Guild Wars 2

so i’m posting this here because the forums don’t seem to have a wardrobe discussion forum.

if you will remember a long time ago there were hardly any back pieces. if you could find them then they were usually greens. the first exotic back pieces in the game were not even introduced until a few months after launch.

one of the very first exotic back pieces was the ghost eaters hide. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ghost_Eater's_Hide. this is a rare drop from the ghost eater in the ascalonian catacombs. it is account bound on acquire and very difficult to farm because it only drops from the boss at the end of the dungeon.

so after explaining all that here is my small complaint. this back piece has no skin. it’s maybe one of the rarest back pieces in the game, and by all rights should be a point to brag about for having gotten it.

i’m not asking for something incredible or massive or something that people see and go “holy crap what is that?!” just something small so i can enjoy it on my character and feel proud that i managed to get the ghost eaters hide.

Well, if they did that, it’d start a new craze of dungeon grinding

I agree with the dungeon grinding comment from Azrael. However I do feel that some more back items would be cool. And a way around the whole dungeon grind would be to only give them out on cool occasions such as Halloween, Wintersday etc. Plus if they are only handed out on occasion you feel that little bit more special y’know?!

Also, not to be one of those people, but I would quite like a big old cape to flap around in the wind. I know it’s standard of other games to get capes and cloaks, but my characters feel a little naked on here with their backs exposed…

I’d rather see a back item that was more representative of each class. Maybe a back piece showing two stowed swords. A big scabbard for Greatswords, etc.

Seeing things just stuck to a back is disconcerting.

Oh my god. An elementalist legendary backpiece. Changes with attunement. dies

Azrael. Pls. Anet. Pls.

That was my idea for the Elementalist Legendary armor. Has various particle effects that change based on your current attunement.

That WOULD be neat, but I still want my Lyssa’s.

Anyways, back on topic, the various dungeon backpieces and karma backbraces all suffer from the same problem as certain armor pieces that don’t unlock skins in the wardrobe: skin ids that don’t actually reference a skin. I doubt this is unintentional in this case, since skinned back items were a late addition to the game.