Guild Wars 2

I’m making an engineer but when creating it I can’t decide what goggles, monocle or backpack to take.

I want to know if theres the same model of these items in game so the choice is not too important. I think theres a same model of the monocle I saw on wiki but I’m not sure if theres same or different model of goggles or if theres a backpack obtainable in game at all.

please help.

Get the backpack, engineers are the only one that can aquire that backpack when creating a charater. The goggles u can get them during your adventure in the game.

Well, if you just want the skins of those items, you can always make alts that select those items to unlock them. The alts can be deleted right after that.

Create your character three times and you can have them all.

This ^

After the introduction of the wardrobe in April, I created a bunch of level 1 characters of most classes to unlock all the different starting skins, first for my engi, then also thieves’ masks/hoods and guardian items etc., never to worry about their availability ever again.

so if I make an engineer with goggles and then create another with the monocle and backpack and play them once in the game and log out and delete them will I get the backpack and monocle skins on the engineer I want to keep along with goggles?

You will not get an armor piece or skin item, but the skin will be unlocked permanently in your wardrobe. You will be able to transmute the look of any unlocked skin onto any actual item of the same type. It costs one transmutation charge. (You can get transmutation charges in game in a number of ways, for example playing PvP.)

I would spend the few minutes needed to go through the different professions to unlock the various profession specific items. For example, the three masks for the Mesmer or the three facial tattoos for the Norn Necromancer. You will then have these items available in your wardrobe. My engineer, for example, is wearing a thief anonymity hood.

It’s not necessary to play through the starter instances, just character create and appear in the instance.