Bound armor and costumes

Shogunami

ZOS has stated that they want other players to be able to see what skills you are using and therefore you can't toggle off the visuals for, for example Bound Armor, which is cool and all. (Cool and all, but also hilariously contraindicative seeing as they promote animation cancelling which if anything goes against everything they say about Bound Armor and ""we want players to see what you do", LOL)
But how come you can just use a costume instead and players can't see the Bound Armor anyway?

I'm not a sorcerer, but I have a friend who plays sorc and who hates how Bound Armor looks, and so is instead running around as a goblin AT ALL TIMES.
I hate this, I think it's stupid and it ruins immersion by a factor of N.

@ZOS_GinaBruno any thoughts on this?

Shogunami

I guess it's not popular when someone points out inconsistencies in policy or philosophy

nordsavage

They do not want you to be able to hide your abilities . . . unless they sold it to you. Conflicting ideas, back-pedaling, lying and hypocrisy are nothing new with ZOS.

FriedEggSandwich

Completely agree. The only reason I can possible think of as to why they won't budge on this issue is that some zos game artist has taken offence to the idea of players hiding their beautiful rendition of bound daedric armour. Costumes contradict any official reason they've come up with.

LadyNalcarya

nordsavage wrote: »

They do not want you to be able to hide your abilities . . . unless they sold it to you. Conflicting ideas, back-pedaling, lying and hypocrisy are nothing new with ZOS.

But the first costume that was used for this, as well as hiding vampirism (skeleton polymorph), is included in base game...

Eleusian

They could just say they don't wanna waste time and resources making it hide able. Honesty sometimes is the best policy , not contradicting Excuses.

Flak

Do the Wrothgar Main Quest until you get the Golden Ceremonial Mask, put it on and hide the helmet in Gameplay Options.
Now you have your normal Armor displayed while wearing Bound Armor, just not the helmet.

Decado

Flak wrote: »

Do the Wrothgar Main Quest until you get the Golden Ceremonial Mask, put it on and hide the helmet in Gameplay Options.
Now you have your normal Armor displayed while wearing Bound Armor, just not the helmet.

This is exactly what I do, the only problem is you have to remove it to wear your guild tabard, but yeah it was such a crappy reason I'm not sure anyone put any thought into that atall, and the armour is horrible, makes me wonder why I bothered to make my sorcs armour using the glass motif atall

Shogunami

@ZOS_GinaBruno Could you or someone who has knowledge of this answer this for us?

What we would like to know is if bypassing visual cues/appearences is only okay if you pay for a costume or if it's a game design oversight.

Uviryth

Thats why I HATE Bound Armor and would never use it, even though it`s such a good spell.
I spend a lot of time and thought in how my character looks. I want to see him while fighting.

runagate

I certainly like having the new option of having my stam sorc wear a bucket on her head instead of the ceremonial mask.