Removal of belts was the first shot fired in the war against pants... >.>
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Well everyone or most people on twitch during the live letter when belt removal was announced, were worried (needlessly it seems) about how pants would stay up without them in the game <_<>_>
Belts are an easy way to hide the seam between the chest piece and the leg piece.
Coming from Destiny 2, Hunter gear in general suffers a lot from the fact that Bungie rarely uses any elements at hide the intersection between pants and "the top" so almost no different gear set match well with each other due to that seam.
The real reason belts were removed was because Nomura took them all.
It's easy pants with stay up with anti-falling down magic.
They're all sweatpants. The sweat makes them stick.
Pants are for suckers. I don't even wear pants. I just walk around naked until someone tazes me and I get a free ride back home.
What were we talking about?
They kneejerk removed alot of stuff that was actually good in 1.0. Animations were alot better, gear was made with races in mind. Lighting was alot better. WHM/BLM had different drawn weapon poses depending if they used a wand or staff which is why they WHM drawn looks so bad now, they took the one-handed drawn pose from 1.0 and removed the two-handed pose despite them making WHM/BLM one-handed weapons non-existant past ARR.
I definitely agree. they did remove alot things that were quite good. But I do believe Yoshi did say during the very first announcement of the gfx update they are working on 1) readding the shaders they had removed from 1.0 and 2) readding and making the light sources better. I still remember our characters having physics when coming to a stop after sprinting lol.