Appearance slots and making a fool of yourself.

[Thunderthyze]

<p>Hands up those of you who have spent the morning crafting, wearing your natty little artisan's tunic (wait for it, wait for it, I can see some of you can see where this is going), only to go out later and wonder why your mitigation is pants and you're getting killed with alarming regularity. Yes, that's right you're still wearing your tradeskill gear.</p><p>Well...it occurs to me with the new appearance slots this is only going to become more prevalent as you are not even going to have the visual prompt to help you if you are using appearance slot gear.</p><p>Senile dementure ftw!! <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Rijacki]

<cite>Holymoly@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hands up those of you who have spent the morning crafting, wearing your natty little artisan's tunic (wait for it, wait for it, I can see some of you can see where this is going), only to go out later and wonder why your mitigation is pants and you're getting killed with alarming regularity. Yes, that's right you're still wearing your tradeskill gear.</p><p>Well...it occurs to me with the new appearance slots this is only going to become more prevalent as you are not even going to have the visual prompt to help you if you are using appearance slot gear.</p><p>Senile dementure ftw!! <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p></blockquote>I've already had that happen with resist gear on a raid.  I actually like my Sonnarant armor and the blue beret.  I hate my resist green boots so I quickly put my sonnarant boots in the appearance slot when I had to put on resist gear (a resist not covered by my sonnarant). When I used my dps macro, which normally equips my sonnarant, it didn't budge it from the appearance slot to the regular and left me with the ugly boots covered up.  I noticed a couple fights later (not that my sonnarant makes -that- much difference, but I thought to check).So... note to all, a macro that equips gear won't take it from your appearance slot to a normal slot.  Hopefully that will change when they add appearance slots to the macro system.Oh... and I've gone out and fought in formal dress before.. over a year ago when I was helping my boyfriend start a new character on Guk.  I didn't notice for at least an hour and he didn't say anything 'cause he thought I did it intentionally while mentoring him. *laugh*

[Terron]

Hands up from several toons <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /> For my illusionist/tailor it tends to be the bloodlines robe though.

[Jesdyr]

My main is using her old crafting outfit in the appearance slots.Even still, every time I go out to kill something I stop to put my gear back on then realize I am actually wearing it <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Krystara]

<p>Heh.. I did that even before they put the appearance slots in the game with Ealasai.  She's wearing leather armour that looks an awful lot like the tradeskill tunic if you aren't paying attention.  Logged on, went to do writs, died, swore, died again, swore lots, figured it out, swore even more for being a twit.</p><p> *giggles*  Sometimes I'm almost as much of a flake as Lysari is.  I've also started fights still carrying that silly wooden spoon Lys wears when tradeskilling... needless to say that fight lasted even longer than normal.</p>

[VolgaDark]

<p>Thank the gods .... Phew.... I'm not the only one! </p><p><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /> <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /> <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Jesdyr]

<cite>Lysari@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> Logged on, went to do writs, died, swore, died again, swore lots, figured it out, swore even more for being a twit.</p></blockquote>I recently was standing under Lord V in Labs .. with my fluff armour on (before GU3<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />I had removed everything to prevent a proc when I used mem wipe on Prime.. After getting rez'd I ran cast my regen buffs and ran under Lord V with the rest of the raid. I cast the rest of the buffs and started casting on Lord V ..Then, I start to think to myself "Oops" just as his AE triggers and my dead body goes flying up in the air.

[Abakarr]

Ok... So is this gonna be a dumb question? I thought the appearance slots meant that it would make you LOOK that way not affect your stats. So is it bugged? Because of course I recall the old days of wearing your crafting gear into battle.

[Jesdyr]

<cite>Abakarr wrote:</cite><blockquote>I thought the appearance slots meant that it would make you LOOK that way not affect your stats. So is it bugged? </blockquote>No bug Just people forgetting to put their armour back on after tradeskilling because they think they are already wearing it.

[Rijacki]

<cite>Lysari@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> *giggles*  Sometimes I'm almost as much of a flake as Lysari is.  I've also started fights still carrying that silly wooden spoon Lys wears when tradeskilling... needless to say that fight lasted even longer than normal.</p></blockquote>In EQ1, it was my bard... and whatever instrument I had been playing before we went charging into battle.  BANG BANG the drum on the mobs head.Oh and I've also unequipped weapons in EQ2 (and did in EQ1 before, too) for some reason and then discovered I was going fisticuffs with some mob.  Getting disarmed, in the past, because all my stuff went to zero condition happened a few times, too.*blush*Oh... and for raiding, to my Jysder feel a little better.. the thought that runs through my head when the eyeball in DT blasts the shenanigans out of me, "hmm, I think I forgot to change to elemental gear".  Strangely, I notice which type of healer we have in group at that point.. and get a pointed reminder about the difference between the OT group and the pure melee dps group. *laugh*

[Abakarr]

<p>Oh Ok .... I don't craft Nekid  I know some consider it a sin and I did try crafting Nekid once but my ..er ..well .. you know <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /> I'm a Barbarian and it kept getting caught in the loom so I well .... NOW I keep my clothes on.</p>

[Gnobrin]

<p>Wow, Abakarr...  I can never un-read that, now.  You do know that if you just cut your hair, you'd not have that issue with the loom, right?</p><p> What?  What were you talking about, then?    ..? .......Oh, jeez, that's just terrible.</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p>

[Crolack]

