Guild Wars 2

It looks silly on my character, and it looks like anet doesn’t want to expand on breathing apparatus.

Please remove the breathing apparatus so that I can use my helm instead.

Or, at the very least add some friggin’ Exotic ones.

Doesn’t it replace your helmet underwater which also messes up your runes?

Indeed it does. And I don’t feel like spending several Gold on another rune for a friggin’ blue re-breather.

I completly Agree, get rid of it, Its a completly pointless item.

showing our character model with a re-breather under water is one thing, but don’t force us to wear the kitten things statwise.

Bad enough we gotta use these underwater weapons that are more often then not complete and utter rubbish..

i remember having one underwater headthingy w/o breathing aparatus. looked like circled. i think it was from karma vendor in frostgorge sound. so you can transmute to it, if you don’t like the mask looks. well at least light armor one.

vendor:
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Help_Qualdup_train_Orsippus_trainees_for_the_Quaggan_Games

They changed it back to the generic model, sadly.

has nothing to do with looks at all saulius, the problem is the stats!

Oglaf.1074:

They changed it back to the generic model, sadly.

God no! All of it is so ugly! ><

Well it was just a mistake on their part. The cloth one was just a circlet; how does that allow you to breathe underwater? Most likely a normal cloth helm model.

personally i hate the breathing apparatus because you can’t get the one you want (the stats i mean) and also there are so few to select from, and only green at best.
i had difficulty to even get one for lvl 80 ! since they are not sold everywhere…

The biggest problem I have with the breathing apparatus is that it can’t be crafted. We can craft all the underwater weapons, but not the re-breather? That seems silly to me. What’s even worse is trying to find that one karma vendor in the level 80 zones who sells them, and even then the stats are horrible. If we could craft them, I wouldn’t really have a problem with them.

Emmiere.1058:

The biggest problem I have with the breathing apparatus is that it can’t be crafted.

Fully agree!

I actually really enjoy underwater combat. Yeah i know you’re all mad about that there aren’t any exotic breathing apparatuses, but you can still get level 80 masterwork ones and apply any rune you want to it, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they’d soon implement an exotic one. They could give the breathing apparatus a unique feature, such as something similar to an infusion slot unique to breathing apparatuses.. They really do need to spice up underwater combat a bit.. I mean, why have those unique skills for underwater combat when there’s almost no content for it..

It’s weird that they spent so much time balancing above-water combat and left out some details from underwater combat:

• 1 elite/class.
• Traits that have great value on land, but none underwater and no compensating feature.
• One of six armor pieces has no rare or better variety and can only be acquired soulbound.
• You can hide your shoulder & headgear, but not your breathing apparatus.
• You can craft every piece of underwater gear except the breathing gear.
• You don’t actually need the breathing gear to breathe, so the game could just use the stats from your land-based head gear instead.

It is also a missed design opportunity. Crafted Heavy rebreathers would look vastly different in comparison to Light rebreathers. Instead they just stuck with one stock model all the way… Bleh.

They need to add more variety for them. Adding them to all the armor sets.

At least a placeholder until they make skins for each one.

And, of course, there should be rare and exotic ones.

And they should be crafted ones too, and drop from underwater-able enemies once in a while.

Here is a simple solution:

Leave rebreather as purely cosmetic thing, that can be turned on or off as you like.
Remove any kind of stats and runes from it, and make it mimic your Helm stats and rune instead.

This way no one will need to buy extra runes or lame low lvl green rebreathers, but will be able to customize their look underwater. Not to mention reduced frustration lvl of already too frustrating underwater combat system.

Lighthammer.3280:

Remove any kind of stats and runes from it, and make it mimic your Helm stats and rune instead.

Bingo! That’s the best idea I’ve heard regarding them, really.

runeblade.7514:

It looks silly on my character, and it looks like anet doesn’t want to expand on breathing apparatus.

Please remove the breathing apparatus so that I can use my helm instead.

I was just about to post this myself, but it seems someone came before me.
No matter – I made a quick video about my point of view, hoping Arenanet will regard these ideas for recreating this item, or, as you and I both think feasable as well, remove it.
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GO9PPHhGes&feature=youtu.be

So I stumbled upon this thread in my search to find out what would happen if one didn’t wear a breathing apparatus while underwater. Couldn’t find an answer so I just gave it a whirl and removed it. Guess what. Absolutely nothing happened. Now I don’t know whether this is a glitch. But if this isn’t. Then what is the point of even having a breathing apparatus? When taking into consideration, it has pathetic stats in comparison, is quite hideous and doesn’t even prevent anything from happening underwater if you were not to wear it.

The whole reason for them is that underwater stuff is supposed to become a much bigger deal someday.

Likely when that happens, we’ll get cool ones.

That may be so, that they plan to make something big of that. However when the breathing apparatus, doesn’t prevent drowning. Then I have to ask this. What purpose, does it serve? You could essentially remove the breathing apparatus mechanic entirely, Move all breathing apparatus to the helm equipment slot and if a player did want to wear one because they thought it looked cool, then they could. But as you can see. They don’t serve any purpose, they are essentially just there for aesthetics, to remove your awesome headgear that you wear on the land, when you go underwater and give you worse stats, while also costing you additional cash to put a rune on them.

Now whether what I stumbled on is a glitch, or bug or not, is something for Arena Net to decide. If it is not, Then I would either suggest one of two thing’s. Remove the mechanic entirely, or get cracking on the underwater combat and provide this mechanic with a use, while also giving us some decent underwater helmets.

The purpose is obviously purely lore-based at the time. You can safely ignore it until it starts serving a real purpose for underwater combat. Sure you guys all deliberately go find problems with it and obviously you can find them.

I really hope they get expanded on one day, an update purely focused on improving underwater combat. One day. Until then we’re “stuck” with that green one.

It is comical though how the choice is obviously to either improve this content now, or later. Instead some people always ask to remove existing content. That’s not a proper solution.