Guild Wars 2

Alex.9567:

look we could argue over points back and forth for and against this all day if we wanted.

my main concern is this – we’ll end up seeing a much larger number of light armour professions equipping heavier armour than heavy armour professions equipping light armour.

This for me is something that would definitely detract from the game for various reasons that have been stated before in similar threads.

Maybe im wrong but by the time we find out it’ll be to late to turn back. thats the last im saying on this topic, Anet can decide.

P.S. necro slow and bulky? my sylavri necro feels as fast as any of my alts

I understand your concern for the exploit of the system but I feel the majority here feel that they should be able to wear whatever kind of armor they want for cosmetic look. Something such as a disruption can adapt over time and people will get used to it. This problem wont go away because people will be constantly annoyed that they cant wear something that they find that’s really desirable for their own looks.
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I feel the best compromise for this situation is to follow up with what Daecollo said (initially)
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“allow medium armor wearers to also wear cloth.” – for appearance
“allow heavy armor wearers to wear medium.” – for appearance
“allow cloths wearers to wear medium” – for appearance
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This doesn’t disrupt PVP, it doesn’t mess with scouting in WvW, it doesn’t blur the line between professions, There is no exploits of armor or having a really weird unbalance of heavy armored people, and it gives the people who want to have more freedom to customization to do so (listing all concerns and legitimate arguments so far in this topic). This is a win situation all around the table and I would hope that this can be our agreement to push Arena Net to actually do something about this, because right now with our constant bickering back and fourth they will not act on it unless we ourselves come to a consensus that makes everyone happy (because Anet wants to make everyone happy and leave out as little people as possible), and this is the best way to go about it.

I think there is no real problem with this, as long as it’s just a cosmetic change.

Or they could just allow any class to wear any armor with some kind of backfire on the types of armor not meant for them.
Making an example… an elementalist wearing heavy armor would be too weak physically to sustain its weight, so he gets a bonus on defense in exchange of a penalty on movement speed.
I believe this would be the most realistic solution to the matter…

The town clothes slot should also let us wear armor skins in battle. It would just be a look with no stats. Like what EQ2 does. They really need to do something about the ugly armor in this game and quick.

http://imageshack.us/a/img26/6305/thiefmixedarmor.jpg
My thief if he was able to use cloth…

i agree we should let all professions wear any armor. it will give players more visual choices for their characters. and will allow us to combine armors in more variety of ways.