Guild Wars 2

this idea has been bugging for some time, well basically what the title says..

skins for skills.

this idea came into my mind when i tried to create an asura engineer, the turrets and every engineer skill doesn’t match the asuran theme, wouldn’t skins for skills be a great idea?

not only for engineers but for every profession as well

Like Norn engeneers will not have the same animation like Asuran? If so, I like this Idea! Is very weird vhen Asura shoots flame turret and in fact he/she has the same technology as Charr or even Flowers ( ) . And one more good addition would be if players can choose if they want to use Necromancers animation for staff… Becouse for some stakitten , that animation ruins the feeling ( like The Crossing or The Bifrost ) becouse they dont look so good then.

I approve of this thread, golem turrets would be god tier. my main focus is to look good while playing, i would easily throw money towards more skins! mainly towards my favorite abilities like hundred blades or turrets like OP mentioned. have a bull spirit appear for bulls charge lol, just an idea. eventually hopefully! not gonna throw a kittenfit if it doesn’t happen though

but by skins I assume You mean alternative animation/models yes?
if that I would agree that would be nice thing.
for example (and maybe many guardians would support that) give a choice of more “flame” colors for guardians – not everyone want to be blueish – or color of mesmer aura – not everyone want to have pink butterfly effect while casting skills….

I LOVE where you’re head’s at. I think they could go about this in a few ways. Either they could let you purchase skill animations for specific skills with skill points, karma, gems, something material like that. Or they could implement a “Profession Rank” system, kind of like WvW rank, in which you could progress and unlock alternate skill animations gradually. Or you could just program certain skills’ animations differently based on race. Personally I’d go for the progression/unlock route, but no matter what I’d totally into this idea

Yes, skill/utilities’ skins I’d very much like to see in game.
Every summon could have new effects, changed color (dye) or completely new model (or everything listed above as separate options).

Not only skins but also new sounds could be obtainable (even if I had to solo Jormag, I’d do it just to change shooooushhhh of necro staff :P ).

hell yeah! You are absolutely right, sounds for Necros and Ele are awful… like wshoooo they should really make a change to this