Guild Wars 2

Sylva-roleplayer here too, same problem, same comment !
Please, Arenanet, pretty please !

We’re begging them for this option almost with every new outfit…

please! outfits would be sooo much better then. and… I think most of outfits are made with that (hiding pauldrons) taken in consideration (except… noble one). So I think that could easily be implemented.

Furthermore… could helms and pauldrons of outfits be put into wardrobe as separate helm and pauldrons skins?

Agreed! Sometimes you just want to have an outfit a little less… bulky.

Didn’t know people hated the shoulders.
For me the shoulders are the only good part, but since it’s an outfit and I can’t wear only the shoulders it’s useless to me.

Windu The Forbidden One > Well, it’s not that I hate the shoulders, for that one at least. It’s just that I think they’re too big to fit with this outfit, and looks totally out of place. So, yeah, I wish I could hide them, that would definitively make me buy the outfit.
(But I also think those shoulders alone could be a good thing if they existed as a single piece of armor, on a heavy class for example.)

I would like this also, Ive ask for this awhile back when Ninja outfit came out.

So many outfits have been ruined by these awful shoulders. :s

The outfit looks incredible—except for the pauldrons. Oh my goodness those giant fan looking pieces are absolutely a deal breaker for me. If we can hide the pauldrons, I’d purchase the outfit.

And what about selling a version of the outfit without the pauldrons, along with the normal one? If creating a second “hide” option for outfits is too complicated for some reason, I mean.
Honestly, I’d like to know why they don’t put a toggle off option, and if they can’t, why they keep making gigantic pauldrons for outfits. The Bloody Prince’s, Ceremonial Plated, Shadow Assassin (maybe only for Sylvari, though), Hexed/Witch and Mad Thorn’s male outfits have the same problem.

I would buy one if I could just hide those fans. I just LOVE the rest of it. But the fans are too big for me :/

They should just convert all these outfit-things in armors… so people could mix and match again.

I really don’t like having things all stuck together and not usable as parts.
But despite that, I really like this outfit, I’d buy and use it in a heartbeat… if I could use it without the fans. They’re not bad, but they’re not what I want more often than not.
As is, not even gonna consider buying this knowing they’re stuck on there.

+1
purty pleez

and exactly thats why i always “whine” when another outfit comes out. SELL A SODDING SKIN PACK OF IT TOO. So that people who dont like the whole look can hide parts\use parts on other looks or pimp out the outfit with parts they enjoy. But whatever…

Oh I would love to hide them… I don’t wanna walk around like Queen Amadala!

I would lovingly appreciate if I could toggle the shoulder pieces on my outfits. There are many outfits where they are simply too big or clip too much for my tastes.

+1

I love outfits but the shoulders can be a big turnoff. When they are bigger than the head it makes them look ridiculous.

The ability to toggle off outsized shoulders would increase the outfits use and value.

I saw there was a new outfit incoming.
And of course, again, there’s some giant shoulderpads I can’t hide.
Arenanet, please. You make such nice outfits, but most of the times, the pauldrons are just too much.

The outfits need to be released as pieces so we can mix armor sets!

Correct request is hide option for everything please.

they can make more money by having you buy/earn a transmutation to use for smaller shoulders lol

also, some helmets are connected with shoulders, taking 2 display places at once

can’t really take away shoulders that are connected to the helmet, without taking away the helmet as well, when you want the helmet but not shoulders

Seriously, I’ve wanted the ability to turn off shoulders for outfits for a while now. The Shadow Assassin pauldrons are especially hideous on male characters, but I gotta say, the crystal shoulders for the Nomad outfit? They need to GO!

I started thinking I was crazy because I thought we were talking about regular armor and I was positive we have that feature. I kept reading each comment waiting for someone to say, “Uhm, you can totally do that already duh.” I see now we are talking about outfits.

The ability to hide any armor/outfit piece would be very nice. Or atleast the shoulders for outfits! Thanks in advance, Anet.

Of course I would always like to have actual armor skins more then outfits, but I don’t mind them too much. They look mostly good too.

However the Nomad-look takes it a big step too far. Pauldrons have always been a problem (is it some sort of fantasy trope to make them as big, unpractical and ugly as possible?) but those crystals more or less ruin it.
I love the rest but being unable to hide them makes me not want to buy it. It is just too much and I am sure that some crystal-decorations can be applied in a more simple and practical looking way.

Or just to make it possible to hide them.

Signed! Especially since the toggle is there for regular armor, and we already have a toggle for helmet. It would be really nice to get the same toggle for outfits.
I understand some of the outfits may have unfinished texture that is hidden under the shoulders, but the nomad outfit for instance doesn’t seem like it, so toggling the crystals on and off seems like it should be doable?

Yeeees pretty please, even if we don’t get to wear the outfits as separate armor skins, at least let us be able to hide the shoulders like we can hide the helmet. It would be GREATLY appreciated!

Fny.4502:

Yeeees pretty please, even if we don’t get to wear the outfits as separate armor skins, at least let us be able to hide the shoulders like we can hide the helmet. It would be GREATLY appreciated!

I would love if they allowed us to use our regular head skin when the outfit head is hidden. Same for Shoulders and everything else, this would allow players to mix/max outfits very well, just hide which parts of the outfit you don’t want and bam your “regular” pieces will appear.

Of course that wouldn’t allow combining two outfits yet but it’s a good start for more skin variety

Yes please.

