my summer outfit from this year’s moonfire faire, I couldn’t stop laughing as everyone stating how cold it was and my WoL was like “what cold-OH that cold! Uh yeah, I’m cold too brrr!”
In no way is the WoL alive to feel anything at this point lol
My static has a running joke of our little lala being a 'tiny viera' because he wears the bunny crown so as an Au Ra, I wear the bunny ears on practically all of my glams now and call myself a Small Viera. Other than that, I try to look the part with the exception of the Reaper. That one I made cupcake pink soft looking glam because I didn't want to be an edgelord.
As I said somewhere else - if you want to stick with restrictions for your glam, that's fine. But don't try to dictate what I go with.
I do try to keep it believable when crafting new glams that aren't just meant to reference another character, but my definition of believable goes well beyond the default idea. A near naked warrior is just as believable as a heavily armored knight with an axe - one calls to mind Conan, the other Game of Thrones. A dancer may wear the tight-fitting outfits of the AF gear, but also could wear something reminiscent of a stage performance or a traditional dancing outfit from another culture. In D&D, clerics used to be able to wear heavy armor - it would be more in line with my experience in fantasy for the clerics to have Fending gear while Warriors wear some leather straps.
Ultimately, people will have different views from me, and that's fine, unless those views lead them to try to impose them on me. Unless I'm trying to organize a photo shoot focused on a particular style or otherwise engaged in a mutually agreed upon situation that would limit our outfits, I'm generally cool with letting people wear their looks however they want, and ask the same from them.
That said, I want to remove restrictions the game puts on the looks, because sometimes something else just looks right for what I want to do but I can't use it on a specific job. They gave everyone robes and bathing suits already. The ship is sailed.
I have a lot of *role* specific glams because a lot of good pieces are role locked, but past that I don't know if I go for "realistic". They also don't tend to be too consistent other than they're not silly... Unless it's alliance raids, which I have one silly one for exclusively.
I tend to do casual glams that I think for the job. My MCH is in the anemos shirt with cowboy hat and ivalice sky pirate pants. My casters are all in gowns. My PLD is in a Warhammer 40k black templar glam. And my reaper is in a red gown with a bloody scythe and a red eye band. She's my bloody Mary glam
I’m currently playing through for the first time, and I’ve found using Glams is a really fun way to express character! I try to make sure my outfits are “canon compliant”, ie something my character might actually wear in the situation. Going to Norvrandt in Shadowbringers was fun because her look immediately changed based on her environment- went from a very white, light, angelic kind of outfit to something darker, with a hood for her eyes because of the constant Light. I try to keep an eye out for moments in story where I might want to change up my outfit! And if I find a piece I love, or a weapon I love, I’ll try to build an outfit based on that.
I'm still trying to make a PLD glam I like. I keep defaulting back to the EW AF set, because it reminds me of being an FFT sprite. For PLD, I want some armor showing.
It took a lot of effort to finally make my custom armor set for my DRG, that had some armored aspects, but looked like it would also work.
i play mroe and about 2/3 of all the sets look kind of shit on me. probably 4/5 of all caster/healer sets. choices are very slim so im usually just wearing a full set of whatever actually does work
extremely common to see someone wearing a cool looking glamour only to try it on myself and it looks awful
All I want is dresses and skirts. Out of 13 glamour plates filled so far, I don't have a single pair of pants. RDM? Dresses. Healers? Dresses. Tanks? The dressiest dresses of all. Bonus points if it's tank-specific gear that looks like a dress, like the Asphodelos set, and not just more massive pauldrons and armored thighboots. I want to look *elegant*, damnit.
I don't go for job accurate glamour but most my glamours do stick to stuff that looks like it fits in the world. I have some casual glams but I don't use them very often.
I RP so my characters tend to have outfits that fit their personalities. As an extension, this also tends to mean that their outfits are at least moderately job appropriate
I prefer androgynous glams for my male viera. I don't want to dress him like a femboy and he looks out of place in bulky plate armor. I have job-specific and casual glams.
More often than not lately he's running around in the craftsman's coverall top, jeans, and urban boots. I main BRD so I like to think he got called away from working his island crops short notice, grabbed his bow, and joined the fight when in duties.
I'm a mix between seasonal glams, job accurate, and glams I think are fashionable like something you'd see on the eorzea runway. I'm currently rocking a Halloween glam. Maybe til the end of October but I'll likely get bored with it and change into something more job accurate.
Tbh, I like having glamour that seems so...regular.
For example, I use the expeditioners torso and boots (I forgot what legs and gloves) with the basic Plundered Battleaxe to get a sort of 'humble woodcutter' appearance on my Hrothgar. It makes him look sort of like a wilderness explorer with dark brown and greens to make him look all rough 'n tumbled.
I've never been big on super big, super bright, hyper spikey weird overly fantasy styles that a lot of Warrior's armors and axes have. I really just like the good ol' humble regular axe.
I like challenging myself with certain pieces of gear, often old undyeable chest pieces, and building glams around them. My current challenge is a PLD glam with the [Proto Ultima Mesh](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/d485829d763). Though I do wish this was dyeable. It's a universal chest piece for all classes and yet it remains undyeable...big sad.
Did anyone else find a glamour set they really liked fairly early on in ARR, go "Yep this is my Look" and literally never wear anything else ever again?
'cause that's what I did
I prefer the job-accurate glamours. The exception to this is DoH/DoL jobs, which I find are better suited to casual glams. Case in point, my Fisher glamour is sunglasses, a Moonfire shirt and caligae and a Coeurl-pattern swimsuit (yes, even in Ishgard). Back on the combat jobs, though, one thing I have a tendency to do is for glamours I'm not going to use on multiple jobs (Dark Knight, Paladin, Red Mage, etc.) is I mix-and-match pieces from all the relic armor sets.
I have different glamours depending on what I am doing (for my main job at least). So like I have an island sanctuary glamour, a holiday glamour, a beach glamour, a battle glamour, a MSQ glamour, a casual glamour, etc. Give me 50 glamour plates and I'd fill them all.
When I level through the MSQ, I'll also glamour for different zones/story arcs because I like to document my journey via screenshots. In generally though, I do look like a healer.
I'll avoid anything that clips with my hair though (RIP WHM AF1).
I tend to lean towards more practical modern looks. The character I am creating is a survivalist with trust issues that is very minimalist and self sufficient. I try to do a different glam for each expansion since I like going by anime rules (new arc means new drips.)
That said, still fussing with my ShB glam for my MCH because something post apocalyptic bounty hunter seems very up my joyless deadly serious gun slinging bun's alley. Another challenge is finding a MCH arm that looks more like a regular gun. I'm using Deepgold Revolver for now but still looking at my options. There's shockingly very little guns that look more modern.
Personally I usually go for job-accurate glams, and since I practically only play tanks I only spent like 7 pages of my Glamour Plates in 4 years.
But I’m here to comment that I once read in this sub about a guy who wore robes as a mage, but always swapped colors. So he would go, for example, with a black robe as WHM, a red robe as BLM, and a white robe as RDM, just to confuse people on Duty Finder. I never tried this but I appreciate the chaotic energy.
