Guild Wars 2

Best thread title ever.

I’ve always though that solution 1 was the only solution. Backpacks Identify us as engineers, so let us upgrade those ugly things when we upgrade our gear.

give hobosacks a unique skin based on the chest-armor piece you are wearing.

CoF hobosack = on fire
HoTW hobosack = Block of Ice
AC hobosack = glows at night
SE hobosack = really ugly
etc.

Also, hobosack – totally my new name for them.

The easiest solution in my opinion is allowing us to toggle whether or not to hide the toolkit when it is out. The ideal solution in my opinion would be to create a plethora unique and awesome engineer kit skins including cool flamethrowers and elixir guns etc.

This Thread is…. Just Perfect!
I took some time to make my engineer look good in PvP, but from our point of view the
“Hobosack” (lol) makes it look ugly anyway.
Your solution 1 is perfect. Make it happen A-net.

I’d pay real money for kit skins. It would be even nicer if they were available in game in some way.

I’ve been making a point of stowing my kit whenever I’m not actively using it.

Turbo Whale.1738:

Solution: 1. Allow cosmetic upgrades to hobo sacks available in the gem store (Maybe I can turn my cute quaggan backpack into a grenade bag?).

Take it one step further by changing grenade animations to throwing quaggans and someone will get my lifetime vote for President of Earth.

Whats wrong with Hobos?!?! lol Anyways I agree it would be nice to be able to customize the kit bags appearance or disable the appearance at least. I remember back in beta the bags never showed due to a bug when switching. But i think I like option 3 the best, mainly because I have a shiny weapon that no one ever sees because I run a all kit build usually.

Hey, i just noticed new backpacks in store. I have seen a backpack before but they dont cover up the engi backpacks, do they? :o

I will sign this petition for Hobosack customization.

+1

I’d pay with gems to get a backpack to replace hobosack, gems to change the look of the bag (on fire, ice, bag of cave troll heads), I would use gems to toggle it off only if a guild backpack or another back piece was still visible.

+1 from me too, I want to see it happen!

Don’t bind the name “Hobo the Sackburdened” til morning, I’m too lazy to log in now after all those world bosses.

I think the real problem here is: we don’t have enough hobo gear!
I’ve been trying to complete my hobo look for months now, and some of the crafted gear looks almost shoddy enough to match it, but it still doesn’t quite capture that urine stained essence of the hobo sack.

Why not just give us a option to turn of the look of hobos for us? (others see them, becaus, yeah, they can identify our kit with it >.<)

But we, for us, don’t need to see them. We KNOW which kit we use…so please give us something to toggle it on and off for us.

I would even buy the new monke…i mean charr backpack

Thanks for the support, guys. Anet seems to be doing really well in selling the backpacks so now would be a great time for this issue to get noticed and maybe us engi’s can get a little love.

There are plenty of ways of going about this problem including the cash shop or not. A simple toggle to disable the hobo sack could go very far.

+1
And as my post must be at least 15 characters long I am adding this sentence.

+1

And I am using a P/S build. Even when I stow my kit, my shield will be covering my quaggan backpack. It is depressing…

+1

I would pay gems, to not have to see any backpiece!

+1

Yes. I run grenades in dungeons and the kit on my back looks like crap. we should be able to choose the colors at least. Toggle it on/off would also be fantastic.

I know they don’t want us to because it is for WvW and PvP so others can see our kits and know what we’re using (kinda like the ele), but the elementalist looks awesome. ours makes us look like a hobo.

XerxesBlack.5892:

+1

Yes. I run grenades in dungeons and the kit on my back looks like crap. we should be able to choose the colors at least. Toggle it on/off would also be fantastic.

I know they don’t want us to because it is for WvW and PvP so others can see our kits and know what we’re using (kinda like the ele), but the elementalist looks awesome. ours makes us look like a hobo.

This question might sound kitten But is it possible to see in what attunement an ele is if he is not using skills and we dont look at his boons?

+1

Not much more to say.

Maybe I am a hobo, trolling for bags of loot. Gonna go make some mulligan stew now.

