Guild Wars 2

Guild logos are great. They’ll probably be more great with HoT expanding the icon and background selection.

They do have one fatal flaw though:
Your ability to display your guild logo is extremely limited!

Currently you can opt in to weapon skins, backpacks, or chestpieces. The backpacks are semi-unique and have some options, and the chestpieces are generally functional, yet bland.

While it’s great that you’re adding new sets of weapons and armor to the new guild hall system, It’s disheartening to see so few of those pieces actually displaying a guild logo!

In stead, why can’t our guild armor and weapon sets have two versions, one with logo, and one without? This would allow for far more customization of your look while still allowing you to rep that sweet, sweet logo action. I’d like to see logo-ready pieces avaliable for each armor slot, so that everyone can more easily maintain a look they like while still slotting in a logo piece.

Logo shoulders, gloves, boots, pants, etc. would be a lot more flexible and encourage more people to proudly display their awesome guild logos, and thus have a much stronger visual connection with all the awesome banners, siege weapons, guild hall decorations, and other features, and be able to feel more like a “team uniform” without requiring everyone to give up space on the largest visual sections of their armor and give up quite so much individuality.

Smaller logos aren’t necessarily a bad thing. I’d be perfectly happy to wear a pair of guild logo greaves, or a stylish guild logo headband, or guild pants with a nice logo emblazoned pocket watch attached, or some guild logo bracers that paid tribute to my awesome logo but didn’t scream it out with a giant flag or t-shirt.

The smaller pieces are often less look-defining for a character, and are much easier to work in to an existing custom look so your character still feels unique but has a little guild flair.

You could even just make them re-skins of existing armor with appropriately large sections of empty space. I mean that’s what the first set of guild armor was anyway.

While we’re at it, how about a “logo only” backpack and shoulder option? you know, just a close form fitting transparent alpha plane with the guild logo one it that would allow people to add the logo biker jacket style to the back or military-style to the shoulders of pretty much any armor without forcing them in to a bulky armor piece? I’d happily give up my backpack slot just for that, and I know a lot of people that hide their shoulders and would easily opt for shoulder icons.

Basically, what I’m saying is that it seems like not too much effort to make some very simply reskins/empty alpha planes to allow us to more easily and attractively display our awesome guild logos. Who’s with me?

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Why not just make the guild logo a texture that you can place wherever you want on each body part?

Nice topic as I want this too.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Why not just make the guild logo a texture that you can place wherever you want on each body part?

Nice topic as I want this too.

That would likely require a significant amount of programming to achieve, depending on how GW2’s engine is set up, or a significant amount of work as all armor skins for a given armor weight don’t follow the same exact form factor.

The shoulders/back examples are generally areas that are extremely similar if not identical for most armor weights, and implementing that functionality as armor pieces would be a lot simpler (as would creating a few reskins of existing armor with guild logo support)

As an interactive software developer myself (Game-ish things, mostly for museums) I’m just asking for the lowest hanging (meaning easiest to implement without extra work) fruit I guess.

With the increased focus on guilds, I definitely think this is a good idea.

I’d also like to see a greater variety of guild banner back pieces. I’ve wanted to use one of these for a while, but the current skins just look really awkward with my character’s armor.

Dahkeus.8243:

With the increased focus on guilds, I definitely think this is a good idea.

I’d also like to see a greater variety of guild banner back pieces. I’ve wanted to use one of these for a while, but the current skins just look really awkward with my character’s armor.

Greater variety all around would be awesome.

Would also be awesome if there were some way for warriors (and possibly future elite specs from other classes) to display their guild logo on the banner skills, and play guild fanfares with warhorn skills, but that’s going a bit off topic.

Thanks for the guild logos on the carpets arenanet!

Now about that armor…

Also the backpack with the flag should be dye-able.

I think this is a great idea, is there more important things ? Of course.

So if it’s going to take away from features that need work I would say keep it in mind for post release, but if you can squeeze it in I think this would be a small yet good feature. As it is, there really isn’t a point to activate the guild armor/weapon merchants. Weapons don’t even have a skin for all weapons and the armor has been limited to 1 skin for 3 years.

I love showing of my dedication to my guild but there are better skins out there so it has kind of lost it’s appeal. Having more armor skins would be a perfect idea to go along with all the guild focus in HoT.

Some sort of tonic might be cool too? Like a banner in tonic form.