As the title suggest, I am here to ask for the ability to wear town headgear during combat in the PvE world.
To this day, you can walk around with your gloves, helmet, and shoulders hidden from view in PvE, PvP, and WvW. You can also hide your backpiece, but then again hiding a big pink Quaggan backpack makes more sense than running into combat without gauntlets, a protective helmet, and a mantle to keep your shoulders covered. So why were these armor pieces allowed to be hidden? For customization purposes? To allow the player more options when it comes to their combat armor? To give the player the option to hide those distracting shoulders that clip with the rest of your armor or those glitchy gloves of yours that sink into your hands during your idle animation?
Well I think giving us the option to charge into battle wearing town headgear will do just that
add more customization for the player to enjoy.
There’s already plush Quaggan/Charr backpieces in the game as combat skins, why not allow us to wear the fluffy hats on the gemstore? Spectacles were ACTUAL ARMOR in the first game, it came in normal, tinted, and slim varieties, why can’t we wear them to battle in the second game? A Ringmaster’kitten would look great on someone wearing matching colorful armor!
Think about it. The players get more customization options to choose from while increasing attention to headgear on the gemstore
both ArenaNet, NCSoft, and the playerbase win! By only allowing the headgear to be displayed in combat, ArenaNet can still sell armor skins so nothing conflicts in this new addition to player customization. Skins you buy from the gemstore like the Mask of the Jubilee do not require Fine Transmutation Crystals to transfer onto armor, so it will not conflict with the sale of Fine Transmutation Crystals in the gemstore.
But what about my immersion?
- There’s already plush backpacks on the TP and gemstore as combat back pieces.
- As I stated in the beginning of the thread, you can run into battle wearing no helmet, mask, or circlet. That should be immersion-breaking enough, right? If we can do that, why can’t we wear a pair of reading spectacles that was armor in GW1 that gave 60-80 AR?
- Town headgear gives no advantages in Costume Brawl, the town item that initiates a costume brawl is the Toy Weapon as well as skills from a tonic, ArenaNet recently introduced Combat Transformations to allow us to use tonics during combat.
- Your profession is visible by every player that clicks on you and joins your party/invites you to a party in PvE as well as sPvP matches. It will not hide your profession like it may in WvW. The first game didn’t allow cash shop/holiday outfits into PvP areas anyways except for the lobbies. Wearing a gemstore/holiday hat will not hide the heavy iron armor or the light robes you’re wearing in WvW/sPvP anyways, so if the devs and the community are fine with it then allow it.