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(03-18-2014, 06:07 AM)Clover Wrote: This isn't a restriction I personally mind either. Every single game has it, there are always some armour pieces that can only be worn by a class and not by another, which encourages people to level multiple characters (and I think that's the point). At least in FFXIV you can level multiple classes with the same character, so you can actually wear every single piece of cloth of you put a bit of effort into it. And I think that's the key word here, effort; if you want something, you have to work for it. Again, they aren't asking for something impossible, as leveling is not difficult at all.
So yes, in the end, your character can wear any piece you want. Just get the level and class needed, it's simple as that. Working for a goal is one of the main points in MMORPGs, after all; you can't expect the game to give you everything without putting a minimum of effort into it.
Every single game most certainly does not have this limitation. RIFT allows you to use any piece of gear, regardless of level or whether you can equip it or not, in the wardrobe tab. SWTOR has Adaptive Armor, which changes its armor class (but not its appearance) to the heaviest one that your particular class can use, allowing tank-Jedi to wear mage-Jedi robes and vice versa. DCUO doesn't have this restriction, either, allowing you to use the appearance of any item you've obtained during your playtime, whether you still have it or not.
So no, I cannot wear any piece I want. Because I want to wear the Alchemist lab coat while fighting Twintania as a summoner. Because I want to combine the Foestriker body and armored boots and gauntlets on black mage to make a battle-wizard outfit. Because I want to mix and match sets to make more outfits so I don't look like a clone of every other goddamned black mage or summoner or scholar or warrior or bard.
As it stands, all that this glamour system, with its ridiculous limitations, is going to allow me to do is to make sure my sets match even when I'm using pieces from multiple sets. All it'll really let me do is get rid of that ugly BLM robe. It won't let me get crazy creative with outfits, farming dungeons left and right for pieces, leveling crafting jobs to get their AF, buying lots and lots of various bits of gear from crafters (isn't this the entire point of the glamour system? to help crafters?), playing around with the system to take loads of screenshots while burning through glamour prisms at a rate best described as scary--all the while funneling gil toward crafters who are desperate for any sort of relevance.
I won't be doing any of that. I'll maybe buy a handful of them, get rid of that horrible face-hiding BLM robe and sort out my outfit so it's not mismatched. Then I probably won't use any more until I get new gear. Imagine how much of my gil I would have redistributed to crafters if they had not totally hobbled and utterly crippled this system.
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