Guild Wars 2

When I logged in today, I noticed that the exotic Acolyte gloves that I wear looked radically different than normal. I tried logging out and back in, which didn’t work, and eventually checked the trading post to see if the entire armor set was altered. It looked exactly the same as usual with one notable difference: the part of the gauntlets that covers the forearm was now seemingly part of the coat skin!

The first photo attachment depicts the way I normally look (It’s an older picture, so the shoulders are different). The second shows the way I looked when I logged in today. The third shows me wearing the gloves and coat together.

Here’s the weird part (shown in attachment four): If the gloves aren’t equipped, but the coat IS, the bracer part of the gloves is missing entirely! This convinced me that this was not simply a redesign of the armor (and a nonsensical one at that) but a bug involving the way the armor interacts with itself. The armguards only appear if BOTH the coat and gloves are equipped at the same time but not if only one or the other is which I can’t imagine is working as intended. I know it’s not the most pressing matter, but I would really appreciate if the gloves could be changed back to the way they were as soon as possible. Thank you!

It appears that the Nightmare Chest Armor has been changed to only permit the hand portion of glove armor to be displayed to prevent clipping between the forearm gauntlet portion of glove armor with the sleeves that hang down on the Nightmare Chest armor. The gloves you are seeing in your second screenshot are only the hand portion of the Acolyte glove armor as anything above the wrist is now hidden.

I think that this was their ‘solution’ to remove the clipping issues of the sleeves on that chest armor with glove armor that had forearm gauntlets. You can even see the sleeves clipping with the upper portion of the gauntlet part of the gloves in your first screenshot.
It’s a very minor clipping issue that did not require the entire forearm portion of glove armor to be hidden to ‘fix’ it.

The same thing is likely to be done to the “Feathered” chest armor with glove armor. The chest has sleeves that flare out and connect at the wrist. Glove armor with gauntlets would be visible up the forearm and would clip with those sleeves.

I think that this is their ‘solution’ to remove the clipping issues of the sleeves on those chest armors with glove armor that had forearm gauntlets.

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It looks like you’re right. I just tried it with the Radiant Vambrace skin and the same thing is happening. Regardless, it still needs to be rectified. I can’t imagine a virtually unnoticeable amount of clipping being nearly enough to warrant making pretty much every glove skin in the game pointless to have if you happen to be wearing Nightmare Armor. Especially considering there are plenty of other glove skins that are just gloves (no armguards) that people could use instead if they wanted that look. (Which I obviously don’t) As such, I can’t imagine this change was intentional.

Edit: Is it possible for me (or one of the devs) to change the title of this topic to something more along the lines of “Nightmare chest armor overwriting glove skins”? Seeing as my initial assessment of the issue was a bit inaccurate, I’d like the title to be a little less misleading. Thanks!

Not sure if this is the same, but my Light armor has always covered up my Radiant gloves, since the day they were released. Seems such a shame, you can barely see them. Oh, and I don’t wear Nightmare armor.

Seath, you can click the “Tools: Edit Topic” link that is underneath the actual topic title at the top of the page below the red “Add Reply” words to change the title of your thread.

StinVec.3621:

Seath, you can click the “Tools: Edit Topic” link that is underneath the actual topic title at the top of the page below the red “Add Reply” words to change the title of your thread.

Capital! The title has been changed to more accuately describe the issue. Thanks! Of course, I haven’t had a chance to log in the last few days so for all I know it isn’t even an issue anymore :P

Having problem with the Nightmare vestment and gloves too. =/

Mentioned it here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Nightmare-vestemnt-hides-gloves/first#post2970547

Any word on this anywhere?

The Nightmare light armor chest has always limited the portion of the gloves that is visible to the hands. The portion of the glove on the forearm is not visible. It’s also not the only chest piece that functions this way.

Honestly, that’s part of the reason I like it, so I hope it doesn’t change.