Guild Wars 2

Cultural tier 3 light armor for those unfamiliar with the thread title.

I was just toying around with some more armor pieces for my elementalist and I like the coat…but the thing I dislike about it is how un-combo friendly it is. To further explain, Link:

http://www.gw2armor.com/asura/female/c3/light/front.jpg

The coat is pretty much the entire look (technically, the coat, the pants and the helm) while the gloves and shoulders (and boots) are practically hidden. But it’s not like it’s not showing anything there, just that the coat integrates that look. You can’t mix any variety of shoulder or gloves with it because they will be covered.

What would you guys say about this?

-Break the coat up. Have the collar part = the shoulders.

-The chest will be the tight cross-pattern jacket with the right sleeve missing and the left sleeve down to near the forearm (or whatever).

-The gloves would be the golemancer right + wrist bracer left.

—Alternatively, the shoulders could be the golemancer right to cut down on clipping with various shoulder armors and the gloves could be double wrist bracers (the right being covered when wearing the golemancer shoulder armor.

I ask because, I would love to mix that collar with some other armor or perhaps that golemancer arm and I certainly like the ‘one bare arm’ jacket which could definitely be nice especially mixed with the cultural tier 2 shoulders.

PS: I understand you can’t just ‘break it up’ as the coat is coded as 1 piece of armor. It would require a good deal of work to do and test it against various armor combinations to assure it looks good. I’m making this topic mainly to ask if the asuras of the game would be miffed if the devs did that because now you’d have to shell out gold for more than just the coat (you can forget about the shoulders, gloves and boots, currently and the helm is dependent on your desired look)

Besides from all questions about possible or not, I think this arm would fit better as “gloves” than as a part of the coat. This way it would give a wider variety of looks, imo. But it is like it is and I doubt they will change it anytime soon, if ever. As well it would leave a big problem for those who bought the coat for the look and left out the gloves for whatever reason.

I think the only way would be to bring it out as an entirely new gear (like T4 or something).

Would people be mad that their tier 3 coat is suddenly only a chest piece? Yeah. Would they be prissy about having to shell out more gold for the parts they probably skimped on? You bet. But would that be balanced in knowing they can wear those gloves with whatever other armor they want? That’s the question.

And I’m thinking the golemancer arm just might be a glove piece like you said. Since there are coats with bigger sleeves that conceal gloves, this would probably end up being one of them, namely due to clipping. BUT THAT’S FINE! Lots of gloves act the same way.

Personally, I’d prefer not to have tier 4 armor for this namely because it’ll probably be even more expensive and you still have to make a set for heavy and medium and 3 more for every other race which is probably a ton more work than just modifying what we have.

I think it’s possible this could change. The devs are always looking for armor errors to fix (currently wearing SE light chest plate and there’s some weird wrap on the left arm that isn’t attached but is instead floating off the arm…I’m sure someone reported it already…) so it’s not completely out of reach to have this changed.

Personally, I just want the 1-bare-arm chest piece because I like contrasting the armor color and skin color to make a nicer collaborative look…and putting skin in between pieces hides the fact that you’re using different armor set pieces….that and the collar just looks cool. I don’t really like the arm that much but it’s just I haven’t (and currently can’t) formed a look around it with it affixed to that coat like that.