Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’ve just seen the codes for the Wuppwupp sets or whatever they’re called.
Why are they so ugly ? They look like cozy royal fashion more than epic fighting armor. Would an adventurer were this ? I’ve been playing GW2 since launch and am an old WoW vet, I’d love for Anet to release some cool armors and not sets coming straight out of whatever that is.

I mean, have you seriously tried to see what a Charr looks like in this ?
http://puu.sh/4FDW4.jpg

How on earth did this get approved ? ? ?

Anyways, to check ingame the sets for yourself: Heavy [&AgE4uwAA][&AgE5uwAA][&AgE6uwAA][&AgE7uwAA][&AgE8uwAA][&AgE9uwAA] Medium [&AgFEuwAA][&AgFFuwAA][&AgFGuwAA][&AgFHuwAA][&AgFIuwAA][&AgFJuwAA] Light [&AgE+uwAA][&AgE/uwAA][&AgFAuwAA][&AgFBuwAA][&AgFCuwAA][&AgFDuwAA]

Subjective.

I like it. Some pieces I find are terrible (like helm) but the pants and the chest are nice. There may be people out there who like the helm, and good for them. The more choices, the better.

Keep in mind that some of the best armors in the game are a combination of different sets rather than one.

It is pretty bad….

You wondering this after they implemented fairy neon wings? I mean,… except jade weapons and Braham set, all the rest that was implemented in the last year was horrible and far from the original concept art.

I hate them already -.-’
It hurts my designer eyes, and its not the first time happens…

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I don’t understand why they would do this to us. The hardcore player in me NEEDS this armor because, well, stats. The casual player in me says wtf, looks ugly as hell, no way am I gonna get that.

Ethics.4519:

I don’t understand why they would do this to us. The hardcore player in me NEEDS this armor because, well, stats. The casual player in me says wtf, looks ugly as hell, no way am I gonna get that.

Then transmute?

Transmuting is obvious, but the availability of transmutation stones should not prevent people from giving ANet feedback when they do or don’t like a new armor set.

In my opinion, these armors are absolutely horrendous, and a borderline embarrassment to the artistry that I’ve come to expect from ANet.

EDIT: They look far better on female characters, and it’s obvious that the armors were designed primarily for them, rather than their male counterparts.

First we get lame looking Ascended Weapons,now it has matching ugly Ascended Armor.

I think they look crap, but then again, no one is crafting Ascended gear because it’s nice looking either so I don’t see the issue.

I just wish they would quite with the face masks for light armor. Even if you like them most of them clip the hair so badly it makes me crazy. Why make something that bugs out like that. I will never show something that clips. This one is no exception with the hair I have now on my memser.. it is horrible with clipping everywhere.

I don’t like it at well. The designers don’t listen to what the community says, so this thread won’t help….

I really don’t wanna imagine how boring, unsexy and unstylish the legendary armor will be looking like… that will be a nightmare. The motivation to play sinks more and more cuz of the lack of long term goals, which a nice skin would have been.

no body neeed ascended stats to do PVE or cometitive pvp, they are ing because of the crys of the comuninty that still looking at gw2 like any other games with gear based on pvp stats to auto-atack other player and “feel powerful”.

ascended is the gear to grind to have advantage at assaults or “open pvpve”. only ingame for that kind of plyaers, but is useless and not needed for other things.

same as the rewards in general, i dont feel forced to grind any gear to play gw2, i can FARM my gear really fast.

thats why i dont like games based on pvp stats, and, on time get bored of assault (PvPvE) mechanics at any game.

There is not a need of new tier, only a need for skins, the fail was from anet introducing an useless tier only for the crys.

i’m happy to have PVE and Spvp stats needs intact, but sad to see how bad-designed or too much “baroque” are the new skins.

All the girls swoon when I show my ascended pistols to them in the club (laptop ftw). That’s why I’m getting it. Can’t wait to see what they do when I’m in full ascended armor.

People are tin foil hatting that this is a way to get people to buy more transmuation stones/gem shop armor skins.

I know I’ll be getting some… so if that was their plot… it’s working.

OMG THAT IS SO UGLY!!!!!!!

so that ANET can sell beautiful and awesome looking skins at TP……

azizul.8469:

so that ANET can sell beautiful and awesome looking skins at TP……

When they finally decide to make them?

The opinion of the appearance of the ascended armor sets is going to be subjective, no matter how you look at it. I personally have to say that there are only a couple pieces of heavy that I’d even think of keeping the original skin on, and that’s the gloves, boots, and chest. If/when I make this armor I’ll be changing a couple skins.

