Guild Wars 2

I noticed that suddenly i am no longer able to preview armor i can not wear for my class, from links in chat….. any specific reason for that?

I used to like previewing, just to get an idea how it would look on an alt that actually CAN wear it……

I have searched for a thread about this, but could not find it.

There have been a few dev responses about this, they said it’s a temporary fix they’ve implemented while they work on something to do with the preview system.

Key word: Temporary. So relax

Thank you Silver…. ill just be patient till they fixed it then:)

gw2armor – Google it can view most if not all lvl 80 armor on any race.

The puzzling thing is why they decided to remove the previous functionality before the new system is ready for live. And why it was such a big secret to keep out of the patch notes.

They mentioned there was already an issue in place when previewing different types (light, medium, heavy) together would mess up textures. I’m hoping this temporary fix is a precursor to being able to preview items from the Trading Post.

I’d be more interested if the “fix” involved letting us skin any kind of armor onto items we could wear. I dislike playing warriors and guardians, but the Charr cultural stuff sure does look sweet….

Who knows? Maybe it is, it would be a good explanation as to why they’re fixing up textures with multiple armour types. I wouldn’t get your hopes up though, I personally don’t like the idea of doing that but I’m aware it’s a big deal for many others, wouldn’t mess up my day aside from getting confused in pvp.

Just type in Preview and it will come up.
Here where they linked a lot of other links.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Why-was-armor-preview-disabled