Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m sorry if this was covered already but I’ve searched and can’t find a specific answer to this specific question.

I see links and links of people posting shots of armor and weapons. I see the skins I like in weapons and armor but can’t figure out how I know from looking at the name and/or the icon in the trading company what weapon/armor is going to look like what skin.

I know the karma vendors have special names and I can find those just fine… but if I wanted to know what a, for example, “Bandit Rifle” looks like… because multiple skins share the same icon, I don’t know where to find that information. It’s not a unique icon.

I know I can preview… but you can’t preview from the trading company.

Does anyone know a source for this or explain to me how you know, without a doubt, when you buy a weapon or piece of armor, what it’s going to look like?

Thanks for any help… sorry if this comes off as ignorant but I just can’t find a kitten thing about it.

( i actually wrote kitten in there )

Without TP previewing (which is being developed atm) you just don’t know for most items.

Bluestone I don’t like your answer.

I want a hammer skin and I want it now.

So get to work Blue… don’t let me down again.

/dryhumor

They said in the AMAA thing on reddit they are working on the TP previewing but the issues are that the TP is like an independant browser and it just co-ordinates with the game through APIs (forgive me if I express coding stuff wrong, I know very little of the stuff). The previewing off TP is a definite possibility but the implementation of it in a polished state is complicated and thats why we don’t have it yet, it is in the works. They said that on reddit (or was it on the forums, I forget now, I have done a lot of reading lately).

Or ask in map if anyone has it then they can link it and you can preview from that.

Vanilla Donut.2583:

You can tell it from the icon. Try to remember the icon, then go to your PvP locker and find the icon there to preview. Very cumbersome, but it works.

Icons are not all unique, some items have duplicated icons that bear no resemblance to the item when previewed/worn. So no, you can’t always tell from the icon.

What bluestone said the last time. Some elite exotic armors are sharing the same icon as a level one white coloured armor. The best way to know what your buying atm is the name of the armor, but also that is decieving sometimes (e.g. armor sets sharing the same name, or sets that are called leather in PvP but duelist in PvE.

Like being said, the best thing would and should be a preview function, but if that proofs too difficult due to API’s I would recommend to change armor names so pvp and pve armors share their name based on the skin and every armor piece with the a certain skin would be having the same name (without the the prefix and post fix, so e.g. beserker (name ) of trollslaying, would only have the (name) the same with other armors with the same skin. I know it is more boring, but it would solve a lot of problems.

Only having same name for pvp and pve item would have helped. I wonder why they have different names.

it’s quite the cumbersome process. but this might work.

- haven’t tried this yet, but i assume it would work. you can find the items you’re looking to buy at gw2db you can look up items with same models. though sometimes i’ve experienced the name on the TP, in-game differ from those listed on gw2db, even though they might be the same item. also note that you’ll find many items on gw2db that you won’t be able to find on the TP, bind on acquire, etc.

for e.g. Juggernaut
http://www.gw2db.com/items/56211-juggernaught
under Quick Info there’s a chat link [&AgHidwAA], whisper that link to yourself in-game (just so you don’t spam general chat) and you should be able to right click and preview it on your character

also note that many items with particle effects won’t show properly on the preview window.

akamon dropping knowledge.

i’m trying this now.

will report…

Works for me…

Everything has a code… like a charm.

Thanks for the idea… and all the other’s for the help.