Hello, I firstly wish to state that I have a lot of admiration for the developers.
Especially the developers that take the time to read the forums and I pray that I am given such a visit in this thread, so shall we get started?
I was thinking back to what gave this game a lot of charm for me when it had first released and then it hit me. Detail. I had noticed so many little cool things about the game that it got me through anything bad (there isn’t much!) I had been thinking of the game at the time so I just started brainstorming a few ideas that can be achieved utilizing the current back item system.
- Bandoliers
I once saw a mod in Skyrim that had actually given the visual appearance of your bags on your character which only further made the character look a lot more enjoyable!
- Capes/Cloaks
Something that should be in every MMORPG these days. It’s almost blasphemy without them. For a game that has a huge emphasis on good looking characters we’re certainly missing some of the more prime candidate items for looking good…
- Offset Weapon(s) visible
Now this one may be a tad confusing as I could not find a better name for it and it’s not really a ‘back item’ but what I’m referring to is the ability to see multiple weapons on your character at a time. There’s little reason to not have this in modern games when it adds that extra flare to characters. Playing a Ranger? Imagine pelting your arrows into your target with your trusty sword by your side! I understand this may be hidden intentionally in PvP/WvWvW to keep a tactical edge but you could easily just disable it for there or even make it a back item that you can just hide which would in turn cause the offset weapon to hide also.
- Animation ‘skins’
A even more in depth customization option that could add a lot of cool little niches to certain weapons. Something that greatly irked me regarding the legendary and even a lot of the normal options is that a few of them really didn’t ‘fit’ with other classes. Incinerator for example looking like an engineer made it so it doesn’t fit Ele/Necro at all… The Predator being a ‘sniper rifle’ yet the Engineer Rifle playing like a shotgun etc I’m sure you can imagine if you put your mind to it!
- Quivers and other weapon based items
I was one of the zerg of people chanting for quivers to be added to the game and eventually we got em! but there is currently only two actual skins in the game and one of them is very ‘Charr’ and the other looks like it’s cardboard. What would be a neat touch is fiddling with some more arts for other races, such as one made of leaves/plants for Sylvari and Animal hides/furrs+feathers for Norn etc etc. Other weapon based items could include weapon ‘slings/sheaths’ but this one may be too hard to pull off due to the nature of Great sword variety
I’m aware that Capes/Cloaks had existed previously but were removed due to ‘glitching’ but if I’m honest there is so much of the game that already glitch’s anyway so it seems like a poor decision to base it’s removal on….
Let me know what you think Gents/Ladys and I’m sure we can get some attention to the thread/add to it!