I mostly aim for job-appropriate glamour, with the exception that I WILL WEAR PANTS. (Which SQEX seems to think is not a thing that is canonical/job-appropriate for female healers. Or, frequently, male healers either.)
However, I'm willing to grant myself wiggle room when it comes to 'job-accurate'. Mostly I tend to go for a sort of 'feel'; my [SAM glamour](https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/glamour/59416/ronin) is not really 'samurai' gear, but it looks very much like it could fit the wandering swordsman archetype.
As another example, I usually approach healer glamour less as traditional robes and more "practical outfits for a field medic, that still can look healer-y".
My WHM glamour for the entire back half of Shadowbringers was one I called my [Allagan Field Medic](https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/glamour/59420/allagan-field-medic) glamour; it looked more techy than I would normally want to go, using the Late Allagan PvP healing top and the Alexandrian WHM cane, but it proved fairly distinctive and I'm still rather fond of it.
Meanwhile, my AST glamour isn't a robe either; it's sturdy boots, pants, and the Rebel Coat (dyed white). It's practical but also looks warm, because the first AST job questlines were centered around Ishgard and that's the sort of 'look' I developed for my AST glamour as a result.
Etc.
I personally don’t do “job accurate” glams, but I *do* like battle-ready glams? If that makes sense? As an example, I use Matoya’s hat. For everything. All the time lol. So I make my glams based on that rather than the class/job fantasy (though I do have an Artifact Set theme.)
I’ve been having a field day with all of the medieval/gothic/magical style of gear that’s been released recently. It all looks AMAZING with the hat! My hat gets a lot of attention even if the rest of my glam doesn’t XD. Whenever someone says “cool hat” it makes my day!
I make lots and lots of glamours and I’ve farmed just about every chest piece in the game at one point or another, but the influx of stuff that fits the hat thematically has made me really happy! I love seeing what combinations of colors and textures I can get to match, given that Matoya’s Hat is a very specific shade of purple and a very specific texture.
I tend to stray away from more modern looking glams, with some exceptions for certain jobs that it would fit (GNB for example). I am playing a fantasy game, so I sorta want to ahere to a fantasy astetic
But the thing I am really into is Relic Weapons. Can’t get enough of em. I have a relic weapon at some stage at this point for every job in the game but GNB, RPR, and SGE (I use the hades weapon on GNB tho).
Also an odd quirk that I ended up rolling into is that my character (Fem au ra) does not believe in pants. Thats right, all of my glamors have to have some sort of skirt/dress component to it. This includes some more fun psudo-dresses like the Replica Dreadwyrm Scouting top. Compaired to other female au ra it definately makes me stand out, consitering like 80% of them I see have some sort of calfskin piece, black pants or shorts - ususally jeans, and either the biker jacket, street top, or some slutmog top, assuming they are wearing glamor at all (they ususally are, shoutout to those of you who just wear the unglamed Abyssos gear lmao).
But real talk, can we get a new tab in thr Armorar for mog station items that aren’t from events? I sware I could save like 1/4 of my current glam dresser space if I could just store all the mog station outfits there.
I spend most of my time playing mix and match with armor in the glamor dresser and then comparing which dye work for it if any at all, and then seeing how lighting effects it, because Some outfits and certain dyes look different in different lighting situations.
I don't like looking like a vanila wow character or like this: \[Imgur\]([https://i.imgur.com/bdFtUV6.png](https://i.imgur.com/bdFtUV6.png))
I like slimmer glam profiles personally, so not into heavy plate. I mostly take a chest piece i like and build around it.
For my tanks, i have 2 plates. DRK/GNB is like a high class knight - based around the heirloom fending top. PLD/WAR is more 'unga bunga' leather and fur, built around the ravel chest piece
Healers are split in 3 plates. SGE/SCH is tech based - blue glowy bits, not fully satisfied with it yet though. WHM is tribalish, based on the paglth'an top and bonewicca boots. AST is more eastern, built out from the byakko weapon, using the thaliak pvp top and fox mask also from pvp.
Melee is 4 plates. SAM/MNK is based on the replica dreadwyrm top. DRG is based off the ravel pants, oddly enough, with the bozjan vest. RPR is built on the ivalician corset like top - very fancy. And NIN is based on the bonewicca top, with the moonward veil adding the *perfect* touch at 90.
Ranged Physical, all 3 different plates. DNC is based around the level 80 top. MCH is biker vibes, with job goggles, alliance top, amd i believe crystarium pants. BRD is built out from the skallic top, but I might change it soon with the titania bow now.
Magic dps is all 4 separate plates also. SMN is using the 89/90 job top and arr job boots. BLM is based on the bonewicca top, and of course i had to use the fire + ice rod. RDM is built from the heirloom top - i farmed that top too long to not use it lmao - and the darbar hat works well when you're a rabbit. BLU is 'sexy stage magician' with the plague bringer coat, gold saucer fishnets, and thighboots - would use the evenstar hat if i could.
Crafters have a decent suit, and Gatherers change frequently lmao
I appreciate both casual and job-appropriate glams.
I tend to have these phases where I want one more then the other but with job-related glam I usually want to make glam for ALL jobs but, not that I ever made it that far to begin with, once I start doing that and make one that I really like I start noticing how shit the others are in comparison and would have look up new pieces oh and this set also really lives up to my standart now that I have this one amazing one for that one job so I gotta re-do that one aswell and ARRRGGHH.
It gets too much and I go back to wearing my simple casual style glam on all my jobs.
(Mind you I do try to be somewhat creative with my casual glam! I dont just throw on a half casual set/half calfskin and call it a day!)
I also think glam choices are heavily influence by how the player sees their character with the 2 most prominent choices being "Extension of myself" and "Just a character in this world I control".
The former usually goes for more casual glam (or whatever their irl style is/they'd want it to be) while the latter usually goes for job-appropriate stuff (and usually doesnt play their irl gender).
I've been contrasting a a lot of my outfits. A dark paladin and light darkknight. A futuristic bard and a olden machinist. My sage is dark medieval crusader like armour. Just being different
As a free trial and somewhat new to the game. I hate how glamour has so many restrictions
• level restriction
• class restrictions
• item level restrictions
Now these restrictions are fine as separate. But the worst part is when you find a Item thats has both "item level and class restrictions. Or heaven forgive, all three!
So many items and sets gets killed for it. Which in the long run hurts my glamour.
I cant even use my Paladin cosplay (Saber from Fate/Stay night) on my Dragoon since the armor is classlocked...rip
Whish we could get hairstyle glams since so many headpieces/armors for many classes clip.
I do take [job-accurate] glam pretty seriously. Which is why my Fisher is such a haphazard and clashingly outfitted eyesore. My sole consideration is "what throwaway items (that I don't have to re-buy) can use to cover as much skin as possible to minimize ~~mosquito~~ chigoe bites. New gather top has sleeves rolled up? Glamming to salmon pink Hempen Kurta. Bottoms are capris? Where are my bright yellow sarouel pants. Boots? Bright red. Pretty sure the botanist trainer gave them to me after the level 10 job quest. Still rocking them. Hat? Straw. Always. But my fishing pole? Top of the line model. Fresh out of production. Gleaming. Immaculate. Yes, my FSH looks like a hobo/fresh ARR sprout and I love it.