I think Light and Medium armors both look very decent. As someone said its purely subjective.

But i do agree with the helm being a little bit… toilet like.

Subjectivity aside, my one concern is that the way the heavy chest is designed makes your character look fat and diminishes the chest. This is really bad for humans and norns (both sexes). There is something about the way the bands on the stomach and the design of the pectoral/breast covering looks that makes the chest look small and the stomach look big, and I dislike that very much.

I realize that ArenaNet has a very strong vision for armor and weapon designs, and I feel strongly the heavy ascended chest pieces could be redone in support of that vision while providing that much-desired heroic shape to the chest.

Ethics.4519:

I don’t understand why they would do this to us. The hardcore player in me NEEDS this armor because, well, stats. The casual player in me says wtf, looks ugly as hell, no way am I gonna get that.

I saw the stats and they’re very underwhelming compared to what trinkets gave. Unless they change the stats, I see no reason to rush to get them.

Vol.5241:

Ethics.4519:

I don’t understand why they would do this to us. The hardcore player in me NEEDS this armor because, well, stats. The casual player in me says wtf, looks ugly as hell, no way am I gonna get that.

Then transmute?

So, they put the least amount of effort into armor design so that they could force the players to buy gems to get crystals to transmute?

Win-Win for Anet

They’re okay. I’ve checked out the armors on a few different models and they aren’t bad over all. There are some nice pieces, here. I like that the helms are a departure from the more typical styles we get with other sets. I don’t know that I will use any of the helms on my characters, but I like having the option.

Although the sets are nice enough, I am a little disappointed that this is what ANet chose to go with for Ascended gear. It’s not very daring. This is going to be the top-tier gear until/unless legendary armors come out. I was hoping for something a little more eye-catching and provocative. Looks like the designers decided to play it safe this time.

I DO like the “fan” design element we see in the heavy armor particularly. I would have liked to have seen that element extend to more pieces in the set, particularly in the other armor categories. Also, the shingled-discs element on the medium armor sleeve is very nice — excellent choice there.

Really not sure about the female/human/heavy helmet. In general I object to any helm that is going to completely hide the character’s face, and more so when the piece hides the entire head. I think a nice crown or coronet would have been a better choice here.

The Medium armor set wins out, over all. Nice design choices and good variety.

The Heavy set is too similar to other pieces already in the game and doesn’t really distinguish itself, but it is still okay.

The Light set is the most disappointing, as we see the whole doublet/skirt/leggings design AGAIN. Nothing new or exciting, here.

I give the sets 3/5 “stars”. They are nice enough, with some excellent pieces, but over all do not really pique my interest in the way I would have liked “end-game” gear to do. I give bonus points for the elegance of some of the pieces, but take away points for an overall lack of daring.

While I don’t know if I’d use the skins myself, I don’t think they’re “bad”. In fact, I’m rather impressed by the amount of detail that’s gone into the Ascended armor skins (similar to the Dragon’s Jade weapons). I’m getting a very Byzantine/Renaissance feel from these armors, which, while they may not be my cup of tea, could be very appealing to the right audience.

Because necros and elementalists totally want those jester leggings…

I really wanted to hate ascended armour because of the cost involved … but unfortunately for me I really like the skins … the light armour(minus the shoulders) would really fit on my mesmer too … oh well …

Eitherway they do stand out design-wise from the other armours.

razn.7160:

I mean, have you seriously tried to see what a Charr looks like in this ?
http://puu.sh/4FDW4.jpg

How on earth did this get approved ? ? ?

LOL, probably the one who design this crap is a relative of some higher ups in management. or some wierd situation like that. On a real job this wont not exist… ever

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Because necros and elementalists totally want those jester leggings…

Well, people have been asking for non-harem pants for female versions of the light armor.

Heavy armor its not even finished… if you look it from the back, it barely has armor protection at all. I don’t know if this is laziness or poor judgment from the “artists” (if there is any left at anet).

Because transmutation stones

/end tinfoil hat

Gnat.9405:

Because transmutation stones

/end tinfoil hat

Because everyone knows that, don’t want to transmute; and were expecting the top gear armor to be something to show off instead of hiding.

Stop it now with the transmute comments captain obvious.

It was a conspiracy joke but no harm done. I think the armors are interesting, even if they’re ugly. They’re hitting a theme for sure with the renaissance stuff and in that regard it looks appropriate. Just seems out of place.

