I don’t actually get the purpose of outfits. I’ve seen several that I liked pieces of, but was stuck with the entire thing. Also, the inability to use other headpieces, like glasses, kind of kills them for me.
They feel like very limited version of skins. It makes me so sad to see something awesome hit the gem store only to find out that it is an outfit
Couple things go into outfits.
First, they were a place to dump old gem store town clothes sets. The ones they didn’t just turn into junk tonics.
Second, they were meant to allow designers a lot more artistic freedom to create looks that defy the broken up nature of armor pieces, like the full body robes of the imperial or arcane sets and the bowtie on the back of the shadow assassin’s armor. Also the possibility for sets with designs that would not be able to stand alone as separate pieces, like the Balthazar or Mad King’s outfits.
And lastly they were marketed as not having to cost transmutation charges once bought, which is nice and stuff for brand new players, where somebody decided all the big money between then and HoT was going to come from.
For these things, I have not minded their existing, I’ve even gotten a few beyond the old town clothes, but the one here lately, the Daydreamers set, has really gotten under my skin.
That set is the epitome of everything that I have feared about the stream of outfits that have been entering the gem store in the absence of actual armor sets, that meaningful character customization is going out the window. Outfits are good for what they do, but frankly they are homogenizing, and come and go like the latest fad, and seeing so many now just cheapens the entire experience for me.
Back on the Daydreamers set, the reasons I feel it should never have been an outfit is that this set does not have a single feature about it that I can see that would cause it break the rules of any of the 3 existing armor meshes, male or female. There are examples of how to handle the male legging’s coat tail, like the Zodiac sets, which all had them, but were done slightly different between light/heavy and medium. The female version especially does not belong because not one of the pieces even touch any of the others, which I feel should be an automatic and unquestionable disqualification for entry into the outfits section of the wardrobe. At the point it is made of 6 visually separate pieces, it should be made an armor skin.
A bit of a rant, sure, but seriously… now I see people asking to customize the outfits which is the best argument I’ve heard yet to go back to making armors.
so..more money for a-net