Guild Wars 2

Before I start writing my suggestion, I’d like to post a few links to the Guild Wars wiki of the first game:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Festival_hat
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Festival_hat_maker
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costume_maker

The Festival Hat Maker and Costume Maker in the first game kept track of all the festive and cash shop hats and clothing that you bought and earned throughout the years of playing the first game. All you had to do was show them an original copy of the item that could be duplicated as many times as you wanted on all characters for the small fee of 10 gold coins per piece. Gold back in GW1 was the equivalence to copper in GW2, so it was quite cheap to regenerate these items for whatever character you wanted.

Lately ArenaNet has been putting more and more of these items into the gemstore with no place to store them in but the account-wide bank, the Iron’s Tailpipe Bandana is also a piece of town headgear that’s soulbound on a character with nowhere to store but in your inventory.

The problem is that eventually as time passes by we’re going to run out of places to store these toys, costumes, and hats even with the maximum amount of tabs for the account-wide bank. Not only that, but people have been deleting their characters wearing discontinued costumes like the Witch’s Outfit, the Devil Horns, the Phantom’s Hood, the Mad King’s Outfit, the Fancy Winter Outfit, etc without knowing and not getting them back even after sending a ticket to support. These people may have spent REAL MONEY on these items and it’s a shame that the second game does not have that special storage NPC from the first game that kept cash shop and holiday items for you incase of accidents like these.

So my suggestion is to add these types of NPC’s into Guild Wars 2 to avoid bank tabs used solely for holiday hats and costumes and to help out the folks who delete characters wearing items from the cash shop. An exception to this would be armor, weapon, and backpack skins since those are used on actual weapons, armor, and back equipment.

“This service was introduced during the Wintersday 2006 event to alleviate storage space problems since the collectible festival hats no longer needed permanent inventory space.”

(Festival Hat Maker link, under Trivia)

You’ve done this before only a year after the release of Guild Wars Prophecies, please consider this ArenaNet.

I strongly support this!

I can’t understand why they didn’t introduce it with the launch of gw2.

Although I am not happy with “town clothes” instead of costumes, the introduction of a storage would make me considering again to buy some of these clothes.
But I am not paying real money for the inconvenience of town clothes (that absolutely lacks in functioning and usability compared to how costumes were handled!!!) AND no option to store them away which doesn’t clutter my inventory or bank tabs. ^^

I would like to see in Costume makers GW2. Most people only buy a outfit a 2nd time with in-game money.

Add a Gem Store armor to the Costume maker too.

Onshidesigns.1069:

I would like to see in Costume makers GW2. Most people only buy a outfit a 2nd time with in-game money.

Add a Gem Store armor to the Costume maker too.

People actually buy the same outfit for multiple characters? Ouch :o

Also armor, weapon, and backpack skins are used in gear that helps in combat. Town clothing doesn’t help in combat and anyone with a regular tonic can win Costume Brawl. I’m talking about the Braham/Rox skins, the three armor skins in the gemstore, the Wintersday weapon skins, the multiple Charr and Quaggan plush backpacks, etc. Those are used on actual sets of armor, weapons, and backpieces that offer stats.

Unless town clothes come with rune slots or sigil slots, then town clothing should be the only items stored by these NPC’s. The only place I see that happening at is the Hall of Monuments, rewards that were earned through playing GW1 so ArenaNet didn’t lose revenue from putting them there.

At the moment, pieces of town clothing and toy weapons only cluster up bank spaces while providing no combat advantages, like they should be, totally different than entire sets of armor and weapons that are soulbound on the characters you used them on.