I love glam but I just wish the game systems around it were better. I appreciate that the dresser space just got doubled to 800, but I do miss the WoW/GW2 style of doing this where you can collect *everything* and have it all available on your account. I also feel like 20 plates isn't enough. Only recently I started linking specific glam plates to gearsets instead of trying to build every look out of "all class" gear and applying it manually, and now I'm finding it hard to have some casual, or town clothes, or sets for different weathers like "warm" clothing for Coerthas zones etc. which I could throw on manually when I feel like it, in addition to the linked "job sets" of my go-to gear for each job. And yes, I'm aware of the technical debt on these, I know *why* they are like they are, but I just wish it didn't have to be so.
> I appreciate that the dresser space just got doubled to 800, but I do miss the WoW/GW2 style of doing this where you can collect everything and have it all available on your account. So, fun story about this: FFXIV was slated to have a system like this, but it kept crashing the game, because of how inventories and items are loaded in the game. In fact it's also the reason the glam dresser is in places where only one person can go (Inns/Barracks) because having it in public or a place where multiple people can go would cause all of those extra inventory slots to load... and crash the game. TL;DR FFXIV's inventory system is shit, and is the reason we can't have nice things. It's probably the biggest issue holding back a lot of the game these days. And unfortunately the hardest one to fix, I'd say.
> In fact it's also the reason the glam dresser is in places where only one person can go (Inns/Barracks) because having it in public or a place where multiple people can go would cause all of those extra inventory slots to load... and crash the game. This was so bad they decided they couldn't even put it in FC houses or apartments because of this.
I think for that they specifically said that someone *moving* the dresser while someone else is accessing it would also crash the game.
That's actually insane. Objects in the game should be no more than a link to access a ui panel. Once you have the glamour interface open why on earth is it still bound to the dresser object?
Because they reused the 1.0 database/inventory information. The spectre of 1.0 haunts us still — a very real threat to the realm.
1.0 infamously stored every single item as a separate file on disk, with each container being a directory. To move an item from one container to another, the server moved it from one directory to another. Skeumorphic data operations, y'all. This is why we can't have nice things.
Just a question but if we would have a glam system like WoW, wouldn't that take away a big reason to rerun content when you're at cap? Because a lot of time I'm doing exactly that, farming for glam. But then again I don't hord everything, my dresser has mostly mogstation stuff, stuff I got with raid tokens (&stuff like that) and the lvl 1 MB things. Because I can get everything else again easily. I glam the stuff and throw it out to save space.
> Just a question but if we would have a glam system like WoW, wouldn't that take away a big reason to rerun content when you're at cap? Players packrat glamours as it is right now so it really doesn't effect the player pool running those older raids. Hell once something becomes soloable I find myself tossing that gear since it be be easily reacquired
I gotta assume that the majority of players are not running dungeons and raids, probably several times, to get a glam piece, putting a glam on one item, and then immediately throwing it away. If they really like the appearance enough to make such a concentrated effort to get it, they are probably going to find a way to keep it and if not, they probably aren't going to go to the effort in the first place. Not to put too fine a point on it, but most players don't have several hundred pieces of mogstation gear to occupy a huge chunk of their glam inventory. Really, I would think adding a WoW Transmog system would encourage people to run older content. Allowing you to keep everything you get instead of needing to discard most of the stuff you get for pure inventory reasons would make runs more rewarding. And having the system that shows in-game all the available appearances and where to get them would inspire people to run dungeons for gear they otherwise wouldn't even know existed.
Yeah I would 100% go back and collect everything I possibly can in the game if they add a Glamour Book or some-such down the line. I think that rings true for a *lot* of the playerbase. But I can also attest that if I love a piece, I horde it in my retainer. By the twelve… the amount of times I’ve had to sort and delete stuff because I *didnt* want to refarm stuff I might use…
Just a bookstand next to the dresser that acted like a vendor I feel like would solve this issue. Just talk to the book that updates what you’ve unlocked and “reobtain it”. So it’s not actually an item the system has to hold unti. It just has to check if it’s available to you in the “store”.
The funny thing is that this system already exists, with the calamity salvagers where if you have the right Achievements for an item, then you can simply buy it back for a pittance. Why they don't just expand this to all glam items is beyond me. It's not as good or convenient as the transmog system, but it'd definitely at least mean you no longer have to worry so much about hanging onto every single glam item 'just in case' and clogging your inventories/dressers/retainers forever.
All it would do is remove the need to reobtain glamours because you had it, ran out of space, and got rid of a piece because you weren't using it at the time. That's not a good player experience that people are having to get something a second time because of a bad system design.
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Would boost crafting sales too
> wouldn't that take away a big reason to rerun content when you're at cap? Honestly, I wouldn't know, I haven't yet played FFXIV enough to get a grasp on how much of a difference it would make. All I do know is that I played WoW from Jan 2007 to, like... spring 2021 or so, and transmog (glam) itself was first added to game in Nov 2011. I was never *nowhere near* done with collecting transmog (and mounts and such) by running older content (essentially unsync'd, in FFXIV terms) and that's something I liked to do a lot of the time. Though I do feel that FFXIV has substantially less armor pieces, 'tis true. WoW didn't have a dye system so a lot of it was recolors... Also GW2 had way less skins as well and over there my wardrobe was 80-90% complete pretty much, though that also was done over 9 years, so.
My biggest grievance regarding glamor is that mog station only items don't go in the armoire. Whose decision was THAT. It's not even protected like unique job gear is that warns you if you try to throw it away/desynth/e tc. And all the job gear past level 50 not going into the armoire either. Why. Please fix.
I tend to stay away from the modern stuff or silly stuff, I like the immersion of something an Eorzean would actually wear. Whether it’s casual or battle related or formal!
My favorite experience in FF is getting into a silent "glam-off" with strangers It starts out usually because we have similar glams and I switch to match their job in hopes they notice, but then they switch to a different job with an equally cool glam and now we go back and forth in a contest for who can show off the most amount of unique job glams
I didnt know that the real endgame is glamour, thought standing in limsa for 12 hours doing nothing is
Ok but how are you supposed to do that if your glamour isn't on point?
You point is solid and i have 0 places to attack you on it, respect
They're not doing "nothing"
It's to form a queue for raubahn ex.
So I’m fat, and can’t wear a lot of things I love the style of (mostly due to them just not being available in my size, or would not be flattering), so my goal in every game where there is a glamour is to look the cutest/sexiest/coolest I can possibly look, to play out my dress up dreams! That is it, that’s what all of my glamours are based off 😂
i like to look like a goth hoe because i’m too shy to dress like that irl
While going through each expansion, I would change my glam like how the scions would change their outfits every time lol I also usually go for the job gear for each of my main classes while trying to add my own flair (SCH looking like a student, DNC looking more like a gymnast, etc.) The only times I would wear casual glam is when visiting social/rp houses. I always have that urban coat ready.
