Guild Wars 2

I have seen some previous posts on other sources that basically want ANET to change the price of t3 cultural armor or make it have exotic stats in order to justify spending a lot of money on it. I decided to create this thread to add an alternative suggestion to changing what exists already and add a different spin on the perspective on this argument / debate.

= Personal opinion =

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree that for mere cosmetics it’s just made superfluous to the other armors out there – and I agree that there needs to be an exotic cultural armor set I dislike the idea of changing what already exists when it can be improved…

= What I agree with =

Here’s why I believe each cultural set should be more than just cosmetics: Each race has a different set of attributes (For eg Norn have power, vitality and toughness and other races have different combinations etc) – I like that this breaks away from the “norm” of Item nomenclature AND represents the three attributes that race is associated with.

= What I don't agree with =

I don’t agree that ANET should change the current T3 rare – but build upon it. Make T3 Armor the base requirements for an exotic T4 Armor set. Similar to how legendary weapons are created, only with less expensive materials. This can lead onto the requirements for an Ascended / Legendary T5 Set. Thus we develop and build upon the economy, lore and depth instead of changing or destroying what already exists.

= Other thoughts =

On a side note I also believe that an allegiance system should be put in place to allow people to buy and wear the set of the culture that they have allegiance with (similar to luxon and kurzick factions in the original guildwars) I will add this to a different thread shortly

= See the reddit debate here =
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/14lib9/suggestion_improve_cultural_armor_options_tier_4/

The game is still young but yeah, more gear variety is needed. From the RP perspective, it would be nice that in your town clothes you can equip any armor type but that it reduces all stats gained to 0 (there is no casual looking gear for heavy armor professions).