Guild Wars 2

Panel 3 (Unlocked Clothes and Toys): I love the town clothes and am eagerly awaiting more in the gem store. Preferably dresses. I’m thinking Oscar de la Renta, something elegant, slinky, maybe some frills…

Okay fine, what I really want is this: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/368521181980698411/

The top six slots of Panel 3 show what your character is currently wearing. This is not a replacement for the tab in the hero window where you change your dye colors. This is simply a place where you can drag and drop ‘unlocked’ town clothes and toys into those six slots so you don’t have to worry about constantly ‘trashing’ things and maybe dumping the wrong item by accident. It also lets you keep the game default town clothes without losing them or trying to remember which character they are soul bound to. Pretty simple and something you can add to as more items become available in the gem store.

Any suggestions or feedback for how to make this better or solve other clothing-related problems would be fantastic! Also a dev weighing in on this particular issue would be fantastic. I realize not everyone who plays the game is on the forums, but for those who are what are your thoughts?
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As a note I had no idea where to put this so I hope it ended up in the right subforum! Apologies if this was the wrong place.

TLDR go look at the attachment

Dear Anet,

I love the clothing in GW2. I’d like more. A lot more. I’m an rper with 16 characters (don’t even give me that look, I’ve seen people’s sigs say they have 40+) and plans to make more the second we get new playable races. That said, I’d like more clothes in game, I’d like more clothes in the gem store, I’d like them thrown out the windows of DR’s castle so I can frolic through the piles singing “An Ode to Laundry Day”.

Except there’s this wee problem….

It’s REALLY hard to keep so many different clothing sets organized!

I’ve seen a couple suggestions for a closet of sorts, often something along the lines of the pvp locker. After grabbing yet ANOTHER skin set for one of my alts I decided that maybe I should just go ahead and design a thing. So I designed a thing.

See the attached images.

This concept relies on the idea that transmutation stones and crystals get converted to “currency” so that they appear account-wide.

There are three panels going from left to right.

Panel 1 (Item Transmutation): Your typical transmutation panel. Grab an item from your inventory and a skin from the right and drop them into the appropriate boxes, then click “accept”. This should function exactly the way it does now, just within the Hero window and not in a separate one. If you wish to simply meld two items currently in your inventory just pull them both up and additional windows for sigils, etc should appear if there are any applicable. Click on whatever you want to as you do now and then click accept. The reason to have it as a part of the hero window is so that you have easy access to the skins tabs (see panel 2).

Panel 2 (Unlocked Rewards, Gemstore Skins, Unlocked Skins): I love the skins that have been showing up in the gem store, but I keep going back to this problem of have a trillion characters. So here’s what I thought: you buy your gem store skin, double click the package, and the whole thing gets sent into this section of the hero window. You can double click any skin item once and use it on any character. The next time you go to click on a skin and apply it to an item, a dialogue box appears to ask if you want to spend either a transmutation crystal or stone, depending on what you want to apply it to. If you are out of the stones or crystals, the game automatically pops open the gem store so you can buy more if you so choose.

The beauty of this is so that if you have a particular stat set and you want to change your armor around for looks you don’t have to worry about losing pieces or keeping 40 different skins in your inventory at any given time. Time to rp something dark? Time to go to a party? Time to smash gravelings in the face? Quick-click to change your clothes and you’re ready to go!

If you look down to the bottom of Panel 2 there is a section I named “Unlocked Skins” and the first example is the Human Light Chest T3. I like the idea of being able to earn skins in game (ex. the wing skins from dragon bash and the different back pieces we’ve gotten from the living story). I think there should be an option to add skins, especially event-exclusive skins, to the closet so we can pull them out later. It makes sense to me if we’ve already gone through the effort to earn the skin in the first place.

If the skin is an in-game normal item, like say the winged chest piece, maybe it makes sense to spend a gem store item to “deposit” it as a permanent skin in your closet so your alts can use it later. Of course certain items are unique to certain races, so these might be grayed out if you are not currently on the correct race to use the item. Obviously it’s important to keep the in-game economy in mind for things like this, but in general it’s a perk I would definitely appreciate. I included a sample for having a ‘hanger’ as a purchasable object in the gem store in the attached image.

(Cont in next post…)

My brother, co-gm, and I went through the Lion’s Arch living story instance today for the first time. We loved it. So I wanted to take a moment to congratulate the writers and voice actors/actresses of living story for a fantastic scene.

Let me explain. (TLDR you guys rock)

When blog post-styled sections of story were first being launched (was it South Sun Cove? I forget) I was really disappointed. I followed the Consortium, Moto, and others through this medium but immediately felt quite strongly that I’d rather see these back stories played out in the game. Stepping out of the game to catch up with something relevant to current plot felt immersion breaking. In retrospect I also now enjoy this method of conveying story (I can still get a taste of Tyria while I don’t have access to the game) but in the beginning I definitely had a moment of, “why can’t I be watching this conversation through the eyes of my character?”

So when I stepped into Lion’s Arch and listened to Kasmeer nearly break down crying I reached over and gave my brother a big hug. And almost broke down crying. That moment of loss felt more real than many previous instances when even characters I had interacted with passed away or were killed off.

Together my brother and I cheered on Taimi, took bets on how far a quarter would bounce off Logan’s breastplate, and now wait in eager anticipation to see what the future holds for Rox and Braham.

I always like to listen in on the exchanges the different characters have as I escort them, defend them, or occasionally debate punching them for not rezing me (looking at you, Hodgins). But this felt particularly special. There was no reward for being there and I didn’t feel any obligation. To clarify, I like rewards (cough precursors cough) and go out of my way to hunt them down. But with a nice batch of new content I’m back to having plenty to do.

It was really satisfying to just sit and breath and listen in on each of these character’s lives. It definitely felt like a moment I’ll talk about later as the living story becomes part of the lore. “I was there man! I gave Kasmeer my whole box of tissues!”

Rock on Anet writers.

As an aside I had no idea where to post this so… I hope it ended up in the right spot.