Guild Wars 2

After previewing and buying the Prototype Tier 3 Gloves and Boots, I noticed that the glowing gems don’t glow as bright or as consistently when in normal gameplay. When I’m in my hero window or in a preview window they glow nice and bright. In normal gameplay when I go into some areas it glows a faint light blue color and most of the time it doesn’t seem to glow at all. When I am in some shadowed areas it glows, in others it doesn’t.

Also, I feel a little disappointed because it looks like you can change the color of Heavy or Light T3 armor glow effects but Medium stays the same no matter what dye you use and doesn’t seem to glow as bright as some of the screenshots I have seen of the other armor types.

Anyways, just posting some observations. Has anyone also run into this? ANet can we get some love for Medum Armor? ^^;

Agreed, the glow should be much more pronounced.

Also I really hope they will make some additional modifications as I find the Medium armors pretty underwhelming compared to their Light and Heavy counterparts. They are very technologically underdeveloped by Asuran standards.

For starters, give us Medium users an techno-gauntlet too!

Modifications to Medium T3 would be great. +1 for the techno-gauntlet. I’d also love a floating and glowing gem or disk like Heavy and Light have. The size of the glowing objects in Medium are considerably smaller than Heavy or Light. Last night I used a Total Makeover Kit and went max size thinking it might help enough to pacify me. It looked like it helped slightly, but not enough to be on par with Heavy or Light armor of course.

On a side note, instant baldness from the head piece is also a major turn off. This should be addressed considering this piece seems to be the main feature of Medium Armor tech. I’m not a major fan of them, but I could see myself growing to like them if I had my hair. Currently, turning bald with them is an instant NO :p

I’ve been trying to get some sceenshots and kept forgetting to do it. So many other things to do in the game! Anyways, here are 2 screens illustrating the different glow intensities between heavy and medium. I’m the one on the right. I realize that he is full T3 heavy and I’m only wearing gloves and boots, but evaluate it based on glow intensity not quantity of glowing objects. You can barely make out a faint glow on my glove gems while the gems on heavy are significantly brighter. ANet, can we change this so medium gems behave the same way? Glow intensity is a must, being able to change the color like the other 2 armors would be a plus.

Arashi.2604:

I’ve been trying to get some sceenshots and kept forgetting to do it. So many other things to do in the game! Anyways, here are 2 screens illustrating the different glow intensities between heavy and medium. I’m the one on the right. I realize that he is full T3 heavy and I’m only wearing gloves and boots, but evaluate it based on glow intensity not quantity of glowing objects. You can barely make out a faint glow on my glove gems while the gems on heavy are significantly brighter. ANet, can we change this so medium gems behave the same way? Glow intensity is a must, being able to change the color like the other 2 armors would be a plus.

I tend to hover between liking glowing armor, and despising it. It looks decent on some characters, and horrible on others.

Those of us with T3 heavy armor have to put up with some of the worst clipping I have ever seen in an armor set. I would be happier with T3 medium, and I don’t even like the way it looks.

T3 medium glows? I never noticed, will go check it out after 2 months of having it. o_O

T3 and T2 medium are in my opinion both awesome. It’s not as shiny but I like it because it fits the thief very well.

Sure, it fits the thief well. But it looks terrible on Rangers and even worse on Engis. We need something more techy…we’re Asura after all !!

Arashi.2604:

I’ve been trying to get some sceenshots and kept forgetting to do it. So many other things to do in the game! Anyways, here are 2 screens illustrating the different glow intensities between heavy and medium. I’m the one on the right. I realize that he is full T3 heavy and I’m only wearing gloves and boots, but evaluate it based on glow intensity not quantity of glowing objects. You can barely make out a faint glow on my glove gems while the gems on heavy are significantly brighter. ANet, can we change this so medium gems behave the same way? Glow intensity is a must, being able to change the color like the other 2 armors would be a plus.

Can you tell me what Colour the Guardian is using on its T3 Armor? Havnt found a single Black Dye that makes it look so Matt and same goes for the Blue. Please