Costumes

[Jamesruglia]

Hmm... I guess I'd use such a function if there were one, then again, seeing the actual equipment on a person is one of the things I like about the game. The idea of seeing a nice set of armor or something and then realizing they're -really- wearing the dime-a-dozen DD body piece of choice for the era is kind of disappointing for some reason.

Something to keep people from changing appearence and losing my target as Whm would be awesome though.

[Amalah]

Nah that's just a fan site poll not an official one. It uses percentage based results meaning only fifty could have answered it and you'd never know.

Looking at the last part of the poll, which is a multiple choice question around 500 people answered. Which is not a bad cross section of the community.

You're right though, an official poll would definately hold more weight. There has been a fair amount of noise about this issue, so I'm sure SE would find it in their best interest to investigate the matter.

After all it would cost them nothing to hold a poll, and could easily result in the games popularity increasing amongst players who have thought the game too dated.

But I guess this is off topic, it's time to go back to discussing ideas we would love to see added to the game.

[Wenceslao]

That blinking problems, it's a pain for all WHM, lol

[kaht]

That blinking problems, it's a pain for all WHM, lol

But it's a boon to some people that can take advantage of it - like swapping gear right before you provoke while kiting a mob, so that you blink out and don't get frozen by the provoke animation.

[oliveira]

I aways loved the WHM job but indeed the blinking problem is ultra annoying. But I suppose players learned to "exploit" it in their favor when being /check harassed and that might have why SE never bothered with solving it.

[kaht]

But I suppose players learned to "exploit" it in their favor when being /check harassed and that might have why SE never bothered with solving it.

If you manually type /check <playername> WITHOUT having them targeted, their equipment check screen doesn't disappear when they switch gear.

[Registeel]

I have an innate fear that people would be running around in the level 50 subligar as their costume...

But really, I do rather like the idea of being able to appear differently from what you have equipped. I'd definitely don my Iron Musketeer gear again on PLD... many good memories tied to that armor.

[hiko]

That blinking problems, it's a pain for all WHM, lol

learn to <stpt> <stal>

[Dubberrucky]

If it solved the blinking problem I would be on this like white on rice.

[Amalah]

The blinking problem never occured to me when I first suggested this, getting rid of that would be the icing on the cake for me, though I can see why some people would still want it. Personally I always hated switching equipment and then losing the lock on the mob I was fighting.

I suppose there could be a toggle in the game settings, so that if you don't want to see other people's costumes you could turn the effect off.

Or for those who are concerned with knowing what gear their team mates are wearing SE could make it so you can't hide you character information if you choose to be wearing a costume. That way you could still check the player out.