Guild Wars 2

This is not one of those bahhh let me mix outfits threads. Nope. See, a lot of people who know anything about outfits will tell you that the outfit is made out of two parts. The main “body” and the headgear. Now we can currently disable the headgear, and that works fine. But why can we not use the current headgear we have on WITH the outfit?
For example I have the [Inventor’s Sunglasses] on and the [Exemplar Outfit] on. Sadly, they can not be shown both at once. What I suggest is to add a Hide Headgear option in the OUTFITS tab, so it would hide the helm that the outfit provides, but would let us still see the helm that we have on. This will placate the outfits-are-satan-incarnate-thanks-obama crowd by giving some amount of customization to them, and will not require a lot of work from ANet, since we can already hide the helmet of outfits.
Thoughts?

I like this idea. I liked it in gw1 and I’d like it implemented here. I’d love to use my eyepatch with the pirate outfit, etc, etc, etc.

Sadly the silence on these matters seems to me like they’re either A) not listening, B ) not interested in making changes or C) listening but refuse to talk for fear of being beaten to death with a bat if they go back on something they said (which is annoying for both them and us).

This is a pretty good thought on the problems that outfits have.
however currently, to disable the outfit headgear, you have to disable the regular helm.
My Asura wears glasses, so if she is wearing an outfit, she can look pretty, but be a little nearsighted.

how about let us transmute outfits

I’d like this a lot, this is how it worked in gw1, outfits were two piece sets, head and body

I like the idea Arrk. I would take it a couple of steps further. Not only allow us to show our armour helmet instead of the outfit helmet, but do the same for the shoulders and gloves as well. Maybe have two tickboxes, one to hide the outfit version and one to show the armour version.

The only problems I can see with this, aside from extra development time and cost, is the potential for clipping issues and the reduced need to have armour skins. Other than that I would like to see this change.