<cite>Rijacki wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Lysari@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> *giggles*  Sometimes I'm almost as much of a flake as Lysari is.  I've also started fights still carrying that silly wooden spoon Lys wears when tradeskilling... needless to say that fight lasted even longer than normal.</p></blockquote>In EQ1, it was my bard... and whatever instrument I had been playing before we went charging into battle.  BANG BANG the drum on the mobs head.Oh and I've also unequipped weapons in EQ2 (and did in EQ1 before, too) for some reason and then discovered I was going fisticuffs with some mob.  Getting disarmed, in the past, because all my stuff went to zero condition happened a few times, too.*blush*Oh... and for raiding, to my Jysder feel a little better.. the thought that runs through my head when the eyeball in DT blasts the shenanigans out of me, "hmm, I think I forgot to change to elemental gear".  Strangely, I notice which type of healer we have in group at that point.. and get a pointed reminder about the difference between the OT group and the pure melee dps group. *laugh*</blockquote><p>Here's an EQ1 classic: </p><p>You've gotten better at hitting things with a fishing pole (255)!</p>

[Off]

Barbarians....kilts.....hair?  terrible indeed /flee

[Rijacki]

<cite>Crolack wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Rijacki wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Lysari@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> *giggles*  Sometimes I'm almost as much of a flake as Lysari is.  I've also started fights still carrying that silly wooden spoon Lys wears when tradeskilling... needless to say that fight lasted even longer than normal.</p></blockquote>In EQ1, it was my bard... and whatever instrument I had been playing before we went charging into battle.  BANG BANG the drum on the mobs head.Oh and I've also unequipped weapons in EQ2 (and did in EQ1 before, too) for some reason and then discovered I was going fisticuffs with some mob.  Getting disarmed, in the past, because all my stuff went to zero condition happened a few times, too.*blush*Oh... and for raiding, to my Jysder feel a little better.. the thought that runs through my head when the eyeball in DT blasts the shenanigans out of me, "hmm, I think I forgot to change to elemental gear".  Strangely, I notice which type of healer we have in group at that point.. and get a pointed reminder about the difference between the OT group and the pure melee dps group. *laugh*</blockquote><p>Here's an EQ1 classic: </p><p>You've gotten better at hitting things with a fishing pole (255)!</p></blockquote>For this reason alone, I'm glad the EQ2 harvesting items are charm slots.. though.. come to think of it.. umm.. I think Rijacki had her mining and gathering tools equiped while blasting Blades guards.  Oooops.

[LaurnaRose Fauldorn]

<p>I have one full set of armor for adventuring and one full set for crafting.  I have one set of appearance armor for adventuring and then use one of the tailored dresses for appearance to craft in.  This becomes my visual clue.  also, I usually keep 2 strong boxes of resources in my inventory while crafting and I'm constantly checking my bags before heading out of town to make sure I dont have anything to sell ext so the mass quantities of raws in my 4th and 5th bag are generally a big clue that I need to hit the bank and click my advent equipt button.  </p><p>See, Ive taken it one step farther and made Advent Equipt and TS Equipt macros, designated the last personal bank slot of each toon to their equiptment storage, so all I have to do is open the bank interface, hit the macro needed for what Im heading out to do (Advent/TS) and it automatically changes my entire outfit with one button and puts the other outfit in the bank where the new outfit came from.  Works quite well, but then again, I'm OCD and would much prefer them simply giving us a few more tabs in our character inventory.  Maybe the apperance tab could hold 5 sets of apperance armor rather than the paperdoll in the center and jewelry on the right then we could simply click on which apperance we wanted to wear, as well as adding a third tab for tradeskilling.  Even if we currently do not have a ton of TS items, Im confidant that eventually we will have, and there is also the fact that many crafters prefer to change their gear completely to craft reducing their mana pool while maintaining strength.</p>

[Finora]

<p>/chuckle</p><p>I've done the running out to fight in a dress things on several occassions pre-LU38. Since I play in 1st person I'd not notice until someone else pointed out I was not in battle clothes =). I only changed gear for looks when I crafted pre-LU 38 so not much will change there for me, they'll just go into my appearance slots instead. Except the spoon... I might end up whacking away at something with my giant spoon since 'for looks' weapons still have to be really equipped and 2 handers are nicely hidden by cloaks hehe.</p><p>Now my hubby is a prime one for running out in his artisan tunic, Eboots and some gloves he's had since like lvl 25 that have intuition on them. lol. He's gotten started pulling on raids before people have reallized what he was wearing. I imagine it's only going to get worse whenever he decides what he's going to put in his appearance slots.</p>

[einar4]

<p> Going adventuring without pants... I've had dreams like that - oh no *looks down* </p>

[Trepan]

<cite>Crolack wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>Here's an EQ1 classic: <p>You've gotten better at hitting things with a fishing pole (255)! </p></blockquote>/em hugs his Kerran fishing pole and fool's gold stein.Did crap damage, but at least you could hit things with them!   (Too bad you couldn't FISH with the [Removed for Content] thing lol)

[Captain_Xpendab]

Just this morning I went kill some lions in TS that were in the way of a harvest node. It took me a while to figure out why I was nearly killed by mobs I usually don't have a problem with.Also, there's a quest in Darklight Wood where you equip a fishing pole in your weapon slot to fish hate out of The Wellspring of Nightmares.The rest of the questline doesn't involve any fighting on my part. I finished it and logged out.So I log back in later and go to kill skeletons, I think you can figure out the rest. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Rijacki]

<cite>Finora@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Except the spoon... I might end up whacking away at something with my giant spoon </p></blockquote>'Spooning' with Treyloth is -not- a recommended raid strategy *smirk*

[Thunderthyze]

<cite>Finora@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Except the spoon... I might end up whacking away at something with my giant spoon since 'for looks' weapons still have to be really equipped and 2 handers are nicely hidden by cloaks hehe.</p></blockquote>Remember....there IS no spoon....