Widening the choice of item appearances.

badkarma989

I've been playing this several hundred hours now, and I like it. The graphics are good, most of the gameplay is good, the bugs aren't intolerable. But I have a single trivial complaint.

Item appearance.

I'm a big fan of armor. never have liked cloth robes and such, winged boots, flowing clothy garments. I'm sure I'm not the only one. What I would like to see would be an item appearance ability similar to EverCrack II where a Necromancer can wear plate armor as an appearance item. The real items would still be the standard garments for such a class, but the fashion appearance would see your Control Wiz running around in scale mail with a broadsword or some ridiculous mace. It's a game, and that'd just be fun.

I know asking for some feedback on this is going to get crickets but what the hell.

Dev crew, can that be done, open up every item to be used as an appearance item, regardless of player class? Robes for GWFs, Plate for SWs? Any item can be displayed in the gear preview screen, regardless of character class. I have a gear preview of my CW wearing "fighters scale armor", "devoted boots", and "devoted gloves". So can that be taken one step further and just unlock them for appearance sake live instead of only on the preview's paper doll?

I guess let the flaming of the newb begin now... *sigh*

bodini72

you can use any gear (i am pretty sure) as a transmute for your current gear. Right click on the gear you are wearing and there will be an option to change appearance. Scroll through any available gear you are toting around and make the change. Beware, if the item you want to use as a transmute doesn't say free appearance change each piece will cost AD to transmute. You can then take it a step further and change the color of any of 3 possible sections within each piece to your liking (assuming you have the dye for it). I change the look and color of most of my gear and my fashion gear also

You can buy fashion gear either from the AH or from any number of vendors throughout the game. Mix and match until you find what you like.

Look in the collections tab (that should by one of the tabs at the top center of your screen) and scroll through the different campaigns(sharandar, dread ring etc...) to see if any vendor from that campaign offer gear to buy. There is a good amount of fashion gear in the game and like i said you can transmuste any old gear for the look you want.

dafrca

Just to make sure I have it right, I beleive you can only use gear to transmute that is for your class. For example my CW can't use a GWF armor to make it look like I have armor. Right?

greywynd

You would be correct. You can only use/transmute items intended for your class.

chidion

I think Neverwinter is (kinda') trying to follow the restrictions put on characters by the 5th edition of D&D player's handbook, there are several sites that can give more information on this but I believe the official source is here:

Player's Handbook - A Dungeons & Dragons Core Rulebook

Although this is all just a fantasy gaming experience, there are still rules to be followed apparently.