Guild Wars 2

With the upcoming wardrobe, if I’m understanding the implementation correctly there’s a layer overlayed on top of gear now. This layer shows you whatever skin you use a transmutation charge to display. So regardless of whatever weapon you actually have equipped you always see the same skin from the wardrobe layer. If this is wrong, then in my ideal world this is how the wardrobe system would work.

Assuming the wardrobe layer behaves as described above. Something that would be pretty cool to add to the gemstore would be interchangable, customizable wardrobe templates.

Think of these customizable templates as a kind of one click swappable outfit.

The way it would work is every account has their one set of choices to display from their wardrobe for their wardrobe layer. Any account would be able to buy additional interchangable templates. Once a template is bought when you swap to that template from your default wardrobe template layer, it’s a clean slate for the wardrobe layer that you can use transmutation charges to customize an entirely different look. You be able to swap between these templates at any time, for free depending on what look you want to display.

The value that this system would provide to the player is that they can change their entire look in one action, and (besides the initial charge cost to set up the template) don’t have to use 6 transmutation charges for armor, 1 charge for the backpiece, and 2-4 charges for the land weapons, and 1-2 charges for water weapons.

The templates should take into account unequiped weapon types as well, but all slots on the template should be optional to apply a skin to.

I haven’t tried to work out any numbers on the proper gem price for these templates from the gemstore, because I don’t have the data available to do that, but I would imagine this would be somewhat pricy, like 1000+ gems because this would be an additional template per character on an account.

Assuming ANet finds a balanced gem price point, this kind of feature should be a win win for ANet and the players, as it offer convenience and potential savings to players, while increasing the amount of gems consumed in the game economy for ANet.