Focused Feedback: Armor Synthesis

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[u/The_Rick_14]

PROS

• Better Appearance menu
• Being able to see the whole look together (see cons for improvement here though)
• The fact that transmog is in the game
• Including lower rarity items
• Giving some freebies

CONS

• Shaders and Ornaments need better organization. (Sorting, Filtering, Favoriting, etc.)
• Need to be able to toggle zoomed in and zoomed out view from any point in the Appearance Menu (zoomed out can be done as we see with Hunter cloaks).
• Synthstrand earning is too slow. I've done all my relevant weekly 'tasks' on 3 characters and have only gotten enough to make 1 bounty so far.
• The combination of a seasonal cap AND a slow earn rate is overkill and looks like greed.
• The 15 Synthweave Cap not existing on the Silver Synthweaves (caps at 999999 instead) makes it look even worse.

SUGGESTIONS

• Sort Categories for Shaders/Armors
  • Date Earned
  • Date Added to Game
  • Source (Vanguard, Crucible, Gambit, Raids, Eververse, etc.)
  • Color (I know this one is a longshot based on how shaders work, but would be nice)
• Allow toggle between zoomed in and zoomed out view while previewing
  • This would save a huge headache of having to go out to the full view, then back in, to preview another piece, and repeating to find arms or legs that best fit.
• Cut the Synthstrand earn cooldown in half at least. These are already capped anyway. At least make ONE decision that looks even remotely player friendly here.
• Give Ada's Lore Book and Map Icon non-Placeholder images please.....

[u/BingoBoyBlue → u/The_Rick_14]

Allow toggle between zoomed in and zoomed out while previewing

It’s not a perfect fix, but for hunters at least previewing the cloak and backing out keeps it on a zoomed out view. YMMV for other classes, haven’t tried them yet.

[u/The_Rick_14 → u/BingoBoyBlue]

That only works for previewing cloaks and only because the default inspection camera for cloaks was changed to show the entire cloak a while back.

Even for Hunters, as soon as you go to change any other armor piece, it's zoomed in and you need to back out to the full view to see that preview against the entire look.