On another note, what I would personally like to see of ascended armors is many parts of each piece able to be dyed. Perhaps 5-6 different details so we can deeply personalize this sure to be expensive and tedious armor.

haha, my guess is they made the skins intentionally kind of “meh” because they don’t want everyone defaulting to use the ascended armor skins. Exotic/Dungeon skins are still out there and they want people to diversify.

They seem not to be very good with balancing their goals with their players expectations. They could have avoided this by letting people upgrade their current armor or weapons to ascended versus making an ascended set. Then concentrate on making awesome skins that they could sell in the cash shop since that is their obvious goal.

Don’t like it? Go and design better… simple.

fey.5438:

Don’t like it? Go and design better… simple.

Actually, there are a great many talented people out there who can do just that. Just look at the public submissions in the workshop for steams team fortress and other games.

There is no excuse for the look of ascended armour, especially as a great deal of GW1 armour was of a much higher standard.

More access to Transmute Crystals (besides ONLY through gemshop) would make most of these complaints go away for good.

Gnat.9405:

Because transmutation stones

/end tinfoil hat

those are the ones you get for map completion, and they DON’T WORK on lvl 80 gear

That looks horrible!! I play a Charr and have come to accept the armor was designed for a human and stretched over my Charr. But that looks bad!

Astralporing.1957:

azizul.8469:

so that ANET can sell beautiful and awesome looking skins at TP……

When they finally decide to make them?

haha good one.

I don’t have that much of a problem with transmuting the look I want on the gear I want. I did this already.

And there is the problem I have with this new set.
I already transmuted the look I want on the stats I want, and now I have to do this again.

Actually I thank ArenaNet for this design. Honestly. I had feared they would do good looking armor (for a change) and I would have to do the grind again. This ascended stuff looks that horrible, I wouldn’t ever consider doing it. I don’t care for those few extra points for it.

I am happy. Doing 400-500 in weapons is enough stupid rince repeat as it is now, but at least you can harvest the resources for it.

Considering the look of the legendaries, most weapons since release and now the ascended armor, I don’t even want to imagine how the next legendaries might look. O.o

Dear ArenaNet, I have a wish for christmas: employ some new designers. At least one! Please! Please?

The designers exhausted all their abilities making the areas. Now we’re stuck with ugly as kitten armours and weapons. The ones that look any good are filtered ones from GW. Crystalline, Maw of the Dead, ect. So now we’ll just keep getting fugly as kitten kitten that only the tryhards will get, claiming “it looks good.”

In a game whose progression is based MOSTLY on appearance and looks, I really expect ANET to step it up and create better looking armor and weapons.
The ascended weapons, or most of them, have a terrible design and look like they’re were carved out of wood (Zojja’s GS, for example).

So we buy skin set from gemstore, or transmute stones.

Old games like Lineage II have much better looking armor sets and weapons. I don’t understand why is it so hard to design new ones…

Because many cool armor skins + transmutation crystal sale will be coming soon.

All 3 armor sets look horrible, both on female and male characters, with an exception for the female medium chest piece. It annoys me beyond explination that I will have to spend hundreds of gold to craft this ugliness, only to have it transmuted into something more decent.

It is more than obvious that Arenanet wants us to buy armor skins from the gem store. I don’t mind that if there was something pretty to choose from. However, most armorskins released so far have been utterly ridiculous. I am yet to find a pretty heavy armor skin for a female character. One that does not make her look like a fridge, a can or just fat (Braham’s legs anyone?). Still the only choices are the T3 armors, that everyone has, or the Arah set that I am already so bored with.

I am also hoping that they will give some love to the light and medium female sets. Enough with all the short-front long-back skirts. I dont want my character to look like a skimpy nun!

Honestly, I’m glad they don’t look good, because otherwise everybody will be wearing the same stuff. This way people will transmute and there will be more variety.

Note that the exotic crafted items look pretty bad as well.

1.) you are only seeing Data file data, and it will copy your armor colors of what you have on.
2.) Stats are exotic atm because its only a data entry with the skins.

I like the medium set as its sexy on my female Engi.

chronometria.3708:

fey.5438:

Don’t like it? Go and design better… simple.

Actually, there are a great many talented people out there who can do just that. Just look at the public submissions in the workshop for steams team fortress and other games.

There is no excuse for the look of ascended armour, especially as a great deal of GW1 armour was of a much higher standard.

Along with what Chronometria pointed out, I’ll add that there have been numerous threads requesting that ANet allow their fan base to design both weapons and armor, and all you have to do is look through some of the various GW2 fan sites’ art forums to know that GW2’s players have produced some incredible work.