Guild Wars 2

What I was thinking was that at high levels, people could trade in the high-tier Fractal things (I can never remember if they’re Vials or Shards or what, sorry) or stacks of Dungeon tokens for an Ascended Armor Token, which you could then use to get Ascended Armors (the way I see it, gloves/boots/head would cost 3 Tokens, legs/shoulders 4 and chest 5, but that’s just me and if the gear is Ascended then harder is probably more valuable, but that could just mean that each AAT needs more mats to make). There would be a vendor in each home city who takes the tokens and gives you Ascended-tier armor for them.

Obviously Cultural would be easier for the Anet team, but custom armor would be even more awesome (I’ve been looking and looking for a trench-coat-like Light Armor for my Human Necro, and haven’t found anything that doesn’t look like it was either made for Mesmers or Norn, but that’s really kinda irrelevant here): you could choose the design of each piece (say, long sleeves/short sleeves/no sleeves/elbow gloves and shirt/bikini top/corset/open jacket with coat-tails/no tails/butt-cape for the chest, that sort of thing), add on various accoutrements (armor/padding/gems/jewelery/pouches/belts/weapons/etc.), and then choose a design (knotwork/embroidered/plain/ragged/patched/etc.), and whatever you choose, that’s what the final armor piece ends up looking like. Sure, you’d probably have problems with clipping, but if someone chooses that look then that’s their choice and not the fault of the art department.

Anyways. Those’re my thoughts, if anyone has constructive criticism, support, or even a different idea as to how this might work, go right ahead and post it (the more people reply, the more the Devs realize that people want new armor skins)

Hey! pretty great idea, but make it aquireable at somthing else than the crap dungoens)) like laurels, badges, gold, karma, craftable and such

“Sure, you’d probably have problems with clipping, but if someone chooses that look then that’s their choice and not the fault of the art department”

Um, no. Bad design shouldn’t just be shrugged off like that.

As far as cultural armor is concerned, can’t you just transmute it?

Customizable armor is interesting, but with so many color options, mixing and matching pieces and transmutation there are already a lot of looks you can create. This seems like it would over-complicate the game and it would take a lot of programming and designing to implement, which would take away from the resources they should devote to other areas. When you also consider there are some killer looking MMO’s coming up like The Elder Scrolls online and Destiny, A-Net could already be heading towards trouble. Right now at least, there is no way they can afford to devote their time to this idea.

Sorry

i doubt they will add in ascended armor and weap soon, it will be too OP and have a great impact to wvw

Lord Krilik.3692:

“Sure, you’d probably have problems with clipping, but if someone chooses that look then that’s their choice and not the fault of the art department”

Um, no. Bad design shouldn’t just be shrugged off like that.

Most of your post I agree with, but this? If you had read my post, you would understand what I meant. When people can choose what their armor looks like, they can make bad decisions. A belt that’s designed to fit on a pair of skin-tight pants would definitely clip through a short, puffy skirt. And if the player chooses to have that belt and that skirt together on his leg-piece, then it’s that player’s choice, and he will have to live with it (or get the Tokens to re-create the armor piece).

As for the “already many looks” part, yes there are a bunch of looks already available, but I’m pretty sure all the Guardians who want to wear robes, all the Elementalists who want to look like they have armor, and anyone else who has tastes in gear not covered by the current armor sets (for example, remember that loading screen for that Charr land where they have the red-robed mage? Diessa Lowlands I think? I want my Necro to look like that, but there is not a single set or set combination that can give me that look. Or, failing that, Elite Luxon Necro armor from GW1) would love this.

I’ll admit that the coding would be tricky, but no more so than character creation really (actually it’d be easier than that, cause you wouldn’t have any sliders, everything would have clear-cut states: shirt 1, 2 or 3, design 1, 2, 3 or 4, etc), and the payoff would be great. They could even add some Gem Store-exclusive designs or meshes, if they really wanted to (the ability to add the Krytan skull belt to a chestpiece, for example).

I think that it’d be a great feature that no other game has (except for some single-player games, and even then it’s normally with lots and lots of mods. Or Spore, but that’s pretty much dead. And singleplayer), and since the theme for GW2 was basically “let’s try something new and interesting,” this’d be a good fit.