Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIII - March 21Follow

Would like to know that date for Patch 2.2. Hopefully it is still coming this month.

Edited, Mar 5th 2014 9:38am by Gnu

Yeah, most likely will be 3/24/14. They seem to implement patches on regular maintenance days.

I'm not expecting any curve balls in this live letter, but I'm curious to see what Yoshi-P says about housing.

I'm interested in the glamour system. I will be extremely happy if I can figure out a way to make my paladin gear look like my allagan caster's gear. I want it to be cross class, although I know that is probably not the case. Also it would be extremely cool to see expanded dye features / multiple dyes on each armor (including AF and allagan gear).

Wishful thinking until I hear more on the topic.

If they go with a system like WoW did, which I'm fairly sure they will, it will have logical restrictions. Those restrictions are as follows:

1. You must be able to equip it on that class, i.e. Plate > Plate, Cloth > Cloth.
**We most likely will not see Paladins running around in cloth gear or Black Mages running around with swords. It's silly and doesn't make any sense.

2. You must own the item you are switching the appearance to. If you want your Monk to be all Goatskinned out, you must own that set in order to do it.

3. If it is a weapon you can equip, they may allow cross weapon appearance switches. Such as with a Gladiator. He/She can equip both 1h Swords and Daggers. You may be able to Glamour your Sword to a dagger or vice versa, but no Sword > Wand, etc.

4. You must meet the level requirements for the gear. Even if your Black Mage is 50 and can equip the vanity set you want to use, you will not be able to use that appearance on your level 20 Arcanist's gear, but you can do the opposite.

In WoW, the gear available for this system is limited to "Green" or colored text (magic) items as well. You can't use "white" or vendor gear with no stats for your vanity set, although this may change with XIV. I don't think we'll be able to Glamour our armor to say a summerfest bikini though.


**I'm sure there are some folks out there that would want to make their mage look like a warrior, but historically more people end up complaining about it breaking their immersion in the game or the developers don't feel right about allowing it from a lore standpoint. I'm all for whatever makes the people happy though.


Edited, Mar 5th 2014 4:02pm by Transmigration

Damn, wish they could at least lift the restriction for crafting classes so at the very least I can craft in my Allagan without looking so ridiculously stupid in my patrician's set. Someone has to tell them that tights + knee high socks + dress shoes looks weird. But if it is limited to class only, I'll probably just take the coolest pieces of the AF sets for each crafting job and plug them all together. Some armorer stuff with some alchemist stuff, with goldsmith things thrown in... That could be cool.