Guild Wars 2

Trying out WildStar a bit before the Heart Of Thorns release and I’m liking it so far. One thing that I really, really like about the game is their wardrobe system, and I’d love to see this system (or a similar version of it) in Guild Wars 2.

In WildStar (or at least in the Closed Beta for their F2P transition) you pay a one-time gold fee to add the skin of a piece of equipment to your wardrobe. You can then go into your Costume tab and wear those skins over your equipped armor pieces. You can swap costume pieces with the skins you’ve unlocked in your wardrobe at any time, without any additional fees. On top of that, your wardrobe is account-wide, so all of your other characters have access to these skins and can freely use them over their armor pieces with no additional fees.

This isn’t another thread crying about not having enough transmutation stones (because I have plenty, and they are fairly easy to get). I just believe this would make the system more streamlined. efficient, and enjoyable to those who transmute armor skins frequently.

“No additional fees”? Wrong game forum.

The skinning system in game is meant to be an income source, even with commonly available in-game skins. That’s the purpose of the transmutation charges. Sure there are multiple ways to get them for free and they are one if not the cheapest items you can buy from the Gem Shop. But they are still a Gem Shop item.

Could one day we see it go the way of other nussance fees like armor repair and trait respec fees, maybe but those use in game coin and not gems. I guess it matters on how many have been bought from the Gem Shop. Considering they are found in the new Account starter kits, I doubt it will be anytime soon. They are just too good of an item to bundle in kits and rewards. They don’t lose too much giving them away and they are useful enough that the player receiving them are unlikely to not think of them as a reward.

Wildstar’s Wardrobe is actually mostly inferior to GW2’s unless they revamped a bunch of it in beta, you can tell me if so, as I’m going off P2P version since my friend gifted me time recently and I played it back when humble bundle was giving it out.

One thing I want badly from it is the ability to hide any armor piece. GW2 stopped short of allowing only 3. Tranny charges are easy to get and allow a reasonable income source for Anet; what we get for trade off on that is account-wide dyes with unlimited use. Lotta those Dyes in Wildstar are too expensive to change for my innocent newbie char. Their wardrobe also doesn’t keep track of skins if you’re collecting and allows you to add repeats, which basically wastes a chunk of your money if you didn’t search through your skins to see if you had it already~ GW2’s collects everything for free and doesn’t allow dupes. Wildstar allows the mixing of heavy/light/medium that couldn’t be bothered with in GW2 as well. GW2 used to allow it in preview window. Majority of the mixes worked beautifully but they don’t wanna put those choices in our hands to do what we will.

They can both have things to learn from eachother~ Anet plz -.- let me hide my glowy Sylvari’s medium armor chest piece and stahp being shy about armor tier mixing. :<

It’s not just wildstar, most MMOs do it. F2p,b2p, or p2p.

They basically have a costume/cosmetic tab where you can just swap at will. No item cost or charge.

Behellagh.1468:

The skinning system in game is meant to be an income source, even with commonly available in-game skins. That’s the purpose of the transmutation charges. Sure there are multiple ways to get them for free and they are one if not the cheapest items you can buy from the Gem Shop. But they are still a Gem Shop item.

So like a lazy tax?

CureForLiving.5360:

Behellagh.1468:

The skinning system in game is meant to be an income source, even with commonly available in-game skins. That’s the purpose of the transmutation charges. Sure there are multiple ways to get them for free and they are one if not the cheapest items you can buy from the Gem Shop. But they are still a Gem Shop item.

So like a lazy tax?

Only for those who don’t get enough charges from the free sources to satisfy their customization needs. I have over 100 mostly free ones so far from login rewards, map clears and achievement chests. And I have only two active characters and I only have map complete on one. But because I have so few, I am very careful about using them.

So yes it’a s tax, one I choose not to pay if I can avoid it.

whats wrong with gw2 system? I think its fantastic

its free and account wide, and transmutation charges are easy to come by that you can switch armor skins freely and not worry about being able to.

outfits are free to wear without transmutations also

Except if you are coming in from an MMO where skinning is free, it can be a bit of an issue.

I have a load of charges, just mapping and PvP gives you loads, I’m sitting on 50+. They won’t add the pay coin to unlock skins as they are tied to achievements. Nice thought, but it will not go anywhere.

The wardrobe in GW2 is account wide also.