Guild Wars 2

As I’m working on grabbing skins, dyes, and a new hair style for my mesmer, I’m realizing that it’s really hard to get a sense of what everything looks like at the end because of how fragmented the preview system is.

Here’s the process I go through:

I go to the hairstylist in Lion’s Arch. The hair style preview doesn’t take into account whether you enable or disable certain pieces of armor, so I have to physically take off pieces of armor to get that effect. I can’t check out what dyes on my armor go well with the hairstyle colors, so I open another window with the dyes in order to look back and forth between the hairstyle and the armor.

Then, I have to completely move away from the hairstylist to check the wardrobe storage out at a crafting station/banker to try out weapon skins, which only lets me preview one weapon at a time (MH or OH, unless it’s 2H) and doesn’t let me zoom out of the character. It can be difficult to look at large weapons so zoomed in. To integrate the dyes back, I have to find the dyes—even ones I already have unlocked—in the trading post AND find the correct order to preview it to get a very rough estimate of what dyes I want where—all while imagining the hairstyles that I might want to switch over to.

May I suggest an integrated preview system that can do hairstyle, dyes like the hero menu, and weapons all at once?