Guild Wars 2

So, will ANYBODY at ANET eventually address why it is that after about 9 months, you still have yet to release a FULL SET of gemstore armor skins?

In my opinion, its most likely because of them maybe wanting to help people save transmutation charges by making outfits account-wide. If outfits were pieces of a set, people would have to use transmuation charges in order to apply it to their character.

I personally love outfits, they allow me to have two looks on my character.

Why would they sell a full set for 800 gems when they can sell one piece for 400 gems? That seems like their logic lately.

Outfits are actually much more convenient than armor skins.

You lose the ability to mix and match but you dont have to worry about transmuting and you can use them for new chars to look like rich kitten from the get go.

Take a look tho. They finally gave asura and char different outfits for male/female. A good step IMO

Ok folks..that’s fine if they work for you, but my point is that they used to come out with about 1 per month…up until May of last year, and then they stopped altogether. I LIKE mixing and matching stuff, and I am curious as to why , after coming out with the Wardrobe system, they stopped.

Buyin’ it! The Charr (guy, at least) looks pretty bad kitten .

…because they’ve released a couple sets of in-game armor skins?

Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.

All I’m interested in are those dragon shoulders.

Also I don’t like the fact the female/male versions are completely different.
I fully support differences between male and female armor, but in the end it should still be the same armor. But these are two completely different armors.. oh wait, I mean outfits.

heh, they can’t even get the headgear properly working, you ether wear the outfit headgear or nothing at all…..

toxicmuse.7642:

Ok folks..that’s fine if they work for you, but my point is that they used to come out with about 1 per month..

What?

They made new sets about every 3-4 months.

Now they release sets for free, like the carapace and glorious armour set.

I find outfits redundant from my point of view. I got some and used them maybe twice.
I hate them because I know it’s what we get instead of new full armor sets which could be mix’n’matched. Saving charges? C’mon the game is raining with those so an outfit maybe tempting for new players but are TERRIBLE for me as a veteran.

Alse, they’re extremely ugly. I think I like the noble and executioner only. The rest is from meh to ugly.

well… another thing ill skip in the gem store. I refuse to buy stuff i cant mix and match…no matter how good it looks.

No personal touch= dont care

Only 4 colour slots= dont care

Cant even have the headgear as a standalone skin\mixable with my armor= dont care

I play a game with a wardrobe for skins and the freedom to mix em as i kittening please (within the weight class obviosly) and i will do so…and nothing else. I rest my case and keep my gems in my wallet (or better said the unused gem cards i got here on my table for the miracle of getting gem store armor skins that “speak to me”). Whoever likes these darn things all hail to you….i however start to question why we even got such an extensive skin collection in the bank to display and a fantastic way to replace skins when we barely get new material to work with…or the 3 weight classes or class “theme” in general. Well… back to doing stuffs…

I don’t even want this outfit but will probably buy it because I’m so tired of all the complaining about mix-and-match/I like to support Anet.

Sadly the Buy Gems option doesn’t work right now, so I am just drooling over the preview.

I was so excited to see this armor set finally in game…until I logged on my (Female) warrior to get the dragon headed shoulder skin for. You almost got some more gem money from me Anet, but you failed on this one sadly.

As you can clearly see in the picture, I had high hopes for that one piece of armor skin. I’m not amused.

Dante-What armor is that anyways? i have the helmet, but the gloves and shoulders? what are they? -Primeval

Another outfit…urgh. Can’t stand that crap anymore. I’d rather have some new armor parts that I can use to further personalize my characters, instead of another boring one-piece outfit with no f-ing creativity for me to gain, except for some dyeing.

One outfit that fits all of your characters is a lot more convenient than weight-class restricted armor skins. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it.

And besides, if they released new armor skins, people would complain about “urgh trenchcoats” and “urgh skirts” instead. Some people are just never happy.

One outfit that fits all of your characters is a lot more convenient than weight-class restricted armor skins.

Opinion.

And besides, if they released new armor skins, people would complain about “urgh trenchcoats” and “urgh skirts” instead. Some people are just never happy.

nothing stops them from releasing a good skin, that’s not a skirt or trenchcoat we’re flooded since GW2 day 1. Good skin – more money for them.

Don’t like it? Don’t buy it.

That’s exactly what I’m doing. however it’s almost insane of them not to get the money I want to give them. But only for good stuff, not lazy designing.

I like the outfits because they are convenient for low level alts and cheap to use…however, I would like some more armor skins to be released. Thank you for the carapace armor though Anet (earnable in game to boot!) – I love some of the pieces of that set (especially light chest / medium boots.)

Megastorm.6219:

I was so excited to see this armor set finally in game…until I logged on my (Female) warrior to get the dragon headed shoulder skin for. You almost got some more gem money from me Anet, but you failed on this one sadly.

