Remove tier's from cultural armor.
Anet, people are more likely to buy gems for cultural armor if it’s at a lower price.
No one with a brain is going buy 100g worth of gems for cultural armor. Only the players who do dungeons all day long, have the in-game gold to buy cultural armor.
But setting cultural armor at a lower price will result in more gem store sales. Why? Because people will see that the armor is in reach if they only need to buy $10 more of gems.
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Might as well chime in that after 5 months of playing (not saving) mostly WvW, I finally scrapped up one CA3 helm piece for my gf. I’m not sure if it’s suppose to take this long or if ANet thinks I should waste my time “grinding” dungeons to make money, but I thought they didn’t like that.
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Might as well chime in that after 5 months of playing (not saving) mostly WvW, I finally scrapped up one CA3 helm piece for my gf. I’m not sure if it’s suppose to take this long or if ANet thinks I should waste my time “grinding” dungeons to make money, but I thought they didn’t like that.
If you’re playing WvW, of course it’s going to take you a long time. I played 6 dungeons yesterday and made 8 gold. even if I play a more reasonable number (3 a day, or so) it would one lake me about a week and a half to save up the gold.
Not spending insane amounts of gold for armor that will not give me better stats than created exotic armor at much more affordable costs.
Thank you but, pass on the Cultural until the whole set comes down drastically in price.
Cultural armor is just a cosmetic skin that you apply over your own armor. So why make it so expensive and hard to obtain?
Because that is the point.
Just like Obsidian armor in GW1, which had no benefit over anything else and yet cost a fortune, because people either liked the skin a lot or used it to show off how much money they had.
id actually prefer it if all cultural armour cost the same as T3… T3 offers a sort of prestige… but sometimes the T1/2 stuff looks better (i kinda think that t3 human light armour is only t3 because the female version is skimpy)
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Not spending insane amounts of gold for armor that will not give me better stats than created exotic armor at much more affordable costs.
Thank you but, pass on the Cultural until the whole set comes down drastically in price.
Sadly you missed the point of cultural armor. IT is not there for everyone to have. It is there for the people who want to spend 120g on armor purely for the skins. If you are not one of those people then don’t worry about it.
Personally except for the human t3 leather, plate, buying the full set for human cloth is a waste and it is better to mix and match (speaking from the prospective of humans only).
This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.
id actually prefer it if all cultural armour cost the same as T3… T3 offers a sort of prestige… but sometimes the T1/2 stuff looks better (i kinda think that t3 human light armour is only t3 because the female version is skimpy)
Think the same thing about T3 human medium. It’s all because of the female one.
T2 looks way better than that.
Anet should:
*remove tiers’s from cultural armor
*Sell full sets at no more then 20g
*expand cultural armor selection
*create a wardrobe for PvE so we can collect cultural, Dungeon, gem store armor
I disagree with the first two bullets. I think tiers are fine and the the third tier should be far more expensive than the others. Since I won’t be able to craft a legendary, it’s the only long-term goal I have in the game to work towards — except the norn cultural armor. I dislike all of the norn designs.
The second two bullets I totally agree with. More choice is always welcome, and the wardrobe idea should have been implemented from the get go. The HoM proves that the technology already exists in the game to store and reuse skins. There’s just no will to do so on ANet’s part.
This creates situations like the one I recently experienced, when I realized I had somehow lost the gloves portion of my Krytan armor set (currently 500 gems in the shop), and now have no way of recovering them. If I ever want to have that full set again, I have to buy the whole costume pack again. So PAY MOAR or live with the dissatisfaction of having an incomplete set.
Granted, that was clearly an error I made at some point, but if those skins had been placed into my HoM, I could replace them whenever I wanted. They are account bound after all. I should be able to share them with my alts. I’d even be willing to PAY for special transmutation stones that would let me permanently grab skins for my account, and store them in my HoM, or something similar. Maybe with a special stylist NPC in my home instance. That would also provide a reason to visit it again once we’re passed it in the storyline.
That would be a thousand times better than losing my collection through dumb mistakes, intentionally getting rid of it due to space concerns, or having to store soulbound versions of everything in the bank. I find it exceptionally irritating to buy lower tier cultural armor, then have to dump it when I get the higher tier, or obtain a new set of dungeon armor. And there just ain’t enough bank space to keep everything I’ve purchased or earned.
I agree that three “T3” quality armor sets would be way better than the T1/T2/T3 system we have now. I want more high-quality armor sets, not just one.
id actually prefer it if all cultural armour cost the same as T3… T3 offers a sort of prestige… but sometimes the T1/2 stuff looks better (i kinda think that t3 human light armour is only t3 because the female version is skimpy)
Think the same thing about T3 human medium. It’s all because of the female one.
T2 looks way better than that.
I find the T2 and T3 medium armor are both worth the T3 price. I’m using the T2 armor on my Ranger and even have gone with two birds as swap pets to play it up. I don’t intend on changing it ever because it is thematically perfect as is.
But I have to admit, having to wait until I could afford the T3 price for it would have made for some miserable months since I would have been forced to put up with the crappy medium designs that would have otherwise been available. I really started enjoying the experience much more once I got that armor.
As for the T3 set, that one has my Thief’s name on it and I’m saving up for it right now. She’ll be 80 for a good while before I can afford it, but it will be worth the wait. I’m certain it was imported from Vabbi by black marketeers in the Order of Whispers. The cost sure reflects this.
Just make them all available for karma.
Cultural armor is just a cosmetic skin that you apply over your own armor. So why make it so expensive and hard to obtain?
Because that is the point.
Just like Obsidian armor in GW1, which had no benefit over anything else and yet cost a fortune, because people either liked the skin a lot or used it to show off how much money they had.
Agreed . If you think about it Obsidian was more expensive than T3 too . The price of T3 is perfectly fine if anything they should raise the prices of T1 and T2
All of you are missing the point I made in the 2nd post.
Anet will make more money by reducing the cost of the 3rd tier.
And multiple tier makes it so that Anet thinks they have to put the best armor in tier 3. Instead Anet should try to design all Cultural Armor to the same standards.
i hate it when people say that culture armor is “just for skins” when it clearly is not just so…if it were meant to be a skin, it would act like hall of monuments “gear” and not needlessly cost further money/headaches with the fine transmutation stones needed to give it stats worth the cost… and seriously, if you can make 129 gold for the full set, that stuff needs to be exotic at least or even ascended because the only other things that require that much time and effort are of said quality (and have better stats and no secondary costs)… or they can make it an actual SKIN item and be done with it.
The GW1 system can not be compared properly because obsidian armor (other than the helmets) with all its costs could easily and fairly cheaply be made to fit any role you could possibly want for it, and lest we forget: until they finally announced the GW2 beta, the costs of ecto/shards was prohibitive, but everything you could possibly need for it was easy to attain in less than a month of fairly casual play if you focused your time (underworld speed clearing took time and effort, yes but the secondary wealth from the runs made up some, and there were plenty of other things worth easy trades for ectos).
So I don’t think these things are quite the same… Actually the Temple armors were a little more realistic comparison before they started giving karma for just about everything. Again, lots of time spend farming the most annoying asset (cash) possible for less than top notch gear, and secondary costs for transmuting something else… this needs to be rethought.
Actually a price reduction would be fine, but 6 pieces of feces covered sugar should cost more like 60-80 gold total (this would bring the sting of the chest and legs from 30g and 25g down to just under 20g and 16g each for sure), and to buy a skin, rather than an over-priced, underpowered piece of gear who’s secondary costs are both high and a kick in the balls after selling both kidneys and hitting a blood-junkie loan shark to pay off the costs of the set.