DDog.4350:

XerxesBlack.5892:

I know they don’t want us to because it is for WvW and PvP so others can see our kits and know what we’re using (kinda like the ele), but the elementalist looks awesome. ours makes us look like a hobo.

This question might sound kitten But is it possible to see in what attunement an ele is if he is not using skills and we dont look at his boons?

They have a pair of bracelet of the elements they are tuned in.

No cosmetic backpacks, and for the larger part of my time I don’t see my weapons either…

When you drag the hobo sack around, it means you use a kit. At least one…
When you use a kit, you don’t see your weapon in that time.

This sort of puts me of from getting a legendary at all for my engineer.
Well, that and the fact that the legendary pistol goes ‘honk honk’ and than flowers pop out or something…

So yes: please add some spice to the hobo sack!

Sorrow’s Embrace gear solves this problem. But kitten, gearing like in falet* coz of our hobo bags? Then my super-matrix-ginger-ninja outfit (CoE) is low, I want matrix bags

*pic related

Funny thing is, my Engineer “Ashcan” Pete will be styled as a drifter. Even then, I don’t like the hobo sack. Hobo sacks aren’t even good enough for hobos.

Cultural Hobosacks!

That way an Asura could buy cultural themed Asuran skins for their kits. Same would apply for every other race getting their own cultural theme.

Cultural vendors are already there, so ANet could make some Engineer Kit skins and add them to a tab for a few gold (I said a FEW gold ANet, not 25g or something)

Snafoo.2869:

I think the real problem here is: we don’t have enough hobo gear!
I’ve been trying to complete my hobo look for months now, and some of the crafted gear looks almost shoddy enough to match it, but it still doesn’t quite capture that urine stained essence of the hobo sack.

I think my engie is still wearing some level 80 yellow pirate coat.
All raggedy and hobo-sack yellow.

Except for the hat with the giant feather that looks genuinely new, the rest of my clothes make me look like a true hobo. Give it a try!

(Maybe I’ll screenshot myself one day and share my hobo with everyone)

(wry grin)

If Anet didn’t want you to look like a hobo, they wouldn’t offer you the Universal Multitool Pack as a starting costume piece.

Listen, as an Asura, I share your feels. Imagine wearing our racial armor with one of these low-tech backpacks. But we’re probably pretty thoroughly stuck with it, because there probably isn’t any way for them to provide per-character customization options to powers.

Make it happen A.Net. This is what they need to be like when you equip the predator :O

Or give us something that at least resembles what is on the engineer gw2 site page

Lord Aargadon.4135:

Make it happen A.Net. This is what they need to be like when you equip the predator :O

That piece of concept art would be a perfect example to have for Charr engineers as a cultural flamethrower skin in my opinion.

Sean.8921:

Turbo Whale.1738:

Solution: 1. Allow cosmetic upgrades to hobo sacks available in the gem store (Maybe I can turn my cute quaggan backpack into a grenade bag?).

Take it one step further by changing grenade animations to throwing quaggans and someone will get my lifetime vote for President of Earth.

Heh, now i find myself reminiscing about a old Quake 2 mod called Chaos Quake.

In there they had modified the humble grenade launcher into a weapon that shot smilys. Yep, yellow balls with a smiling face on them. To top it off they didn’t simply explode on landing, but instead jumped around for a while. They even homed in on nearby enemies. All this while making various cheerful sounds, including the classic Tarzan cry.

You could even hit a button and make them sit idle until the button was pressed again, with the example given of stacking a number of them behind a door, wait for someone to walk thru it, and hit the button. End result was a gaggle of “battle cries” and one of sheer terror.

+1 backpackhide. noone deserves this. DONT COME WITH IT MAKES NO SENSE, hiding headpieces makes no sense either <.<

I don’t care how they do it, personally. I would just really like to not have those packs.

Grimwolf.7163:

I don’t care how they do it, personally. I would just really like to not have those packs.

oh and please not for gems only. that would be unfair – it would cost more gems to play an engineer the way you like than any other profession.

