as people are already going strong on costume discussion I want to suggest a game mechanic.
Here is how it should/could work:
“Name/Where?”
We have a seperate tab in our character info called “Transmog” or “Appearance”.
From the start its initially empty. (Except for the starter gear)
“What does it do?”
It holds the appearance of all the gears that have been equipped.
Yes it had to be equipped otherwise people will just share good looking outfits.
Or another possibility would be a flag if the item has already been registered to any “Appearance/Transmog(-Codex?)”.
“How to use?”
Collecting it isnt all you have to do. You also need some type of crafting material to “unlock?” the (codex?) entry (-> storywise getting an understanding of how the gear appearance-wise was crafted?)
Afterwards you can decide what you want to do:
choose no transmog => equipped gear appearance is showing
choose no transmog, have outfit => outfit shows
choose a (unlocked) transmog => transmog is the new appearance
(optional) Integrate Dye System into this mechanic
“Pros:”
We would have the possibility to collect something new, meaning something that is already in the game. This adds to content and I know there are people out there that love collecting cosmetics a lot.
People can freely choose how they look with a bit of time investment. (Team Diversity!)
The dye your armour method can be integrated into this (centralizing game mechanics instead of new npcs => newbies having no problems)
New content by using old content (less work )
Community is getting happier.
“Cons:”
A bit of implementation work
? ← people please add here, i am having issues with thinking about some
Thanks for reading through this.
If you have any further ideas on this please write them down here.
When you answer follow this pattern:
Post:
“How to use?”
Collecting it isnt all you have to do. You also need some type of crafting material to “unlock?” the (codex?) entry (-> storywise getting an understanding of how the gear appearance-wise was crafted?)
The crafting material could be: … / I think this is good (or bad)…
Because
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I hope this doesn’t happen, I’d rather just collect/pay for dyes
Would you mind explaining this a bit?
watch all these plebs be like " trAnsMoG iS paY tO WiN"
I did not mean anything extraordinary to get this things running
Maybe for dyes you can grind down some plants? And for the gear you need whatever fits it? Leather Armour → Hunting
Iron Plate → Mining
Cloth Armour → mix of hunting / plants?
Edit: Rare Materials could be used for this as those will flood your inventory anyway. And a gold cost for crafting → goldsink to counter inflation.
My idea on a transmog system would be you break down gear items into a wardrobe system. IT would then save that gear items skin into some thing useable in the skin system. Only if you have the Crystal Aura you could use this wardrobe system. You could save all skins to it with out having Aura active just not use the wardrobe. This would add another reason to buy the monthly sub and have some of the great leveling gear/ artwork not go to waste. I think it is sad to see all the leveling gear artwork go to waste after 20ish hours of playing the game. There is a lot of love and time put in to the leveling gear artwork. Sad to see it go to waste. Not sure why Korean MMOS do not add this systems into their games. Guild Wars 2 IMO had one of the best Transmog systems out. Copy and Paste that into Lost Ark and link it to the Crystal Aura Monthly sub.
I just came to suggest a transmog style system. I love the Anikka continent sorceress gear. The artwork is gorgeous. I’d love to have that set as a skin. The two paid sorceress skins are ugly in comparison. Alar has too much clipping at the back and the other looks like a little red riding hood costume for a porn flick.
You could make transmog a benefit for Crystalline Aura users since the cost model is built around cosmetics.
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