Danikat.8537

I've been seriously tempted to make a 2nd engineer for the Holosmith. It's everything my engineer is not. She's a norn who learned engineering from the charr, so she's very much a practical engineer - leather clothing, clanking whirring metal machinery, not a glowing light to be seen. And also her backstory is that she became an engineer partially because she spectacularly failed to learn to wield a sword (or any other conventional weapon her parents tried to teach her. Trouble is I find it a lot of fun. So now I'm tempted to keep her as a base engineer/scrapper and make a second one as a holosmith. I could also see myself doing the same with the other professions - having repeats with different builds and themes. In GW1 I had 4 rangers and it never felt pointless because they all did different things.

Here's some of mine: This is my main character, so her costume probably changes the most, but this is one of my favourites. Noble coat, Fire God's vambraces, Buccaneer leggings and Carapace boots. Oh and the Dreamer and a killer whale quaggan backpack. This is my elementalist. She's (loosely) based on the Maguuma jungle from GW1 and it took me forever to get the right skins and dyes. She's wearing the Snapdragon top and skirt and Orchid 'boots' (which have been mistaken for invisible shoes at least once) and the Sun Catcher backpack (which doesn't fit the theme but does fit her name - Alleria Wildrunner - I like to imagine the backpack literally absorbs sunlight and she channels it into her magic). This one is my engineer. The theme here is practicality. She's a norn and she learned engineering from the charr so she doesn't go in for lots of flashy effects or glowy bits. Her clothing is designed to stay out the way when she's working and fighting. She's wearing the Krytan top, ascended medium trousers and Wolf boots with the Antitoxin Injector backpack and amberite pistols. And this is my thief. He's Ash Legion turned Order of Whispers so he wears the Whispers coat dyed black, but with the Buccaneer leggings and Emblazoned Boots. He's recently acquired a pair of Elonian pistols too. (Edited to embed the pictures now that's possible.)

I understand not hosting the images here like the old forum did (meaning we'd have to upload them elsewhere and then link to them), but it seems excessive to not allow images to be posted here at all. As you said that's going to impact a lot of popular topics, and I don't understand the benefit, especially from a security point of view. Is there actually more risk to letting us see a thumbnail of an image on this page vs. asking users to blindly follow a link, hoping it actually does lead to the image they're expecting to see?