First, I want to say that nearly all that I’ve read about the April Feature Pack has gotten me really excited, and I can’t wait to see most of these brilliant changes implemented…
… However, there’s just one thing that’s caused a pit in my stomach. The changes to Town Clothes.
While I understand a lot of players would definitely use the town clothes more often if they became available as skins/tonics for combat, the changes, from what I’ve been reading, are going to hit people like me hard. I’m a roleplayer, and I have a few characters who use the town clothes extensively, one of which has several outfits I’ve put together for her for different occasions. With the upcoming changes, I’m almost positive most of these outfits won’t be possible anymore, for a number of reasons:
1)Individual pieces, like the hoodies, becoming “tonics” – I can’t see us being able to recolor these if they work like tonics, but rather they’ll have fixed color schemes.
2)The “tonic” versions only useable one at a time – This says to me that I can only be using, for example, the hoodie over my combat gear, and not use the riding pants or boots at the same time. This means I can never use these together again, destroying mix-and-matched outfits.
3)Outfits, such as the Halloween and Wintersday outfits, being “all or nothing” – I use the Bloody Prince’s face paint on my warrior with the rest of her town clothes, which comprise of regular boots, riding pants and a leather hoodie. With this update, it’ll be impossible for me to use the facepaint with those outfit pieces.
I implore you, Anet, to find another way with Town Clothes, so we still have the freedom with them that we do now, as well as the freedom of using them in combat. The current changes will come as a heavy blow to people like me, however many of us there are.
Here’s a few pictures of the characters with which I use the current Town Clothes regularly, to give you an idea of what will soon become impossible.
