Guild Wars 2

With the new POF expansion approaching, I think it would make sense to add capes to the wardrobe.

Being out in the desert you’ll need some protection from the sand right?

Your cape would get caught on a cactus and yank you right out of the saddle. “No Capes!”

Linky.9178:

With the new POF expansion approaching, I think it would make sense to add capes to the wardrobe.

Being out in the desert you’ll need some protection from the sand right?

http://i.imgur.com/f6xiaju.gif

Seriously though, I don’t see it happening with this expansion. Maybe the next one?

We likely will not see capes until Anet has the “tech” to have them dynamically move over armor/weapons without clipping.

The devs stated long ago that capes proved too difficult for the designers. Whether or not that is still the case, not sure.

I’ll never understand this cape obsession.

Endless Soul.5178:

I’ll never understand this cape obsession.

Same here. Capes are ok, for certain characters. But I really don’t get why some people keep on asking for them in every single game (seriously, it’s not just GW2, it happens everywhere).

DeanBB.4268:

Your cape would get caught on a cactus and yank you right out of the saddle. “No Capes!”

Technically cacti should be rare or non-existent in Elona since it’s based on north Africa and the Middle East and there’s only one cactus native to anywhere outside the Americas, and that doesn’t look like what most people think of as a cactus.

But…it’s a game and ‘Hollywood’ rules apply, which basically means everywhere is America and all deserts have cacti.

Dulfy had some leaked piccies with backpieces that came very close to being capes, so you might be in luck.

I was so happy when they added the option to hide capes in GW1.

Ramoth.9064:

I was so happy when they added the option to hide capes in GW1.

Same here, I shudder at the memories of all the clipping.

Vherak.5276:

Ramoth.9064:

I was so happy when they added the option to hide capes in GW1.

Same here, I shudder at the memories of all the clipping.

My problem with them was that most of the capes only reached the hip height. Graphics aside, WoW had much nicer capes, that looked impractical, but cool and long.

Ramoth.9064:

I was so happy when they added the option to hide capes in GW1.

Yes, that’s what I did.

I’ll just leave this here for these overly used excuses for not having capes after ~5 years.

Pretty Pixie.8603:

Dulfy had some leaked piccies with backpieces that came very close to being capes, so you might be in luck.

why not post the source if you post something like this?

I believe someo0ne at ANet explained that they have never used capes/cloaks as a backpiece item because of the severe amount of clipping that was involved in development stages that they simply had no way to fix.

I would love it if they could, but from what I remember, there are genuine engine-related reasons why they don’t have capes and cloaks

I had loads of capes in EQ2 and they excellent desings on them. Would they work in GW2? Dunno. A cape over a trench coat seems a bit odd. And capes for Asura makes no commercial sense as the tailor needs too little cloth due to their vertically challenged stature. Why, one bolt of jute could keep Rata Sum residents in capes for a life time…