GW2 makes great looking outfits but the fact that they’re pre-made makes me not want to buy them. Having them pre-made removes all creativity from dressing your character.
If the BL Trading Post had more individual items like shirts, shoes, slacks, headpieces etc. I think you’d get a lot more people interested in buying them and creating their own unique look. I discussed it with my guild mates and we all agree. By the way did I mention that I think ArenaNet is doing a genius job of creating a great game !
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The reason that you see more outfits than armor is probably because outfits are easier and quicker to make. Rather than designing 30 variations, they only need to do 10.
I get that Aryilana about the expedience outfits provide. Some of us like just spending hours designing our looks with dyes and different styles and what not. I even own the permanent Hair Stylist.
Sigh, now I’m wistful for the previous Town Clothes system and my beta-weekend cap that got deleted and I’ll never have again.
The issue with clothing pieces tends to be:
1. As Ayrilana mentioned, individual pieces are harder to design for.
2. Individual pieces don’t mesh between sets. The Light/Medium/Heavy rigs don’t have break points in the same places (leading to problem #1). This also means that every individual piece can only sell to 1/3 of the characters, which cuts into the ability to profit on it.
And I generally resent the “fewer this, more that” argument. It always sounds petty and assumes the players on the “fewer this” portion don’t deserve to have more of the thing they like. I’m all for the more-clothes-mix-and-match folks getting more skins to do their thing (I’d certainly benefit from it~), but remember to frame the request in the right way.
More skins, please.
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They did a few sets like that, but sold it as a 6 piece set that you had to buy for every armor type. So what you ended up with was 1 maybe 2 usable pieces that went went with the rest of your look and 4-5 pieces that took up space in your bank until you found a use for them or deleted them bease you needed the space. More if you bought all three armor types.
Outfits are a good work around, but the ability to mix and match pieces of the outfit with other unlocked skins would be nice. Selling each item separately would be better, but most likely more expensive.
