Guild Wars 2

I was pondering this last night with my new Mesmer. You create the character and you get to choose between 3 masks to help determine your personality … and then I thought, “Are there more of these masks later in the game?”

There could be … but I have a lvl 80 Warrior and to my knowledge all I’ve ever seen are general cloth helms, which means Elementalists can wear them, which leads me to believe that end game armor for a Mesmer is the same as what Elementalists get to use … which ultimately means that whole Mesmer carnival illusionist feel gets lost after the first 10-15 lvls when I start finding head gear drops.

Maybe later down the road, we can start seeing more class specific items to help expand upon the uniqueness of each character class. Similar to what Diablo 2 implemented; barbarian only helms, necro only fetishes, amazon only bows/pikes, assassin only claw weapons, etc.

Overall that’s where I hope this game goes, is allowing further expansion upon the uniqueness of each character. The hero story is a huge step in that direction, making a player/character feel their Warrior/Necro/whatever is different than another of the same class, simply because you got to choose your personality traits, choose your journey, choose a different order to belong to.

Now if we could start seeing some class specific items (perhaps ones that are achieved in future hero stories), that would further allow people to feel they are uniquely different than other classes who use the same armor/weapon types as they do.

It’d just be awesome to see lvl 80 mesmers who have awesome gear as well as twisted/goofy/sorrowful masks as they did when they started, a visual sense of true class development and growth.

there are no class items in the game only race items, however, when you get to lvl 80 alot of the stats on the different types of gear are the same, or you can use the stones to change the look into some items that you think look more mesmery then some of the other outfits. you could even keep the mask that you get at character creation to use at lvl 80