Guild Wars 2

If possible, I think having the ability to use the preview feature to look at the skin on a piece of armor or weapon in the trading post before purchase would be a welcome addition.

An example of where this would have been helpful:

Doing personal story quests, I got 5 of 6 pieces of a set of armor which did not have a skin name. They just said “strong pauldrons, strong chestplate” etc. When I completed the story step to get the leg piece, the leg piece was the wrong skin, probably because of a glitched loot table. So I was left with 5/6 pieces of a set of armor, where I wanted the 6th, but didn’t know the name of the armor set.

So. I went to the trading post, and started filtering armor pieces to show only leg pieces, and figured I’d preview until I found one that looked like a match. But you can’t preview items for sale on the trading post. Blargh…

On a hunch, I tried searching for the pieces I did have, and matched up by icon the helmet until I found the name of the set. I then did a quick google image search to confirm what the leg piece looked like. Then I found one, and bought it. Problem solved.

While I eventually got the piece I was looking for, I did have to take myself out of the game world and search around the internet for a third-party image of the set. I think having the convenience of the preview feature on the trading post would make this simpler and easier for players who want to browse unknown armor and weapon skins on the trading post to see what they like.

If you’ve never seen that skin before, then you can’t know if you’d like it or not. And without a preview function on the trading post, this is probably preventing people who craft items from selling them to other players.

Thoughts?

And I just realized there’s like already five topics on this subject. Sorry for posting another duplicate. I do this all the time }:-(

I’m a bad forum user. A bad, bad forum user.