![]() ![]() It gave low-level crafters something to do - and a means of making money by selling completed Glamour Prisms on the game’s Market Board - plus it meant, just like everything else in the game, you had to make a bit of an effort to achieve something rather than just having it handed to you.įrom patch 4.1 onward, however - the first content update after the launch of second Final Fantasy XIV expansion Stormblood - the game completely revamped the glamour system. This was all very well and good for quite some time. Having not fiddled around with the new glamour system, I thought I’d stock up on Prisms. You could remove the new look with a Glamour Dispeller item, but otherwise the item kept its new appearance. Then you’d need to cast the glamour on the piece of equipment, which would semi-permanently alter that gear’s appearance to that of the gear you glamoured onto it. Then, you’d need to either craft it into a Glamour Prism of the appropriate grade and type for the piece of equipment you were hoping to glamour. First, you’d need to be level 50 fashion is only for the elite, after all. Originally, the glamour system had a number of steps to it. The game already contained a large number of gear items that were more “costume” than actually useful equipment, after all - seasonal events have handed them out like candy ever since Final Fantasy XIV’s launch - so people thought it might be nice to be able to make use of these pieces of gear in situations other than social gatherings. The glamour system was originally implemented in patch 2.2 of A Realm Reborn after frequent requests from the player base. But the most common use of glamour by far is purely for the sake of fashion. In the Final Fantasy XIV game world, we often see characters and foes making use of glamour magicks to make themselves appear more intimidating - late in A Realm Reborn’s 2.0 storyline, for example, an impostor Ishgardian Inquisitor glamours himself into the form of a Dravanian dragon in a last-ditch attempt to save his own life from being cut down by the Warrior of Light. That level 70 Samurai gear was getting a bit sweaty. Hanging out in my Ul’Dah inn room, ready to get dollied up.
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