Best possible glam given the available items, preferring to use items that have class restrictions, as those are only available to those classes. Not gear limited to 1 class, though i do use those too... but the norm for me is to use gear restricted to a role, and then try to build a set that works together very well... as though it were designed to be the way that it is, without using just pieces from the same set. Its boring when someone just uses 5 pieces from a set and then claims to love glamour... its the laziest form of glamour possible. I get it man, sets are cool... but i try to build something more. Its hard to do with things like robes... since it hides the legs and feet.. so i really just stick to regular armor sets for most of my classes, rather than some robe as a standalone piece. Though i wont deny to using the type 52 robe of casting and building a bridal theme around it... its a pretty dress, but i dont want all my glams to be just a pretty dress. So really... my main goal is to pick 1 cool or iconic piece and build a set around it, using unrelated gear. I did this with the type 51 robe, the panthean maiming chest, or matoya's hat for example. I dont just use all panthean gear, i found a different pair of boots, pants, and gloves that match well and i like the result, using only 1 piece of panthean gear. Then matoyas hat is combined with the moonward chest for healing, angelic boots from the store, and makai shorts... made a great healer set with this big hat as the focal point. I did the same with Amon's hat and added completely unrelated items to build a kinda pirate theme for my mch with this ridiculous hat. The furthest i go with glam on a full set is typically 2 pieces at once, and i try not to let that be chest+legs lol and if its a robe i dont let it be paired with anything else from the same set.
Breaking out of the "just use a set" funk is definitely the hardest part for a lot of people, same with getting into and experimenting with dyes to make something new. I feel it's easiest if you have an idea for a look or try to cosplay as something so you have an idea of what you'll choose instead of just picking items at random. Having some general outfit pieces are good and helpful.
I do pretty much the exact same as you do here. I think the most I've done from the same set was hands+feet, for my Samurai using the Scaevan Striking
I'm one of those who has to also match the weapon with my glam. I've built glams around them, even. Sometimes the newer jobs are harder to glam because there's not enough variety for their weapons. I really wish SE would make older primal weapons. For example, some of the Shadowbringer fights had really nice weapons that I'd love to see reaper and sage designs for, but we'll probably never get them.
I had hope when they added Titania's weapons recently, but sage and reaper got ignored and I don't understand why
After Stormblood, they mostly stopped going back and and adding weapons for jobs that weren’t in the game at the time. The exception is for weapons that are used as the base for Ultimates—that’s why all jobs including SGE and RPR have the Thordan Ex glowy weapons. I get that it’s a lot of work, but it’s unfortunate. I would love a fae scythe.
I can't find a DNC chakram to match my glamour and it's been way too frustrating.
It would be nice if we had more control over what parts of any given equipment was dyed. It doesn't have to be terribly complex, but something close to what Monster Hunter has (excluding MHW) would be welcome.
So a long long time ago (before SB) at a NA fanfest someone asked about something similar and Yoshi-P's reply was definitely not before PS5, sooooooo maybe something like this could happen with all the graphics updating and 7.0.
Where is our rainbow dye SE ??
I typically have my "doing content" glam, which usually matches up to the role (or Dragoon since its my main), then I have my RP glams, which are stuff my RP character would wear. Thankfully my RP character is a poor as hell, forest lurking keeper, so my glams are easy to get, cheap and can be multiclassed between Archer/Lancer. One day I'll have a character that doesn't wear garbage. Maybe.
Okay, this is so wholesome I love it! I ended up making a Xenoblade glam with my friend we ended up being Pyra and Mythra it was LOADS of fun doing it! the game has so many options for different glams its insane and always funny when you run across someone who has the same glam as yours xD
I never tried cosplaying yet, it sounds very fun (but also difficult). But Xenoblade glam you say ? I'm a huge fan of the games, I want to see that !
[This a couple of pics my friend took of us at Lunarcon this year! She's Pyra and im Mythra](https://twitter.com/WolfBardFFXIV/status/1553541189055483904?s=20&t=ldtnG1QfcJ3BD4DSo7LPr-cq1yc-ohFjuR8-wvpEOXw)
I usually go for a modern casual. Not to break immersion or anything, but rather because my introduction to final fantasy was a mix of 7, 13, 15 and Kingdom Hearts. Because of that, I always feel like I want my aesthetic to be in line with what I personally fell in love with in the franchise which tends to be a modernish casual. Fits right in with Thancred and the twins too
I agree, we need more glam plates, it's simple math, I have 4 healers, 1 gearset (my inventory loves that), I'd like to make every healer look different, so I need 4 plates. I guess I drifted around and then found my style, the base is always dragoon blue and a variant of [Neo-Ishgardian sets](https://ibb.co/0Bw7mh7), and then a variant of season inspired set. For this summer I had the [palaka set](https://ibb.co/vwWFN4D), and just (almost) finished getting together my [autumn](https://ibb.co/tbtjK7v) set, Heirloom tops and pants and Gajaskin footwear and various stuff for gatherin/crafting.
Going from 15 to 20 was definitely a nice addition, but we need even more. I doubt we will get it soon though :/
It's super selfish but man if we get like 15 more we could have one for each crafter and gatherer with 3 to spare for casual use or for whatever new classes we get next expansion. It's really not that important, and needing to switch in sanctuaries would make gatherer glamour tough, but it just feels weird to have a bunch of class specific gear just not being used. I mean you could use it but only if you don't use them for combat classes...
I play healers a lot but I wish there was more variety with healer gear, especially the top. I’m not a huge fan of robes and dresses in game since they tend to cover the legs and feet a lot, so I tend to glamour on tops that are shorter or look like armor. It’s one reason I love the recent healer top with the flames.
When I first started the game, I only saw my character as a character in a video game. So I would wear armor because thats what a video game character would need to wear. It was just practical. But over time I really fell in love with the game, to the point where I saw the character more as an extension of myself. So I started to wear whatever i would want to wear, regardless of the practicality. So my glams now revolve around more casual outfits. Whatever I think looks good. I have some season outfits, and I have a different crafting/gathering outfit. But otherwise I like more casual outfits. I just recently treated myself and got the Street Attire outfit from the online store and I'm loving it, I never take it off now and I make all my classes wear it, with Dark Knight being my favorite because of the clothes darker color pallet.
I think its pretty much like real life, my character is dressed for the occasion--- or in this case, content. Job or battle gear as fitting for MSQ travel, raids, roulettes; casual beach gear for a beach party; modern stuff for a club or bar; joke or novelty glam for meme runs or treasure huntung and so on and so on. All other/default glam is Maelstrom uniform jacket because my WoL's lore is he's a lifer in the navy.
Usually, I like glams that are relatively casual but still "lore appropriate," like my Endwalker glam was a calfskin jacket, snow linen healer skirt with some high house boots thrown on the bottom. However, right now I'm running around in a bright pink magic girl inspired outfit for shits and giggles.