As you can clearly see in the picture, I had high hopes for that one piece of armor skin. I’m not amused.

What armor is that anyways? i have the helmet, but the gloves and shoulders? what are they?

Rangelost.4857:

One outfit that fits all of your characters is a lot more convenient than weight-class restricted armor skins. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it.

And besides, if they released new armor skins, people would complain about “urgh trenchcoats” and “urgh skirts” instead. Some people are just never happy.

yea… but maybe “yay i can use these boots” or “these shoulders go nice with my armor”…just sayin. Id alone buy a lot of costumes if i could use pieces like shoulders, gloves (if the design allows it) or helmet to overwrite the ones i got and NOT my entire armor. Know how much id love to use the mad prince facepaint on one of my chars or the shoulders from the witch outfit or stuff But whatever…we got a different view of “convinient”…

At least this one allows for Charr tails. Females get a lifting flap of fabric, males get their tail coming out of a dragon mouth.

it may be that some items are specifically designed to compliment existing armour sets, rather than be a part of their own full set.

Come on ANet, I want this nao. Fix the trading post!

Can somebody post what a male Norn look like in this from front?

Of course it’s another outfit. Easier making a set that all works together than a group of parts that can be mixed and matched with other groups of parts. Unless you don’t mind the occasional clipping issue because every set vastly increases the number of combinations to test across every race.

So atleast all races\genders are equally treated for once? Actual effort for charr? Either aliens abducted their armor department and replaced them with robots…or somebody snapped and went “hey…i actually should give a kitten for once about all races and genders, might make people who play charr happy…lets see how happy charr players look like”. I MIGHT actually just buy it cause some kitten was given even if i really dont like the asia theme and the fact that i detest outfits. I am genuinely impressed…as much as i hate to admit it. Now do the same for armor skins and it might just blow my mind…

I tried to resist buying too
comments from others about absurdly large shoulder pieces and stuff were convincing
and then I previewed it with dyes I like…

So shiny
Temptation struck yet again

Somebody post male Norn in new outfit please

Knighthonor.4061:

Can somebody post what a male Norn look like in this from front?

Here you are. Sorry for dull dyes, Altdragg’s into earth tones and I didn’t want to undo his dyes for the outfits he’d actually wear.

Knighthonor.4061:

Somebody post male Norn in new outfit please

Dulfy’s got you covered.
http://dulfy.net/2015/02/10/gw2-imperial-outfit-gallery/

Donari.5237:

Knighthonor.4061:

Can somebody post what a male Norn look like in this from front?

Here you are. Sorry for dull dyes, Altdragg’s into earth tones and I didn’t want to undo his dyes for the outfits he’d actually wear.

Wow. He looks great.

I bought one for my chars also. It’s a beautiful outfit.

I liked it, so I bought it. Personally the male humanoids have too big shoulders for my taste but really like the look on everything else.

I just looked at it on my male asura char:
Ears clip through the hat. Again.
Toes clip through the shoes. Again.
There isn’t even the laziest attempt to adapt the armor to asura, other than the cheap re-scale to approximately fit the base-skeleton.
A plus point for a male and female version of it, even though ears and hair clip like heck through the female collar.

Bravo ArenaNet.
What low-quality, minimum-cost re-scales can I expect for HoT? Or will you finally go full circle and add a terrible disease to the lore of the world, so that the outer toes and the ears of all asura just rot away, for cost-efficiency convenience in the armor-design-department?

I’m playing this game since the beta.
I remember how we’ve been told that all gameplay-mechanics are equal for all races, so players have the absolute freedom to play the way they like without suffering any disadvantage.
So come on! Welcome to the world of GuildWars 2! A world that lives and breathes beatiful art-design…well except you decide to play an asura, because not enough people play it so we drop the budget for their armor-design.
But don’t worry, even though your favourite race is low on our budget-reel, you can still join in the fun of paying the full price for it!

Posters 1: All of the armor sets are in the gem store, there’s none in the game. We don’t like that!
ANet: OK, we’ll put armor sets in the game (Carapace, Luminescent).
Posters 2: What? Another outfit! Where’s the full armor sets in the store?

Posters 3: All of the armor sets are full sets. Why can’t we buy armor pieces piecemeal!?!!?
ANet: OK, we’ll put piecemeal armor pieces in the store.
Posters 4: What? Why are armor pieces piecemeal?

While I’m sure that not everyone in the even groups were also in the odd groups, they should at least be made aware that ANet is doing this because others asked them to.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Posters 1: All of the armor sets are in the gem store, there’s none in the game. We don’t like that!
ANet: OK, we’ll put armor sets in the game (Carapace, Luminescent).
Posters 2: What? Another outfit! Where’s the full armor sets in the store?

