Guild Wars 2

I love the gearsets for the heavy armor wearer’s but my toon wears medium armor. I noticed you have several gear sets available that are profession agnostic. Could you make ALL the gear sets profession agnostic?

and ruin the distintness of each class? i consider the few “all professions” sets out there to be heresy we certainly dont need more of them

saddlebear.5027:

I love the gearsets for the heavy armor wearer’s but my toon wears medium armor. I noticed you have several gear sets available that are profession agnostic. Could you make ALL the gear sets profession agnostic?

Problem is .. they designed the different armor weights different. Thats mainly the line
where chest armor ends and leg armor starts. Its for example higher for medium than
for light armor.

So for this reason its simply not possible to mix and match different types of armor
without they have to rework every armor in the game.

Outfits are agnostic, armor sets are not. There are some technical reasons for this: medium armor uses a substantially different frame than light (iirc, light & heavy are the same or nearly so).

There are also aesthetic reasons: people want scholars to look different from adventurers and soldiers. I’m a little sorry that each prof can’t have its own look, even though I understand why (it takes a lot of time to get armor to work well; the effort probably grows exponentially with the number of potential sets).

tl;dr There are reasons we have the current system and I, for one, happen to prefer it this way.