Guild Wars 2

I am just curious as to whether or not other people feel that Asuran “Prototype” armor is truly just a prototype to an unfinished design project, because from a personal perspective I feel it is severely lacking in cosmetic interest; surely not worth investing 119g. If you feel that this particular set is visually challenged, what Asuran-esque qualities would improve this unfortunate design’s appearance?

If you are an Engineer, I would definitely go for it. That armour alone makes me want to change the race of my Charr Engineer to Asura.

Ranger or Thief though? Not so much…

P. kitten some decent colours, man! Your screenshot makes it look a lot worse than it actually is because of the colours.

Oglaf.1074:

If you are an Engineer, I would definitely go for it.

Ranger or Thief though? Not so much…

That’s the problem I have with it, the head gear seems like it has such a small demographic among leather wearers that it basically turns off most other classes.

Oglaf.1074:

That armour alone makes me want to change the race of my Charr Engineer to Asura.

In regards to its racial representation, it feels a little weak tbh. The other Asuran suits have clearly racial indicators (floating gems, shapey art designs), while this has a magnifying lens attached to a headpiece. This armor feels like it got lost somewhere between steampunk and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. I’m not sure if this suit is supposed to be for an experimental scientist or a toy tinkerer, because it’s not the kind of thing one would expect to see as combat suitable.

Oglaf.1074:

P. kitten some decent colours, man! Your screenshot makes it look a lot worse than it actually is because of the colours.

As for the color choice, blame the person who put this on the wiki hahaha. Nothing I have viewed from my preview window has looked much more appealing either, so I just went with that as a shortcut.

Mnemesis.8257:

Oglaf.1074:

If you are an Engineer, I would definitely go for it.

Ranger or Thief though? Not so much…

That’s the problem I have with it, the head gear seems like it has such a small demographic among leather wearers that it basically turns off most other classes.

That’s the problem every race has for medium armor, it suits one class but not the others. Becuase there are 3 classes that wear medium armor and all 3 are different, it’s hard for them to get the racial armor right. Heavy is fine as warrior and guardian both wear the same style of clothes, same with light. Human T3 has loads of daggers all over them obviously designed for a thief, but you wouldn’t see a engineer runing around with about 20 daggers strapped on him, unlikely a ranger either. Norn T3 medium is obviously also more designed towards a ranger/thief then an engineer by the style of it.

I personally think that armor would look geat on an engineer as they are all about making their toys and asura are about making golems the headpeice suits it

EliteZ.1682:

That’s the problem every race has for medium armor, it suits one class but not the others. Becuase there are 3 classes that wear medium armor and all 3 are different, it’s hard for them to get the racial armor right. Heavy is fine as warrior and guardian both wear the same style of clothes, same with light. Human T3 has loads of daggers all over them obviously designed for a thief, but you wouldn’t see a engineer runing around with about 20 daggers strapped on him, unlikely a ranger either. Norn T3 medium is obviously also more designed towards a ranger/thief then an engineer by the style of it.

I personally think that armor would look geat on an engineer as they are all about making their toys and asura are about making golems the headpeice suits it

Then it is not just me on this. It is clear that the cultural Medium T3 armor sets have been unjustifiably removed from their intended purpose of displaying the cultural aspects of their race, which I believe was the original intended purpose. Somewhere along the way it feels like someone ran out of creative juices and said kitten it, I’ll just patch this together with a garish amount of random kitten. If floating pieces were going to be an integral part of Asuran medium T3, then why was it limited to two thin shoulder strips and an arm brace? It feels like half way through the design process someone fell out of their chair and concussed their self before proceeding and add in “geometric” designs to an oversized cooking apron. Looking at the Asuran T3 from a cultural perspective shows me 90g worth of random garbage and 20g worth creative thought. From what was said just now, it seems like some people feel similar about the other cultural sets as well.

Because most asura are not in your face fighting characters. Asura are known for their knowladge not fighting, that’s why they don’t wear thick leather with good defense ect. The outfit is more designed aroun an engineer and that’s because of the lore of that class. So it is designed around that race, but unless they had 3 different sets for each class it’s always going to look more towards one class as i think the lore of asura are more towards engineers, just like the lore of norn are more towards rangers other then engineers.

the helm is kinda nice; but the rest looks worse than t2 imo