Guild Wars 2

Hello developers! I love this game. Thank you for making it.

For the sake of enhanced immersion, please give us a way to drop any type of armor item, whether heavy, medium, or light, into the corresponding town clothing slot, whether by letting us do it spontaneously or having some sort of transmutation stone that will permanently strip the properties of the item and flag it so that it is eligible to be slotted on the clothes side.

This will allow, for example, a heavy armor wearer to equip some of those lovely medium and light armor sets as town clothing. Others would certainly benefit similarly.

Thanks!

Why? Just parade around the town in the armor. I’ve never seen an enemy attack you in major cities. Any stats on the armor are moot.

Okay I wasn’t clear, so I need to amend my original post. As a guardian, I wear heavy armor. When I acquire something like a Rawhide Vest, I do not see a way to equip this, whether as regular armor or as town clothing.

I want my character as a guardian to be able to equip non-heavy armor types as clothing.

I like your idea. Right now, town clothes are pointless. There’s nothing for sale on the gem shop I would wear “for fun”, but the armor skins available via acquirable gear are good enough to play dressup a little with.

Thank you! There are some light/medium combinations that might look really elegant. Hard to know for sure, but I think there’s some real potential!

I don’t really begrudge ANet for the lack of town clothes yet, and do recognize that they’re extending effort in this area if the added selection of clothing is any indication. It occurred to me that with any armor / clothing appearance you buy, each gender and race has models and textures that are tweaked so that it looks proper. My guess is that they can’t sell a lot of the existing town clothing we see on NPCs because they aren’t tweaked to both genders, and/or they’re not tweaked for every race. There are ways around that, like by race-limiting items, but I would be willing to bet that this workaround is considered pretty inelegant and confusing.

Not so with armor that’s already designed for the players to use! Design and sell “Clothing Conversion Stones” for 50 gems apiece. Let them be used to convert any armor piece to a comparable town clothing piece. I bet you’d get a really steady flow of sales. I know I’d buy a bunch.

I NEED to craft underwear.
And underwater mask.

Too…

I see delightful dresses, suits and tunics on NPCs all around.

Why aren’t they available on the gem store? As it is, we can look dashing, but we have to put a lot of effort and, in the case of some dyes, a lot of money. 18g black dye ftl.

Wrong suggestion. Remove town clothing and add in the GW1 costume system.

I didn’t like the GW1 costume system at all.

This suggestion is so simple… the art resources are already made. The clothing system is already made. It’s just a matter of making armor convertible to clothing. I am not a professional programmer, but this particular suggestion seems like it would be really easy to put in. It’s a way to bring in revenue with very little development time while additional clothing resources are developed.

So, I disagree completely, marnick: in my view it is precisely the right suggestion.

i support this, but i do hope that if Anet decides to do this, they will only do it with armours that arent like big heavy armour and stuff like that: keep it down to the light and medium things, the light, easy-wear stuff that the whole concept of town-clothes revolves around, both in game and in real life.

I prefer both this suggestion, and on top of that the GW1 costume system. Because it allowed you to simply show townclothes INSTEAD of the armor you are actually wearing. You could wear your outfits during dungeons, during combat, anywhere. And you wouldn’t sacrifice your statistics for wearing your funny bunny ears instead of your helmet (because the game would still use the statistics of the helmet).

Right now, NO ONE uses townclothes. Its such a shame.

I would buy more gems in a heartbeat if I they had something like Kate’s ‘conversion stone’ idea. (Of course, we’d desperately need some sort of closet then…)

I’m a heavy armor wearer too, and while I really like my armor, I’d love to be able to wear some of the other available stuff as clothing for social events.