Guild Wars 2

A year ago today, the (very excellent) feature pack tragically removed regular town clothes and made them tonics. In doing so, players lost the ability to dye them. This thread is here to commemorate this loss for those who had use of it.

Gosh, I miss the town clothes so much. And what I miss the most is that you could paint them like armor. Now you cannot change the colors of the town clothes tonics. :c

And we only get 4 colors for the whole outfits!

So sad!

Do I miss town clothes?
Yes.

Do I miss the fact that we couldn’t fight in them?
No.

Cerai.9741:

A year ago today, the (very excellent) feature pack tragically removed regular town clothes and made them tonics. In doing so, players lost the ability to dye them. This thread is here to commemorate this loss for those who had use of it.

Red cabbage is still cabbage.

I would have liked it if they would have just been converted to skins. they were skins after all.

town clothes just should be where outfits are right now… atleast you could make your own look with them…god i miss my shorts -_-

I miss being able to mix and match them, and colour them for sure. I had a number of townclothes, but none of the colours of the tonics they became suited my taste or my characters’ look. And now my poor warrior is stuck in his armor 24/7 instead of being able to take it off and relax in comfortable clothing.

There was a huge thread a year ago with lots of posts showing beloved town clothes combos. Here was mine in that thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Questions-Town-clothes-Costumes-Combat/page/9#post3812990

I really miss the shorts, and the fancy white shirt, and mixing in different headgears, and the basic starter sets ….

And to this day i still don’t understand why they weren’t just made into skins for the wardrobe that were race specific just like the cultural armor skins. Literally no reason for that. But yeah…anet.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

And to this day i still don’t understand why they weren’t just made into skins for the wardrobe that were race specific just like the cultural armor skins. Literally no reason for that. But yeah…anet.

like i said before.. they should be where costumes are right now. Usable in battle, a 4th armor weight class everybody can wear and a TRUE 2nd look rather then these horrible 1 piece suits, there was nothing wrong with them cept that you couldnt wear em in battle..

I hate the destruction of town clothes.

Rest of the post I tried to make turned into short version: I loved the fluff items. Only hate left now.

1. Born Free cosplay? As your parents (grand parents? )

2. Look Ma! No Clipping! Ok, not clothes, but the old running animation where you can see how the arms were more tucked in and how the back leg would extend perfect straight at the apex. Happily pay to have that back as something I can re-apply with a makeover kit. Or better yet, we buy different running and walking animations and activate the one we want.

Bonus: I don’t see my staff clipping anything. Stowed 6 in in mid air above my back like every other game.

3,4,5. Clothes and emotes!

Bonus: Giant candy corn I mine in my home (which, isn’t my home, it’s really some Norn’s home, I think, and we all have the exact same homes and family) in case anyone wants to talk about running and emotes not being realistic.

6. Halloween!

7. How I feel that all these things are gone.

Never saw the point of use for town clothes beyond role-playing, which I don’t do.

Geneaux.9547:

Never saw the point of use for town clothes beyond role-playing, which I don’t do.

considering that many players dont rpg beyond combat or pve, or evrything else than just staying or walking around somewhere and talk or else, its a pretty strange business decision.
ok i forgot: dancing around…

why exclude such a big player base from buying good looking armor at the shop? who knows.

little example: my char walks into a heavy snowy area to to some quests or else. my imidiate reaction as a more casual rp player (some calls this IMMERSION) is: “i would like to fight in appropriate armor for this area. where is my kitten awesome inuit-suit?”
just to find out, its in the tab, locked forever (in a could and would status) and kitten its outfit anyway….but why?

hardloop von edgehoven.8512:

Geneaux.9547:

Never saw the point of use for town clothes beyond role-playing, which I don’t do.

considering that many players dont rpg beyond combat or pve, or evrything else than just staying or walking around somewhere and talk or else, its a pretty strange business decision.
ok i forgot: dancing around…

why exclude such a big player base from buying good looking armor at the shop? who knows.

little example: my char walks into a heavy snowy area to to some quests or else. my imidiate reaction as a more casual rp player (some calls this IMMERSION) is: “i would like to fight in appropriate armor for this area. where is my kitten awesome inuit-suit?”
just to find out, its in the tab, locked forever (in a could and would status) and kitten its outfit anyway….but why?

Even then, its still pointless, as far as Anet is concerned. The whole purpose and theme of the game is to combat the threat of the Elder Dragons. Nothing else is conducive to this, save “immersion” purposes and that’s entirely subjective and varies from person to person. Now I will concede in that Anet offers other useless tidbits, all things considered like bobblehead kits and charr bass guitars, but they’re fickle existences to satiate time in which you are doing nothing. Town clothes usage was even less “tangible” than that.
Outfits look to be Anet’s solution to the town clothes disparity. They offer looks without sacrificing stats, which means consistent combat effectiveness. Which is what you will be doing 9/10, if role-playing isn’t your thing. They seem to make up the majority of players. Not trying to bash but town clothes don’t fit the core audience.

I don’t really get why they didn’t make them outfits?

I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t make the Sylvari Racial armor an armor skin. There’s absolutely no way whatsoever that it’d clip with anything. It’s impossible.

Here was my thread before the dark times overtook us:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Share-your-Mix-n-Match-TOWN-CLOTHES/first

Still wondering… why TONICS?

Dumbest. Idea. Ever.

Indeed, a set of skins or an outfit would be so much better.

I’d like to see them (all) as skins, too. And dyes saved per skin, while we’re at it. One dye set might look great on a skin but disfigure another. Annoying to restore them manually after a skin change.

I still want to fight monsters in my gw2 dragon logo t-shirt. But anet screwed that up big time.

Town clothes were awesome.
Some of them even look a lot more fitting to fight in than a few outfits and other skins.

Town clothes…such a useless feature.

In retrospect turning them into armor pieces or outfit would have been way more usefull and usable.

My personal favorite would have been armor pieces to retainn the mix and match options… But I had some,got some tonics in return and NEVER EVER USED THEM AGAIN!

I’m still wondering why I go to a converter and get the basic ownclothes tonic with each alt, Already haveing to many of them as is….

I don’t get it. I still haven’t found a reply to this from Anet, and it seems such a simple fix. Please, just make the things into standard armour skins, or into outfits even!
Town clothes were brilliant, and it’d be a really big plus for Anet if they were willing to look into this simple fix. But, nothing so far…

Eh. I liked the idea of them, but the lack of sets that could be acquired in-game was disappointing.

Remedying that and having them as wardrobe skins would be better though; I’m not fond of medium and heavy armour in general, but my main and my two worthwhile (attractive) alts fall into those classes, so getting some nicer clothing options would be great.

They need to make those things armor pieces. I combined the hoodie with the cargo pants, and it worked well. I would KILL for the ability to do that combination again.

I never understood the logic behind making them tonics.

Making them skins similar to how the Fused Gauntlets work for all weight classes would have been ideal.

For clipping, some armour already clips with the current skins. Don’t like how one piece is clipping? Don’t use that combination of skins.

For the argument “If a Warrior runs in town clothes skins they’ll look like a light class” – Nope, outfits threw that out of the window and PvP currently has the option for mandatory default player models.

Really, swapping them back to skins is an easy and cheap way for them to add a little more variety to the game whilst we wait for HoT. (Easy and cheap because they already had the clothing as separate skins)