Guild Wars 2

Are you able to hide your engineer kits from view like you can hide your normal back piece or helmet?

I’ve tried using the search tool to find an answer, but if there is an answer, I couldn’t find it.

I really want to be able to hide the kits that engineers use because on humans they look pretty ridiculous sometimes.

You can’t currently. And I doubt they’ll change it.

A dev replied to this question before. The answer given was that kits need to be as identifiable a any weapon, so that enemies can identify the attacks that may be heading their way, to offer equal and reasonable chance to counter. Something similar to that anyway.

The kits look pretty different tbh with the exception of medkit/grenade and flamethrower/elixir gun.

The backpacks don’t really tell the opponent anything from a quick glance other than a kit is in play, which would already be obvious from the weapon they are holding.

There has to be better implementations of this.

Like anybody would be able to tell a grenade backpack from a bomb backpack…

wintermute.4096:

Like anybody would be able to tell a grenade backpack from a bomb backpack…

Exactly. Backpacks being used for differentiation is pretty much complete bs.

No, but you should be able to.
As for enemies identifying what weapon you’re using, there is a very clear difference between flamethrower and elixir gun, but i can see problems with grenade and bomb kit.