Outfits vs. Armor Skins - Which do you prefer?

[Lpfan.3578]

I like having both! Sometimes I like to put on one of my outfits, whether it be to celebrate a holiday or just for fun! Other times I like to have my cool looking armor showing. I miss mix and matching with outfit/clothing pieces though :(

[Danikat.8537]

I like both for different reasons.

OutfitsI like the convenience of having them always available on all my characters and being able to switch to them and switch between them freely. I also like that they're not bound by armour restrictions - I can use them to put my ele in platemail or my ranger in a long flowing dress if I want to.

I'm kind of ambivalent on the lack of customisation. In a way it fits with the convenience in that I don't have to juggle pieces to make them work and I know each one is a matching 'set' (also some of the outfits I like wouldn't work as separate pieces, like the wedding outfit and noble count on female characters). But it also puts me off some of them because if I don't like the whole thing together I can't do anything about it except not buy it.

I really don't like that there's only 4 dye channels on each outfit and they're very inconsistent - on some the 1st dye channel is the majority of the outfit, on others it's 1 tiny detail and the 2nd or 3rd dyes the whole outfit. That makes it very hard to find a dye scheme that works across all of them, and having to change the dyes each time I switch ruins the convenience. That really puts me off buying more of them. (I also wish they'd bring back the option of having a keybinding to switch between your armour and currently selected outfit.)

ArmourPretty much reverse all of the above. I like the freedom to mix and match pieces and dye each one differently and the sheer variety of what's available. I don't like that if I want extra 'sets' I either have to carry them in my bag or spend transmutation charges to change it.

[Myrdreth.6829]

I like both. It depends which character I am playing.

Heavy armor classes always get to wear an outfit, because I HATE the look of heavy armor. It's not cute at all. Urgh.

Medium armor classes and light armor classes get to wear the armor or sometimes outfits too...whatever I like the best at the moment. I like to mix and match armor pieces, but it can get expensive.

[Cuon Alpinus.7645]

not a huge fan of the whole-body outfits, but I am fond of the piece by piece gemstore sets like the foefire armor.

[ScottBroChill.3254]

In a perfect world the armor system is better because it allows more customization. In reality though the armor skins are lackluster and there aren't many sets that I like and struggle to find something for all my characters. Been really thinking of getting an outfit for my charr revenant because I'm sick of using mistward armor (currently using lunatic armor for a nice change). The outfits are higher quality, some have sweet dyable animations, and the dyes look better on them. Trying to use armor pieces from separate sets is difficult to dye uniformly.

[Shiyo.3578]

Armor skins 100%. Mix and matching is always the best for customization, you also can't have cat ears on outfits which completely ruins them.

[Noa.7490]

Armor skins. Bar none. By using your creativity in creating mix and match parts you can really craft out a personalized look instead of having a boring, and generic look.

[Iason Evan.3806]

Armor because you can mix and match. Also, where were the karma armor sets in PoF like we had in the base game? ArenaNet has dropped the ball for the last few years when it comes to earnable armor in my opinion.

If earnable armor were more prevalent in the game, I may have voted "both".

Also, RNG lockboxes suck.

[Manasa Devi.7958]

I voted armor skins, but if the armors in PoF are representative of what's in store for the future, I'd vote "Neither / I don't care."

[xikira.3264]

I like both because I enjoy lvling and making characters. When they are low lvl I love having them in outfits because I do not want to waste transmutes when I will be changing armor out alot. I enjoy the armor skins for fashion wars after I reach the character to lvl 80.

[Jora.5471]

Outfit for leveling characters or when I am out of T-stones. Armor skin for level 80.

[Adry.7512]

Outfits because armor skins should be left for in game. Making gen store armor skins more varied than in game would be a problem.

[Zeefa.3915]

Armor skins for sure. I want to mix and match for the perfect look. Outfits takes that ability away. I never buy outfits for this reason. The outfits I own I got when they were still townsclothes.

[Rashagar.8349]

I love mix and matching armour pieces to get a character's look just right, but until I find the look I specifically want for a character I'm really happy being able to cover up whatever ghastly combination of mismatched armour pieces they have on with a nice easy to use outfit.

[Rio.4259]

Armor skins are WAY better for me simply because of the fact they can be mixed and matched. I have not bought any outfits recently, including any Halloween stuff, but I did grab the foefire set, since I can mix them up with my other stuff.

[Ohoni.6057]

While I agree that there can be a convenience factor to having Outfits, that's a weak patch on a broken system, namely that this game does not have "appearance templates" in. I mean, if you look at some other games, most notably the superhero MMOs, they tend to allow you to store multiple appearance set-ups on your character, and swap between them at will. So people value that Outfits in GW2 allow you to throw on a specific unified "look" without the hassle of swapping out armor pieces manually or transmuting pieces. Fine. I get that. But Outfits are FAR from the best way to achieve that level of convenience. You're basically locked in to whatever the Outfit looks like.

Instead, ALL armor should release in Armor skin form, and then once you've mixed and matched the look you want, you can "store" that as an appearance, and call that up at will as easily as currently using an Outfit. In fact, if it would make their jobs a bit easier, they could just use the existing Outfit UI, make it so that you can "craft" an "Outfit" for some nominal cost, taking a snapshot of whatever you have on, and then this "Custom Outfit" would be stored like any other outfit, and would be used exactly like the current Outfits.

"Convenience" is no excuse of Outfits.

[Opal.9324]

I've got some characters with outfits and some with armor skins. My favorite part about outfits is the fact that any class can wear them regardless of armor weight.

[Vavume.8065]

Best poll I've seen on here so far, I think this really makes it clear what people want, as if we didn't know that already tho right. Sadly, despite the fact that people are hugely in favour of armor skins over outfits Anet will still give us outfits instead and blame it on the difficult to create excuse rather than the real reason which is $$$.

[Motoko.2875]

Armor skins for sure.

[keyokku.5412]

I like both. There are some outfits that go real well with my character and some characters that can put together better armor mixes. Sometimes I just get tired of one look and switch between armor and outfits. Sometimes the need for transmute charges causes me not to change an primary armor look that I really like because I might need to go back to it eventually. So I use and like both. Some outfits don't look good but some are stunning especially with the right dyes. I don't show the head armor most of the time.

[Lambent.6375]

Armor sets, I voted for outfits on accident >_>

If Anet released a smexy (for both sexes) armor set for medium armor, and bundled with with an immortal weapon, or new kind of immortal weapon , and sold it for 2800-3k gems.

[Westenev.5289]

I much prefer armour skins - and not just the odd set of boots, gloves or helmet either. I want some legs and tops too!

[b k.1648]

I'm going to buck the trend and say outfits.

The reason why is because I play charr, so it's a personal opinion (but then, so is everyone else's vote). Outfits don't tend to suffer from clipping issues; armour skins almost invariably do. So if outfits mean skins that work, I'm going to have to go with outfits.

[Blood Red Arachnid.2493]

I find outfits to be so convenient. You just click a button, and it is universally available on all toons, regardless of their armor size.

[Bofouci.1320]

Please break these outfits into armor skins.... I love the new inquest exo-suit outfit but would like to have the ability to apply parts of it. Armor skins give us, the customer, so much more value over outfits.