Guild Wars 2

So I was looking through the gem store the other day, saw the Grenth hood and instantly fell in love with it since it’s the most awesome necro hood ever, when I went to preview the hood it took all my clothes off and just applied the hood so I couldn’t tell what it looked like with my cool armour. Secondly When I decided that I was going to pick up some gems for the hood I started looking around at other things I may want to pick up aswell, and that’s when I saw Marjorys Dagger. My first problem with wepons in Gem store is that the preview of it doesn’t have it wielded, and since it’s a small dagger it was behind my arm tucked away clipping through my robes, so A wielding preview would be greatly appreciated. Also I thought the dagger looked abit dull for something worth £6, so I searched a preview on youtube to discover it’s got the most awesome snake tail annimation on it and glows a dark green!!!! I instantly wanted to pick up the dagger with my grenth hood!!

What I’m trying to say here is that Anet is shooting themselves in the foot by not properly implementing the tools to view their content on the gem store properly. Make is so that the particle effects and cool other effects on the armours and weapons are visible!! and make them to be viewed on the character how they look in game, with their armour/weapons in the preview, it’s a win win situation for both of us:)

Absolutely agree.

In the meantime a workaround would be to get the chat code from a website, copy/paste into the chat and you can preview it from there in the regular preview window. I’m often too lazy for that unless I really want to see it.

agree, im too lazy for chatcodes. plus why do we have to go out and do the work? if you want us to purchase something AND be satisfied with what we purchased allow us to try on things properly. like maybe i just want to try out the gloves or something.

edit: further more as the OP pointed out with marjory’s dagger how you dont wield it. people might be more inclined to buy something if they can see all the effects.

+1 they have to

Agree.

And i also wanted to have the possibility to zoom in and out in the preview and also to preview single armor pieces of a set. I would for example never have bought the Etherblade Heavy Armor from the preview, and only bought it after i asked a person that postet a screenshot what leggings his char was wearing.

I completely agree. Especially about the wielding part – we have to resort to Youtube videos where people have already bought them, simply to see if it’s worth purchasing. Shouldn’t have to – should be wieldable right then and there with the preview.