Why so many styles and so few costumes?

krachall

I'm curious as to why ZOS would introduce so many styles -- which become relatively useless at CP160 -- and so few costumes -- which are nearly required at high levels?

Most players at CP160 or higher are wearing 3 different armor sets: 5x of one set, 5x of another, and 1-2x of a Monster set. At least two of those sets are usually drops (dungeon or trial + monster) and often all 3 are drops. With a miss-match of three different armor sets, all with fixed styles, the average CP160 or greater character looks horrible without donning a costume. Yet every DLC and every expansion, we see more and more styles being added to the game and too few costumes.

Shouldn't ZOS be focused more on costumes OR the ability to change styles? I see very few CP160 or higher players not wearing a custom -- if only to cover up those absurd monster sets.

Yarlenzey

Well, I seem to have a ton of costumes that I never use. The ones that I use currently came with CWC or MW.

idk

There are many costume.

However, the styles don't become worthless at CP 160. Well, they won't be soon. Zos is working on introducing a system for changing the style of our gear.

ETA: soon.

CaffeinatedMayhem

For anyone who plays endgame more than casually, they are most likely wearing at least 1 dropped set (overland, dungeon or trial) for competitive endgame it's 2-3 dropped sets. In general, the styles probably look crappy together, thus we wear costumes.

The Transmogrification system would allow us to change dropped gear into a something that people want to look like, instead of whateve we're stuck with because that's the style the gear drops with.

Darethran

The first couple of tiers of equipment look absolutely fabulous. It's a *** tragedy that ZOS doesn't allow us to upgrade our equipment's tier. Got a [snip] set of iron blue armour? Upgrade it all the way as you level with ingots from the subsequent tiers, and you'll eventually have an iron set of armour with the stats of it's rubedite equivalent, once you're CP 160.

Jade1986

I would love some more warm weather costumes, some more thief / rogue type outfits, some more heavy armor outfits. We have a TON of casual / dress clothes but far too few armors.

platonicidealgirlfriend

Jade1986 wrote: »

I would love some more warm weather costumes, some more thief / rogue type outfits, some more heavy armor outfits. We have a TON of casual / dress clothes but far too few armors.

i feel like thief costumes are the one thing we definitely aren't hurting for after casualwear, between TG, DB, the pack that includes Larisa and Covenant scout, the limited-offer Naryu outfit, etc et al.....

SunnyBunny

One of my toons has disguises that I got from - honestly I don't even remember where. They are both pretty and I would love to be able to dye them now that the missions are finished. I have them in my bag and I don't care that they take up the slot.
What would be nice is to be able to have them saved to our collections. Although I will admit I often get a giggle when i'm fishing in town near some NPC's and someone tries to pick my pocket.

kargen27

idk wrote: »

There are many costume.

However, the styles don't become worthless at CP 160. Well, they won't be soon. Zos is working on introducing a system for changing the style of our gear.

ETA: soon.

If/when we do get this I hope we get to pick the level as well as the style. Some of the low level gear in my opinion looks much better than the 160 gear.