Costumes After event! chit chat

Im a lover of the costumes and have brought each set so far but once that event has been and gone obviously the costume for that event seems to fade away.

Question is.... Do "YOU" still wear your costume after the event has finished or does it end up on the hardly used list?

Me personally I love to wear the costumes and like to bond different costumes together "but" also find it hard hiding Fow armor away from the world hehe.

Well seeing as how everyone has FoW now and the fact that its ugly you shouldnt have a problem hiding it.

And before anyone says I'm only saying that because I'm too poor to afford FoW, I already bought it added it to HoM and salvaged the armor.

I'm still wearing the Raiment of the Lich costume on my monk, but without the hood..I have the goggles on instead <3

I wear the shining blade costume (dyed brown + goggles) on my female ranger all the time.

I don't have it and I could afford it twice. I just didn't rush out to get it like most people. After all, once 75% or more people have it, the prices are sure to drop... right?

Also, I've never bought any of the costumes. To be honest, none of them look great for my Female Necromancer.

I still wear them all, but my favourite is the Shining Blade costume. I wear that most of the time, with goggles.

It's especially good for female assassins, improves their proportions (stops them looking like stick insects)

Lich costume... female ranger... /dance. That's DIRTY O_o

I didn't buy the Lunatic Court set until the beginning of December... And I never take it off my mesmer. It suits her so well

im still wearing the lich costume on my warrior.. I dont bother with the elite armor... not worth the cash.. if i buy any, it will only to get HoM points.

I only buy ones I know I will want to keep wearing on one of my characters. The Shining Blade fits my ranger perfectly, and others suit my necro and rit. As such I can only see my warrior enjoying Balthazar's, and that would cover up the epic Silver Eagle (female).

I bought the grenth costume. And i'm still wearing it on some charakters. Coz that's why i bought it. I don't buy it only for a event lol. What a money waste that wud be lawl.

I have bought every costume to date (minus the new wintersday ones). And I do use a lot of them.

My necro (main) switches between the Grenth outfit and the Shining Blade outfit (both dyed red) when I feel like it.
My ranger is currently wearing the wedding tuxedo (dyed brown) with the spectercles (steampunk ftw!)
My ritualist is still wearing the lich outfit with an ancient head-wrap dyed to match.
My para wears the shining blade outfit most places because 1.) It's not white, and 2.) it has pants.

yep, got a few dwanyas and liches and shining blades around....and the new ones I like too....will keep them around as well.

I just bought the new Wintersday costumes, and I can safely say that my War will be using this Balthy outfit for a LOOOOONG time to come.

Other than that, I've been primarily using the Lunatic finery because of the Barbarian look it has to it.

Each one of my characters have one combination of costumes/festival headgear I like for them...
- Warrior: Balthazar's. No headgear.
- Ranger: Tuxedo + Googles. Steampunk!! I may or may not change to Melandru attire, since any other character can use that. I'll see later.
- Monk: Wedding attire.
- Necromancer: Lich + skull facepaint. Angel of death.
- Mesmer: Furry ears + Mad King dress.
- Elementalist: Dwayna's costume + Eternal aura
- Ritualist: Grenth armor + lich face.
- Assassin: Shinning Blade armor+hood.
- Paragon: White Mantle attire+ shinning blade hood.
- Dervish: No one for this. I'll probably change this to Steampunk, and make the ranger Melandruish.
- Male ritualist: he has all costumes, all dyed white. He just exists to reserve a name, try out/show off male costumes in parties, and get the survivor title for the HoM, XD. He usually goes around with Dwaynas attire and a white hood. When having that combination, I enjoy doing things like getting in the middle of the bunch of people and crowds like those seen in the circles and type things like:
- *Blend*
- *Slit neck* (and turn around)
- *Inject poison* (and then calmly walk away)
- *Throw smoke bomb* (and then run away)
- "Target Eliminated! Synchronizing..."
(Yes, you are smart, you got it. As silly as obvious, XDDD)
- Other males: They live in pre-Searing, so they'll never use costumes... /sadpanda
- PvP ele. She uses the Formal attire.

I do carry some other combinations, and I sometimes switch, but no character brings more than 3 costumes and 2 headgears, and usually 1 or 2...
Excepting the male ritualist, of course, XD.

That's exactly why my sin wears it, too. I couldn't stand to look at her before. :\ She was just so bizarre looking to me. That Shining Blade costume is the best one for females since it can go anywhere in the game and not look totally strange.

I definitely still use all of the costumes! I tend to switch costumes around while vanquishing. My female necro recently wore the raiment of the Lich while running through DoA with my guild (to show those margonites she has boss wings too!), my male nec always wears Grenth's outfit, and my main ele has been using the Formal dress to cover up the farming armor I've gotten tired of looking at. The costumes and festival hats are a fun way to change your character's look quickly without having to swap armor sets, and now that there's a lot more of them available there are more options. I think it would be silly of me to NOT use them after buying them.

But then I also have about 10 sets of armor each for at least 3 of my characters. I guess I've just replaced my childhood Barbie dolls for pixelated girls who throw fireballs.

Shining Blade costume on male warrior stops them from looking so bulky.

I only wear the costumes that look like actual armour after an event (so no to the Halloween and Wedding costumes).

So far the best one is the Shining Blade costume - it's actually one of my favourite armours in the game, so it gets heavy use from me on my assassin - I also like that it makes my assassin look like an assassin and not a skinny-ass scuba diver that fell into a pit full of blades.

Other than that, Grenth's regalia isn't too bad and I don't have them yet but I think the new ones for this wintersday will be great as alternate options for my dervish and paragon to wearing skirts and dresses.

So I only wear a costume after the event if it's designed as something that fits in the Guild Wars world and looks like actual armour (and I only like costumes which fill that criteria as well).

Another vote for the Shining Blade disguise/costume. I think that it's the best so far, too and use it almost exclusively.

I just got the new ones. Now my ranger uses the Melandru one, dyed Greenx3+Yellow, and the Warrior the Balthazar one, dyed Redx2+Pink+Orange, getting a nice "not orange neither red" imperial red like the ones seen in several Zaishen and the Canthan Royal Guard.

I still use the (female) formal attire on my mesmer. It's quite fitting, I think.

I rarely remove the white mantle body from my Ritualist; I've got a nice "holy summoner" theme going on.

1 of my favourite combo's is the lunatic court helm and traditional wedding finery.



There is many more i just love the burning from the pumpkin head though. /salut the inventer.