“We’ve updated your bank with a Wardrobe Storage vault that includes every skin that you could potentially unlock! In that tab, you can sort, filter, and search to see not only the skins you have access to, but every skin available in the whole game. This makes it simple to look through every option open to you to find the look you really want.”
I do not know if this is intentional or not (and I really really really hope it is just a bug), but the new Shoulder Scarf skin is completely invisible in the Wardrobe Storage until after you have bought it. This brings along several problems:
It is impossible to preview the skin in combination with light or medium armor without using external sources like gw2db to get the item ID. The preview option of the BLTC window for the scarf only works correctly for heavy armor classes. All other classes appear naked.
The BLTC window preview is very limited anyway.
- You cannot change colors unless you change the color of your actual gear
- You cannot preview in combination with colors you do not yet own
- You cannot preview in combination with armor skins you do not yet own
- You cannot preview in combination with armor skins you do own but not wear, unless you use transmutation charges to change the look of your actual gear
But most importantly:
Hiding new skins from the Wardrobe Storage completely breaks it’s purpose!!!
Your own quote above mentions that the Wardrobe Storage is meant to give players an easy way to look through all the skins in the game. When trying to find the perfect style for my character, I always click through the whole wardrobe to preview basically everything. Once I have found the perfect look, I check where I can find the specific skins I want and then I buy them from TP, craft them, spend gems on them or do whatever is necessary to obtain them. The purpose of the wardrobe is to show us the skins we do not own. If I only wanted to see the skins that I have already unlocked, I might as well use the Wardrobe tab in my Hero Panel. If the wardrobe does not show me every skin, I am forced to use armor galleries from external sources again, just like I had to before the Wardrobe Storage was added to the game. And if I now have to browse these galleries again anyway, why should I even bother using the Wardrobe Storage any more?
Summary:
If this is a bug – please fix it.
If this is intentional and you want to repeat this with future items – please think about it one more time! I cannot see any advantage. You will break the Wardrobe Storage.
Not a bug. Several gem store skins are flagged as HideUntilUnlock.
I never noticed, but I just checked all the skins that are currently available in the Gem Store. I found three that are invisible in the Wardrobe Storage:
- the Shoulder Scarf
- the Replica Job-o-Tron Backpack
- the Aetherblade Armor (light, medium and heavy)
Does anyone know any other skins that are invisible in the Wardrobe Storage?
There are far more than 1000 skins in the game. Why does Anet not want people to see these three? Is there any logic behind this?
Aetherblade armor is not hidden. The wiki has a list of the hidden ones, mostly old skins (like sunglasses, bunny ears) or ones currently unavailable (green quaggan back, moto back, etc)
Aetherblade armor is not hidden. The wiki has a list of the hidden ones, mostly old skins (like sunglasses, bunny ears) or ones currently unavailable (green quaggan back, moto back, etc)
Okay, I just found the Aetherblade Armor skins. I did not find them because of the buggy German client (in German they are called ‘Ätherklingen’ and for some reason the wardrobe’s search function is case sensitive only for Ä, Ö and Ü, but not for any other letter).
The list of hidden skins is really useful, thanks a lot!
