Want your white mage to look bulky and menacing? Well, Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.4 got you covered: releasing December 16, 2025, the traditional MMORPG’s next update (called “Into the Mist” by publisher Square Enix) will bring a huge, albeit cosmetic, change to your characters.
Essentially, Square Enix unlocked all armor looks and visualization (known as “Final Fantasy XIV Glamour System) for every single class. In layman’s terms, this means that your healing white mage can now look like the spawn of darkness with a proper, aggressive-looking armor of doom or something. Not only any class, but any level, too, how about that?
Since Final Fantasy XIV has a lot more fluidity when it comes to character’s looks than, say, Final Fantasy VII, for instance (which never changes looks regardless of armor, only weapons), this might be just around the ballpark of the more fashion aficionados out there.
Obviously, the change is purely cosmetical, but judging by the replies on Square Enix’s tweet announcing the change, it is a much welcomed change for longtime players. Oh, and also, the change is meant only for armor, not weapons and tools. According to the publisher, this is because of animation shenanigans that would make your aforementioned white mage look weird if they all of a sudden started swinging a greatsword all willy-nilly.
Although, there’s nothing stopping your buff, dark knight from looking like a priest…with a comically large sword.
Oh, right: Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.4 will also bring new, post-Dawntrail content, with a handful of new quests and a brand new dungeon for you and your party to frolic about.
The news is coming off a brand new collaboration between the game and Capcom’s Monster Hunter brand, which introduced…well…stuff from both games into both games.
Also, there has been some doubt as the game’s continued support on PlayStation 4 — it will stick around for a while longer, although probably not too long…
Returning players can always re-download the game and restart payments on its monthly subscription, which goes for $12.99 nowadays — or go to Amazon and get a 60-day access card…although that might be a little more expensive than the membership itself.
Explaining the Final Fantasy XIV Glamour System
The glamour system in Final Fantasy XIV allows players to customize gear appearances without changing stats, unlocked at level 15 via quests in Vesper Bay or Mor Dhona. It emphasizes fashion as a key endgame feature for community creativity.
To make full use of this feature, you’ll need Glamour Prisms, which are consumable items for applying or storing glamours, purchasable with seals or craftable using clear prisms. They enable permanent storage of item appearances in the Glamour Dresser found in inn rooms.
Glamour Plates are the parts where you apply the prisms to ultimately changing how an armor looks. They let you create up to eight preset outfits by mixing stored appearances, applied easily in cities or linked to job sets. Dyes add color customization to gear, separate from glamours and instantly applicable.
Now, before Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.4, there were a few restrictions ranging around class, level, and type — basically, armors would only change looks if applied inside the character’s job role (white mage for white mage and so on…), but the December 2025 update removes armor job barriers for freer visuals.
Oh, and we’re gonna highlight this again just in case: the changes are cosmetic only, so don’t go around thinking a mage suddenly has the DPS capacity of a fully decked-out Warrior or something…no base stats, gained stats or buffs are to be changed.
