Turn any Helm/Armor into Vanity

[Energizeric]

Sam said a while back there was some discussion of creating a way to turn any armor or helm into a vanity item. I think this is a great idea, and came up with a solution that will help STS raise some revenue and will make the players happy.....

1) Locked Crates will have a chance to give a rare item called a "vanity coin". These coins can be traded and sold in the auction. They appear in your inventory in the section where it shows your chests & eggs.

2) In Kraag, there will be an NPC called the "Vanity Blacksmith". He will charge 3 vanity coins and will convert any armor or helm to a vanity item.

3) The new vanity item can also be traded and sold in the auction.


One issue that comes up here is what should the name of the vanity items be? There are so many different helms and armors, it would get very confusing. Also, you have cases where the same item in different levels has different looks. For example, a sorcerer demonlord "of will" level 20 armor is a different color than the same item in level 21. Vanities are all level 1, so obviously the only way you would know which item you are getting is to "try it on" in the auction preview window. This presents a problem if you want to buy a vanity item from a different class as you could not be sure which color it is. That may present an issue for merchants. Also, if you were to buy from another player in the trade window, you could not see it there either.

So here is my suggestions for these issues:

1) We need a preview window in the trade box. Pocket Legends has this, so I know this can be added to AL.

2) To make this all a bit more simple, abbreviate the names of the various vanities. For example, all Demonlord vanity helms could simply be called "Demonlord Helm" and all Bloodhammer Armors would be called "Bloodhammer Armor". It doesn't matter if it is "of security", of "will" or what. If you want to buy one, you have to see what it looks like. I know STS has a system that can handle items with the same name having different colors. In PL we have Hooch Hats vanity which all have the same name, but some are brown, some are red, and some are blue. So I propose the same system be used in PL. For all of the founders gear, when converted to vanity just call them "Founders Helm" and "Founders Armor". STS would have to plan this a bit in advance so the naming conventions don't create too much confusion. But yes, it would be difficult to merch these items if they are not in your own class. But so what? That's not the main purpose of these items.

3) I also don't think it would be terrible if not all items could be changed to vanity. Maybe take a poll here on the forum of the various sets that players would like to be possible to convert to vanity. I'm guessing Founders, Heraldic, Forerunner, Demonlord, Bloodhammer, and Champion are some of them. I'm guessing there are not more than a dozen that would be needed. I think most players agree on which armors/helms are the nicer looking ones. We just need some options to create our own vanities, and I think this would be a good way to do it.

I see many players in town wearing older sets from previous campaigns because they like the way they look. But of course once they want to do pvp or pve, they must equip their end game gear. This would be a way to be able to keep wearing that older gear but also have your end game gear equipped as well.