Guild Wars 2

When planning out what armor and weapons we want on our characters, it’s a pretty common practice to either find the merchant that offers an item in consideration to preview it, or to ask a friend or someone in Map Chat to link it in the text to preview. Previewing is an awesome feature that really helps players customize their characters’ appearance, and I’m immensely glad to see it in the game.

Unfortunately, for characters that use, say, Daggers for instance, it’s very difficult to actually see them in the preview window. The view of your character is always at rest, and it’s very easy for smaller weapons like Daggers or Focuses to get lost in the rest of your clothing.

Now, if I have a weapon equipped, I can usually just hit 1 if I want to see them and my character will whip out the weapons and take a bouncy combat stance (I play an Asura). This gives a very nice view of the weapons regardless of the size, so how great would it be for the character model in the preview window to mirror the actions of your actual character? Just hit 1 for example, and you’d be able to see your character holding the weapon out to view it fully and even get some flashy animations of your character using the weapon with his/her skills.

What do you guys think?