Hey all.
I’ve been playing GW for quite some time (actually, since the beginning) and here are a few ideas that I’ve come up with, and some issues I want to talk about.
First of all, let me just say that I really admire ANet’s work and consider GW2 a great gaming installment. So, forgive me if it feels like I’m moaning from time to time
I’ve come to a conclusion that most of medium armor sets don’t really match with the professions. I play a female engineer and found that there is actually no armor set which design would match her… hmmm, lets call it “class”. What I mean is that I would like her to look like a proper techno-tinkery-bombing-gunnery kind of character, one that others would instantly recognize as an engineer, without having to click and check the profession status. The same goes for other armor sets, maybe except heavy, which look good enough and there’s a large variety to pick from.
I bought the Magitech armor skin set from gem store and really loved it. But when I stumbled across another player using the same female set, I thought “Probably engi” – but no, it’s a thief… Really? Which thief would dress like that?! Shouldn’t they look more like some shady ninja-gankers?
That is why I think ANet should implement profession-based armor sets. Not one, but several. Heck, make them many and make them available by gem store, vendors (gold, karma, dungeon tokens) and crafting. Engi leatherworker? Make yourself a nice piece of exotic, good looking armor, with grenades, flasks and ammo belts. And if you want me to farm currency or whatever else be needed, make it worth it and make it look good.
Next thing. Buying gems for gold is expensive, and I don’t play the game every day. Yes I know, that if I desire something great I have to earn it, but since the end-game is more about the looks, what’s all the fuss about? Make the skin sets more expensive, but at least make them multi-use! Armor sets for 800 gems? That’s ok, but I would like to use it more than once. I understand that the 2000 gems cards are the means of ANet’s earnings, but the equivalent I have to pay in my country in order to buy the card is more or less what I would have to pay for a new PC game. Two one-use armor skin sets for 1600 gems and 400 left for some utilities, almost at a price of a new game? No thank you.
The same goes for weapons. Give us more skins that would actually look like weapons, not some twisted, weird pieces of… something, that you would never consider able to shoot anything, least to say bullets! There are only two skins I consider worthy of an engineer. Ascended – yes sir, long road ahead of me (doable but needs a lot of farming). Aetherized? LOVELY! Got one BL ticket scrap! Should be ready to buy it once I reach the age of 80.
Before the wave of hate hits, claiming I’m too lazy or whatever, let me just say once again, that if the end-game is about the looks, then for Rytlock’s sake why not let people, who don’t play the game 24/7, choose from a greater variety of in-game merchandise allowing them to play looking the way they want?
What’s your opinion on this?
Cheers!
(edited by Goshkee.7495)