Guild Wars 2

The original idea with the town clothes feature I assume was to keep non combat looks out of combat, and town looks in towns. However I think most of us can admit that this idea isn’t really one that is at play in gw2 at all atm for the following reasons:

1. Without stats switching to town clothes is simply annoying and generally not done.
2. There are very few things that can be used as town clothes. That are even remotely appealing.
3. You cannot use regular armour as town clothes.
4. There is a LOT of regular armour that artistically is inappropriate for combat. (skimpy looks, crazy colouring, etc).

So I would recommend that all town clothes just be made into skins. The game has so much customization already that for those who might complain about the random look, I would say that we are already there anyway, the random person in a chef outfit is no more out of place than much of the other stuff we see all the time.

Optionally, anet could adapt the town clothes GUI with an alternate Armour set option. This would be convenient for the great many of us who bring along an extra set of armour for switching out of combat.

It’s also just bad economics imo. I have thought this for awhile, but what prompted me to post was the quaggan hat. I think it would be pretty cute in winter settings XD. I’m not going to get it though just for town clothes, I would want it for the winter fractal, frostgorge, etc.