Guild Wars 2

Aesthetically inclined engineer speaking here. I’m very happy to see that there are more items that folks are really excited about, and it seems like once more the back slot is the bodypart of choice.

Engineers really need some alternative to the hobo-sack. I KNOW there are PVP concerns with silhouette and so forth. Yes, since we use kits so often, we have to be holding SOMEthing. However could we get the kits redesigned somehow so as not to interfere with backslot items so that we too can enjoy the goodness of having new content plastered to our shoulderblades. Even old content!

Please and thank you.

Preach brother Remillard. Preach.

Seriously though, it would be a very lovely change.

I don’t play an engi, but I agree with you. Really it just doesn’t seem fair =|

I agree!

There’s a thread about the size of 15 dolyaks in the Engineer sub-forum that talks about this very issue, and some of the posts in there provide some alternatives that could solve the issue but still make the Engineer profession distinguishable when they use their kits, like alternate placements of our sacks.

It’s really a shame that we can’t show off our nice-looking back pieces when we have these sacks that get in our way.

At least do something about it! At the rate we’re going, I feel this urge to mail ArenaNet an old used sack for every single new backpiece skin that gets released.

HA! After some digging, i finally found it (it wasn’t just made up in my head lol).

Straight from the man himself.

ColinJohanson.2394:

It’s something we’re absolutely aware of and want to address in the future, one of my main characters is an engineer so I feel ya on this one. My poor quaggan backpack is visible like 2% of the time I play as I kit swap, never mind my weapon skins.

We’re currently focusing our engineering (programmers, not guys with net guns) resources that could work on solutions to issues like kits/skins on major systems that address issues higher priority and wider reaching like lag in large battles, LFG, custom arenas, spectator mode and so on but this issue is absolutely on our radar.

As always, please post your ideas of what you’d like to see solution wise, we love to see the fun ideas y’all come up with too!

Edit: Hopefully you’ll find some sense of consolation in knowing this.

Note that A ) That required some digging, and B ) That it was posted on April 13th, almost four months ago. Hopefully they’ve got some progress made on it by now.

I realize there was a thread in this forum. This post got “helpfully” moved here by a forum moderator. It was originally in the Bazaar forum. I figured we see this post all the time, but it would be nice to have it viewed by those who are paying attention to the events as well. So this thread can probably just retire in peace. The huge one is better anyhow.

Yea I don’t use backpieces so I don’t mind, but perhaps those new ones will change my mind! The option should atleast be there imo.