Guild Wars 2

Greetings…at work right now, so I am hoping someone can help me out.

I really like the look of the new Pirate Hat…finally a Hat AND Eyepatch!

My question is, does it make you bald? (I am sadly thinking it will…:( )

I have great braids on my toon, and if they still laid down the back when wearing this, it would look so cool. I always disliked the way hats and certain helms make you bald when a toon has long hair.

I will most likely still get it to finish out the look of the Savage Pirate on my Asura Warrior…but will be really happy if the hair stays!

Thanks for any info.

I have it on a human now, yes, it is exactly as Dulfy shows. I also previewed it on a charr with a mane and while the hat nestled nicely in her horns it did strip the mane off.

Seeing as how every other hat makes you bald, I’d assume that this one does the same. I haven’t been in-game today to check for myself, though.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Seeing as how every other hat makes you bald, I’d assume that this one does the same. I haven’t been in-game today to check for myself, though.

Right…and that is what I am sadly afraid of as well…just too impatient to wait to find out for myself when I get home…lol

Yeah, it does.
http://dulfy.net/2016/09/27/gw2-gemstore-updatelava-lounge-cosmic-logging-tool-pirate-hat/
They try to hide it with a little scarf, but the character is still pretty clearly bald. I remember this being an issue in mmos, like 10 years ago. The fact that a modern triple-A mmo still has this problem is frankly pretty embarrassing.
Shame, it’s a nice hat.

Sadly, it does take away your hair. I’d buy it if it atleast gave us a preset hair. Why can’t they just either give us preset hair (like a side braid or side bun for females and sideburns and a rat tail for males??) or compress the hairstyles to fit the hat- like every other gem store does in their games.

Anet, my character is not bald- don’t release hats that make you bald if you’re going to give us pretty hairstyles.

Hats will never have your hair style attached and visible for one simple reason: Hat are your hair as far as the games models are concerned. For ANet to give you hats that include your hair, they would have to do one of two things:

1) Create a separate model variation for every hair style for every race and gender for each hat. Then they would need to update that hat with every new hair style they add to the game, forever.

2) Completely change how player models work in game by adding a new layer to the models specifically for hats. This would mean a complete rework of every player model head for each race and gender to add this layer. Then every hair style would have to be adjusted to line up with the bottom part of the hat, for every race, gender and hair style in the game and updated every time they add a new hair style to the game, forever.

Or they could just leave the system as it is and make new hats.

Karmapolice.4193:

Yeah, it does.
http://dulfy.net/2016/09/27/gw2-gemstore-updatelava-lounge-cosmic-logging-tool-pirate-hat/
They try to hide it with a little scarf, but the character is still pretty clearly bald. I remember this being an issue in mmos, like 10 years ago. The fact that a modern triple-A mmo still has this problem is frankly pretty embarrassing.
Shame, it’s a nice hat.

Thanks…dulfy hadn’t gotten the post up when I saw it on the main page here.

Every hat does not make you bald. Bunny Ears don’t make you bald. =:3

RavBunneh.6854:

Every hat does not make you bald. Bunny Ears don’t make you bald. =:3

Right…Magnus’ Eyepatch doesn’t make you bald either.

I can see limiting it to certain hairstyles…or matching…if you have long hair, leave some out at the bottom minus the braids/decoration/etc. Just match hair length.

Make hats that give us NICE looking hairstyles anet.