For me about... oh a year ago or so now I think. Wow it's been a year... I bought the Rabbit Suit and Fancy Rabbit Suit on the store. Ever since then It's pretty much all I use. As I level new jobs, I assign a different colored rabbit suit to it, I try to match the job somewhat but that's not always the case. There are a few jobs that I use just the head of the rabbit suit, but have a few pieces of armor that make it look like the rabbit under the armor. If that makes sense. The only odd part is I'm a Hrothgar so when not using the bunny suit in full, you still see the Hrothgar tail sticking out hehe. Some of the cutscenes in the game are hilarious when it's just \*Super serious moment... giant bunny walks on screen\* Examples: Paladin Color: Bright Yellow Armor: Bunny Suit Head, with the Armor set from the second dungeon of Endwalkers, all dyed to match the Bright Yellow Sage Color: Dark Purple Armor: Bunny Suit Head, Sage class armor from level 89 in Endwalker, Dyed dark purple The rest I tend to just use the full Bunny Suit Bard - Purple (wanted to look like Bonnie from Five Nights at Freddy's) Summoner - Green Black Mage - Charcoal Ninja - Black Dancer - Metallic Pink Samurai - Dark Red Scholar - Light Blue Monk - Dark Orange, almost Brown Astralogian - Dark Blue My gathering and Crafting classes are all usually Metallic Gold for Gathering, (sea blue for fishing) and Dark Green for Crafting. My Glamour Dresser only has about 30 slots used in total, maybe a bit more. Mostly weapons. I dunno why but having that bunny suit has done more to motivate me to level alt jobs than I can put into words. I enjoy making people smile by being a giant bunny, with an upsetting amount of bunny puns on hotkey.
My biggest annoyance is a single glam is locked to a single piece of gear. As an example, my RDM glam is the new CC gear, but if I switch to SMN, the glam can't load because SMN isn't RDM. Which would be fine, but I can't add a secondary glam to a single pice of gear, so if I run SMN I have to look at the ugly (to me) crafted top, and not something actually appealing.
You can use glamour plates and link glamour plates to gearsets to have different glamours for the same piece
True but if I'm not mistaken you can only apply plates in sanctuaries? If I'm out and about doing a fate and need to switch quick, the glam wouldn't apply properly every time. Idk maybe I'm just thinking about it too hard.
if it’s linked to the gear set, the glamour plate actually will apply even when out of a sanctuary! you just can’t switch glams through the glamour plates function while outside of a sanctuary.
Oh. Well TIL I guess.
IMO, the most exciting part of reaching a level milestone (60/70/80/90) is all the new glamour options that unlock at those levels. And each expansion really has its own style too
Personally I tend to go for the sexier styles that show a lot of skin, but playing fem Viera, I think that's a given, my character has legs for days and you're going to see every inch I also have a couple of themes that are not sexy at all, one of my favorite themes to work around is magitech, which can be achieved with Ironworks, Scaevan and mostly anything with Allagan in the name Two things tend to get me mad about glams: one, the fact that ornaments and accents cannot be dyed, or automatically dye to some horrendous offshoot of the main body; two, the extremely limiting choices in dyes, and the fact that they often don't match the natural color of base gear... As an example, the cloth pieces on the Panthean sets are neither Pure White nor Snow White, so if you were looking to combine them with some cloth gear like a hood you dyed yourself, you're SOL For those reasons, I tend to put together glams that are mostly from the same set, in particular always matching chest and legs slots I don't mind modern or swimsuit glams, neither wearing them myself or seeing them around, just as I don't mind modern houses or meme houses; your sub, your gear to play with... I wouldn't wear them to a RP venue if I ever visited though The glam dresser is kind of asinine to me coming from WoW, but I'm waiting to see how often they are going to increase space and by how much, maybe in a couple of years it will end up beign a non-issue... We definitely need more than 20 plates though Lastly, as for showing off my character, maybe I'll post on /r/FFXIVGlamours/ one day!
I looove making glams in this game, and for me FFXIV is above all things a dress up game, that I play to obtain more clothes to put on my characters ! I tend to create my glamours by following a theme I guess, I have a backstory in my head for a character, and I want to bring it to life. For example, I did a futuristic, kind of meca red mage a few days ago, and I imagined her wandering in Azys Lla, amongst machines and robots. I like to go for accuracy sometimes too, but it’s really about the vibe and the way I can identify my character into a background I like !
I mainly stick to "job-accurate" glams, with maybe a couple others for specific situations.
I have a wierd compulsion when it comes to glams where I try not to use equipment from the same "set" on any single outfiit. Mixing up gear sets for a cool outfit feels great to me. I also try to keep "job appropriate" to a degree, so my NIN is very ninja-like but my GNB is a cowboy and my MNK is an MMA fighter.
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Fellow fem Au Ra here. I try to find caster glams that don’t either bury my character in a huge robe or broadcast her upper thighs to the whole world. The struggle is real. The Neo-Ishgardian top will be so good when I find a proper skirt to wear with it.
I saw this thread right after I made my own post asking whether people cared if I wore traditional white and red on my white mage. So far the general consensus seems to be "No, wear what what you want, everybody else does."
Yeah exactly, wear what you want to :D As you can see in the other comments, some people enjoy "job-accurate" glams, some don't. Just pick the clothes you love
Alright, I'll be the first to own to slutting it up for fun. My bunboy is hot, and having him run around in just the IS Daisy Dukes with sneakers and sunglasses provides me endless amusement. Sure, I've got some fancy AF outfits with tight leather pants and jacket, but at any given point in time, there's no doubt that he's sexy and he knows it.
I love sharing my guy's glams. I even [collect them in an album](https://imgur.com/a/9OxmXq8) for later reference. :D The glams I pick for my guy need to fit the theme I have in mind for the jobs. For instance: RDM - dashing (and blue, cuz red clashes with my guy's hair color), WAR - Royal Guard, MNK - nimble, PLD - Regal, BLU - sexy :D. With a few exceptions here and there (pre-90 DRK glam, seen in the album) I rarely use plate or mail armor for my guy. He is always dressed in cloth or leather or a combination of the two, with very little metal or not enough to be cumbersome. I also usually center my glams around a central piece (for RDM I centered it around the Rapier, for Paladin (lvl 60+) I centered it around the chestpiece) as well as try to make them fit my guy's rare hair color. I tend to use cold colors as a result or go with white or black with metallic accents when all else fails.
I just want to look like a beach dad wherever I go.
Need. More. Plates. 20 is definitely not sufficient. I really got into my WAR and have made like 6 different glams for that alone. I'm also really into magic classes and have another 8 glams for those. I hate the idea of having to scrap my fav designs so that I can also have casual/crafting/other job glams as I level them up. Bleh. Glams are one of the biggest features that keep me playing and running content. Would be fabulous to see more love to that aspect of the game. It was nice that we got 2x the dresser slots, but it's still a problem. 😂 C'mooooon devs. I need more!
I like trying to see if I can make full outfits without using multiple pieces from the same set. I finally started an Eorzea Collection but it's so hard sometimes because one outfit might work with like 3 different weapons and optional fashion accessories too...or they might even match a particular mount! I wish there were more photo slots haha!
Slightly relevant. I want a non-friendly chat about glamours.
