Guild Wars 2

It makes my character bald when she equips it. I mean, she has the hat on but no hair! Is this supposed to be this way? It’s kinda… weird!

Hermes.7014:

It makes my character bald when she equips it. I mean, she has the hat on but no hair! Is this supposed to be this way? It’s kinda… weird!

There are several items that do that. It’s ugly.

yeah a lot of hats do it…I just see it as your character puts all their hair up in the hat.

I think it’s a funny little thing, nice in tradition with previous GW festivals.
Sticking with my Aviator Cap, though, that thing is made of awesome!

That’s how hats worked in GW1, so this isn’t a surprise.

Interestingly, if you sat in water or looked at your character through tall grass hair would also disappear.

How did you get it?

Is the hat just a costume piece?

They do this to prevent clipping issues with the hair.

Qelris.6901:

How did you get it?

End of Mad King says event in Lion’s Arch, it is inside the chest at end of the event

http://dulfy.net/2012/10/31/gw2-shadow-of-the-mad-king-halloween-event-act-4-guide/

Qelris.6901:

How did you get it?

When the Mad King appeared, there was a round of Mad King Says as he teleported around the area where the fountain was. At the end, a chest appeared on the, hmm, west-ish side of the grand plaza, containing the hat.

dulfy.1493:

Qelris.6901:

How did you get it?

End of Mad King says event in Lion’s Arch, it is inside the chest at end of the event

http://dulfy.net/2012/10/31/gw2-shadow-of-the-mad-king-halloween-event-act-4-guide/

Oh ok, I didn’t knew there was an event. I went there with no one loading, got the achievement and when everyone loaded, I found nothing unusual.

nice, I participated but no chest for me. aww…

I would MUCH RATHER have clipping issues with my hair then be bald. I know I’m not alone of this.

all i got from the chest was a single candy corn! will it be possible to get the hat another time?

like the witch hat, but will never use it, because it makes my character bald.

It made me smile that we got the witch hat (chest) and devil horns (free from gem store) this year. Those always seemed like two of the most popular designs from GW1. As others here have said, a nice continuation of tradition.

For those who don’t have the hat yet, it works just like any other town clothes headpiece, and yes, like the top hat and celebration hat, it does make your hair disappear. But it still looks really cool and can be dyed!

Yeah, I liked the horns, face paints, and cat ears in GW1, as at least with those I didn’t have to shave my head. :P

Snow White.9680:

I would MUCH RATHER have clipping issues with my hair then be bald. I know I’m not alone of this.

I have to agree.
Besides… they could easily add and merge the hairstyle models to the hat. So that when the player equips it he/she wll retain the original hairstyle under the hat.

Yes, please fix this.

Before a recent update, my character use to display a little hair for any helm that covered the scalp. I assume they changed this for clipping reasons (which I had none for the style hair I chose)… but nevertheless…

Please add hair for all helms that cover the scalp!

I would guess it would be possible to add a ‘helm location’ piece of data to each hairstyle, which could dictate where the best place to place the rim of a hat on the head would be. It shouldn’t be impossible to program hairstyles to be compatible with hats, even the more imaginative ones.

I agree, helms/hats are completely worthless when they make you bald. I’d much prefer clipping, or even just giving everybody a generic hairstyle with a hat equipped.

This is really quite a shame. I wanted my (Human female) Mesmer to wear it. I know that this was a common occurrences back in GW1, but I had hoped that times would have changed…
All well. Free item, beggars and choosers and all that I guess….

I think I prefer it over the warlock “witch hat” to be honest (from the gem store set).

Just merging hair and hat is probably not that easy then I guess. Lot of hat/hair/race combinations to get right for this merging.

Can’t edit my former post for some reason. I just read someone’s suggestion (and now I can edit this one O.o) for a generic hair look. That is a good idea imo. To make it look as if the hair is tucked under the hat, with a little showing underneath the brim. That would work for most long hairstyles and is just one extra look and better then a choice between clipping issues with 20 different hairstyles or plain bald.

I got it and I use it on my asuran even if it makes some of them bald it’s still cute on them.

A fixed hairstyle would also work. Anything but bald please.

Blackmoon.6837

Yes, please fix this.
Before a recent update, my character use to display a little hair for any helm that covered the scalp. I assume they changed this for clipping reasons (which I had none for the style hair I chose)… but nevertheless…
Please add hair for all helms that cover the scalp!

You’re right, I could see a bit of my character’s hair under her hood before a recent update, but now it’s gone. :S
Well I made also a topic in general discussion about this.