Guild Wars 2

Could it be explained the reasoning behind changing the skin to the legendary fractal back piece?

Regardless of my or your opinion of the purple glow added it is a change to what was advertised from the start.

I & others have worked on the item since the release of Heart of Thorns, spending lots of time & gold to get to this point & now a randomly added Mesmer style purple glow has been added to it.

Whilst I’m sure Mesmers are happy about this & trying not to get to angry about this could I offer a suggestion that the glow could be dyed to restore the Guardian style blue glow… or in fact any colour.
This has been proved to be possible with glow dye on the recent Halloween costume.

Matt.9831:

Could it be explained the reasoning behind changing the skin to the legendary fractal back piece?

Regardless of my or your opinion of the purple glow added it is a change to what was advertised from the start.

I & others have worked on the item since the release of Heart of Thorns, spending lots of time & gold to get to this point & now a randomly added Mesmer style purple glow has been added to it.

Whilst I’m sure Mesmers are happy about this & trying not to get to angry about this could I offer a suggestion that the glow could be dyed to restore the Guardian style blue glow… or in fact any colour.
This has been proved to be possible with glow dye on the recent Halloween costume.

Wait where can you see this? Does this mean its actually ingame now or what?

The NPC inside fractals is wearing it or you can view it in the wardrobe

Ok I just looked. I REALLY hope this is a bug. I loved the way it looked before and pumped so much time into getting my pre ready. No idea why it would have a purple glow in a blue themed piece anyways

Please be a bug.

I personally don’t mind it that much. It gives the whole thing a more legendary touch, but it’s not that dominant that it ruins the whole skin or something.

I don’t totally hate it, but it’s way more purple than it should be and could use a little more blue. It doesn’t match the previous fractal appeal, and that bothers me a lot. I was creating it based on the colors of the previous one, and now I’m a little miffed by the sudden color palette shift.

GAAAAAAAAH this ruins it for me

my shiny hero style chars or my revenant dont use purple…
…backpiece therfor unusable for me since it just doesnt fit at all with its new colors even though i had 3 chars that i wanted to use it on…

hey i could use legendary pvp backpiece instead

…oh wait that has purple too…

we get a total of 2 legendary backpieces and both are purple ???

… we have lyssa backpiece for that color .. no need for 2 new purple backpieces pls

please make it dyeable / exchangeable for other color versions or leave it as it is

It look so much better like it is now, it’s not even funny. I love the purple. Keep it please.

Personally, i think it’s better now.
But nevertheless, i think that having it dyeable would be the better choice.

I think it’s totally fine if you love the change but my point would be that it didn’t look like that when a lot of people started to put huge amounts of time & gold into it.

Just think of those who thought they were getting X & relatively close to the end were given Y, what if Eternity got patched & it’s now green?

Also it should be in line with the fractal theme and the fractal weapons and supposedly have the same glow and not some random blurry purple.

The purple is ugly and makes it too busy. The sparkles on the cubes is nice though. Do themes have any meaning to ANet? Why does every Fractal weapon have an effect color of a blue and white glow with white trails but suddenly the top-dog Ad Infinitum has a completely different purple glow that looks nothing like any other Fractal item? Do the devs just REALLY hate consistency?

Dyeable would be the best of both worlds.

Kind of wish I didn’t sink so much gold in before the change :\

well why dont add the abbility to change the colour of the backpiece, we have enough colours, and i guess for a legendary backpiece it would be great to have such an option.
my opinion on that change is: why did you do that? We saw it, and wanted it, now you changed it and its totally different now, what if some don’t like it anymore?!

i personally didn’t like it even before. it is huge and basically another pair of wings… we will eventually all have it for the utility of changing the stats at will and we will all look the same. why can’t be just an aura, maybe dieble or an effect the will be added to a skin you chose for it. why another pair of wings pointing up never the less?

Bart Weird.9671:

Also it should be in line with the fractal theme and the fractal weapons and supposedly have the same glow and not some random blurry purple.

Totally, the purple has nothing to do with the whole fractal theme.

Change it back how it was before or make the glow dyable, this is just wrong.

It’s getting to the “unacceptable” point now. This is a modern game that prides itself on aesthetics, yet we have all this mismatched stuf tossed in and you can’t color back pieces and parts of weapons… It’s beyond sad. It’s even more sad to not have a choice in the matter…

Is it not in the realm of digital possibilities to offer all items with individual base color palates? Ya know, a blackish one, a greenish one, a blueish one, a reddish one, a yellowish one… and so on???

Stuff like this really makes you question where development dollars go…

Ugh, don’t believe this – I was only crafting it because it had the same theme/colours of the fractal weapon skins, so kinda wasted a ton of gold and time on crafting unbound :/

I’m still hopeful that eventually they might give us a way to give the backpiece the same colour theme as the golden fractal weapons though, even if it is hideously expensive ^^

Is there a before/after pic to this change?

I think the backpack is better now. It’s a matter of taste. Anyway, we don’t even know if there will be other effect when wearing it.

Before there was no effect… It’s better with it.

Xandrian.8304:

Ugh, don’t believe this – I was only crafting it because it had the same theme/colours of the fractal weapon skins, so kinda wasted a ton of gold and time on crafting unbound :/

I’m still hopeful that eventually they might give us a way to give the backpiece the same colour theme as the golden fractal weapons though, even if it is hideously expensive ^^

I want the Golden Ad Infinitum too