Could MY personal banker/vendor assistant look different to me than everyone else's?

Karius_Imalthar · April 2018

Could MY personal banker/vendor look different than everyone else's? It gets annoying when I try to use the wrong one if there are 2 or more of them out or I think that I left my assistant out only to find that it's not mine. For example, in many of the quests where you are escorting an npc you see them as, for example, "Abner Tharn" but everyone else might see them as "Guild Mage". Maybe party members could see them as the named NPC also. Thank you.

Lindsey · April 2018

It would be nice if we could change their outfits, dye their costume or change their name.

When I'm in a dungeon and there's one out I always think it's mine.

MajesticHaruki · April 2018

Or transplant some hair on them

Lylith · April 2018

i wish their functionality would be upgraded but i'm fine with how they look.

that said, i completely understand players wanting to be able to customize their appearance.

nimander99 · April 2018

I like this idea

SydneyGrey · April 2018

I'd rather just have a few new skins for banker and merchant so there'd be some variation once in a while. I'm tired of seeing identical bankers everywhere. How many twin brothers does that dude HAVE?!?!?!?

Zinaroth · April 2018

Alternative Assistant Costumes incoming exclusively on the Crown Store.

SteveCampsOut · April 2018

Karius_Imalthar wrote: »

Could MY personal banker/vendor look different than everyone else's? It gets annoying when I try to use the wrong one if there are 2 or more of them out or I think that I left my assistant out only to find that it's not mine. For example, in many of the quests where you are escorting an npc you see them as, for example, "Abner Tharn" but everyone else might see them as "Guild Mage". Maybe party members could see them as the named NPC also. Thank you.

I like this option as it already exists in the coding and shouldn't take too much to implement.

SirCritical · April 2018

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I'd rather just have a few new skins for banker and merchant so there'd be some variation once in a while. I'm tired of seeing identical bankers everywhere. How many twin brothers does that dude HAVE?!?!?!?

Absolutely. Completely breaking any immersion attempts.

ccfeeling · April 2018

Banker skin ?

Will be a hot crown store item

Runefang · April 2018

We don't all need to be snowflakes.

Arundo · April 2018

What SWTOR should have done ages ago make it possible to change the appearance of your companion. Ofcourse add the feature to give them armor or costumes.

SickDuck · April 2018

It is really annoying and immersion breaking. Or maybe they could only appear to people who can interact with them (ie. owner, party members).

Heka Cain · April 2018

Drop three tabs of acid n away you go...everything will then look different to you!

Karius_Imalthar · April 2018

Runefang wrote: »

We don't all need to be snowflakes.

I understand that it's tempting to work the latest trendy word or reference into every discussion. What I was asking for is to not have to play the "house of mirrors" bit to figure out which banker/merchant is mine.

ArvenAldmeri · April 2018

I would give I dont know what to have the ability to change the look of my banker/merchant. On the other hand I am gonna be extremely pissed if they put in ANOTHER merchant or banker that looks better than those first we all got in the first place because there was no other option.

Violynne · April 2018

Here's a better solution: make assistants only visible to the owner.

Honestly, I'm getting tired of seeing them wander all over the place because people don't put them away when they're done.

Lynx7386 · April 2018

I refuse to buy the banker or merchant assistants simply because they aren't khajiit.

badmojo · April 2018

One of these things is not like the others.

Kanar · April 2018

SirCritical wrote: »

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I'd rather just have a few new skins for banker and merchant so there'd be some variation once in a while. I'm tired of seeing identical bankers everywhere. How many twin brothers does that dude HAVE?!?!?!?

Absolutely. Completely breaking any immersion attempts.

No he's a Dremora who cast an illusion to look like a dunmer. That also explains why he appears out of nowhere and can carry so much stuff.

RainfeatherUK · April 2018

Arundo wrote: »

What SWTOR should have done ages ago make it possible to change the appearance of your companion. Ofcourse add the feature to give them armor or costumes.

You could change their appearance and armor in SWTOR from day one, as most of us did. Do try some honesty next time. For a game that is burdened by the proto-version of the HERO engine, that ESO was built around; even it has features beyond what ESO has now.

This is just another comparison case between games, where FFXIV already has fully customizable and equipable retainers (like bankers, that can also gather resources and sell items on the auction for you) and ESO lacks them.

ESO is a long way behind on staple MMO features such as these because its now considered a single player game, with some MMO elements (Matt Firor) and not a usual MMO (with all the features, such as the one in this topic) provided.

There are completely F2P games that offer this basic feature. Thats how far behind they are here and the game is aging rapidly.

emilyhyoyeon · April 2018

Lindsey wrote: »

It would be nice if we could change their outfits, dye their costume or change their name.

When I'm in a dungeon and there's one out I always think it's mine.

If we could do that I would buy them

Guarlet · April 2018

Violynne wrote: »

Here's a better solution: make assistants only visible to the owner.

Honestly, I'm getting tired of seeing them wander all over the place because people don't put them away when they're done.

Nah, it's nice being able to share them with group members who may not have them. Perhaps if that were expanded to assistants being only visible to the owner, and whoever is in your group. That'd at least solve the problem of tripping over all the identical balding NPCs belonging to random ass players.

MajesticHaruki · April 2018

Imagine given the option to change their outfit at the outfit station with the same motif style we have completed. We could create badass looking bankers and let them follow us everywhere like some sort of companions

kargen27 · April 2018

MajesticHaruki wrote: »

Imagine given the option to change their outfit at the outfit station with the same motif style we have completed. We could create badass looking bankers and let them follow us everywhere like some sort of companions

That is a horrible horrible idea! I think people who have assistants out should have their resources cut in half so they are more inclined to put them away.

Also think guards should attack players who don't put combat pets away when they enter town but hey that's just me.

Bbsample197 · April 2018

atleast the looks is youre problem, mine wont even follow me and sometimes even tries to run away from me

nimander99 · April 2018

badmojo wrote: »

One of these things is not like the others.

Oh the cringe is so real!

Shawn_PT · April 2018

badmojo wrote: »

One of these things is not like the others.

This is pretty epic.

lihentian · April 2018

imo they should allow people to use their alt as banker/merchant skin.

zaria · April 2018

Only benefit with current system is that you can make an female redguard Nuzhimeh lookalike to confuse people, now pug dungeons

Even better if done if an friends also do it and you pug as an group.

Karius_Imalthar · April 2018

Would the real Tythis Andromo please stand up?