Guild Wars 2

Since a lot of people were, and are, unhappy with the Outfit situation, I’ve just thought of making a list of possible suggestions that are either new or concern already made proposals:

1) Make Outfits mixed with armour pieces:
Simply put, the Outfit section in the Hero panel would have the 6 gear squares to be filled with outfit skins, and each panel can be switched on and off like helms, gloves and shoulders already do, to show the piece of armour below.

2) Make Outfits mixed with helms:
Just unchecking the helm box in the Outfit panel will show the armour helm, allowing us to mix helm and outfit. The helm can still be hidden by unselecting it in the Equipment panel.

3) Make Outfits mixed with helms, shoulders and gloves:
Same as 2, but with the option to show and mix together the three parts mentioned by simply unselecting them.

All the Outfits can still be used in combat while mixed

As other have said, the possible gain from Arenanet would be that people would buy Outfits and Transmutation Stones even more eagerly, if the options to mix and match are extended.

About the clipping issues: Even if clipping already exists with the current system, there may be needed some adjustments, especially if all the armour parts can be mixed. But they would be needed in any case, so no big deal here.

Personally, I’d suggest option number 3, because it looks like a good balanced way to put in some efforts, without spending too much time on it alone, making the interests both of the devs and the community. By playing only around the parts of armours that can be showed off, Arenanet doesn’t have to worry to much when making or modifying outfits, or even adapting armour, because those parts are considered to be removable anyway.
Of course if I could choose I would go for number 1, total mixing, but if we are talking about saving time…