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White Lies · Aug 19, 2008, 07:22 PM // 19:22

Anet, please introduce a try-before-you-buy' system for armors.
I dont mind if it isnt in GW1, though i beleive it is doable.
Make it like a preview window for dyes ecept instead of previewing the color make it preview the armor pieces you could buy from that trader. Have a little box which you put a tic in infront of the armor piece, or next to the materials and then have a 'preview' button on the other side of the screen from where it says 'buy' like that you cant click on the 'buy' button (im very twitchy arnt i?) by accident. When you hit 'preview' a window shows up in a dye window window style (xD) with the selected armor pieces down one side (like where the dyes are in a dye preview window) and like the dye preview, your character in the picture wearing the wanted 'preview-selected' armor pieces.
Im still trying to think up a way to make that work with armor part you have in your inventory to make armor combos and look at them before you buy them.
As i said at the start, this doesnt have to come in GW1 but it should be looked at for GW2.
Heres why: I bought a MoTMZ before the beard bug was discovered and was so discuseted by the way it looked with my characters beard piking out of it i sold it to my GHs merchant. The same goes for blindfolds: i havnt bought one for fear of the same happening, exept this time with my hair cliping horribly.

Hope you guys agree, and i hope i was clear....
~Lies

zelgadissan · Aug 19, 2008, 07:37 PM // 19:37

Good idea, but this was suggested literally three years ago and they haven't done crap. Maybe GW2 will get some love.

/signed

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=28844

jeri blade · Aug 19, 2008, 07:48 PM // 19:48

/signed
would be great i wouldn't have spent loads of money on my sin armor if i could have seen what it would look like on her

David Wooding · Aug 19, 2008, 07:51 PM // 19:51

Good idea, would be awesome if you could do it all from one spot, so you could try a bit of one armor with a bit of another armor to see if they looked nice together.
/signed

MithranArkanere · Aug 19, 2008, 08:02 PM // 20:02

I've seen this suggestion as many times as I've agreed with it.

Anytime.

Da Rk Bl Ad E · Aug 19, 2008, 08:22 PM // 20:22

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Originally Posted by David Wooding

Good idea, would be awesome if you could do it all from one spot, so you could try a bit of one armor with a bit of another armor to see if they looked nice together.

Yeah, always thought about something like that.Even an external program or a website that could do this (WoW's site has a sort of feature like this)

MercenaryKnight · Aug 19, 2008, 08:41 PM // 20:41

Idea is good, but I think it might be a bit better if you pay a small fee say a couple platinum or do some quest or something. Then it'll change your armor (like how you upgrade heroes armor) to look exactly like the armor for say 5-10 minutes or until you leave town. Then you can see exactly what it would look like on your own character and see if theirs any glitches or things you don't like.

Either way /signed for gws 2.

Elder III · Aug 19, 2008, 09:07 PM // 21:07

signed although it gets suggested fairly often lol

WOW has a feature where you mouse over an item and it will show how it would look on your character... no reason not to put this into GW2 at least.

Stockholm · Aug 19, 2008, 09:25 PM // 21:25

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Originally Posted by Elder III

signed although it gets suggested fairly often lol

WOW has a feature where you mouse over an item and it will show how it would look on your character... no reason not to put this into GW2 at least.

That is a very good reson NOT to put it in GW2, we don't want it to be a WoW clone

/notsigned

Abedeus · Aug 19, 2008, 09:45 PM // 21:45

[email protected] Let's not add magic, because it's in WoW and it would be WoW clone. Let's also not use weapons, it's already in WoW and we don't want another clone of it either. Oh, and trees, they are in every MMO game :/ Except for EVE.

/signed, would help, wouldn't make anyone sad.

TheodenKing · Aug 19, 2008, 09:49 PM // 21:49

/signed

But I'd keep it simple... just a preview window for the individual piece before making the purchase... not a mix-n-match.

gremlin · Aug 19, 2008, 09:53 PM // 21:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stockholm

That is a very good reson NOT to put it in GW2, we don't want it to be a WoW clone

/notsigned

Never played WOW don't want to play WOW and do not care one way or the other if WOW is rubbish or the best game in the world.
However it is silly not to copy something if its a good idea.

Putting your mouse pointer over something to see it on your character is not just a pretty good idea its a great idea.

Steal it use it and forget where it came from.

oh and GW isnt going to become a WOW clone because the basic WOW idea is flawed.

Painbringer · Aug 19, 2008, 09:54 PM // 21:54

/signed

But increase the size of the view window to see detail better

credit · Aug 19, 2008, 10:17 PM // 22:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stockholm

That is a very good reson NOT to put it in GW2, we don't want it to be a WoW clone

/notsigned

You're the only one who has /notsigned this, don't try to speak for the rest of us.

/Signed.

Stockholm · Aug 19, 2008, 10:45 PM // 22:45

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Originally Posted by credit

You're the only one who has /notsigned this, don't try to speak for the rest of us.

/Signed.

But that is the Guru way, the minority rules.

Tender Wolf · Aug 20, 2008, 02:43 AM // 02:43

I'm neutral on this one. I do see the point but at the same time it can't be that hard to look it up on Wiki. I don't need a picture to see exactly how it will look on my character. /halfsigned

Shayne Hawke · Aug 20, 2008, 03:38 AM // 03:38

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Originally Posted by Tender Wolf

I'm neutral on this one. I do see the point but at the same time it can't be that hard to look it up on Wiki. I don't need a picture to see exactly how it will look on my character. /halfsigned

While the wiki can give players a good representation of what an item or armor may look like, some may not get enough out of a single or few pictures on what things look like. Being able to dye or rotate the camera while the items are shown in use on your character would be an excellent way to show exactly how things will look in any respect that the player desires.

/signed

Konig Des Todes · Aug 20, 2008, 05:30 AM // 05:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stockholm

That is a very good reson NOT to put it in GW2, we don't want it to be a WoW clone

/notsigned

Whether it is from WoW or not is not a good reason to add or not add something that is a good idea. You're logic is as flawed as "they shouldn't do this because they need to work on GW2," which was flawed BEFORE they made the second team to work only on GW1.

And it's as flawed as the logic of the argument of "it's on wiki we don't need a preview screen." Which is flawed because 1. it's a one sided picture, not 3d view and 2. the wiki doesn't have your character's face, hair, height, skin color, hair color. And that makes it look different on your character then on the wiki's character.

I /signed this before, I'll /sign it again.

Lady Lozza · Aug 20, 2008, 05:54 AM // 05:54

Hmm, I like preview windows, I like the idea however it is possible to do something similar now - but only with single pieces.

Borrow a friend's armour - the one you intend buying, and then dye it. The dye preview pops up with that armour on your character.

pamelf · Aug 20, 2008, 06:54 AM // 06:54

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Originally Posted by Lady Lozza

Hmm, I like preview windows, I like the idea however it is possible to do something similar now - but only with single pieces.

Borrow a friend's armour - the one you intend buying, and then dye it. The dye preview pops up with that armour on your character.

Wow, does it really? Thanks for that info, I may have to try it!