Sean.8921:

Turbo Whale.1738:

Solution: 1. Allow cosmetic upgrades to hobo sacks available in the gem store (Maybe I can turn my cute quaggan backpack into a grenade bag?).

Take it one step further by changing grenade animations to throwing quaggans and someone will get my lifetime vote for President of Earth.

Better still now with the Charr back pack i want Charr shaped grenades, Mad Cat lady any one

Make those buyable skills like the wolf thing you got for deluxe edition. In the gemstore there would be the new flamthrower kit skill for like 300 gem and when you buy it you learn it.

Then it is your choice if you slotskill the normal one or the new one.

I like the idea a hide/unhide toggle for hobosacks.

Actually, I think it’s the only viable option since if we got customization options we’d likely get QQ from other professions about how unfair it is that we can uber-customize our toons (and probably from other engies too for having one more piece to work/pay for to customize).

I know your pain. My beta Engineer was a Human Noble, going for that kind of gentleman adventurer/steampunk genius look, and all his filthy sacks of crap completely ruined my suave steampunk MacGuyver feel. My first Live Engineer was a Sylvari, and when I realized none of his kits would ever look good with racial armor, I swapped him out for a grizzled old Iron Legion veteran who doesn’t care if his gear looks like crap so long as it’s sturdy and functional. Later, when I expanded my roster to two of every class, Engineer #2 was a minimum-size female Asura to keep the visual impact as low as possible.

InfamousBrad.5879:

(wry grin)

If Anet didn’t want you to look like a hobo, they wouldn’t offer you the Universal Multitool Pack as a starting costume piece.

Listen, as an Asura, I share your feels. Imagine wearing our racial armor with one of these low-tech backpacks. But we’re probably pretty thoroughly stuck with it, because there probably isn’t any way for them to provide per-character customization options to powers.

I was going to argue that City of Heroes had that kind of weapon customization, but then I saw your name and remembered how long it took for them to add it, in a game where custom appearance was arguably one of the most central features. So, yeah, this would probably be far enough out on the development timeline to never actually get done. A hide/unhide toggle is likely the best we can hope for.

<— @Eisenzahn

+1

I would be very very happy to see a hide/unhide toggle for the Hobosack (which is a brilliant name I will now use at all times.) I have a pretty human woman and I love her gear and her pistols, and while I do switch between weapons and my kit, it would make me very happy to never see that ugly thing again… It just ruins the whole look of my Engi It couldn’t be TOO hard to add a toggle, right? They’d never let us customize because then we’d have more customization than the other classes and they’d be very upset about that. But yes, +1 for toggling hobosacks!

Please make this happen, I hate the hobo sacks. Please let us have some kind of option for them.

From this day forward, the engineer backpack will be renamed “hobosack”!

Why do grenades even need a backpack anyways? Flamethrower, maybe. Elixir gun, I could also understand. But nades?

lol…wtf….i love the backpack. hobo…pffttt….

I want a flamethrower backpack with smoke coming out of the top. Or flames, both are cool.

I’d hate to have to buy a skin for the things with gems. But I would love if ANet could give ‘em new skins themselves. We don’t need racial skins for every kit, just change out the hobosacks for something a bit more aesthetically pleasing across the board.

we were actually supposed to have the option to turn them off at one point or another I remember reading about it in some interview.

We were also supposed to have a very large number of cosmetics both in game and in the store to choose from that didn’t happen.

I wouldn’t hold my breath at this point OP dunno what they’re doing other then the Harlem shake but engineers are not a priority apparently on any front.

as much as I love this, it won’t happen.

The hobosacks serve an important purpose, telegraphing to other players what skills you have. Much like how you know what a warrior can do when they have a rifle equipped, players need to know what an engineer can do when they have a kit out. While this is a non-issue for the flamethrower and the elixer gun, the others either have very small weapons (tool) or none at all (’nade and bomb).

I’m not too keen on this method as a) the sacks aren’t that visually distinct (especially on an Asura) and b) you don’t get to see much of them if your target is facing you.

I would love to see the sacks go away, but that would require them putting in weapon “skins” for the bomb and grenade kit and likely reworking the wrench for the tool kit to make it more obvious which is which.