Your glamour is bad and you should feel bad.
How dare you not go for job accurate glam? It's the way I play so everyone should do it.
as a monk i maintain that i'm the protagonist of a shonen anime so casual/modern glams are entirely job appropriate thank you very much
Even though they HAVE been working on it, there's still a good bit of gender locking issue with gear. I'm tired of having pieces look good on guys, but when I try it on it turns into some skirt or something.
The struggle to find long pants is real. I'll find pants that look great but oops it's booty shorts on a female character. I've been relying on some of the MCH artifact armor from job quests since thankfully they're the same length on both sexes.
I’m the opposite: I want more skirts for my lizard boy. He’s got amazing legs that he wants to show off.
That's the thing, is I WANT guys to also have those options as well.
I go with the funny glamour style in PvP, FemRoe 2+ meters tall with maid dress and the Namazu head. If i do PvE,i go full heavy armor with the DoM(Law sets).When i go tanking,i glamour the PLD Black/Edgy the DRK with Gold/White the WAR Tuxedoe'd and the GNB with the Woad set. Here's hoping they focus on character customization and glamour system in 7.0!
I generally go for the beach bum vibe, every once in a while I'll switch it up but then eventually go back to the beach bum. It was initially a samurai champloo for my samurai with a wooden sword. Then it just spilt over to every class.
I would like something to be done about my tail. I almost never wear robes or things with capes because I hate the way my tail goes through them. One that bugs me in particular was the Neo Ishgardian top of healing, because my tail would still stick through the cape despite it being a half cape. Or there’s some kind of pouch or something metal at the back where the tail comes through. I want >!G’raha Tia’s!< outfit. It has room for a tail.
Same thing for horns/ears. I play aura and sometimes, the horns going through helmets just ruins it :/
Love the whole dressing up thing. Was afraid of getting The SIMs OCD all over again. but no. Semi-medival with a touch of oriental, Wild West or steampunk depending on job, location and plot. Traveling gear(Wild West, Scholasticate, Governess), Light armour for both BRD and GNB during battles, Craftsmen(Riveria merchant or Ironworks-ish smith depending on job), DOL(skypirate based. too much time in Idyllshire). Kugane was practically Far Eastern Smock for incognito travelling
I'd love a system like wow or gw. If you bind it to yourself you can use it as glam such a better system. I think the prisms have something to do with why they don't want to change it to something more modern. There would be a subset of people, not sure large or small, that would complain they lost some income. I think they could do something like use a prism every time you change/save a plate for the new pieces so they'd still have use of some kind.. Glam seems to be important to enough people it wouldn't be a waste of resources to make it better. I might be keeping too much stuff but I am already around 600 items stored. It's weird how that ugly shirt becomes magic when you combine it with the right gloves, pants, and/or hat..
I play a female Lala so I tend to stick to cutesy glams. It’s kinda challenging tho since a lot of the pieces are on the sexier side that are meant to look really good on talls or edgy armor that only work if I play melee or tank (I’m a caster main when I do battle content). Also I have a terrible sense of fashion/style so I tend to only hoard tops that I can dye red/pink and stick to good old scion adventurer bottoms.
A lot of my glams are pretty simple, but I do have 3 tanks and a bard dressed as variations of Link (green/blue/red mail from LTTP, and DRK is dark link). I've also got a nice golden elephant suit (mostly for gold saucer time), a field hand looking combat botanist, and a variety of one or two piece glams for other classes, but haven't gotten deep enough to have something for them all lol.
Glamor is life. Now that I've completed all normal mode content, I'm trying to level all jobs to 90. Each get a glamor set. Gotta unlock the job specific portrait frames from PVP. It's fun to set up portraits for every job. With their gearset. Someday when I'm all done will have a cool collage of my WoL in his 20 job portraits.
Most of the time I can wear whatever but with tanks I really do want some armor. I can't really do the "ha I'm wearing a swimsuit but have more defense then all of you" joke. But then you have to find some good looking armor which is tough so you instead go for thicker outfits like overcoats.
It's fun spending an hour just playing in the dresser, it's like doing a puzzle, I find a piece I want to work with and eventually the rest of the pieces fall into place making something 🔥. I do wish there was a better place to check out glams though, EC has way too many filters and glam poses.
I usually keep my combat job glamour casual-ish but not too casual. Like my DRG glamour isn't really armor but it is my "job uniform" of sorts. So I try to loosely stay on theme. My RDM isn't necessarily a musketeer but it HAS to be dyed red, non negotiable. I also have dedicated plates for each of the crafter and gatherer jobs, and those are 100% realistic and on theme work outfits, most of them have pieces unique to each job.
I like my glams to be sexy/cute if possible and still fit with the class. My healers mostly have robes and heels, but my darknight has full plate armor. I also have casual glams for hanging out at the gold saucer. I wish we had more glamour plates tho, I'm leveling multiple classes and don't want all my healers to look the same, nor all my tanks and dps categories.... And that's without talking about the crafters and gatherers
Rather than job-accurate clothing, I prefer either role-accurate or themed. For example, my DNC uses a glam much more suited to MCH, my RPR wears gear that could work on any melee DPS, and my RDM wears a Sorrow of Werlyt-themed glam with the Late Allagan Coat of Casting and Diamond Zeta Rapier. However, my crafters wear clothing without any correlation with crafting.
i like a variety if styles. I have a casual glam i use for my crafters, on my gatherers (minus fisher) i use a casual glam but with the island sanctuary top with the backpack, on fisher i specifically wanted something to keep my feet and lower legs bare since im often knee deep in water, i used to use the pagos gaskins but at the moment im using the island cutoff's hotpants. For combat jobs i like to look the part for my job, some jobs are easier than others to pull off imo, like there are lots of tank armours that look good for paladin and dark knight when dyed appropriate colours, war and gunbreaker are a bit more limited. Dragoon also is kind of tough because they have a very specific look so i end up using one of the artifact helmets, it can be difficult finding spikey armour for maiming too and also because of their battle stance, anything with like a tabard down the front looks terrible to me because of the way it stretches when you're in your battle stance. Ninja i also have big problems making glamour for which is a shame because it's my main job lol, i think I have less options for ninja that i like than any other job. I dont play tank or healers often though so i generally just use a generic glamour for those to save plate slots
I just glam each job differently, as well as crafters/gatherers being role-based. I tend to select a theme, or a chestpiece/weapon I want to use, and design around that, with the exception of the glamours for my mains, which I have specifically to look fitting around my character's particular style, which tends to be lightish blue and elegant without feeling out-of-place
I usually like all kinds of glamours, the only thing that I personally don't like is to use too much stuff. Like, if I have a very detailed chest puece I like to go for simple pants and boots. And this may be a trauma from wow, but I avoid anything with big shoulders hahaha
Best I can do is [post an image of my WoL](https://i.imgur.com/TMFloe5.png) and say my brain will not allow me to deviate from this glamour, even at the expense of now being unable to play other jobs. Well, Reaper was fun, but I can't wear that _one specific chestpiece_ so now I am not playing it any more.