1- Make the head piece like it was in GW1 where you can either use the one from the outfit OR your regular armor

2- If the slot has a toggle, it should work on the outfit too. Head, shoulder, AND gloves.

Boop! I vote for option to be able to hide outfits pauldrons!
If this done, lot of people will be happy.

Yes please. Pauldrons are the reason why I don’t like most of the outfits.

Same hiding options as normal armor has would be great.

Pretty sure you guys can hide outfit shoulders. All you have to do is go into your normal equipment page and uncheck the shoulders and it should hide the outfit shoulders. Reason I say this is because I use the cooks outfit for my charr engi and I can hid the helm and gloves on the outfit.

Aetheldrake.6395:

they can make more money by having you buy/earn a transmutation to use for smaller shoulders lol

also, some helmets are connected with shoulders, taking 2 display places at once

can’t really take away shoulders that are connected to the helmet, without taking away the helmet as well, when you want the helmet but not shoulders

Armor is what uses transmute stones, but this thread is about the outfit slot, which doesn’t.

The cook’s outfit may be a special case as it was originally a multi piece set of town clothes. I’ll have to check if hiding things works on it as you say, though, because I’d love to ditch the sylvari version’s club hand.

The newer outfits are designed in one piece as a mask over the underlying armor. I’m pretty sure it would take them some redesign work and tricky coding changes to implement a shoulder toggle on outfits.

I really wish they would, though. While I do like the fans on the female imperial, and the shadow assassin shoulders work well on my female charr elementalist, for the most part I’ve found the shoulders detract from the overall look. It’s a bit boggling how the artists can do so much so well and then slap these horribly out of place shoulders on outfit after outfit.

I know that pretty much everyone I hear talking about the outfits is displeased with the shoulders and putting up with them for the sake of the rest of the look. Don’t you want your players to be 100% satisfied with what you make, ANet? A shoulder toggle would allow so many more people to be happy with the outfits.

While I’m not sure if it’d be possible to disable the shoulders on the other outfits, they should at the very least let us disable the floating crystal shoulders on the crystal nomad outfit. On the other outfits, the shoulders are a part of the model, but in the case of the crystal nomad outfit the shoulders are floating. It shouldn’t take that much effort to get rid of those…

Darren.3427:

Pretty sure you guys can hide outfit shoulders. All you have to do is go into your normal equipment page and uncheck the shoulders and it should hide the outfit shoulders. Reason I say this is because I use the cooks outfit for my charr engi and I can hid the helm and gloves on the outfit.

That only works for some outfits, not all of them unfortunately.

The crystal nomad shoulders frustrate me a lot, because I’ve wanted an outfit exactly like that one for a while, and when they finally made one, they decided they had to stick gigantic crystals all over it. I’m not sure I’ll even buy it now. It’s the same reason I haven’t sprung for the Imperial. Just looking at the shoulders makes me wince.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Didn’t know people hated the shoulders.
For me the shoulders are the only good part, but since it’s an outfit and I can’t wear only the shoulders it’s useless to me.

shoulders ruin the look of a lot of stuff…Imperial Outfit is a great example (and why me and my GF will not purchase one at this time.)

I think you can hide shoulders on outfits by going into your armor and toggling hide armor check box. That’s how I hide the head pieces on most outfits that have them cause I find them to be quite ugly.

Soren.9316:

I think you can hide shoulders on outfits by going into your armor and toggling hide armor check box. That’s how I hide the head pieces on most outfits that have them cause I find them to be quite ugly.

I’m afraid you can’t toggle off shoulders on outfits. You can only toggle off headpieces and, in the case of older outfits, gloves. The old town clothes system didn’t have a shoulder slot, so that might be why, but most of the outfits also have built in shoulders, so they can’t really be removed.

In the case of the crystal nomad outfit though, the shoulders are explicitly floating, so it should be fully possible to toggle them off. Should, but probably isn’t. I hope they make it possible though.

Strorm.4987:

Soren.9316:

I think you can hide shoulders on outfits by going into your armor and toggling hide armor check box. That’s how I hide the head pieces on most outfits that have them cause I find them to be quite ugly.

I’m afraid you can’t toggle off shoulders on outfits. You can only toggle off headpieces and, in the case of older outfits, gloves. The old town clothes system didn’t have a shoulder slot, so that might be why, but most of the outfits also have built in shoulders, so they can’t really be removed.

In the case of the crystal nomad outfit though, the shoulders are explicitly floating, so it should be fully possible to toggle them off. Should, but probably isn’t. I hope they make it possible though.

Bummer, that sucks.

Please Anet, Pleaaaaase, I want this option, thanks !

Yes. I love outfits. Since it is possible to hide the head piece, I’d love to also be able to hide the shoulders.

Yes please please please please.
Most of the outfits would be so nice without these ugly giant shoulders. I beg you to add this option.
Between the floating crystal (… Srly, floating crystal ? This outfit look great and BAM floating crystals everywhere ! WHY) and the gigantic fans… :<

+1. Do something about this. è_é

+1. Please, do something about this.

Please allow us to remove the shoulders, yeah. I don’t understand why it is not implemented yet as well as for the gloves.

Lmao @ Inay’s comment on the Ceremonial outfit picture.

Another +1 from me on this. Whatever we can hide on regular armour, we ought to be able to toggle off for outfits as well.