Guild Wars 2

While the debates rage on about how awful outfits are, how wonderful outfits are, how quick outfits are to make and slow armors are to make, cast your gaze back to the old flame legion vestments.

The flame legion vestments are a chest piece. Unlike every other chest piece in the game however, this chest piece overwrite the leg armour you equip and substitutes it’s own. This is interesting for two reasons:

1) That this tech is possible
2) That this approach bypasses all those clipping issues developers always sight about creating armour sets.

Outfits often feature joined chest and leg pieces which couldn’t possibly be separated into separate chest and leg pieces (plus glove, helm and boot skins which we all desperately wish Anet would separate into individual skins). What the old flame legion vestments seem to suggest is that half-outfit armour skins (where the chest overwrites the leg pieces) are possible.

I wouldn’t want such half-outfit pieces to become the main method of delivering new skins, but once per living world season, a low production cost half-outfit (chest and leg replacer) would be a welcome variation to the endless boot, shoulder and helm pieces we kept being gifted – and heck, such a half piece could probably tie the looks of those shoulders, boots and helms together -.-

It would be fantastic to use the chest/legs of an outfit then top it off with some nice shoulder/gloves/boots and helm skins…

I would immediately equip my Witch outfit with Nightfury/Deathly Bull Mantle Shoulders, Wizards Hat or Southsun Cove mask and Hellfire Embraces… The fun in mixing and matching!

The potential to make a huge amount of sales just on this idea should be looked into, I wouldn’t think twice about buying some cosmetics that let me have the control of mixing and matching or tweaking the outfit to be different to others…

I like that idea.

I suggested something similar in another thread a while back. I didn’t realize an example already existed within the game.

Please, ANet! It’s a compromise between armor and outfits that I’d love to see more of.

thats a nice idea actually

I really do think the chest + leg part is the most critical with clipping issues
So Anet could bring out some more Chest/Leg combos like CoF light armor and just design the shoulders, gloves, boots and helmets to be single pieces

+1

Orangensaft.7139:

thats a nice idea actually

I really do think the chest + leg part is the most critical with clipping issues
So Anet could bring out some more Chest/Leg combos like CoF light armor and just design the shoulders, gloves, boots and helmets to be single pieces

+1

The point is it isn’t an idea. This has already been implemented. Go equip the Flame legion vestments (light armor) in the wardrobe – its a chest that replaces both the chest and legs. This has been done before, therefore it should take zero additional effort to implement again.

Awesome idea!
/15outfitsandstuff