Guild Wars 2

Don’t get me wrong, I think the outfits look nice and I’ve been impressed with the design and quality, I just don’t like how they work mechanically. I enjoy mixing and matching gear, and every time I see a new outfit released it pains me to not be able and do that. I know there must be a lot of people who enjoy them because I often see people wearing the Balth Outfit and a few others, but I can’t say I understand the purpose of them. I understood their purpose initially. Outfits used to be based off of seasonal or themed ideas that were humorous, like dressing up as a pirate, or a witch, or the Mad King. The more recent outfits no longer fit into these more light-hearted categories, and instead look like real armor you’d find in the game.

I might be alone, but I am having a difficult time understanding the shift in direction for outfits. Again, they look nice, but I don’t understand the direction ANet is taking with outfits. Why not leave the more whimsical ideas for outfits, and then keep designs that actually look like armor as, well, armor that you can mix and match pieces with?

Going forward all Armors will be rewards from in game content only (recent interview revealed). So outfits are all that will be released until there is a new piece of content that the armor can be a reward for (may be as far away as HOT).

Conski Deshan.2057:

Going forward all Armors will be rewards from in game content only (recent interview revealed). So outfits are all that will be released until there is a new piece of content that the armor can be a reward for (may be as far away as HOT).

Yup, this. Thank the legions. Dont care how long i have to wait so long as i can earn it

Not alone. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Searching-the-Forums/first#post4701411

Please use that before spawning yet another anti-Outfit thread. They show up like clockwork, and the conversation goes nowhere.

Not that I’m hating. I support the hunt for mix-and-match gear, and I’m a sucker for (most of the) outfits.

Tired of “Tired of Outfits” thread showing up every update.

Heart of Thorns will bring armor sets.

Conski Deshan.2057:

Going forward all Armors will be rewards from in game content only (recent interview revealed). So outfits are all that will be released until there is a new piece of content that the armor can be a reward for (may be as far away as HOT).

Thanks for the updated info. I am at least glad to know they will be releasing actual armor sets, even if they might be far off. It was a rare treat that we even got the carapace armor, which I was grateful for, but I think the last released armor set before that was what, Ascended gear back in 2013? I know they take a lot more work to make than outfits, but it would be nice to see armor sets released more than once a year. I know ANet generally doesn’t make money off of armor sets either, but I used to buy Outfits back when they were treated more as funny cosmetics.

There is an expansion in the work, who knows how much armor it will bring to the table

Seabreeze.8437:

Tired of “Tired of Outfits” thread showing up every update.

Heart of Thorns will bring armor sets.

Yeah, sorry I chose a poor title. I should have said “Tired of the direction outfits are taking” but that’s a lot longer. I like outfits. I also like armor. I just wish there was a more distinct difference between the aesthetics of the two, the way it used to be.

IntheCoconut.3497:

Don’t get me wrong, I think the outfits look nice and I’ve been impressed with the design and quality

Glad Anet are making the sales with someone. I liked them at the start (specifically for lowbie characters to look halfway decent when leveling), but they’re going further and further downhill in terms of design quality. I mean nipple wings? Seriously?

Seabreeze.8437:

Tired of “Tired of Outfits” thread showing up every update.

Personally… I find it ok… it dosn’t harm anyone anyway. And its nice to see bigger variation on them.

Anet can add as much outfits they want. I dont see point to change anything about them. As its one way how they still get money trough gem store.

Actually it would be even better if they would be even more active about this.. making more Outfits … and cosmetic armor skins, adding more gw1 armor themed stuff and so on.

As this is one way of getting money for their company and it dont hurt anything… I dont see any problem about it. Maybe they even could go for cosmetic mounts … like currently we got carpet and so on.. Its fine till they stay as cosmetics.

Noone will be hurt by that … and we will get bigger variations on our appearance customization.

Dante.1763:

Conski Deshan.2057:

Going forward all Armors will be rewards from in game content only (recent interview revealed). So outfits are all that will be released until there is a new piece of content that the armor can be a reward for (may be as far away as HOT).

Yup, this. Thank the legions. Dont care how long i have to wait so long as i can earn it

This.

This has been a problem with GW2 for so long, no real in game rewards. Now we will finally start getting that, and I dont care if I have to wait too:P

Personally I like outfits. I bought the Arcane Outfit for my lvl 1 Elementalist and he’s worn them up and to current 80 with no desire to change it. It just fits his personality. I don’t have to worry about skins, charges and all the additional costs that come with it. So from my perspective, outfits server their purpose.

Seabreeze.8437:

Tired of “Tired of Outfits” thread showing up every update.

Heart of Thorns will bring armor sets.

Tired of “Heart of Thorns will do this, Heart of Thorns will do that” replies.

Dante.1763:

There is an expansion in the work, who knows how much armor it will bring to the table

Check how many armor sets they gave us as in game rewards for 3 years.
Now I’m prepared to be disappointed.

Im completely ok if they add 3 armors for each class every month.

after ~ first 100 sets they shouldnt run out of an ideas.

Actually, this outfit almost had me buy it.

Shame about the awkwardly placed wing…

“I’m tired of outfits. I want Anet to stop making them”

Well, I’m tired of people whining about outfits and want them to stop….

…we don’t all get what we want.

I am perfectly fine with them making outfits and putting them in the gemstore. I am even more fine with it, now that we have a statement that going forward armor skins will be an in-game reward and not a gemstore purchase. So let them stick outfits in the store and generate revenue which continues to fund the game. We’ll see new armors when we get the new content (which is essentially how it’s always worked for pretty much any game, ever).

We’re tired of outfit updates and Anet is likely tired of us complaining about how [expletive] clips when we mix and match sets.

No excuse for not having both, though.