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Fashion Collector Title Guide

By Dulfy , Published on Thu 17 April 2014
Achievements / General / Fashion

GW2 Fashion Collector Title Guide

A guide to filling up your Wardrobe and acquiring the Fashion Collector title cheaply and efficiently.

A Note About Wardrobe

To access your Wardrobe storage, go to any bank and select the third tab (Wardrobe storage).

gw2-wardrobe

Collect 1000 skins in the Wardrobe to receive the Fashion Collector title from Fashion Forward achievement.

gw2-fashion-collector

Note that this guide is for cheaply and efficiently acquiring skins. If you are after a specific skin, use this guide instead.

Tip: Throw any skins that you can’t salvage (most of the skins) into Mystic Forge to make random weapons that you can salvage.

Character Creation Skins

GW2 is very kind to provide you all kinds of free skins when you create a new character and select certain choices during the biography part of character creation. These skins are free and quick so they should be your number one priority to reach that title. Create a character, get that skin unlocked and then delete it!

Elementalist (4)

I study all the elements, but I wear a gem that symbolizes my love of _____.

Mesmer (3)

A mesmer’s mask creates an image. I choose to look out from behind a _____.

Necromancer (3)

A necromancer’s closest companion is death. In acknowledgement of this, I mark my face with the symbol of a _____.

Guardian (3)

As a symbol of my dedication, I wear _____.

Engineer (3)

My most useful tool is my _____.

Thief (3)

In my line of work, it’s important to understand the power of _____.

Warriors and Rangers have no unique armor skins (rangers doesn’t get any) but that is a total of 19 unique skins just from character creation. This is on top of all starter gear/weapons that you may or may not already have unlocked in the wardrobe.

Karma

You probably have a ton of karma stored up that you are not using. Luckily you can use them to get tons and tons of unlocks for your wardrobe. There are several maps with karma vendors that sell the same gear but I am going to usually pick the lowest level map (least karma) or the easiest (less travel time).

Armor

gw2-tiga-fierceblade Devout (Light) / Rogue (Medium) / Militia (Heavy)

Heavy Plate (Heavy)

Dry Bones (Light) / Duelist (Medium) / Pit Fighter (Heavy)

Primitive (Light) / Buccaneer (Medium) / Dark Templar (Heavy)

Stately (Light) / Stalker (Medium) / Studded Plate (Heavy)

Aurora (Light) / Rubicon (Medium) / Armageddon (Heavy)

gw2-balthazar-temple gw2-grenth-melandru-arah-temple gw2-dwayna-lyssa-temple

All in all you are looking at least 72  (6 x 3 x 4) armor skins you can acquire for cheap with karma (not including the expensive Orr temple ones).

Weapons

You really have to becareful with weapon skins as there are tons of them and you can easily spend all your karma here. We will start with the unique and cheap ones and work our way up. You probably won’t make it out of this section without using all of your karma.

Modniir Weapons

Move your butt to Harathi Hinterlands as there is one heart vendor with all of the Modniir weapons. These weapons are exclusive to her (Forward Scout Greta) and you probably won’t see them anywhere else. They costs around 280-420 karma each for the Fine version, which is all you need.

gw2-modniir-weapons

Legion Shields

The Charrs love their shields and they got one for each legion (Iron, Blood, Ash) and the vendors are all close to each other. Head to the SW corner of Diessa Plateau and buy them up.

gw2-charr-legion-shields

Other cheap skins

Unique Karma Cultural skins

Purchasing Cultural Skins with karma is expensive as the cheapest costs you 9800 karma per weapon and there are often \~19 weapons per cultural set so you are looking to spend around 186k karma per set. I tend to buy them on the TP as a lot of them are fairly cheap costing only a few silver each but there are some karma cultural skins you can’t get from the TP.

Ebon Vanguard

gw2-ebonheart-cultural-weapon-skins

Lionguard

gw2-lionguard-cultural-weapon-skins

Pirate

Bandit

gw2-bandit-weapons

Godskull

gw2-godskull-karma-weapons

Beaded Weapons

T3 Cultural Weapons

gw2-seraph-cultural-weapons gw2-wolfborn-cultural-weapons gw2-adamant-guard-charr-cultural-weapon gw2-warden-cultural-weapon gw2-peacemaker-cultural-weapon

Badges of Honor

If you have a lot of Badges stored up from achievement chests and not using them for WvW anytime soon, this is a perfect time to spend them. Go to the vendor in your server’s Borderlands (i.e. the Citadel) as they have the most complete set of vendors. Other maps are missing some of the vendors

Armor

gw2-wvw-unique-armor-skins Unique Badge Skins

Badge skins for cheap

The follow skins are not unique to the WvW vendors and can be also found on the karma vendors (see Karma section) but if you are lazy and have a lot of badges it is a good place to buy them.

gw2-wvw-skins

40 Badge Skins

90 Badge skins

135 Badge Skins

180 Badge Skins

Weapons

Tier 1 & Tier 2 Cultural Skins

Both tier 1 and tier 2 Cultual weapon skins can be brought for badges

gw2-wvw-weapon-vendors

Gold

If you got gold to spend and walk around in Blings Blings then there are tons of skins you can buy off the TP. I will list the cheap ones first for the benefit of the poor (they gotta dress up too).

Armor

Cheap (a few silver per piece)

Bit more expensive (Under 1 gold per piece)

Expensive (Quite a bit of gold)

Weapons

Cheap (a few silver per piece)

Bit more expensive (Under 1 gold per piece)

There also also a tons of exotic weapons, Order weapons, weapon skins from previous releases that you can purchase. The only limit is how much bling bling you are carrying.

