Facewear , like glasses, have a separate slot to equip in Final Fantasy 14 , so you can wear hats and glasses. This update came out in version 7.0 alongside the launch of the Dawntrail expansion, so you can actually trade in your old glasses for the new facewear accessories.
While these do get a slot on your equipment screen, they’re for glamour only, providing no stats. Below, we explain where to get facewear in FFXIV and how to equip facewear correctly. Facewear works like fashion accessories in that you obtain one-time use items to unlock them permanently.
If you already had some of the level 1 glasses glamours from before the 7.0 update, you can exchange them for the facewear by doing the following: You can find Calamity Salvagers in any of the three main towns: Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks (11.4, 14.
4), Old Gridania (10, 8.4), and Ul’dah - Steps of Thal (12.6, 13.
1). Note that some items don’t convert the way you may expect them to. While we had the “pair of pince-nez” glasses, it did not trade in for the “contemporary pince-nez” glasses.
Not all the glasses also transfer to 1:1 copies of itself. I traded in the “classic spectacles” and got the “oval spectacles” facewear, which look pretty different. You can also get other glasses via the Gold Saucer from the prize claim attendant (under the “Prize Exchange III” menu).
The following glasses are for sale: On patch 7.0’s debut, there may be other glasses accessories tucked away behind NPC shops and.
