Now there are limited costumes, that are easy to spot, that are available for all classes, but when you see a player in heavy plated armor, you know it is either a warrior, a guardian or a revenant (in the future). .
Quick – is this player light, medium, or heavy?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/5/57/Balthazar%27s_Regalia_Outfit.jpg
:p
As for the culture thing, I see your point, but it should be simple enough to put a flag on the outfit that restricts it if it contains a cultural skin piece.
Don’t think something like that will ever happen, because then noone would ever use or buy transmutation charges.
The transmutation charges are pretty cheap (maybe fifty cents each in real-world money?), and most people probably transmute once or twice at max level, and that’s it (just speculation). And… you still would need transmute charges to skin the character that you wish to base the outfit on in the first place… A personal outfit token could be priced to actually provide extra profit for ANET on top of the transmute sales, and provide a major convenience to players.
Less than I ever spent on my WoW $15 monthly subscription fee.
I really don’t mind spending a little money in the cash-shop every now and then; keeping the servers running isn’t cheap!
Suggestion: Armor/Talent/Trait Build Saves
In WoW, there is an option to save different equipment builds (what you have equipped, and what’s sitting in your bags) for different tasks. It would be nice if we could do the same in GW2, but save the complete build-out – armor equipped, skills, & traits.
Pardon me if this has been brought up before, I have only been playing a couple of months.
Create Account Outfit Token – Gem Store item, I guess…
My idea is to have a token you can use to create an account-bound outfit (costume?) that would perform just like the costumes created by ANET that you can buy on the Gem Store. The token would use whatever skins are displaying on your current character to create a costume that could be used on any of your characters, at any level. Whatever dye scheme you have selected would be used as the default for that costume.
Since many people prefer having a consistent look on their characters while leveling, they tend to purchase Gem Store costumes to use for this. Why not give them another, more personalized, option to purchase as well?
C’mon, ANET, we know you like us to have fun, yes?
Yeah, sometimes if I get stuck, I wait around and watch to see how others are doing the puzzle… All those people that just followed you? You may have just helped them out!
WoW added a “Toybox” feature last year… You mean WoW actually has a QoL feature that GW2 doesn’t? That’s pretty surprising, actually.