Guild Wars 2

Personally I like the outfits but will also love to mix them up and I understand why some people won’t buy the outfits (looking as everyone else, no creativity etc.)

What I suggest is that each outfit piece should be able to become an armor piece if the player is willing to spend a transmutation charge in the process (this won’t grant the transmution of the player’s armor, only that the outfit piece will be unlocked in the wardrobe) then the player will have spend another transmutation charge if he wants to equip the piece.

Benefits will go both sides, sellings of Outfits and transmutation charges (therefore, Gems) will rise, players who like outfits as they are will continue to buy them and players who like to mix and match armor will have the armor pieces from outfits that they like the most.

What do you guys think?

There are numerous outfit or armor threads floating around…

One big reason this probably won’t happen; framework is different from heavy to med to light armor. That is also why there is very little chance we will ever see light being able to use heavy etc. This means A-net would have to make 3 versions of the same armor to allow it to be skin able onto the various armor types.

Miku.6297:

One big reason this probably won’t happen; framework is different from heavy to med to light armor. That is also why there is very little chance we will ever see light being able to use heavy etc. This means A-net would have to make 3 versions of the same armor to allow it to be skin able onto the various armor types.

I see your point. What if outfits are classified in heavy, medium and light armor too? That means that any class can use Balthazar’s Regalia but only heavy classes would be abble to equip Balthazar’s Regalia Shoulders, for example.

Then A-net would need to make an entire extra set for heavy armor to be able to use it that way. An extra step vs just putting out the outfit.

Then of course you would also have people saying it was unfair heavy armor would get an outfit + skins for buying it, while light would not… All in all it’s a matter of saving time/headaches to not do something like this.