Why Can't We Have More "Revealing" Armor?
This is pretty skimpy heavy armor:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gladiator_armor
I’m not entirely sure what’s “heavy” about it other than a few pieces of metal and spikes here and there. It looks like it more or less matches the kind of look you’re going for. It isn’t exotic armor and it has to be crafted. So you’ll need to craft it and then use transmutation crystals if you want exotic level stats on it.
The wiki page doesn’t have nearly enough info but I checked on my armorsmith character and it looks like you can craft it with 200 or 375 in armorsmith. There may be other tiers of the same armor set that I just never crafted. You can also buy a level 80 rare version of this set on the Trading Post. And as far as armor goes, it’s pretty cheap. Hope this helps you get the look you want!
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On the other hand, why can’t we have less skimpy light armor?
Why can’t we have more majestic wizard-robes that don’t feel the need to always expose legs or chest?I think this post really points out the issues there. The variety is lacking.
For me personally, skimpy isn’t inherently bad. However, skimpy + lame = tacky, which is terrible.
I entirely agree. I really don’t like the Masquerade set. It looks like a stylish mesmer set from GW1 was mauled by a bear and now she’s showing her undergarments. Please, can we let back in GW1-Mesmer-style armor sets?
And yes, I’m looking at those silly robes that are like buttcapes and focus on exposing tons of chest and legs for no reason other than to show skin. When you draw attention like that, it serves no other reason than to demean. It’s the kind of stuff that no sane character should be caught wearing, dead or alive even if it gave 1000% magic find. Might as well fight in their underwear. :/
Again, I’d love to see GW1-Mesmer-style caster gear in GW2. It’s stylish, yet not skimpy. It’s pretty, but not silly or too frilly. I’d also like tasteful showing of skin like the Raven Shaman set (that you can’t get
) or some Sylvari NPC sets or the T2 Sylvari caster set. I’d like a medium Sylvari-esque set to show off my character’s pattern that I worked awhile on and based my character’s name off of. She has a “frosted” look that you can’t see at all in the cultural or nightmare sets except for perhaps the T1 set, but I’m not terribly fond of that set. I’d like some options. And I’m not terribly fond of the placement of showing of skin in the T1 set (I think it’s T1) and I’m not terribly fond of the “skin tight leaves” look. I like seeing the back of my characters (particularly with the two different back “spine” options for Sylvari), my characters’ arms (to show the frosted-ness of her skin below her head), maybe some leg, maybe not, maaaybe some midriff if done tastefully. I LOVE that you can see my Sylvari’s feet in T2 caster gear. I am SO glad I made my sylvari with that skin pattern a caster or I would have been annoyed as people would not have been able to see her pattern at all with a leafy set or even a regular set (no other set is “barefoot”).
On the opposite side, we have heavy armor that covers one’s character up so badly that it’s hard to even distinguish them apart (and thus making most of character customization worthless) and makes you look really stupid looking in town or underwater. I pretty much despise all the helms. Or you can have some chainmail underwear. :/
tl;dr I want my characters to look good, and not have to look like a underwear model to accomplish it.
I entirely agree. I made a Norn Warrior and I’d like to show off her tattoos. But it’s hard to find good armor to look good and “Norny” while showing off her tattoos besides the 119g T3 set (and I don’t think I want to spend that on an armor set – I haven’t had more than 22g at a time). On the helms thing… can we have helms like the icelord diadem and baroque masque from the HoM that don’t obscure ponytails/hair? Of course, for my Warrior I’d like something more mask-like but less “girly”. I always have my helm unchecked for a reason and I would really like to have it checked sometimes as I’d have worked to earn the armor set. The only helm I find really awesome is the T3 Sylvari heavy “helm” and it makes sense lore-wise as they’re plants and can “grow” in different ways.
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