Guild Wars 2

Maybe this is purely my cosmetic-oriented mind when playing, but what are your thoughts on you being able to see your character’s back piece skin (if enabled to be visible) while on Character Select?

I think it’d be cool. I’d definitely like to see other things done first (Monk’s Outfit fix, etc.), but it would be nice to have backpieces included in the select screen, seeing as they are part of the toon’s gear and appearance.

What’s wrong with the monk outfit?

DresdenAllblack.1249:

What’s wrong with the monk outfit?

no feet on female human verson

Not to mention they changed the appearance after players had bought it, causing it to look like a bell after the fact

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Fixed-Monk-Outfit-Updated-July-28th/page/4#post5349232

I really would like to see my backpiece in the character select. I worked hard for my spinal blades backpacks, why should I not be able to see them?

I know there are other things that are more important to fix first, but I would definitely like to have this feature in-game.

If it’s an easy fix I’d like it. I have tons of cosplay characters that need their back piece to complete their look (like Hawkgirl) and they throw me off every time I see them in character selection. Character selection is also a nice place to take screen shots of my characters but I’m limited to only characters without a back piece.

Eragon.8537:

Maybe this is purely my cosmetic-oriented mind when playing, but what are your thoughts on you being able to see your character’s back piece skin (if enabled to be visible) while on Character Select?

Arena.net will never do it. It was a conscious decision on their part to leave it out, for fear that anyone with enormous wings would see it blown up on the login screen, realize how ridiculous they look, and promptly quit the game in shame.

And weapons while they’re at it.

Conncept.7638:

And weapons while they’re at it.

A backpiece and weapon toggle option on login screen would be ace.

This would be nice. Its like looking at a incomplete version of your character

As long as I can disable it. This is something that happens in ArcheAge that I can’t stand. I have all that hidden, yet it wants to show me big ugly capes and weapons and such on the login, and the last thing I logged out in was a custom t-shirt, shorts and sneakers. Looks silly.

So sure, not an unreasonable request, but for those of us who do ‘not’ want to see all that, we’d need a way to disable it.