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Costumes and Transmogrification
I have mixed feelings about transmogs and costumes.
I think players should be able to wear what they want to, even if it is ridiculous like Eastern MMOs where people run around in bikinis and horse masks. Also sometimes you just want to change up how you look.
On the other hand, without costumes and transmogs, you can tell how the other persons gear without inspecting them. If I saw someone with high end pvp gear and a legendary weapon, I would avoid that person. Or even showing off your hard earned gear, I remember as a noob enter a major city and seeing all the high levels in shiny gear with their glowing weapons and crazy mounts. It made me want that gear.
What do you all want?
I think players should be able to wear what they want to, even if it is ridiculous like Eastern MMOs where people run around in bikinis and horse masks. Also sometimes you just want to change up how you look.
On the other hand, without costumes and transmogs, you can tell how the other persons gear without inspecting them. If I saw someone with high end pvp gear and a legendary weapon, I would avoid that person. Or even showing off your hard earned gear, I remember as a noob enter a major city and seeing all the high levels in shiny gear with their glowing weapons and crazy mounts. It made me want that gear.
What do you all want?
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I think players should be able to wear what they want to, even if it is ridiculous like Eastern MMOs where people run around in bikinis and horse masks. Also sometimes you just want to change up how you look.
On the other hand, without costumes and transmogs, you can tell how the other persons gear without inspecting them. If I saw someone with high end pvp gear and a legendary weapon, I would avoid that person. Or even showing off your hard earned gear, I remember as a noob enter a major city and seeing all the high levels in shiny gear with their glowing weapons and crazy mounts. It made me want that gear.
What do you all want?
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I'm in mostly the same boat with you. I feel like in a game such as this having gear as a 'tell' could be important information when it comes to open world and weighing the risk of pvp. It's one of those things I feel is better answered when the game is further developed but a very valid conversation to be had.
One possible idea to somewhat diversify armors, barring transmogrification, would be to allow them to be customizable with colors and/or animal skins.
So wearing 10 pc heavy armour underneath your visual bikini is a no and a game I would avoid.
I don't mind sexy, but flirtatious slut wear is a little too far for my taste too.
Plenty of porn on the net if you need that.
On every one wearing exactly the same thing, I wholeheartedly agree though.
Uniqueness for everyone is a really big deal for me, so customisation or at least tweaking in a personal way, is something I appreciate.
So crafting in signature styles would also be warmly received.
My problem is that female armour 11/10 times looks better than their male counterpart.
I just feel that men don't get as much love as females in armour choices..
A real turn off for me, in many games.. I love costumes, I really love them, I REALLY do!
But I can't understand how a female warrior or Mage for instance can ran around with basically nothing on and still be protected from all the evil creatures trying to slaughter them, makes no sense to me.
Sure there are many horny gamers out there, but please stay consistent..
If I wear a bikini I should at least be restricted. Let's say a debuff in colder regions or something like that..
Also, the starting armour shouldn't have more layers than the supreme ultimate xy Dragon conquest slayer purple legendary supreme armour.
My two cents
~ Zention
I am actually on the other side of OP's post, I rather they do not get too ridiculous with all that stuff. It really takes me out of the immersion and after a while, it all ends up looking the same, not unique. lol
I have a few other reasons, but yeah, if they were to do something like this, I would like an otion to NOT see all the costumes and transmogs or at least keep them within reason. (or related to the lore)
There should be no surprise that illusions to disguise what folks are wearing is ubiquitous.
In MMORPGs, people are geared in all manner of outfits that add extra Strength and Stamina and Damage and Health and Mana...
Even cloth armor!!!!!!
But, somehow illusions to disguise costume appearance is immersion breaking.
That's patently absurd.
I have mixed feelings about inspecting ... on one hand if someone is wearing something cool and I want to know what it is, I can look ... on the other hand, I hate inspecting to see if you are geared a certain way which encourages eliteism.
I was talking about costumes, I think its dumb to have a t-rex costume or a weird transmog, when it has o relation to the game in anyway.
But, again, it's high fantasy.
Which means it is logical for there to be illusionists who disguise their armor - just like with angel skins and demon skins and spectral mare skins. All of that is part of the lore.
So, some people choosing to appear silly instead of threatening in a dungeon shouldn't be immersion-breaking. They are just illusions that you don't like.