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It says there are over 700 pages in the old forums, do you know how I can filter or search through them?

I think some people might not fully understand what you mean, but that would look absolutely great! Would give a greater sense of achievement when you look at the map on a character where you've done all these stuff and experienced all these parts of the map! ❤️ Though I don't see it being done because they have said before that the code for the GW2 map is very complicated, so not sure how doable this might be...

Thank you for the reply! I went through it, sadly I don't think there's anything in the forums, if there are then it's gonna be hard to find, I've also been looking throughout Reddit to see if there's anything there too! As for the replies above, I understand the frustration but that's probably for an entirely different topic, the Outfit issue is a separate one and we're hoping to find actual developer info or even just info about the game limitations that make it impossible!

There are all kinds of possible reasons, and this is one that always came up, but a group of friends and I are looking for any developer comments to stop us from making theories and arguing about them when we don't know the real answer for sure. So this post isn't about making more assumptions, it's about finding information in previous discussions!

(Please keep in mind this is not for player theories, I'm trying to find any old comment made by a developer that confirms the limitation behind stuff like this) We know that ArenaNet is still committed to using outfits as one of the ways to monetize the game, after looking at some outfits I wanted to buy, it dawned on me that some of them do allow you to toggle off the gloves(By hiding your armor set gloves) but NONE allow you to toggle off shoulders, even in outfits where shoulders are distinctly different pieces. I've been looking around, and there are many posts about this, but I couldn't stumble on any dev response on why this is the case. So my question(as the title says) is: Anyone here knows if there's a post/comment/video of the developers talking about these kinds of things? Appreciate the help! ❤️

WARNING: The merchant only sells recipes, you also have to buy the insignias which means you'll have to farm for the unusual coins. On the plus side, they are also on the trading post now.

I'm not sure which items you're referring to that have been lost, I assume that you're talking about the clean version of Council Guard, it's probably somewhere in the game files still since many NPCs wear it, even charr models exist of it. Though I guess it is possible that some player versions were lost and so they got replaced with the damaged looking version? It's just still weird that there's an undamaged version of Council Guard in the game that they're not willing to give players, it's a really good looking armor and I love it but having to hide the fact that the texture of it makes it look damaged when there's a clean version in the game kinda sucks. As for the Guild Armor, none of it is lost, all of the armor pieces are in the game and you can preview them in the bank, all that's needed is for a developer to make the skins purchasable by a merchant. The only armor with missing pieces is Guild Defender, but it's not because some of it was lost, it's been missing those pieces even when all sets were obtainable and it seems intentional I guess? Here are some of the codes of the Guild Armor that you can preview RIGHT now in the game, on any character and on any race: [&CiYHAAA=] [&CocGAAA=] [&ChoDAAA=] [&CrIGAAA=] [&CiAHAAA=] [&CosGAAA=] The only piece that you can get is the chest piece, even though the other pieces are just fully ready to go, but no merchant in the game sells them. It is possible that there are other armor sets with this same issue, and you might be right that they have lost some of them, but seeing them being re-introduced in any other way would be great, for now though, why not let the players have a way to get the armor that's already in the game

I don't think you're aware of what exactly it is that I'm talking about, the guild armorer sells 3 coats as you can see here, "Guild Heavy Armor" "Guild Medium Armor" and "Guild Light Armor". If you take a look in the game at your bank wardrobe, you'd realize those 3 chest pieces actually belong to a whole set that's meant to match them, and the game shows you that you're missing the other skins. There is no way to get those OTHER skins, I suggested making them purchasable along with the chest pieces which you can buy from the guild armorer. Thank you for pointing out what I needed to edit in my post, that's on me, I should have provided the wiki link to the NPC that sells these coats. You're right though, the suggestion makes little to no sense if you never saw these skins in the game if you're not in a guild. To clarify again: There's 3 skins already being sold by the guild armorer in the game, I'm suggesting for them to allow us to buy the other skins from the same set as those 3, and it makes then most sense for them all to be sold from the same NPC. Edit, yet again: Just to clarify, if you disagree that the skins that are currently purchasable shouldn't be sold by the guild armorer, then that should probably be its own topic. This topic is about the missing pieces of the set that aren't sold anywhere in the game.

