Guild Wars 2

So, I have been considering purchasing the toxic gloves and shoulders for my sylvari character, since he wears leafy armor and I thought it might look awesome on him, however, when I click to preview the item, it ONLY shows the shoulders and gloves and not the rest of my armor (my sylvari wears light armor), yet on my norn, it shows the gloves and shoulders WITH his armor (norn wears heavy armor).

Now, in the description it says can be used with any weight type, so why can’t I preview it with light armor without my entire armor set disappearing??? Is this a bug? Can it be fixed? I might actually spend some REAL money on you ANet, but not if I can’t properly preview this armor, so please fix this for a potential sale. I am sure I am not alone in this train of thought.

That’s been bothering me as well (on my medium armor type main).

I don’t think the game knows what “any armor type” means, it also tells me I can’t wear the Achievement Chest reward items on my medium and light armor wearing characters in the preview / description. I think I created a bug report for that once.

Cuz it previews as heavy and only heavys matter in this game. They make this more and more apparent as time goes on.

I think Radiant armor did the same thing when they added it and they fixed it eventually.
Good times.

That’s likely a side-effect of what they did so you can’t preview mixing pieces from various types. Instead adding a way to tag an item “multiple type” when they added skins that can be used with any type, they just tagged the item “heavy”.

It looks heavy, anyways. Just like the achievement point reward ones. I guess their modelers are too busy making the next gemstore set to make small variations of the skins to match better light and medium clothing.

Types these codes into chat to preview.

Toxic Glove Skin: [&AgGHvwAA]
Toxic Mantle Skin: [&AgGAvwAA