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I think some people are being way way too critical here. Since 2.1 leveling has been made super easy. You've got Daily roulette, which my paladin alt has gained 1 level a day from and in the 40's is beast tribe dailies. The end result is as you level up, your upgrade gear becomes obsolete and ends up either being converted to Materia, or sold to a vendor for a few gil, or kept as pieces of potential RP look.
Also Dyes and Aethetician don't require complex magic. Glamours by it's very nature is magical, as you are putting the looks and dyes of 1 piece of gear, over your main equipment. Dyes requires no magic. Just pour the color juice on and done. Aethetician is an NPC who uses his own skills to do your styling. So really using Glamours any time before you got your first level 50, is rather pointless.
Like it or hate it, Glamours is on its way. It's an end game reward that you earn after such a long journey from 1 to 50. And as you level your class see's every style of gear you can craft. For example with say White Mages and their chest slot items you will at some point or another have equipped for your main questing gear:
Dalmatica
Robe
Halfrobe
Cowl
Gown
Bliaud
So as you level you will be able to find and equip and see various pieces of clothing and when you hit the magical level 50 and do the quest to unlock it, will have ready your chosen look for RP or whatever.
Would I of loved to of had it open at level 15? Sure. But what would be the point? Every time I leveled up I'd have to reglamour the upgrade gear. Where as at level cap, I go real slow in getting upgrade gear.
Overall, this system encourages and rewards people who level. This is Final Fantasy XIV. It's not Tera. It's not WoW. Though Yoshi did say ARR was inspired by how Blizzard did things with WoW early on. They are pumping out content way faster than WoW, their glamour system isn't as limiting as transmogrification was in WoW. In WoW, you could only do leather to leather, and even then there were restrictions. You could only use disenchantable items in that system. So many good looking white/grey gear people had that they enjoyed the looks of, and weren't allowed to use in transmogrifications.
This Glamours system is innovative, and adds some interesting elements to the end game RP. Plate wearers will be able to make their plated armor look like cloth tunics, etc. Anything you physically see on the character is glamourable. Only real limitations is your current class has to be able to equip it, and the system unlocks at level 50. I can agree with those limitations. Hell I love the fact that if your wearing one of them cowls, you can glamour a robe over it that doesn't use the head slot. You still wont be allowed to wear a head slot item, but at least you got the robe look you want!
Also Dyes and Aethetician don't require complex magic. Glamours by it's very nature is magical, as you are putting the looks and dyes of 1 piece of gear, over your main equipment. Dyes requires no magic. Just pour the color juice on and done. Aethetician is an NPC who uses his own skills to do your styling. So really using Glamours any time before you got your first level 50, is rather pointless.
Like it or hate it, Glamours is on its way. It's an end game reward that you earn after such a long journey from 1 to 50. And as you level your class see's every style of gear you can craft. For example with say White Mages and their chest slot items you will at some point or another have equipped for your main questing gear:
Dalmatica
Robe
Halfrobe
Cowl
Gown
Bliaud
So as you level you will be able to find and equip and see various pieces of clothing and when you hit the magical level 50 and do the quest to unlock it, will have ready your chosen look for RP or whatever.
Would I of loved to of had it open at level 15? Sure. But what would be the point? Every time I leveled up I'd have to reglamour the upgrade gear. Where as at level cap, I go real slow in getting upgrade gear.
Overall, this system encourages and rewards people who level. This is Final Fantasy XIV. It's not Tera. It's not WoW. Though Yoshi did say ARR was inspired by how Blizzard did things with WoW early on. They are pumping out content way faster than WoW, their glamour system isn't as limiting as transmogrification was in WoW. In WoW, you could only do leather to leather, and even then there were restrictions. You could only use disenchantable items in that system. So many good looking white/grey gear people had that they enjoyed the looks of, and weren't allowed to use in transmogrifications.
This Glamours system is innovative, and adds some interesting elements to the end game RP. Plate wearers will be able to make their plated armor look like cloth tunics, etc. Anything you physically see on the character is glamourable. Only real limitations is your current class has to be able to equip it, and the system unlocks at level 50. I can agree with those limitations. Hell I love the fact that if your wearing one of them cowls, you can glamour a robe over it that doesn't use the head slot. You still wont be allowed to wear a head slot item, but at least you got the robe look you want!