Capes!

[DanCaboose]

I want a cape! Everyone tells me it's a bad idea due to the possibility of being sucked into a jet engine. However, I want to have a nice cape! It doesn't have to have any stats or anything. Maybe it could have an option to hide it like the hat.
That is all.

[Lemon8or]

[sylent09]

I love capes in mmo games. Wish they added the option

[DanCaboose]

Yeah. It'd probably be too much to go through all the animations again and add in a cape though =[

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

So… alchemist can get a cape but no one else can?

[Wataruryu]

They gave a really poor excuse during Alpha and Beta about why they won't add capes, some lame crap like "it will cause clipping issues" or something like that.
Given that reason I find it odd that the CT boss and Odin are running around with it. Hell we can even wear Odin's gear minus the cape, there is no real reason as to why we can't have capes other then the Dev's don't want em.

[Valmar]

This needs to happen. I loved my Cape in Wow. With the evaluation of technology Dev's have access to, I see no reason why capes could not be implemented.

Please make this happen Devs!!!!

[Jeykama]

Well...
1) Mi'qote tails - you saw the outcry the last time they tried to circumvent the clipping for that (Evenstar Coat).
2) People complain enough about hair clipping - if they put capes in, people can complain about hair clipping into not only their hoods, but their capes as well
3) Back-mounted weapon clipping - most armor is pretty good about it, but they'd have to re-animate how weapons bounce on our backs if they wanted to animate capes nicely
4) Funny back-end armors - the i100 PVP robes have some really funky rear ends - having to custom-build a cape animation just for that set would be lame
5) Alchemists have capes?

If it were something simple like Advent Children Cloud's supersleeve cape-lookalike sort of deal with his left arm that's be cool though.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

They already have that: foestriker/infantry gear.

Also, alc might as well be wearing a cape.

[tymora]

The official reason is that it is "hard to make it look nice" without killing everyone's hardware.