Guild Wars 2

So how about a tier 4 to cultural armors? Armor that has been infused to make it fractal agony strong. I’m sure there’s already armor being infused and all. But how about culture specific armor?

Maybe with suggestions from the players this time about what they expect in cultural armor. To be honest, the sylvari cultural armor especially was a disappointment since you could do sooo much with plants and leaves. So I figure this could be an excuse to put in new cultural armor.

I call it Tier 4 armor. Ascended Armor.
And yes, I do have picture suggestions about what this armor could look like. And I will be adding more pictures as I come up with more ideas.
Each link will show you a picture suggestion. <3

Sylvari
Light Helm
Light Shoulder
Light Top
Light Pants
Light boots
Light gloves

Medium Helm
Medium shoulders
Medium Top
Medium Pants
Medium boots
Heavy Helm
Heavy shoulders
Heavy top
Heavy pants
Heavy boots

Charr
Light Helm
Light Shoulder
Light Top
Light Pants
Light boots
Light gloves

Medium Helm
Medium shoulders
Medium Top
Medium Pants
Medium boots
Heavy Helm
Heavy shoulders
Heavy top
Heavy pants
Heavy boots

Human

Light Helm
Light Shoulder
Light Top
Light Pants
Light boots
Light gloves

Medium Helm
Medium shoulders
Medium Top
Medium Pants
Medium boots
Heavy Helm
Heavy shoulders
Heavy top
Heavy pants
Heavy boots

Asura
Light Helm
Light Shoulder
Light Top
Light Pants
Light boots
Light gloves

Medium Helm
Medium shoulders
Medium Top
Medium Pants
Medium boots
Heavy Helm
Heavy shoulders
Heavy top
Heavy pants
Heavy boots

Norn

Female Heavy Armor

Do comment please! On the pictures and the idea as a whole~
I would make changes if anyone suggested something specific.

Maybe ascended cultural should be tier 5 and tier 4 be reserved for an Exotic cultural?

If the rare one costs 119g I wonder how much would the ascended cost, darn I don’t think I can count that high!

Before adding new armor, wouldn’t you agree we should first decide “how” to get it? Obviously not with gold like the rest of the cultural, we can already buy our Legendary, now buying our Ascended armor would make things even worse!

maddoctor.2738:

Maybe ascended cultural should be tier 5 and tier 4 be reserved for an Exotic cultural?

If the rare one costs 119g I wonder how much would the ascended cost, darn I don’t think I can count that high!

Before adding new armor, wouldn’t you agree we should first decide “how” to get it? Obviously not with gold like the rest of the cultural, we can already buy our Legendary, now buying our Ascended armor would make things even worse!

Well I guess that works. Exotic tier4.
For Ascended, I think maybe some of the same crazy kitten you need to infuse those accessories? Fractal things and all that. Like the relics and coagulated and globs and all that? But I agree, the ascended shouldn’t be obtained with just gold.

Honestly, I kind of just want them to have another chance to get cultural armors right.

Female Norn Heavy Armor

Great job on the pictures, I must say I liked every single one. The sylvari one is my favorite, I like the idea of plant armor and agree the current designs are a bit lacking. I however must agree with everyone else that it needs to be obtainable with something other then gold or else I’ma be broke if any of your designs come into the game because I would need to buy them.

I find the 120g cost of tier 3 to be rediculous in and of itself.

You draw pretty well.

To have T4 somewhere down the line is a good idea, to have to so soon after release? Horrible idea, what makes this idea even worse is the fact that you want it to come infused already. So how much are you expecting this armor to be sold for? About 500g for the full set? T3 isn’t even exotic and it costs 120g for the full set. Tier armors are not about stats or upgrades, but about the looks, to stand out not to give you the best possible stats. If asceneded rings are anythng to go by the ascended gear will be a massive farm to get, so to release a set of armor with the stats already on it for gold would not be a good idea and would take away the fact that ascended armor is suppose to be as anet call it “a step up from exotics to legendary”. But i’m sure we will see more tiers added some time just not with ascended stats and already infused.

As for the pictures some of them are nice, but the norm armor looks more medium then heavy imo.

I just wanted to say I really like the concepts you came up with, especially the sylvari heavy helm.

The Norn T4 looks wrong.

It looks like a ninja or something, no thanks.

Well, I realize that the ascended idea is a bit far off. So maybe I should change the title. Maybe this tier could just be exotic. I think tier 3 is rare, right? So tier 4 could be exotic.

