Guild Wars 2

While the idea of sharing armor skins across light, medium, or heavy armor is nice, I find that I also miss the system we had in Guild Wars 1 where 2 different professions wearing the same armor set would look different.

I know part of the idea behind GW2 was to make professions more unique based on the types of skills they use and they way they look during combat, but I find it a little weird that i sometimes find an elementalist or mesmer who are wearing the same armor as my necromancer. I know it’s to be expected, but it would be a nice addition to have a few armor sets that are exclusive to our professions, similar to how cultural armor works.

I could see profession armors being added to the profession trainers for purchase. Right now the profession trainers really don’t do much aside from sell trait books anyway and this could be a nice idea to utilize them some more.

What do you guys think?

Sounds nice to me!

I’d be happy if they put in profession specific hats.

I miss the face scar patterns necromancers had in GW1.
I guess as a shortlist:
Necromancer – Face scars/tattoos
Mesmer – Masks
Thief – Hoods
Elementalist – Tiara/gems

For some of the other professions like Warrior, Guardian and Engineer, unique back or shoulder items.

Overall, its curious to me how there isn’t replacements for the starter items for certain professions and it would be nice to see more of those at least! I know some thieves who are sad they sold off their starter hood for this reason.

Resources!

Let’s take Vabbian armor for example. You had 8 professions and ONE race so for Vabbian in Guild Wars 1 that gives them 8 seperate armors to create. Let’s say Vabbian is in GW2 also, 5 races plus 3 classes and 8 professions that gives you…. (a lot) so they would need to create (a lot) of armors to cater for each mix of class/race/prof and that is for just 1 armor. Think of how many armors are currently in the game and remember resources, a nice thought but it is too much.