Archived Disqus comments

  • narg

    thanks for this guide, now i can die peacefully

  • SquarelyCircle

    The Heavy Plate Karma Helmet vendor isn’t at the location listed (dryground waypoint). It should refer to the vendor at the waypoint south of that, called [Brackwater Waypoint].

    • Dulfy

      Thanks, should be fixed now. Let me know if you find anything else 🙂

  • Ares Zax

    There is a bug with the Rogue Mask (medium) skin in that the karma vendors don’t seem to unlock it in your wardrobe when you purchase it. Furthermore, there are no Rogue Masks available on the TP at all. Seems like an oversight where maybe ANet missed it when updating all the armors.

    EDIT: I have not tried visiting the WvW vendor that also sells the Rogue skins for 40 Badges. Will try him and update this.

  • Vaultboyxyuv

    For bandit set, create a new level one toon and enter WvW for cheaper skins.

  • Nimryel

    Thank you for the hard work Dulfy, always appreciated \^\^\ Just a note, some other easy to get skins are the achievement ones (Radiant, Hellfire, Zenith weapons) and the Hall of Monuments ones. They all count for the achievement and are completely free if you have them available but haven’t actually unlocked them 🙂

  • Syreadisa

    Wow.. i’m really looking forward to get this title! thanks for the guide!

  • Nimryel

    Some other cheap TP Heavy armor sets: Scale, Tempered Scale and Splint.

    • Dulfy

      Thanks, missed those for some reason

  • Rhiannon Frater

    Dulfy,

    I saw this armor on a website then on several people on Tuesday during the big update. Any idea what this is? I can’t find it anywhere on the wiki or on here.

    Thanks!

    • Dulfy

      Bloody Prince Outft, look under Outfits in the Wardrobe

      • Rhiannon Frater

        OHHHH…I’ve only seen it on the men!

  • L34D

    nice.

  • Khis

    You can also unlock the Aureate weapons while farming Black Lion Keys through the personal story. The step that gives the key also gives a choice of 3 different weapons with the aureate skin.

  • Sarigar

    I am now bitterly regretting finally salvaging the armour sets I saved for ages in my bank, especially the Asura T1 racial. But, most of them are pretty easy to replace.

  • Aya

    Don’t forget all the christmas skins! Princess wand, toy sword, candy cane hammer…! SUPER CHEAP

  • Altan Rapsied

    winter weapons are cheap on TP, about 1 silver per weapon.

  • Wenyip

    You should note that while Karma items (and, I think, the others) can’t be salvaged or sold, you can throw them into the Mystic Forge and get normal salvagable items.

    • Raizel

      Aargh I totally forgot thet and I destroyed them all :((

  • The Spirit Molecule

    Meh.

  • Red1086

    Is there a bug with the Legion shields? When I go talk to Zalvax Brokenclaw, he has the Blood Legion Shield. Infact, he has the same items as Tiga Fierceblade.

    • sirabc

      I wiki the iron legion shield and found a vendor in Ashford.

  • Odachi

    Is it the case, that the head piece of the rogue armor is bugged atm? there’s the note “unlocked”, but when i buy it it’s not unlock and the option to unlock the skin isn’t available either.

    • Odachi

      sry i mean “locked”

      • D

        I have the same problem. I purchased the same skin from the WvW vendor, and a bunch of other NPCs around the game. Can’t unlock the skin from any.

  • naomi

    Any idea where to get Guild shoulder/legs/helms etc? Only chest is available now… really like the human guild medium shoulder armor…

  • \///

    Helm: [&BBkCAAA=]: Clean up Flame Legion Magic\ sadly this npc doesn’t have the Bucaneer helm but “Stalker visage” skin

    • Dulfy

      So I checked a bunch of karma vendors and they seem to all have the stalker helm instead of the bucaneer one. I think it might be a bug and they put in the wrong helm there. Your best bet is probably using badges and buying it off the wvw vendors

  • Vivald

    A title summing up what has become of the game.

    • FASHION

      pls

  • Ray

    There’s a typo under the mesmer’s character creation skins, just pointing it out. 🙂

  • Radiant Glyph

    I’m wondering if I’m missing something or it’s bug, but when I go to the wvw vendor in the screencap for the tier 1/2 weapons he only offers Bandit, not the others like Verdant and Aureate. Am I in the wrong place?

    • winglmui

      It only offers you the armors you can use. Bring a character who uses light/heavy armor there for the others.

      • Radiant Glyph

        Haha yeah I figured out the problem was that I was viewing the vendor with a low-level character and the tier 1/2 cultural are only made available to l80s! Felt like a bit of a goose haha XD

  • Kelsea

    i know this was posted ages ago, but you can buy the Dry Bones set in Kessex hills as well. (its not on the wiki yet) Gendaran still seems cheaper even thought higher zones thought.

  • MithranAkanere

    You can get 6 of the norn skins for almost nothing from Sven.

    Sven, don’t you think that’s true?

    http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sven

  • Doghouse

    Don’t forget Crafting as well!

    Even before you hit Exotics at 400 crafting, there are 5 crafting ranks to go through, and at each rank there are 19 types of weapon and 18 types of armour to make (prefixes don’t count). And every one of those different combinations of rank and type is a different skin as far as the achievement is concerned. That’s 185 skins right there. If you’re chasing the achievement, you might as well level your crafting and grab any you’re missing along the way.

  • Reji

    thanks Dulfy <3 – Tiburron (Blackgate)

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