Guild Wars 2

I love the new WvW skin system that was added in the last patch. I have a suggestion though to add something similar for the items selected in the Character Creation process.

Choices (like guardian shoulders, thief hoods, necro/mesmer masks) are part of our Character and I think it would be nice to have the ability to keep that look more easily. There are flavor texts when selecting these things that are supposed to reflect the personality of our characters. Currently its a pain to try to keep that look and if you happen to delete that item and want to get it back later its quite the pain.

My suggestion is to put a vendor tab on our class trainers (or somewhere else, just figured that was easiest) for items much like Hall of Monuments or WvW skins that are for the skins that we can select in that step of our character creation. Make them soul bound or whatever so they are only available to the class that are supposed to have them and such.

After reading this I had to go back to WvW, as I apparently completely missed the word skin on that tab. I’m not sure I’d agree with all the skins being there, as I do believe a choice is a choice, but being able to buy more fanged dread masks would certainly put a menacing, fanged smile on my face.

Falkor.7932:

After reading this I had to go back to WvW, as I apparently completely missed the word skin on that tab. I’m not sure I’d agree with all the skins being there, as I do believe a choice is a choice, but being able to buy more fanged dread masks would certainly put a menacing, fanged smile on my face.

Yeah, I don’t guess I touched that part, but I agree if you picked one I wouldn’t want you to be able to go back and pick up a different one. The choice should matter, but I feel like the choice should matter past the first time I get an upgrade to that gear slot more easily if I wanted it to…

So essentially you want the ability to buy more profession starting gear, but only the one you chose at the beginning of character creation. And perhaps in the form of a skin, so you can apply it to whatever level of gear you currently need?

Sounds good to me. Having to transmute the thing dozens of times as you level is annoying, to say nothing of the people who sell / destroy theirs and can never get it back.

Electro.4173:

So essentially you want the ability to buy more profession starting gear, but only the one you chose at the beginning of character creation. And perhaps in the form of a skin, so you can apply it to whatever level of gear you currently need?

Sounds good to me. Having to transmute the thing dozens of times as you level is annoying, to say nothing of the people who sell / destroy theirs and can never get it back.

Basically this.. Or like for me currently I want my Wraith eyes on my Necro, but already have it for my Condition gear, and have to either destroy it or accept that I won’t have the ability to go all out with my gear or get a full 6 piece bonus on my Power gear. I know I can technically make a new necro and through a series of transmutations make it account bound and get it on my other gear, but that seems like so much of a waste and not intended practice.

And I also understand there are times you have skins that you can only get one of, or that you’ll have to choose. Like I don’t want to just be able to apply a legendary weapon skin to all the different weapon stats I may want for my character. I don’t think you should be able to get any skin you want whenever you want it, because getting skins is part of this game and its not supposed to be complete cake. But there is no way to “earn” the starting gear looks back and the selections in Character Creation feel more personal and I think should be easier to maintain throughout your character’s life.