Guild Wars 2

OUTFITS

For a little while now all outfits have become an all or nothing use. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that you either have to use the outfit/costume or the armor design that you have placed on your character.

In the past when new outfits came out, they would be different pieces/skins we could use for our creative imagination to design the armor look we would like on our characters in game to look like. Thus adding more options of skins for us to design with.

The last outfit that did this was the Zodiac set. While many new outfits have come out, we have not had the option to use them creatively.

What this topic is for.

I’m hoping that GW2 will stop making outfits that are strictly as designed and return it to skins that can be added to the new wardrobe system so we the players can have more design options with our characters.

Please and ty for your time.

Although I think you probably know this already (and I am not trying to be snide)…the attire skins are divided into armor sets (such as the Zodiac set you cited) and outfits…which are “all or nothing”…as you pointed out.

The armor sets do have the flexibility you desire…but outfits have the advantage of not requiring a transmute charge. It may be that most players have plenty of charges so that advantage may not apply to them. I have a new, second account, though, and have very few charges…so some of the outfits work well for me.

Just a matter of taste and preference, I guess.

Ah, the new daily post about outfits.

Its true many could use it as a option when leveling for an outfit, I still see many who don’t use the outfit as they level though, maybe 50/50 right now. Its true it would takes charges if used a second time. But I see that as a selling point. Because people would have to purchase gems to get the charges. The increase in options would probably also help increase sales for the outfits as well if they could be used as skins. I know would would buy gems to get transmutation stones and the outfits if i could use it as a skin. It seem much more worth it to me to have it the wardrobe as a skin, then to only have it as a set. Increase in options for creativity is one of my favorite parts of this game, I don’t want to see that ruined.

I’ve never understood why Anet designed themselves into this corner. The end game is strictly vanity. Not who has the most powerful character, or who controls the biggest stronghold, but armor and weapon skins.

Who can look the most unique, that’s the endgame. By designing the outfits to be a one trick pony, one look fits all limits the ways a player can appear unique, thus ignoring GW2’s greatest strength.

Elothar.4382:

…but outfits have the advantage of not requiring a transmute charge.

This.

There’s only one outfit I really like – the arcane one – but all of my characters use it to look at least semi-decent on their way to level 80. There’s no way I’d waste transmute charges on pre-80 gear. Prior to this outfit change I just let most of my characters look like hobos. That’s not only less satisfying for me but also makes the game look a little bad.

Perhaps, but the grind from 1-80 is short. As where playing as a level 80 character will be most of that characters carrier. Not looking like a 80 is all part of the grind to want to be 80. It adds incentive just like all games do to reach the maximum level. Thus giving the player the chance to get the best and most attractive gear.

To be honest, the transmutation issue for armor could be absolved quite simply, if ANet just removed the need for transmutation charges to change the appearance of armor sets to begin with. If they did that and introduced more armor sets instead of outfits, I would bet my bottom dollar that they’d sell like hot cakes.

Right now though, I think players are getting too used to accepting second best, because that, to me, is what outfits are. They take so much away from our ability to customize our appearance and you end up with hundreds of players that look identical.

On that note, can all skins bought from the gemstore not cost transmutation stones would be greaaaaat so we can apply them to our low level accounts without worry.

P.S. Turn that Town Outfit into an item instead of a potion.