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Standard equippable armor in Fashion Slots - Bug or intentional?
scopeh1984
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 20 Arc User
A bug I found and reported during beta was in regards to equipping standard armor in fashion item slots. Whilst experimenting with the UI, I discovered that STANDARD EQUIP-ABLE ARMOR *CAN* be put into a fashion slot - which is great of course but it is buggy.
For those who are unsure what this means - it is a feature made common in MMO's such as Aion and Age of Conan (a similar system was added to WoW if I recall correctly), which allows a player to equip a piece of cool looking armor in a fashion slot rather than the standard equipment slot overriding the visual appearance of their actual armor without changing their stats.
This is useful when you have a sexy or rare looking piece of armor at level 20, which you don't want to replace with an ugly looking piece of level 25 armor with better stats. You can still equip the armor with better stats, while maintaining your fashionable appearance.
While the game *does* allow you to equip your armor in fashion slots, the UI tool-tips when moused over shows a red "X", and states that only fashion items can be equipped in this slot even though the armor piece will go into the slot and appear on the character immediately.
Secondly, when you do equip the armor as a fashion item your weapons become invisible and although you are able to fight normally with no repercussions it does look strange and immersion breaking.
When you log back in, the armor items are unequipped from your fashion slots and seemingly vanish - which requires you to relog to receive the items in your overflow bag.
My assumption is that the dev's want to allow you to do this, but regardless in its current state it is broken and needs fixing.
It would be a shame if this was not intended and they only want bought fashion items to be equip-able in the fashion slots.
Thoughts?
For those who are unsure what this means - it is a feature made common in MMO's such as Aion and Age of Conan (a similar system was added to WoW if I recall correctly), which allows a player to equip a piece of cool looking armor in a fashion slot rather than the standard equipment slot overriding the visual appearance of their actual armor without changing their stats.
This is useful when you have a sexy or rare looking piece of armor at level 20, which you don't want to replace with an ugly looking piece of level 25 armor with better stats. You can still equip the armor with better stats, while maintaining your fashionable appearance.
While the game *does* allow you to equip your armor in fashion slots, the UI tool-tips when moused over shows a red "X", and states that only fashion items can be equipped in this slot even though the armor piece will go into the slot and appear on the character immediately.
Secondly, when you do equip the armor as a fashion item your weapons become invisible and although you are able to fight normally with no repercussions it does look strange and immersion breaking.
When you log back in, the armor items are unequipped from your fashion slots and seemingly vanish - which requires you to relog to receive the items in your overflow bag.
My assumption is that the dev's want to allow you to do this, but regardless in its current state it is broken and needs fixing.
It would be a shame if this was not intended and they only want bought fashion items to be equip-able in the fashion slots.
Thoughts?
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