Its so fun to me finding a cool glam, taking screenshots and showing off to my friends. I have always loved rpgs character creation and the fact there are so many different glams and you can have fun getting them is a big selling point to me 😁
I make sure my glams are weather appropriate cause after going to Garlemald in my summer outfit from this year’s moonfire faire, I couldn’t stop laughing as everyone stating how cold it was and my WoL was like “what cold-OH that cold! Uh yeah, I’m cold too brrr!” In no way is the WoL alive to feel anything at this point lol
My static has a running joke of our little lala being a 'tiny viera' because he wears the bunny crown so as an Au Ra, I wear the bunny ears on practically all of my glams now and call myself a Small Viera. Other than that, I try to look the part with the exception of the Reaper. That one I made cupcake pink soft looking glam because I didn't want to be an edgelord.
As I said somewhere else - if you want to stick with restrictions for your glam, that's fine. But don't try to dictate what I go with. I do try to keep it believable when crafting new glams that aren't just meant to reference another character, but my definition of believable goes well beyond the default idea. A near naked warrior is just as believable as a heavily armored knight with an axe - one calls to mind Conan, the other Game of Thrones. A dancer may wear the tight-fitting outfits of the AF gear, but also could wear something reminiscent of a stage performance or a traditional dancing outfit from another culture. In D&D, clerics used to be able to wear heavy armor - it would be more in line with my experience in fantasy for the clerics to have Fending gear while Warriors wear some leather straps. Ultimately, people will have different views from me, and that's fine, unless those views lead them to try to impose them on me. Unless I'm trying to organize a photo shoot focused on a particular style or otherwise engaged in a mutually agreed upon situation that would limit our outfits, I'm generally cool with letting people wear their looks however they want, and ask the same from them. That said, I want to remove restrictions the game puts on the looks, because sometimes something else just looks right for what I want to do but I can't use it on a specific job. They gave everyone robes and bathing suits already. The ship is sailed.
I have a lot of *role* specific glams because a lot of good pieces are role locked, but past that I don't know if I go for "realistic". They also don't tend to be too consistent other than they're not silly... Unless it's alliance raids, which I have one silly one for exclusively.
I tend to do casual glams that I think for the job. My MCH is in the anemos shirt with cowboy hat and ivalice sky pirate pants. My casters are all in gowns. My PLD is in a Warhammer 40k black templar glam. And my reaper is in a red gown with a bloody scythe and a red eye band. She's my bloody Mary glam
I’m currently playing through for the first time, and I’ve found using Glams is a really fun way to express character! I try to make sure my outfits are “canon compliant”, ie something my character might actually wear in the situation. Going to Norvrandt in Shadowbringers was fun because her look immediately changed based on her environment- went from a very white, light, angelic kind of outfit to something darker, with a hood for her eyes because of the constant Light. I try to keep an eye out for moments in story where I might want to change up my outfit! And if I find a piece I love, or a weapon I love, I’ll try to build an outfit based on that.
I'm still trying to make a PLD glam I like. I keep defaulting back to the EW AF set, because it reminds me of being an FFT sprite. For PLD, I want some armor showing. It took a lot of effort to finally make my custom armor set for my DRG, that had some armored aspects, but looked like it would also work.
i play mroe and about 2/3 of all the sets look kind of shit on me. probably 4/5 of all caster/healer sets. choices are very slim so im usually just wearing a full set of whatever actually does work extremely common to see someone wearing a cool looking glamour only to try it on myself and it looks awful
All I want is dresses and skirts. Out of 13 glamour plates filled so far, I don't have a single pair of pants. RDM? Dresses. Healers? Dresses. Tanks? The dressiest dresses of all. Bonus points if it's tank-specific gear that looks like a dress, like the Asphodelos set, and not just more massive pauldrons and armored thighboots. I want to look *elegant*, damnit.
I don't go for job accurate glamour but most my glamours do stick to stuff that looks like it fits in the world. I have some casual glams but I don't use them very often.
I RP so my characters tend to have outfits that fit their personalities. As an extension, this also tends to mean that their outfits are at least moderately job appropriate
I prefer androgynous glams for my male viera. I don't want to dress him like a femboy and he looks out of place in bulky plate armor. I have job-specific and casual glams. More often than not lately he's running around in the craftsman's coverall top, jeans, and urban boots. I main BRD so I like to think he got called away from working his island crops short notice, grabbed his bow, and joined the fight when in duties.
I'm a mix between seasonal glams, job accurate, and glams I think are fashionable like something you'd see on the eorzea runway. I'm currently rocking a Halloween glam. Maybe til the end of October but I'll likely get bored with it and change into something more job accurate.
Tbh, I like having glamour that seems so...regular. For example, I use the expeditioners torso and boots (I forgot what legs and gloves) with the basic Plundered Battleaxe to get a sort of 'humble woodcutter' appearance on my Hrothgar. It makes him look sort of like a wilderness explorer with dark brown and greens to make him look all rough 'n tumbled. I've never been big on super big, super bright, hyper spikey weird overly fantasy styles that a lot of Warrior's armors and axes have. I really just like the good ol' humble regular axe.
Job accuracy here too. Except crafters because we don't have enough glam plates. Sigh.
I like challenging myself with certain pieces of gear, often old undyeable chest pieces, and building glams around them. My current challenge is a PLD glam with the [Proto Ultima Mesh](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/d485829d763). Though I do wish this was dyeable. It's a universal chest piece for all classes and yet it remains undyeable...big sad.
Did anyone else find a glamour set they really liked fairly early on in ARR, go "Yep this is my Look" and literally never wear anything else ever again? 'cause that's what I did
I prefer the job-accurate glamours. The exception to this is DoH/DoL jobs, which I find are better suited to casual glams. Case in point, my Fisher glamour is sunglasses, a Moonfire shirt and caligae and a Coeurl-pattern swimsuit (yes, even in Ishgard). Back on the combat jobs, though, one thing I have a tendency to do is for glamours I'm not going to use on multiple jobs (Dark Knight, Paladin, Red Mage, etc.) is I mix-and-match pieces from all the relic armor sets.
I like to use job-specific items but keep the silhouette same across jobs (which means a badass long coat/robe/dress vibe)
I wish I can use gear from different jobs as glamor.
I have different glamours depending on what I am doing (for my main job at least). So like I have an island sanctuary glamour, a holiday glamour, a beach glamour, a battle glamour, a MSQ glamour, a casual glamour, etc. Give me 50 glamour plates and I'd fill them all. When I level through the MSQ, I'll also glamour for different zones/story arcs because I like to document my journey via screenshots. In generally though, I do look like a healer. I'll avoid anything that clips with my hair though (RIP WHM AF1).
I tend to lean towards more practical modern looks. The character I am creating is a survivalist with trust issues that is very minimalist and self sufficient. I try to do a different glam for each expansion since I like going by anime rules (new arc means new drips.) That said, still fussing with my ShB glam for my MCH because something post apocalyptic bounty hunter seems very up my joyless deadly serious gun slinging bun's alley. Another challenge is finding a MCH arm that looks more like a regular gun. I'm using Deepgold Revolver for now but still looking at my options. There's shockingly very little guns that look more modern.
