Na this kind of shit is totally confusing, it's honestly a mystery why they didn't remove the gloves when they launched HW, guess they were too busy, it's just pointless and annoying you have to make special sets and shit when doing these quests. /isearch is great for finding stuff especially after long breaks though, sometimes stuff is on a retainer or in your chocobo saddle or whatever but you can't find it cause you think the icon is different than what it is.
It simply reactivates your account, doesn't give you any new content you didn't own, and since it's not like wow where you get all the expansions besides the last but the opposite, where you only have the vanilla game but buying the last expansion gives you all expansions, you wouldn't have any new content, unless you stopped at the end of 3.0 HW story, then you have 3.1 to 3.55 stuff, but it'll stop at Stormsblood and you won't have SAM/RDM/GNB/DNC
It's not nearly as easy to use as wow, but yeah. It's called Glamours in the game, if you google it you'll find stuff explaining it, but basically there's 2 systems, the old system which simply lets you put the appearance of one item onto another, one by one, and the new system which uses the glamour dresser accessible in your private room in inns(at any major city) as well as in your barracks at your GC once unlocked. This lets you drop items in this special chest, and then you can use the appearances of said item to apply to any pieces while in town but only following a premade set you created at the same dresser(15 total sets can be saved atm iirc). It is however slot limited(I think it's 400 atm), isn't account wide and requires you put the physical item in there, you can't discard them.
Yeah I just drop anything that looks nice in mine and it's slowly filling up but still fine, think I'm at like 250ish items. Mostly bodies. Some people go crazy with the jewelery though, I only have one of each and that's the one that hides the appearances, since I don't care for them, so that leaves a lot of slots for the rest, I don't get helms much either since I often just hide them as I like my character's face and most look dumb or don't matter enough(crowns and hairpins and such, can't bother). It's mostly chest pieces and boots that matters, with pants and gloves depending on the other pieces. So 400 slots for these pieces isn't so bad. And you can always just carry more in your armoury inventory or your retainers or wherever if you really want to.
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I'm similar to you in the regards that I rarely change up the look of my character at max level. But it'll just be a huge pain in ass to glam your character every level tier of armor and weapons you get. Like has been said, the gear looks.. overwhelmingly good in this game. I was in love with the plate set that you can craft in the armorsmiths... 30's or 40's(?) for the longest time. What I learned the hard way was to only glam my blues. I leveled up glamming a bunch of shit, kind of thinking it was like WoW - but you had to manually do it instead. Once I started running out of room, I realized that a lot of the greens I had glammed, I just didnt pay attention to how they were basically the same look. I went through every green, and only ended up really wanting to keep the look of less than a handful of pieces. Took the rest of those greens to the Free Company and sold them for seals which in turn finished all the requirements for me to level up the FC to max.
Posted in the desktop computer thread but I build one withI'm curious what specs you ended up going with? (Or which prebuilt you bought.) I cant imagine that anything within the last 6-7 years will struggle with this game. My oldest PC has an Nvidia GTX 970 and runs this game with most settings set to on, fairly well. Then again, that PC was a monster when I built it.
On a side note : I couldnt remember which version GTX it was in that computer. I just remembered it was the 900 series. When I looked up the 970, damn if there arent some cards up there for like $500. Who in their right mind would pay $500 for a card that old? I must be missing something.
Neo-Ishgardian gear is craftable and within a stones throw of the highest item level drops in Savage raids. So keep that in mind.
