One of the most popular jokes within Final Fantasy 14 is that "Glamour is the true endgame" and some players do go through a lot to customize their character's appearance perfectly. The glamour system lets you change the appearance of a piece of equipment, with just a few restrictions.
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As the game has progressed over the years, the glamour system has become simplified and had its barrier for entry lowered. These days you only need to have reached level 15 and you can take on the quests to unlock glamour prisms and the recipes required to craft them.
Unlocking Glamours
There are two quests that you can undertake to unlock glamours. Both of them require you to be level 15 before you can take them.
| Quest | Quest Giver | Location |
|---|---|---|
| If I Had a Glamour | Swyrgeim | Western Thanalan (X:12.6, Y:14.3) |
| A Self-improving Man | Wiscard | Mor Dhona (X:22.1, Y:6.7) |
The quest in Western Thanalan requires that you fetch Swyrgeim some blood orange juice from a nearby bar, and the quest for Wiscard simply involves making a delivery to the nearby Rowena and then returning to him.
Either of these quests will reward you with the Cast Glamour action, 12 Glamour Prisms, and a Green Beret — a piece of vanity equipment that provides no stats but is supposed to look nice.
Getting More Glamour Prisms
While it's possible to simply buy stacks of Glamour Prisms on the market board, it is most cost-effective to craft them yourself. The first thing you'll have to do if you want to craft your prisms is unlocking the recipes. The quests that unlock these recipes require you to complete the quests that unlock the Cast Glamour action detailed above.
| Quest | Requirements | Quest Giver | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absolutely Glamourous | Complete If I Had a Glamour | Swyrgeim | Western Thanalan (X:12.6, Y:14.3) |
| Submission Impossible | Complete A Self-improving Man | Wiscard | Mor Dhona (X:22.1, Y:6.7) |
As before, either of these quests will reward you with the Master Recipes: Glamours Set book, which will let you craft Glamour Prisms with any of your crafter classes — except Culinarians, who are understandably not able to rustle up a prism in their skillets. Every one of these recipes requires that the respective crafter be level 15.
Every recipe for a Glamour Prism requires that you have a Clear Prism. These can be purchased for just 200 Gil from multiple vendors across the world, with the most convenient ones probably being Tataroga in Mor Dhona (X:22, Y:7) and Goberin in Western Thanalan (X:12, Y:15).
Along with a Clear Prism, each recipe requires some other materials that are typical of that crafter — the table below details what materials you'll need and some ways to acquire them easily.
| Crafter | Material | How To Acquire |
|---|---|---|
| Carpenter | Walnut Lumber | Purchase from the Ixali Vendor in the North Shroud (X:25, Y:23), or a level 25 crafting recipe that requires three Walnut Logs. |
| Blacksmith | Steel Ingot | Purchase from the Amal'jaa Vendor in Southern Thanalan (X:23, Y:14), or a level 26 crafting recipe that requires two Iron Ore and one Bomb Ash. |
| Armorer | Steel Rivets | Purchase from the Amal'jaa Vendor in Southern Thanalan (X:23, Y:14), or a level 29 crafting recipe that requires one Steel Ingot. |
| Goldsmith | Silver Ingot | A level 23 crafting recipe that requires three silver ore, which is mined in the South Shroud. |
| Leatherworker | Toad Leather | A level 26 crafting recipe that requires one Alumen (which is mined in Eastern Thanalan) and one Gigantoad Skin which drops from Gigantoad enemies. |
| Weaver | Undyed Velveteen | Purchase from the Sylphic Vendor in the East Shroud (X:22, Y:26), or a level 24 crafting recipe that requires one Dew Thread. |
| Alchemist | 2 Growth Formula Alpha | A level 30 crafting recipe that requires one Rock Salt, one Blue Landtrap Leaf, and one Quicksilver. |
As you can see from the table, if you want to be cost-effective it's easiest to make Silver Ingots as a Goldsmith as that method only requires some mining in the South Shroud. On the other hand, being time-effective simply requires buying Walnut Lumber, Steel Ingots, Steel Rivets, or Undyed Velveteen from the various Beast Tribe Vendors.
Other sources of Glamour Prisms include trading Wolf Marks, trading Grand Order seals, and trading Bicolor Gemstones from the Shadowbringers FATEs.
Casting A Glamour
The process of casting a glamour is relatively simple. There are, however, a few rules about how the system works.
- You can only make a piece of equipment take on the appearance of a different, lower-level piece of equipment.
- You can only make a piece of equipment take the appearance of items of the same class.
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Job exclusivity remains true even when the glamour is successful.
- For example, if you were to make a generic level 55 caster robe look like the Black Mage artifact armor and then equip that robe while you are a Red Mage, it would look like the generic caster robe instead.
- Alternatively, if you were to make a Bard-exclusive hat look like a generic hat that all classes can equip, the Glamour would work but the hat would still only be equipable by a Bard.
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Casting a glamour will consume one Glamour Prism per piece of equipment. Removing a glamour will consume one Glamour Dispeller per piece of equipment.
- Glamour Dispellers cannot be crafted, but they can be bought at any of the same vendors as Glamour Prisms.
There are two ways to open the Glamour Menu. The first is through the Cast Glamour action shortcut that you unlock during the first glamour quest. This can be found in the General tab of the Actions & Traits menu and then dragged to a hotbar if you wish. Alternatively, you can simply select a piece of equipment in your Character Menu and then select the Cast Glamour option.
- The Cast Glamour menu will first show you all of your currently equipped items, but you can change the base with the drop-down menu at the top.
- Simply choose the item that you wish to be the base on the left.
- On the right will be all of the items that you currently hold in the same category. If the item is greyed out, the base cannot assume that item's appearance.
- When you select an item that you like the look of, you will be asked to confirm your choice. If you confirm the choice, you will Cast a Glamour!
Glamour Plates
Glamour Plates are a way that you can simplify the outfits you carry around with you and clear inventory space at the same time. Once glamours are unlocked, you will find Glamour Dressers in any inn room that you visit.
- Glamour Dressers have two functions. Firstly, by using a Glamour Prism you can put any piece of equipment directly into the Dresser. This will massively help save space if you have items that you simply can't throw away in case you want to use them as part of an outfit one day. The Glamour Dresser has 400 slots for equipment.
- The second function is Glamour Plates. You have 15 Glamour Plates that can save an entire outfit at a time. These outfits can then be pasted over your current equipment as long as you are in a safe zone, such as one of the main cities. Simply select the slot that you wish to alter and then equip the item from the box on the right — note that you can also use items from the Armoire in your Glamour Plates.
- Using a Glamour Plate to change an outfit's appearance doesn't consume any further Glamour Prisms as you already spent them putting those items into the Glamour Dresser. This function is very useful for keeping a consistent look while leveling a class, as you'll be upgrading your equipment regularly, and constantly casting glamours would consume a lot of prisms.
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