As far as the designs are concerned, I’m still working on them. Instead of doing individual parts, I’ve started doing male and female full armor. I’ll probably put this topic up with editting again later once I’ve finished with all of the drawings for all the armor suggestions.

Ascended, I agree should maybe come down the line. When I made the topic, I didn’t realize that there were already no exotic. So I’d say tier 4 would be exotic. Tier 4 might probably be worth x amount of gold.

If ascended comes into play, I’d say the same. It can’t be bought with gold, but with something else maybe.

I’ll pitch an ascended idea later though, but that would require research because I want that particular tier armor to look ‘transcendent’.

Please do male sylvari tier 4 pics

I support this entirely. But I wouldn’t support them making it cost 500G or something stupid.

I love the sylvari light helm and the human medium helm

If you come up with something for Asura I will support it all the way because I hate all of the current cultural Asura items.

id go for that human female medium helm

Oh, don’t worry, I’ll do something for all of them. I just really need to do some research to do good designs and not kitten ones.

I found doing the human ones to be easiest. But I really want to give good ones to Charr and others too, y’know? Not leave anyone lacking.

Plus, I want to keep to the themes.

Sylvari – I want to do more floral designs. Flora isn’t just leaves, there’s flowers as well, and colors. Thorns and vines. So much for it!

Charr – definite steampunk. Gears and iron. Grunge textures/patterns.

Norn – A bit difficult, but mostly fauna. Scandinavian styles. I’ll be researching Northern European countries for the inspiration for their armor.

Asura – More like cyberpunk. This one’s slightly difficult, but I’ll have to experiment.

Humans – I kind of want to do other cultures, but I’m afraid of crossing into Elona/Cantha styles because then the designs might just be shut down. But I honestly envision the humans to be as diverse as in reality… [lol really wanted to do an Arabic inspired design for them]

What can I say? I’m a chick into aesthetics, the stats could just be bleh, but so long as it looks nice, I’m happy! xDDDDDD

We don’t need a new tier! Tiers are for the look for the armor. I costs less to use fine transmutation.

This idea puts great armor skins out of reach from most players.

Onshidesigns.1069:

We don’t need a new tier! Tiers are for the look for the armor. I costs less to use fine transmutation.

This idea puts great armor skins out of reach from most players.

Well, the reason I said a new tier was because I wanted more cultural armor. And since there’s already three tiers, I figure it wouldn’t be too difficult to add a fourth tier.

Yes, normal (all race) armor needs work as well, but this thread is more specific to individual races.

paragon.6543:

Onshidesigns.1069:

We don’t need a new tier! Tiers are for the look for the armor. I costs less to use fine transmutation.

This idea puts great armor skins out of reach from most players.

Well, the reason I said a new tier was because I wanted more cultural armor. And since there’s already three tiers, I figure it wouldn’t be too difficult to add a fourth tier.

Yes, normal (all race) armor needs work as well, but this thread is more specific to individual races.

It shouldn’t have a tier 4 price.

I don’t know why each tier needs it’s own NPC. One NPC for all tier is all they need.

I like the armor skins but the female norn doesn’t really fit the ‘heavy’ concept in your picture? Nevertheless nice work and you got my approval

Pumillion.2519:

I like the armor skins but the female norn doesn’t really fit the ‘heavy’ concept in your picture? Nevertheless nice work and you got my approval

Yeah… I’m going to be scrapping a lot of these. I realized that when more than one person pointed that out about the Norn armor.

Onshidesigns.1069:

I don’t know why each tier needs it’s own NPC. One NPC for all tier is all they need.

Lol I don’t know either. Maybe they wanted to populate the town?

Whole bunch of ideas this time. Again, these would be cultural exotics, not ascended. Tier 4.

Asura Armor Ideas 1-4
Asura Armor Ideas 5-8
Asura Glowing Armor Idea - It might be interesting to see glow armor. Kind of like how there was glowing gloves in GW1.
Human Medium Armor
Human Light Armor
Human Heavy Armor

Tell me what you think~

I think a T4 Ascended/Legendary tier of Cultural armor sounds very appealing, and I’d even venture to say that a 500g total cost sounds about right for armor of that caliber/quality. I still believe that T3 armor should be buffed to Exotic status, however, if it’s going to remain at it’s 100g+ cost.

I approve this thread.