Guild Wars 2

Now that my main character is a level 80, I’ve begun working towards replacing my rares with exotics. Before that, I replaced my masterworks with rares, so I’m slowly working up. I’m quite happy with my look, I indulged in using a few fine transmutation stones to put my favorite sub-80 item skins onto my armor so I’m looking pretty spiffy. I recognize that the next step after getting a few basic, boring skinned exotic items to tie me over is getting pretty ones with unique looks. Ooo, what shall I pick? High level drops? Dungeon armor? Temple armor?

Notice that cultural armor isn’t an option. After spending so much cash upgrading my pieces to exotics, why would I buy a set of 100g+ armor that’s a downgrade from the stuff I have? The look is of course what’s important, but if that’s entirely true why aren’t all of the dungeon armors rare instead of exotic? It’s about the look, but it’s also about having something to look forward to and work towards and about it being something worth working for.

For some people the look will be enough, but me, I’m concerned about where I spend my money. I’d rather purchase one amazing incredibly expensive prestige armor set that fulfills all my needs than have to purchase one incredibly expensive prestige set purely for the looks and then have to transmute all of those pieces onto expensive and boring skinned exotics.

The lower leveled cultural armor sets are rare simply because that is the best tier of item available to level 35’s and level 60’s. But at level 80, the best is exotic, and if we’re shelling out that sort of cash then we deserve the best.

Personally, I think the Cultural Tier 3 armor being only rares is also one of the reasons people complain about it being too expensive. It just doesn’t have as much value if it’s not the highest tier of armor.

So true literally going to make a thread on this.
The Armor is too expensive to be worth it and The weapons cost too much karma imo. They should be exotic just so they make it worth getting. Why buy rare weapons when the Temple armor costs less Karma and are better it.

Champagne Showers.1036:

So true literally going to make a thread on this.
The Armor is too expensive to be worth it and The weapons cost too much karma imo. They should be exotic just so they make it worth getting. Why buy rare weapons when the Temple armor costs less Karma and are better it.

Yes, thank you, I forgot to consider the level 80 karma weapons as well. If they cost 68,000 karma they had better kitten well be exotic.

Gold sinks are gold sinks. I think the point of the Cultural gear (weapons and armour) is simply that they don’t want you to have them within the first week of playing, or the first month.

Seriously though, why would you use dungeon/temple exotics when crafted have the best stat distribution choices, then you can just reskin them? That’s what I did. I have full crafted valkrie gear reskinned with light Vigil Order gear and am working on obtaining more sets to reskin my T1 and T2 Sylvari gear on to.

So that said, would you really use the T3 Cultural even if they were exotic? Chances are the stats are only going to work for one class/build and it ain’t going to be yours, just look at the WvW Invader gear.

I suggest adding cultural set bonus for cultural armors, to reflect that they are beacons to those of same race. Which could be great in WvW

1200 range
Tier 1: Protection to all of same race around him
Tier 2: Protection and regeneration
Tier 3: Protection, regeneration and might
With price like that, I don’t think these bonus are unreasonable.

I doubt they would add boons. But I could see exp or karma bonuses working.

sigh this again.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

They are fine as is. They aren’t met to be strong armor, they’re for looks. Realistically, the stats the armor would have wouldn’t be the stats you’d want and you’d have to transmute the kitten thing anyway.

If you can afford T3 cultural, you can afford to buy some Exotic armor to transmute.

Think of it like this. You know how legendary weapons have a ‘base’ weapon? Well, consider the T3 cultural you buy the base ingredient. To make it ‘legendary’ (in the sense, obviously it’ll be exotic) you have to transmute it with an exotic.

I don’t find it particularly strong with boons. I just think as a cultural ultimate, it should have something related to the race beyond the look. The set bonus could encourage people to work hard for it. Rather than the “it’s not worth it” attitude we have now.

I’ll put it another way… is there a reason they should be rare? I seriously doubt it. As far as it being a gold sink goes, that’s a pretty poor argument considering it would be a one time expense, and a character or characters who’ve generated enough gold to afford it will generate a hell of a lot more of it over their lifetime.

All of the other prestige armor sets are exotic, even if you want to transmute them it’s not exactly required. As for those default stats, I honestly don’t give a fig if they’re not the exact, ideal configuration I’d want, because all stats are relevant to all professions. I would use it, and if the stats bothered me I’d have the choice to transmute them. What would be important to me is if I buy it I’m having a piece of the best possible armor in the game.

Just to clarify here, because i dont know

Can i buy the tier 3 cultural and transmute the looks into the exotic gear?

Sahriah.3792

Just to clarify here, because i dont know

Can i buy the tier 3 cultural and transmute the looks into the exotic gear?

Yes, but as it’s level 80, it requires fine transmutation stones, an item only available from black lion chests or the cash shop.