Guild Wars 2

Playing GW2 is really fun and has much joy but can sometimes get a bit boring, almost everyone has the same pet or the same summon and it makes you look like yet another pawn on the chess board.
What I would like to suggest are skins for any summon/pet/minion in the game, they would be still within the boundaries of it’s respectful category.

Pet skins
pet skins are skins for the ranger pet you normally can’t get in the open world, this can go from animals yet to be added to skins from GW1 to skins from monsters.
What if you want to have a raptor as pet, you can’t get them in the wild but with this skill system you can.
Just think of a pet skin and you can get it, just imagine walking around with a dolyak for your norn or an oakheart for your sylvari, you name it.

Summon skins
summon skins are skins for any summon on any profession that has a creature as summon, like the fire imp from the elementalist or a shadow thief from the thief.
It will now be possible to make your summons look the way you want it to look, may it be a destroyer as fire imp or a geode as earth gollem, you decide.

Minion skins
minion skins are skins for the necromancer minions, away with the boring flesh skeletons and hello wonderful skins.
Have a grenth/lich king float beside you instead of a flesh horror or take a ranger risen as bone fiend, it’s your choice how they look.
Just imagine sending risen asura at your enemy and exploding them in their faces, the joy

banner skins
banner skins changes the borders (wood part) of your banner, now you can conquer your enemies with style.
Gear up your warrior with Nordic banners or smite them with dwayna’s blessing, you make it happen…..in style.

Illusion colors
illusion colors are colors to change the color of illusions for the mesmer, all colors are possible.
Now you can have illusions matching your armor or play as one of your favorite fantasy hero/villain, the choice is yours to make.

All skins can be changed in a skin tab on your hero screen (H on default), here you can manually change and manage all skins/colors.
Skins earned in-game are character unlocks, skins from the gem store are account unlocks.
You can preview all skins before applying and changing mesmer colors already shows an illusion next to it in the change color tab to clearly see the effect before applying.

This is idea is worth a lot of money. I smell a new cash-cow.

This is the main way path of exile makes its money and it does a pretty good job. I’m sure Anet will pick up on it sooner or later

if that fixes somehow the kittening engineer hobosacks.. then let it be a cash cow and be my witness that i push a whole gem mine INCLUDING the mountain its located in into that cow till it explodes, then i ductape it together again and shove a second one into it for good measure.

heh, almost forgot about the engi’s, yes you will then be able to get custom skins for your engi turrets.
every race will have it’s style (much like every race has their own ranger pets) and you will be able to unlock them by finishing a dungeon, killing champions or buying them from the gem store.

sorudo.9054:

heh, almost forgot about the engi’s, yes you will then be able to get custom skins for your engi turrets.

we don’t want turret skins, we just want that horrible hobosack off our backs everytime we use a kit XD

JusticarArkiel.1564:

sorudo.9054:

heh, almost forgot about the engi’s, yes you will then be able to get custom skins for your engi turrets.

we don’t want turret skins, we just want that horrible hobosack off our backs everytime we use a kit XD

fair enough, what about custom skins for your kit backpacks?

Whatabout – no…… Espacially not the illusion colors (no starwars thanks)

what has colors have to do with star wars?……

sorudo.9054:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

sorudo.9054:

heh, almost forgot about the engi’s, yes you will then be able to get custom skins for your engi turrets.

we don’t want turret skins, we just want that horrible hobosack off our backs everytime we use a kit XD

fair enough, what about custom skins for your kit backpacks?

nooooooo, we just want to be able to hide the kit backpacks so we can show off our own back items that we worked hard to make XD

JusticarArkiel.1564:

sorudo.9054:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

sorudo.9054:

heh, almost forgot about the engi’s, yes you will then be able to get custom skins for your engi turrets.

we don’t want turret skins, we just want that horrible hobosack off our backs everytime we use a kit XD

fair enough, what about custom skins for your kit backpacks?

nooooooo, we just want to be able to hide the kit backpacks so we can show off our own back items that we worked hard to make XD

what about combining them, back packs on kits can use all normal backpack skins

Engineer kits just need to be converted into fanny packs then everyone will be happy

So much support. I’ve seen too many wild critters and been like, “why can’t I tame that”? when it’s just a reskin of something I can get. Or even when I see an NPC with it. Nothing irks me more than something an AI can tame but not a PC.

All of these are fantastic ideas and I’d be willing to pay a small amount of monies for them.

Going to shamelessly bump this million-dollar-idea. It’s too good not to be implemented. So. Much. Money. Seriously, let them make limited edition hobo-sacks, pets, minions, go all out, and watch the gem price go boom.

Hrm, would love to have actual zombies for mah minions….