Guild Wars 2

Another suggestion for increasing the amount of skins:

Create a place that allows us to design our own gear in the boundaries of what’s available.

Weapons

The UI would have 4 slots: One for the “handle”; one for the “hilt”; one for the “blade” and; one for “additional”. Each slot would have a limited selection of colors you could apply to the parts.

The “handle” slot would contain options to customize what the character holds onto. So while one person might choose a plain handle, another might choose one with a guard.

The “hilt” slot would contain options for the handguard, or in the case of Artificer style weapons the “Staff / Scepter / Focus head”. So while one person might choose to have a round handguard, another might choose to have a V styled one.

The “blade” slot would hold the “blade”, or in the case of Artificer-style weapons, the “core”. So while one might choose to have a long, slender blade, like a rapier, another might choose a more thick styled blade.

Finally, the “Additional” would be the little details, such as patterns, faint auras, small particle effects and decorations. While one sword might look like it’s made of glass, another might have a faint light, and another might have filigree etching on the blade.

Armour

The UI would have 3 slots (which would represent the dye channels): One for the “Body”; One for the “Banding” and; one for “Additional”.

The “Body” slot would contain the bulk of the armour. So while one person might choose a full-plate chest piece, another might choose one such as the Barbaric gear.

The “Banding” slot would contain the parts that reinforce the “body”, so to speak. So while one person might choose to make the “banding” form an X, another might choose to have a single “banding” going down the middle.

Finally, as with weapons, the “Additional” would be the little details. So one might choose to have a faint aura, while another might want their “banding” etched with runes.

The reasoning behind this is to give players more freedom in the designing of their gear. Of course, the skins available for these wouldn’t be anything like the Rare, Exotic, Legendary, Dungeon, WvW, Order or Named skins, and would be pretty plain in comparison, but would give players a certain degree of freedom in picking a look that matches their taste.

Of course, this wouldn’t be an OMG WE NEED IT NAO!!!1! suggestion. Maybe just something to put into a future content update or expac, with different components added as time goes on?

That is a great idea!

And if it does not include change the normal gear should be viable , still i agree with you that it will take a very long time to see this implemented.

Nox Aeterna.2965:

That is a great idea!

And if it does not include change the normal gear should be viable , still i agree with you that it will take a very long time to see this implemented.

Nope, just purely a blank skin it would generate to be applied to the weapon.

Potential cash-shop value too, maybe, possibly:

One transaction gives enough tokens to create skins for your entire gear-set, with 1h weapons generating 2 matching skins?

Or unlockable skins and effects?

Since it’s all aesthetic, and wouldn’t be game-breaking, might be a nice little money-maker for them.

It’ll never happen. It’s a great idea, though…:)