Rift: It has never been easier to look stylish – with 3.2, a new wardrobe system is coming

The Free2Play MMO Rift is revamping its wardrobe system: appearances and colors will now be collected in a collection.

As an MMORPG player, you know how it is: A new piece of armor is found and it just looks silly  . The pants don’t match the boots, the chest piece doesn’t match the helmet. Luckily, good spirits invented “Transmorgification”: This allows items to keep their stats but look like others. Normally, you have to carry around the old “pretty but useless” items forever. This changed last year in Guild Wars 2. Now the Free2Play MMO Rift follows suit.

We already reported on this two weeks ago, that Rift wants to orient itself towards the unrivaled wardrobe system of Guild Wars 2. At that time, it was still in an early “Yes, it will probably come this way, but it could also be nonsense” phase. Now a few weeks have passed and Trion Worlds believes: Okay, this is now definite. With the next patch 3.2, the wardrobe system will be switched and enriched with the luxury that only GW2 players were familiar with.

In a blog to the community, the new system is presented: In principle, you can now determine how the piece of armor or weapon should look. And for the appearance selection, you have all the items you have collected and whose appearance has been unlocked by collecting.

The exact processes might be particularly interesting, we quote Trion Worlds:

What happens when everything goes live?

1. The system will check your inventory, your bank, and your wardrobe and automatically unlock all corresponding appearances.
2. The system will unlock the appearances of items that you have earned but may have already discarded. For example, if you have achieved the successes in the Flooded Halls, which grant you the Water Helm and Shoulders, these will be automatically unlocked for you. All appearances of the weapons you have reshaped will also be unlocked for you.
3. The “real” items that were in your wardrobe will be sent back to your character by mail and retain their values (color, soulbinding status, craftsman name, etc.).
4. The data of all your wardrobe sets will be entered so that they match the existing ones, including the appearance of the items, color, and visibility checkbox.

You can read more details in the Rift blog. We have linked the source for you below.