Guild Wars 2

I’ve looked through some of the pages and couldn’t see anything like this mentioned, so I apologise if this is a duplicate thread.

I’m an avid RPer, and joined this game partly because it looked amazing and partly because a friend recommended the RP on here, saying it’s great.

And it has been great, although there has been one issue in my eyes for the customisation of characters.

Which is armour. It surprises me that a warrior able to wield hefty chainmail armour cannot wear a light armour top, or a medium classified pair of boots. That we are just limited to our type of armour and that is it!

SO!

I put forth the suggestion that…

~ Heavy armour users should be able to equip heavy, medium, and light
~ Medium armour users can equip medium and light
~ Light armour users equip light

It’d be a bit of a thumbs up for the RP community in the game, and I know there is a fair bit of it going on. It can also cater to non-RPers as they may just want to wear certain looks armour to be a total boss

Obviously this isn’t a top priorty thing, but maybe something to consider.

As a 1h sword ranger I’d love to be able to wear Heavy Armour as I take just as much a beating from mobs as any class that can wear it so would welcome the extra defence. Especially as any mobs that is Risen (hence not going to orr much), Troll, Bear + a few others will ignore pet and go for me.

Any race can be any class so why not allow them to wear any armour?

As is, Rare Heavy has more def than Exotic Medium.

I’d prefer a system where we can transmute any armor appearance onto a corresponding piece regardless of if it’s heavy, medium or light.

This would also open up a whole world of customization options for their horizontal progression.