Guild Wars 2

First off I’d like to say this: I’m one of those people who, on various MMOs, sometime stopped the endless hack-n-slash to simply put on some casual clothes and enjoy the scenery. Be it for roleplaying with friends, or just not to see the same old armor on my character when walking around in peaceful areas, sometimes it’s nice to change look.

And now, back to the topic: town clothes. I believe there’s a lot of potential wasted here, and I’m not talking about the lack of craftable/various models. What if there was some use for them? What if they provided some, let’s say, “town skills”? There could be a set of skills avaible only when wearing town clothes, with a common pool plus other skills specific to certain costumes.
For example, the common skills could include a signet that gives a passive 25% speed boost (I know that many classes have that, but I still feel like a sloth when running in town with my guardian), a signet that makes you unable to aggro mobs (for those who like to roleplay in open areas, maybe with the malus of not being usable in dungeons and to not being able to unlock waypoints/POIs/vistas and such, or just usable in 100% mapped areas).
Special skills unique to some town clothes, on the other hand, could be something like signets that have the passive effects of making your character walk in a certain way, or normal skills that allow you to use some contestual emote-like unique actions.

Of course, this’d need some testing to avoid all the possibile exploits that everyone probably thought about while reading what I wrote above, but I think it’d make town clothes more like an enjoyable part of the game rather than an useless “cosmetic feature”. And just to make this clear, I’m one of those players who farmed for days to get the skin I wanted on Guild Wars, and I still do the same for armor pieces and weapons on GW2… Yet I still find town clothes, as they are now, entirely useless. I’m not sure if I’m the only one who feels this way, but I hardly see anyone wearing town clothes around.

So far I’ve never seen a point to town clothes given I’m only in town long enough to vendor, craft, and visit the bank/TP.

Adding a +25% to movement speed in towns would be neat, but also perhaps be able to have enhanced interaction options with NPC’s in the towns when wearing town clothes.

Having more variety then just a single dress look for each race would also be nice (without having to pay gems for them anyway.)

Really though given how little time I currently spend in a town doing anything, I would much rather see them fix current bugs and issues before trying to add yet more fluff to the game. (Or enhance other areas that would be more useful, such as storage for crafting components/parts in a sub section of the bank.)