Guild Wars 2

Some of our gear is allowed to be toggled on/off as it is (like shoulder gear, head gear, and backpacks).

Can we have this option for all gear? More specifically, I really want it on the gloves and boots, though why not add it to all slots? A few of my characters give up on the stats of these pieces in order to look the way I like them.

…why would you want your boots off?

i’m sure if you look really hard, you can find something that works. i remember seeing one glove that was pretty much no glove.

It works well for thief and street urchin characters to be barefoot. I also have an elementalist who has a cool “genie” sort of outfit that looks even better with bare feet. There’s a bunch of character concepts where I like no boots. Being gloveless is also better with some outfits.

The option is already there in game, it’d just be adding the same ability to the other slots.

While I personally do not really see the need for a toggle on footgear, the glove suggestion does make sense to me. But to each their own.

There could be a snag, though. When equipment gets broken, it is no longer displayed on your character. Therefore, if you see a partially undressed character, this most likely means that they have been defeated many times without repairing their equipment. The option to hide/display (nearly) all equipment pieces could cause confusion with regard to this, especially in PvP/WvW.

On a related note, I would like to mention one of my pet peeves, which is related to the issue of toggle boxes on equipment. I would very much like the dialogue cutscenes to respect the equipment toggles. As it is now, all headgear is hidden during dialogues, and that setting overrides the hide/unhide toggle on headgear. I would like to see that changed.

for the record, this wouldn’t be used because it would just cause a huge amount of players to run around naked.

I would like to be able to hide my water breather.

My heavy armor characters got one from Bloodtide Coast that looks like a helmet — doesn’t even cover their nose or mouth, so I’m really not sure how it helps with underwater breathing. But it does look pretty dorky (I normally hide their helms on land).

I can’t think of any characters of mine that really want to hide boots or gloves, but the option certainly wouldn’t hurt. I do think that it’s probably best if the chest and leg armor stays in its current un-toggleable form.

I don’t agree that it would be a problem with PvP. As it stands, do you think that someone without a helm has a broken one? Or a character without shoulder armor is weaker? Or do you assume that they’ve just hidden the pieces. I’d say it is far more likely to be simply hidden, and one could assume the same if other pieces could be hidden as well.

I would like to see an option for gloves and boots to be toggleable in PvE mode (can’t speak for PvP because I don’t play it), especially for my elementalist. Toggleable chest and leg armour? Neh, not so much – people might mistake my toon for a bot.

BrunoBRS.5178:

for the record, this wouldn’t be used because it would just cause a huge amount of players to run around naked.

If players wanted to run around naked, they would do it anyway with or without a toggle option.

Gloves off would be nice. My current gloves are ugly, so I simply don’t wear them. And since combat is OOC for me, it isn’t that much of an issue.

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Well… a toggle show/hide on the chest piece would be nice… at least for the Norns because the wonderful body tattoos are a total waist of customization right now. They’re all covered by armor.

Would be nice to see some bear chest tattooed Norn running around (with chest protection stats on). (see attachment to see what I mean)

And since they already have a toggle on/off on the head and shoulder pieces, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be that hard to add it to the chest piece.

I guess they limited the hide option to helmet and shoulders only because they do not want players to run around in their underwear but have 100% of the stats.

Monki.5012:

I guess they limited the hide option to helmet and shoulders only because they do not want players to run around in their underwear but have 100% of the stats.

That. I do not want to see 50% of the playerbase running around naked with no penalty.

Gloves and boots could maybe be added as toggles, but chest and pants need to stay as-is.

This game needs more stuff when it comes to looks. A real wardrobe system like in Rift would be nice instead of what we have now.
I go barefoot in real life. I’d like my characters to do the same if it fits them

Zerco.4230:

This game needs more stuff when it comes to looks. A real wardrobe system like in Rift would be nice instead of what we have now.
I go barefoot in real life. I’d like my characters to do the same if it fits them

Even Rift lets you toggle everything, and I’ve very rarely seen people running around naked.

As far as going barefoot goes – Queen Jennah does it. Many norns also do it as do the Asura and the Sylvari. Even the human elementalist trainers are barefoot, yet my elementalist can’t do the same unless I want to sacrifice stats and at level 80, you need to be running a complete set of gear otherwise the penalty can be harsh.

I agree that for PvP all equipment should be visible regardless as it’s the only way to gauge what class people are playing, but for PvE? No, give us the options to play around around with armour visibility, especially since some boots simply don’t work well with their respective leg/chest pieces.

Still, at least we managed to get a toggle option on gloves in the end.

This definitely needs to be added. Maybe not pantsless though, but it wouldn’t be so bad. A chest armor toggle is very much needed, getting sick of having a kitten Norn with a chestpiece to cover his tattoos.

Although this thread is eleven months old, my position on it hasn’t changed. I still want to see more gear toggle options, even if options like chest armour visibility are only available to male characters. I still want to see a toggle visibility option for boots, but I doubt we’ll see any real action on any of this because even within these forums, there doesn’t appear to be that much interest.