116330-costume-vendor

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			Can we please get a costume vendor in our capital city?  The auction house only ever has the Raidin' gear and there's no where else to get costume pieces.  As a warrior or engineer we're basically screwed in equipping regular armor as costume pieces since we can wear all 3 types and level restricted.  :(	
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			Well the Shady Dealer has a few costumes... but I think the better option here would be for them to just lift the level restriction!	
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We kinda do have one already, but it only has one set(i cant recall the name off-hand of the NPC or the item set, but it's the one that by default is green and has a little leaf on the shoulder or something). Would be nice to have other outfits available...
 
Next Drop(assuming they kept it in there, i haven't checked) you can acquire the ICI and Black hood outfits via the pvp vendors.
 
I'm a little confused what you mean by warrior and engineers being screwed though specifically(or boned rather hehe) since the level restriction applies to all classes and by comparison without addons we're the only ones capable of previewing all armor types with the default UI.
 
Something that may help you is that if you're concerned or trying to find that "tier" of gear look that is cloth or leather as opposed to heavy armor the "Armor vendor" tends to have armor that you'll most commonly see in the region you purchase it. Also I'm not sure about Exiles but for Dominion there is an area in our city that sells all types of armor as "white" or "green" grade for fairly cheap. From what I've seen you can get a significant variety of items from there for costuming(if you want to use actual armor models we can obtain). 
 
I agree on lifting the level restriction for costuming as I can't really see any harm caused by it then what already is/could be done and ninja looting isn't so much a concern for it as the items from dungeons and adventures tend to be BoP; So unique graphics from said areas would still have to be earned by that player and essentially it'd be no different than how it is now.	
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			That be something. As a deluxe edition player, i got myslelf the deluxe armor costumes and such, but it wouldnt hurt to get more costumes.	
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Can we please get a costume vendor in our capital city?  The auction house only ever has the Raidin' gear and there's no where else to get costume pieces.  As a warrior or engineer we're basically screwed in equipping regular armor as costume pieces since we can wear all 3 types and level restricted.  :(
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Well the Shady Dealer has a few costumes... but I think the better option here would be for them to just lift the level restriction!
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I agree on lifting the level restriction for costuming as I can't really see any harm caused by it then what already is/could be done and ninja looting isn't so much a concern for it as the items from dungeons and adventures tend to be BoP; So unique graphics from said areas would still have to be earned by that player and essentially it'd be no different than how it is now.
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I actually highly recommend crafted equipment for costume pieces.  I maintain a crafted armor gallery on my guild forums with screenshots of different pieces I can make for exactly this reason.  If I ever get it completely finished I'll repost it on these forums as well :)
 
Edit:  One of Nephele's best costumes is actually a set of midlevel crafted light armor.	
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Back in LotRO, we had actual costumes. I ran into Mordoer with a backpack full of books, wearing my best dress. :P I don't remember half of the avaliable costumes, but we had a whole store selling nothing but costumes. It was awesome. Then I came to Wildstar, and have two costumes in total. The highway-man and omni-plastic costumes. Later on, I've gotten my ugly facehugger-thingy, the nice veteran beret and the settler class costume. That's about it. Not much at all, and too hard to get.
 
Since we have several costume slots, why not make a bigger effort in the costume department? I'm sure you have one or two interns who don't need food or money you can put on costume-creation duty for a month or two. The more costumes we have, the better. It's especially important now that RP is dead. Not that is was fun to begin with, but with the lack of a RP-server, we need more ways to seperate us RPers from the non-RP peasants. :P	
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I'm a little confused what you mean by warrior and engineers being screwed though specifically(or boned rather hehe) since the level restriction applies to all classes and by comparison without addons we're the only ones capable of previewing all armor types with the default UI.
 
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The way it works currently, a spellslinger/esper can equip ANY LEVEL medium or heavy armor piece as a costume, even if it is above their current level. They are restricted to level range only with light armor as it is what they normally could use.
 
By the same token, a stalker/medic can use any level heavy armor piece for a costume, but are level-restricted for light and medium.
 
Warrior/engineer have to stick to level range for all costuming as they can normally equip any weight of armor.
 
I believe that's what the OP was referring to.
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Well the Shady Dealer has a few costumes... but I think the better option here would be for them to just lift the level restriction!
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			Adding some actually costume's that don't have any kind of armor or level type would be great too.	
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			Each zone has a vendor that sells matching gear sets. You can also buy these from vendors in Fortune's Ground in Thayd. Not sure where the Iliium equivalent would be. 	
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Each zone has a vendor that sells matching gear sets. You can also buy these from vendors in Fortune's Ground in Thayd. Not sure where the Iliium equivalent would be. 
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Need more options, most of those sets look terrible and some only come in 2 or 3 parts. Finding items that match to the rest of it isn't easy even when re-colouring as colours come out differently on 'different' materials.
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Do want ICI and Black Hoods uniforms - often on the same character.
 
FCoN has a nice outfit also, and the Judges have a full set of kick-butt armor to go along with the often lusted after hat.	
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The way it works currently, a spellslinger/esper can equip ANY LEVEL medium or heavy armor piece as a costume, even if it is above their current level. They are restricted to level range only with light armor as it is what they normally could use.
 
By the same token, a stalker/medic can use any level heavy armor piece for a costume, but are level-restricted for light and medium.
 
Warrior/engineer have to stick to level range for all costuming as they can normally equip any weight of armor.
 
I believe that's what the OP was referring to.
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Wow, that's... silly. There's really no way around it. The level restrictions on costuming shouldn't differ by class. If they're determined to have level-restricted costuming at all--which I'm not a fan of--it should either be for all armor types across the board for all classes, or only applied to the armor type that matches the balancing of the class.
 
Sounds like the way they differentiate between "in class" and "out of class" armor needs a little more thought that just "can be equipped" or "can't be equipped"...
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