How to unlock facewear (glasses) in FFXIV

Facewear, like glasses, have a separate slot to equip in Closing Fantasy 14, so you’ll be able to put on hats and glasses.

This replace got here out in model 7.0 alongside the launch of the Dawntrail enlargement, so you’ll be able to really commerce in your outdated glasses for the brand new facewear equipment.
Whereas these do get a slot in your gear display, they’re for glamour solely, offering no stats.

Beneath, we clarify the place to get facewear in FFXIV and how to equip facewear appropriately.

How to unlock facewear in FFXIV

Facewear works like trend equipment in that you simply get hold of one-time use gadgets to unlock them completely.

Should you already had some the style equipment that have been glasses earlier than the 7.0 replace, you’ll be able to convert them into these new equipment by doing the next:

1. Go discuss to a Calamity Salvager. Choose the choice “Spectacles Exchange.” This may convert any of your eligible trend equipment into facewear routinely.
2. Test which you bought via the character > facewear menu.

You could find Calamity Salvagers in any of the three essential cities: Limsa Lominsa Higher Decks (11.4, 14.4), Outdated Gridania (10, 8.4), and Ul’dah – Steps of Thal (12.6, 13.1).

You can even get glasses through the Gold Saucer from the prize declare attendant (underneath the “Prize Exchange III” menu). The next glasses are on the market:

• Thick-rimmed Glasses (30,000 MGP)
• Up to date Pince-nez (40,000 MGP)
• Rimless Glasses (70,000 MGP)
• Minstrel’s Spectacles (90,000 MGP)
• Oval Spectacles (100,000 MGP)

You can even get a couple of extra glasses through the Brugaire Consortium NPCs, a.okay.a the NPCs you’ll be able to re-buy race-specific armor from. They’re Bango Zango in Limsa Lominsa Decrease Decks (9.9, 11.4), Maisenta in New Gridania (11.5, 11.2), and Roarich Ul’dah, Steps of Nald (10.6, 9.5). They promote the next:

• Easy Spectacles (3,000 gil)
• Monocles (3,000 gil)

There are additionally Rose-colored Spectacles you will get from Trisassant in Outdated Sharlayan in change for 3 Rokkon Potsherds (the forex you get for doing Mount Rokkon).

There are another glasses, too, like a set locked behind outdated PvP rewards (False Shaded Spectacles) and a set obtained through subaquative voyages (False Basic Spectacles). Extra glasses and facewear will doubtless come as rewards for future content material, too.

How to equip facewear in FFXIV

To set your facewear, merely open up your facewear menu via the character menu, choose the colour of the glasses you need to put on, and choose “equip.” That’s all there’s to it.

Should you’re having a tough time doing this, be sure to’re not clicking the “style” of facewear and that you simply’re deciding on from the “color” part under it.

Picture: Sq. Enix through Polygon

When you’re completed, you’ll be able to replace your gear set and the facewear you chose will save with it, permitting you to put on totally different glasses with totally different outfits. Good!

Correction (June 28): A earlier model of this information acknowledged that you simply commerce in glasses gear for facewear, however you’ll be able to solely commerce in glasses trend equipment for facewear. We’ve up to date this information to replicate this.

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