This is something that more players should be talking about, but the title alone might not explain what exactly I'm referring to. There are skins in the game that were previously obtainable but then were later made unobtainable either because of an oversight or or a misunderstanding, or possibly even a bug, I'll explain everything below. Take a look at this: https://imgur.com/a/7zsyuqN Charr and Asura versions: Light - Medium - Heavy (Biggest difference is visible in the light and heavy armor) These armor sets were available as PvP rewards in 2014 but were removed after the reward system got updated, the CHEST PIECES(For Light, Medium and Heavy) were made available from the Guild Initiative Representative for 1 gold each, and I assume the other pieces of the armor set were deemed too similar to the Devout and Banded armor to be included, this MIGHT make sense with the medium set which is actually very similar, as you can see here: https://imgur.com/a/4LUUGQG But it doesn't make sense with the light and heavy set, for example on the guild archmage armor, you can see that the mantle is actually missing a part on the front so that the guild icon, the cowl is bigger and has a different shape from the Devout set, and on the guild defender, the chestpiece is lined up with the legguards to match, if you try it on banded armor it looks completely different. You might argue that it's still too similar despite all these differences, but there are a ton of armor sets in the game that have 2(or even more) versions with only subtle differences similar to the guild armor, though they are still obtainable in the game, these include but are definitely not limited to: -Elonian Armor and Spearmarshal's Armor -Triumphant Armor and Triumphant Hero's Armor(Severity changes between armor classes, with light having the LEAST difference between the two) -Glorious Armor and Ardent Glorious Armor(Again, severity differs between armor classes) Those are just a few examples, there are also regular skins with some modifications to them that then get sold -ON- the gemstore(Flamewalker and Mist Walker) as a completely new set, isn't it possible to do the same for other unobtainable skins or NPC clothes that can easily be turned into player armor skins? Guild armor sets are not the only ones skins in the game that used to be obtainable but no longer are, we're still not forgetting about the amount of town clothes skins that were fit for every character and every race, modelled and ready to be added as new skins with very minimal effort from ArenaNet designers. I would even gladly pay and support the game to buy these skins if they get added to the gemstore, though town clothes probably deserve their own topic. There's a lot of demand for these types of skins that ArenaNet isn't capitalizing on. Simple armor skins that offer creativity with mixing and matching with other armor skins. One other very unfortunate example of such armor is the Council Guard set, the version that players have access to appears dirty, torn, chipped and heavily damaged despite a CLEAN version being available in the game, it's worn by Seraph NPCs, Sylvari NPCs and Charr NPCs, it exists and is fully implemented in the game yet for some reason players can't have access to both versions, we only get the damaged one. TLDR: My suggestion is adding the guild armor skins to the Guild Imitative Representative(guild armorer) NPC so they can be sold along with Guild Heavy Armor, Guild Medium Armor and Guild Light Armor. These skins are meant to match together and it feels like an extreme waste that such perfectly usable skins are unobtainable by players, despite being modelled and ready without any fuss or trouble, so why aren't they sold along with their counterparts? They already exist in the game, they can even be previewed in the wardrobe bank by any character race and some players even have access to the skins and can easily use them. Would it really be difficult to include the missing pieces of the set they belong in with the same merchant? EDIT: The merchant that I'm referring to that should be selling the full set: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Initiative_Representative_(guild_armorer) (Currently only sells the chest piece from each set, instead of the full set with the other pieces that are meant to match the chest piece) Just a side-note, there's a lot of simple armor skins that players would love to have, and I would personally even pay to get for the sake of simple fashion and more creativity in mixing armor skins, a GREAT example of such skins is the top worn by the Shipwrecked Circus Treasurer, it's a simple tank top and wouldn't(I assume) require too much design effort to make it usable by players. There's a LOT of similar armor skins that both the GW2 fashion and the roleplaying community would love to have implemented into the game as new armor skins, these include NPC clothes, deleted town clothing skins, simple skins worn by expansion NPCs like the shipwrecked circus, so on and so on. With some slight co-operation between ArenaNet and the GW2 community, we can make those skins finally available to players, in the name of FASHION!(And fun!) All it would take to re-add these skins is simply making them purchasable from the Guild Initiative Armorer, they don't require re-modelling, they don't require re-designing, just a way to purchase them so players can use them and match them with the set that is already sold by the same NPC.