Dyeing and Glamour in FFXIV

by X’Genesis Qhulut

12^th August 2021

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Dyeing clothes

There is a side-quest to learn dyeing in Vesper Bay (near the Waking Sands). Once you have done that you can find an item of gear that can be dyed (see the circle in the top RH corner of the clothing icon), RH-click on the item, and select “Dye”. You can then apply the appropriate dye (if you have it in your inventory).

Glamour

Glamour (AKA Glam) is what is called Transmogrification in WoW. Basically you can make a piece of gear look like something else.

• First you need to unlock the Glamour system by doing the side-quest in Vesper Bay (near the Waking Sands)

• Then you need a Glamour Prism, which is the reagent used to cast glamours on items.

  

• Next, open your character screen (press C) and RH-click on an item, and select Cast Glamour.

  

• Now you can choose an item of yours that you want this item to look like.

  

  Note that there are some restrictions:

  • You cannot cast a higher-level item onto a lower-level item
  • To equip the item, your job must be capable of wearing the item (so you couldn’t put plate armour onto a healer for example)
  • The gear needs to be fully repaired. There are arms menders outside each inn (adjacent to the innkeepers), amongst other places.

• You can RH-click the item and select “Try on” to see how it will look:

  

• When you are ready click on the item you want it to look like and accept the dialog box (it warns you the item will become bound to you).

• All done!

  

If you go to an inn, and use the Glamour Dresser, you can store items in your dresser for casting Glamour later. It can store 400 items so that is a way of keeping items that you might want to use later. Be warned that materia is removed from your item when you move it to the dresser, however dyes stay. You may want to “Remove Materia” before putting the item into the dresser. It costs one Glamour Prism as a reagent for putting the item into the dresser. You can remove items later at no cost.

Glamour prisms can be obtained from:

• Your Grand Company, if you have unlocked that and are sufficient rank, in exchange for 200 Company Seals
• You can make them — once you purchase the “Master” recipe from Goberin in Vesper Bay in Western Thanalan (12,15)
  • There are various master recipes for different crafting professions. One of the reagents is a Clear Prism which he sells for 200 gil.
• The Market Board — I found some for sale for between 40 and 100 gil each.
  • After checking back later the prisms for less than 200 gil had sold. I think this might be an anomaly because you pay at least 200 gil for the materials to make them (see above). Thus I suspect that people vendoring them for less than 200 gil don’t realise the market value of something that probably dropped for them in the field.
  • Having said that, I found some Clear Prisms on the Market Board for as low as 8 gil each, so you could buy those, and then make your own Glamour Prisms quite cheaply.
• They drop in the field from chests etc.

Once you have items in your dresser you can make up to 15 “glamour plates” which are sets of gear. Click on one of the set buttons, and then choose an appropriate item from the dresser to go into that set. If an X appears on the icon it means that the glamour can’t be applied to your current job.

Now that you have a plate set up, you can open your character screen (C), click the Glamour Plate button and choose one of your glamour sets.

Barber

There is a side-quest to unlock the barber (starts in Limsa Lominsa). Once you have helped the barber get his tools back then you can be summoned in your private room, accessible from any inn.

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