Outfits vs. Armor Skins - Which do you prefer?

[Uncle Dalty.8327]

@Sindariel.2354 said:As long as there's no proper wardrobe feature and we have to buy additional transmutation charges to apply armor skins, i prefer outfits, because there are much cheaper on the long run.

That's your argument? kitten... if they'd stop making charges account bound i'd give you, and everyone else with this reason, 100s of them

[mindcircus.1506]

@Snuggle Fox.1824 said:I know it can be hard for Anet, but they just dropped gem armor entirely for gem outfits :(

...and gave us 3 really great armor sets with PoF that we can earn ingame as part of the purchase price.

[lilnicky.9476]

I like outfits for lower level characters or just when I can't find anything else to put on for the time being.

But for the most part I generally lean towards armor skins for sure.

[czerwoni.9563]

armor skins for the ability to mix and match but outfits did come in handy in levels 1-79 lol

[Leo G.4501]

@"Ardid.7203" said:Why are the best pieces always part of the non mixable stuff? Why do they make outfits "superior" while neglecting armor pieces?

Because they are easier to make as a set. Because they are more free when designing as a set vs designing within the confines of the box that armor pieces requires. Because they'd be obligated to create 3 weighs out of one motif regardless of if it makes sense or looks good (still have no idea why they do this). Because as more and more quality textures are utilized to make a piece, the worse it will look trying to blend with different or older looking textures.