Posters 3: All of the armor sets are full sets. Why can’t we buy armor pieces piecemeal!?!!?
ANet: OK, we’ll put piecemeal armor pieces in the store.
Posters 4: What? Why are armor pieces piecemeal?

While I’m sure that not everyone in the even groups were also in the odd groups, they should at least be made aware that ANet is doing this because others asked them to.

yea to have armor sets in game and the gem store would be too mindblowing now would it…as for piecemeal.. of course people complain. The prices are massive if compared to a full skin pack and quite some people do like to have full sets. Know how to make everybody happy? Sell both.. skin and costume versions, tweak the skin versions so that they work as skins if possible…and if not cut the outfit to as many pieces as possible (head, gloves, shoulders, boots and top\bottom combined). We got skins in game that overwrite more then 1 equipment slot with the visuals…like the light whisper helmet, it comes with shoulders…or the dry bone helmet, it also comes with shoulders. The CoF light armor top actually comes with the bottoms combined as 1 piece. See what i mean? Outfits easily could be sold as 2 versions, the regular one and the skin pack that cuts it up as far as possible. People can so add their own touch to it…or use elements of the outfit for their own personal look. For example how many people want that noble count outfit to combine with a top hat…or reading glasses or whatever? Many… there even where topics about that. How many people would love the samurai hat from the hexed outfit to go with a different set of clothes that are more samurai themed rather then witch like? Or how about bloody prince facepaint and “shoulder spikes”? Wouldnt that look amazing on a necro with more bones and skulls related armor details or “joker” style mesmer or something? How many people would like the combine the laurel wreath thingy with that…uhhh forgot the name of that plate outfit or combine said plate outfit with more subtle shoulders and different helmet? Or how about the mad king outfit with the phantom hood combination? Know how many people would love the dragon shoulders of the new outfit on their dragon themed armor? Or the executer outfit with glowing eyes or whatever. Or the “dervish robes” with blindfold helmet skin. It would look awesome and it would make MORE money for basically just splitting up whats possible and leaving the rest 1 piece. So much more people would buy it.

Last armor on Gemstore came out around April 2014. I would also like to see more armors… It’s making me sad when I see outfits come out which have something I’d like to mix with another armor and I can’t do it. :/

I bet they are saving them for the expansion.

I enjoy outfits. I would rather that they continue to add armors to the GAME and outfits to the GEMSTORE.

Yes, my Sylvari’s hair clips through, but it clips through most things, so do my Asura’s ears but I rarely wear head pieces. My only wish is that I could not show the shoulders like I can not show the helm.

Malediktus.3740:

I bet they are saving them for the expansion.

No they are not, at the expansion: We will get tribal armor, remember…

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Malediktus.3740:

I bet they are saving them for the expansion.

No they are not, at the expansion: We will get tribal armor, remember…

Someone datamined several new armor sets over the last months already. I am sure there will be new ones.

Malediktus.3740:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Malediktus.3740:

I bet they are saving them for the expansion.

No they are not, at the expansion: We will get tribal armor, remember…

Someone datamined several new armor sets over the last months already. I am sure there will be new ones.

Someone datamined a polearm two years ago and nothing happened.
The more info is released about HoT the less impressive it looks.

Arkinos.7245:

Outfits are actually much more convenient than armor skins.

You lose the ability to mix and match but you dont have to worry about transmuting and you can use them for new chars to look like rich kitten from the get go.

we can have outfits AND armor. I mean, i like the way outfits work, but i want to have new skins to mix and match in the future.

Yay…. Another dress for my charr characters. JUST what I needed. /sarcasm

segman.3560:

Malediktus.3740:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Malediktus.3740:

I bet they are saving them for the expansion.

No they are not, at the expansion: We will get tribal armor, remember…

Someone datamined several new armor sets over the last months already. I am sure there will be new ones.

Someone datamined a polearm two years ago and nothing happened.
The more info is released about HoT the less impressive it looks.

Do you really think they spend alot of work on new armor sets and never release them? Making an armor set takes much more effort than a weapon skin.

I’m wondering how many of those of you who dislike that it’s an outfit bought it anyway.

darkace.8925:

I’m wondering how many of those of you who dislike that it’s an outfit bought it anyway.

I could tell you. How are you gonna check this?

Outfits are more profitable than armour sets, it seems.

One outfit, even with different race and gender models, is less costly to develop than one armour skin set for a particular armour weight. (Consider how much time it takes for them to address potential clipping issues with armour skin when mixing with other armour sets).

Because outfits can be used on any class/armour weight, they are very popular items. I bet you that on the whole, more people have bought more outfits than armour skins.

In other words, it’s easy money for A-net.

Outfits?

It shows you can click dyes.

Enjoy? I’ll just see more and more “generics” walking around. I loathe the stupid outfits.