Guild Wars 2

So, I got to 80 recently on my female human guardian and immediately decided to go craft my first level 80 set of armour.

I made a bunch of insignias, and the various components required to discover a full set and started making it. Barbaric boots of what? I thought, that was probably the insignia and carried on.

I made the full set, equipped it from the inventory, closed the inventory window and took a my first look at my character in her new mithril armor. I had gone through chain, scale, splint and reinforced scale so I was looking forward to mithril, the logical progression there indicates it will be plate armour, instead I’m wearing what appears to be a battle-bra and fishnets.

A couple of minutes later, when I had confirmed that there was no secret mithril armour I could craft instead (or is there?), I was wearing a full set of level 80 banded armour bought from the trading post. I couldn’t bring myself to wear that nonsense.

Anyway just wanted to give a little feedback: it’s a terrible waste of a classic fantasy metal.

agreed. i did the exact same thing, except i didn’t bother crafting it at all. I looked up the pics on the web and then bought banded off the TP.

The Rare/Exotic sets are better looking. I still advise you to look it up. (I will say all my heavy armor wearers are male )

I like it, in fact used some trans. stones to have my fishnets back lol

It doesn’t bother me in the least.

I hate that armor design. However, I see it as what it is – one option for people who want that kind of design. Armorsmiths don’t make any other “skimpy” armor, other than the barbaric and the gladiator ones. While I prefer the other armors, I understand the need to catter to people who simply have a different taste, too.

To OP: Just for your own use in the future. You can preview items before you craft them. If I remember correctly, if you hover your cursor over the item picture at the top of the crafting window and then right click, there is the option to preview the item on your character.