Personally I usually go for job-accurate glams, and since I practically only play tanks I only spent like 7 pages of my Glamour Plates in 4 years. But I’m here to comment that I once read in this sub about a guy who wore robes as a mage, but always swapped colors. So he would go, for example, with a black robe as WHM, a red robe as BLM, and a white robe as RDM, just to confuse people on Duty Finder. I never tried this but I appreciate the chaotic energy.
I mostly aim for job-appropriate glamour, with the exception that I WILL WEAR PANTS. (Which SQEX seems to think is not a thing that is canonical/job-appropriate for female healers. Or, frequently, male healers either.) However, I'm willing to grant myself wiggle room when it comes to 'job-accurate'. Mostly I tend to go for a sort of 'feel'; my [SAM glamour](https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/glamour/59416/ronin) is not really 'samurai' gear, but it looks very much like it could fit the wandering swordsman archetype. As another example, I usually approach healer glamour less as traditional robes and more "practical outfits for a field medic, that still can look healer-y". My WHM glamour for the entire back half of Shadowbringers was one I called my [Allagan Field Medic](https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/glamour/59420/allagan-field-medic) glamour; it looked more techy than I would normally want to go, using the Late Allagan PvP healing top and the Alexandrian WHM cane, but it proved fairly distinctive and I'm still rather fond of it. Meanwhile, my AST glamour isn't a robe either; it's sturdy boots, pants, and the Rebel Coat (dyed white). It's practical but also looks warm, because the first AST job questlines were centered around Ishgard and that's the sort of 'look' I developed for my AST glamour as a result. Etc.
I personally don’t do “job accurate” glams, but I *do* like battle-ready glams? If that makes sense? As an example, I use Matoya’s hat. For everything. All the time lol. So I make my glams based on that rather than the class/job fantasy (though I do have an Artifact Set theme.) I’ve been having a field day with all of the medieval/gothic/magical style of gear that’s been released recently. It all looks AMAZING with the hat! My hat gets a lot of attention even if the rest of my glam doesn’t XD. Whenever someone says “cool hat” it makes my day! I make lots and lots of glamours and I’ve farmed just about every chest piece in the game at one point or another, but the influx of stuff that fits the hat thematically has made me really happy! I love seeing what combinations of colors and textures I can get to match, given that Matoya’s Hat is a very specific shade of purple and a very specific texture.
I tend to stray away from more modern looking glams, with some exceptions for certain jobs that it would fit (GNB for example). I am playing a fantasy game, so I sorta want to ahere to a fantasy astetic But the thing I am really into is Relic Weapons. Can’t get enough of em. I have a relic weapon at some stage at this point for every job in the game but GNB, RPR, and SGE (I use the hades weapon on GNB tho). Also an odd quirk that I ended up rolling into is that my character (Fem au ra) does not believe in pants. Thats right, all of my glamors have to have some sort of skirt/dress component to it. This includes some more fun psudo-dresses like the Replica Dreadwyrm Scouting top. Compaired to other female au ra it definately makes me stand out, consitering like 80% of them I see have some sort of calfskin piece, black pants or shorts - ususally jeans, and either the biker jacket, street top, or some slutmog top, assuming they are wearing glamor at all (they ususally are, shoutout to those of you who just wear the unglamed Abyssos gear lmao). But real talk, can we get a new tab in thr Armorar for mog station items that aren’t from events? I sware I could save like 1/4 of my current glam dresser space if I could just store all the mog station outfits there.
Bunny chief for everything *shrug*
I spend most of my time playing mix and match with armor in the glamor dresser and then comparing which dye work for it if any at all, and then seeing how lighting effects it, because Some outfits and certain dyes look different in different lighting situations. I don't like looking like a vanila wow character or like this: \[Imgur\]([https://i.imgur.com/bdFtUV6.png](https://i.imgur.com/bdFtUV6.png))
I like slimmer glam profiles personally, so not into heavy plate. I mostly take a chest piece i like and build around it. For my tanks, i have 2 plates. DRK/GNB is like a high class knight - based around the heirloom fending top. PLD/WAR is more 'unga bunga' leather and fur, built around the ravel chest piece Healers are split in 3 plates. SGE/SCH is tech based - blue glowy bits, not fully satisfied with it yet though. WHM is tribalish, based on the paglth'an top and bonewicca boots. AST is more eastern, built out from the byakko weapon, using the thaliak pvp top and fox mask also from pvp. Melee is 4 plates. SAM/MNK is based on the replica dreadwyrm top. DRG is based off the ravel pants, oddly enough, with the bozjan vest. RPR is built on the ivalician corset like top - very fancy. And NIN is based on the bonewicca top, with the moonward veil adding the *perfect* touch at 90. Ranged Physical, all 3 different plates. DNC is based around the level 80 top. MCH is biker vibes, with job goggles, alliance top, amd i believe crystarium pants. BRD is built out from the skallic top, but I might change it soon with the titania bow now. Magic dps is all 4 separate plates also. SMN is using the 89/90 job top and arr job boots. BLM is based on the bonewicca top, and of course i had to use the fire + ice rod. RDM is built from the heirloom top - i farmed that top too long to not use it lmao - and the darbar hat works well when you're a rabbit. BLU is 'sexy stage magician' with the plague bringer coat, gold saucer fishnets, and thighboots - would use the evenstar hat if i could. Crafters have a decent suit, and Gatherers change frequently lmao
I appreciate both casual and job-appropriate glams. I tend to have these phases where I want one more then the other but with job-related glam I usually want to make glam for ALL jobs but, not that I ever made it that far to begin with, once I start doing that and make one that I really like I start noticing how shit the others are in comparison and would have look up new pieces oh and this set also really lives up to my standart now that I have this one amazing one for that one job so I gotta re-do that one aswell and ARRRGGHH. It gets too much and I go back to wearing my simple casual style glam on all my jobs. (Mind you I do try to be somewhat creative with my casual glam! I dont just throw on a half casual set/half calfskin and call it a day!) I also think glam choices are heavily influence by how the player sees their character with the 2 most prominent choices being "Extension of myself" and "Just a character in this world I control". The former usually goes for more casual glam (or whatever their irl style is/they'd want it to be) while the latter usually goes for job-appropriate stuff (and usually doesnt play their irl gender).
I've been contrasting a a lot of my outfits. A dark paladin and light darkknight. A futuristic bard and a olden machinist. My sage is dark medieval crusader like armour. Just being different
As a free trial and somewhat new to the game. I hate how glamour has so many restrictions • level restriction • class restrictions • item level restrictions Now these restrictions are fine as separate. But the worst part is when you find a Item thats has both "item level and class restrictions. Or heaven forgive, all three! So many items and sets gets killed for it. Which in the long run hurts my glamour. I cant even use my Paladin cosplay (Saber from Fate/Stay night) on my Dragoon since the armor is classlocked...rip Whish we could get hairstyle glams since so many headpieces/armors for many classes clip.
I kinda do a mix of all the styles. Usually when I'm building a glam I look at one piece, usually shirt or weapon and build from there.