Guild Wars 2

So, a couple weeks ago, the Lunar Year Event ended and with that patch came a change that I simply loved: “Introduced the ability to view all locked dyes in the wardrobe, and players can now preview them on their character.”

As someone who spends more than half of his time in-game mix-matching armors and dyes, that small change was a godsend. Thank you so much for it.

Now, something that would make my life (and many other’s like me) would be the ability to see skins for armours or weapons that we haven’t yet unlocked on the wardrobe (see attachment). Much like you can with dyes, outfits, minis and finishers.

Sure, there is plenty of places online to see those skins, I’m aware, but in some cases it’s hard to differentiate between the chest and leggings parts on the same set. And you can’t preview different dye combos on it since they’re just pics someone else uploaded.

TL;DR: I’m a costume freak and would love to be able to see locked skins on the wardrobe.

You can already see all the locked skins and preview them.

Go to any bank and then the wardrobe tab. You’ll be able to see and preview all skins, even ones you haven’t unlocked.

ChoChoBo.6503:

You can already see all the locked skins and preview them.

Go to any bank and then the wardrobe tab. You’ll be able to see and preview all skins, even ones you haven’t unlocked.

That.

Although, having them all within the hero panel interface rather than seperately would be even more convenient, as it would be easier to preview them since they’d all be right there in that some window, rather than having to swap between the wardrobe and a preview window, and then you’d also be able to preview dyes on them which is rather annoying to do now.

Electro.4173:

Although, having them all within the hero panel interface rather than seperately would be even more convenient, as it would be easier to preview them since they’d all be right there in that some window, rather than having to swap between the wardrobe and a preview window, and then you’d also be able to preview dyes on them which is rather annoying to do now.

The UI for the preview system is a mess. Want to preview the armor pieces you have unlocked? You can do that here. Want to preview the armor pieces you have not unlocked? Sorry, it’s over there, and when previewing it will open another window in front of the one you’re using to pick the skins. Do you want to preview the skins you haven’t unlocked with different dyes than the ones you have right now? Prepare yourself to open half a dozen windows.

It’s a massive pain. Most of the UI for menus is a pain – why does most of the Hero window tabs hide our character’s stats, if most of it does not use the right part of that window? And so on.

ArenaNet has been changing the UI little by little, and it clearly shows. It lacks a lot of polish.

ChoChoBo.6503:

You can already see all the locked skins and preview them.

Go to any bank and then the wardrobe tab. You’ll be able to see and preview all skins, even ones you haven’t unlocked.

Oh, I didn’t knew that. Thanks!

Still, having to go to a Bank and constantly be switching windows is a bit bothersome. I feel the skins would be more organized on the Wardrobe section. And you could preview them on the go.
And again, it would be very helpful to be able to preview dyes on locked skins, which can’t be done on the Bank either.

FruitsPonchi.5268:

ChoChoBo.6503:

You can already see all the locked skins and preview them.

Go to any bank and then the wardrobe tab. You’ll be able to see and preview all skins, even ones you haven’t unlocked.

Oh, I didn’t knew that. Thanks!

Still, having to go to a Bank and constantly be switching windows is a bit bothersome. I feel the skins would be more organized on the Wardrobe section. And you could preview them on the go.
And again, it would be very helpful to be able to preview dyes on locked skins, which can’t be done on the Bank either.

Some armor sets will match your current dye set which is nice, but the overall UI design is quite messy and painful to use. Its odd to me that a game that is so focused around cosmetics has such poor design around that aspect, same goes for helms/hats making you bald instead of sitting on top.

You don’t have to switch windows, just move the preview off to the side so you can see both. Now, with the new dye system, I do agree it would be nice to have wardrobe preview in the hero panel so full dye testing could be done on prospective gear rather than the semi random 4 channels you can preview via TP dye listings in the current preview window.