Guild Wars 2

After clearing Ascalonian Catacombs in Story mode, I elected to go back and spend a few days collecting tokens so I could start getting dungeon armor as my level 39 thief. Unaware of the change to Rare dungeon armor, I spent about 12 hours trying to collect tokens so I could get the Chestguard. When I went to the vendor in Lion’s Arch and previewed the armor, I thought something was off, so I went and looked at the exotic version. Lo and behold, it was the actual armor set. I was surprised to find that not only was the rare dungeon armor the same for every dungeon, but was also REALLY bland. I later found out that this change was made to make the dungeon armor more difficult to obtain.

This is a serious disappointment. I understand that the exotic dungeon armor should be hard to get, but over one hundred runs for an entire set of dungeon armor is absolutely ridiculous. There’s no way I’m going to do that, and since the rare armor looks bland as hell, there’s no way I’m going to even bother collecting 150+ tokens for that, either. In addition to feeling like I wasted 12 hours of my life, I also know I’m probably never going to run dungeons in exploration mode ever again, which is a real shame, because a lot of work was put into them. There’s just no incentive to do it.

PLEASE make the rare dungeon armor actually look like the dungeon armor for the exotics. I know that the high price for the exotic versions is there for a reason, but isn’t there something else you guys can do to make those versions more desirable? How about giving them a special rune or slightly different appearance that would make the top players want to get them? Like a glow or hue, or something unique? Don’t just make the easy to obtain armor look like scraps of leather, all that does is punish the people who don’t want to do 100+ runs of the same dungeon, AKA 99.9% of players. I’m by no means a casual player, but I just have no incentive to do dungeons anymore, which sucks because I was really excited about dungeons during beta.

Please, I’m begging you guys. I know I’m not the only person in this boat because in-game I hear people outside of dungeons complaining about their “dungeon armor” not actually being dungeon armor. This needs to be fixed.

Secondary note: While I agree with the high token cost for exotic dungeon armor – it’s cosmetic and should be very difficult to obtain – I don’t think there is any incentive to run dungeons on a per-run basis. You get very little money (especially with such high repair costs), awful loot, and maybe a couple salvage ingredients every now and then. Not counting the tokens, there’s very little reason to go through a dungeon (other than in story mode for the experience of it), and with level 35 “dungeon armor” being worthless, there is no reason to have tokens unless you plan on doing a hundred runs of the same dungeon, which most people don’t ever intend to do.

I shouldn’t be able to obtain the same amount of experience and money doing one or two events as in an entire dungeon run. Dungeons are extremely difficult and often quite long, and the reward should relate according to this length and difficulty.

Most of all though, please make level 35 dungeon armor worthwhile so that those of us who don’t plan on making a hundred dungeon runs can have an actual reward for trying explorable mode. It’s okay if it’s not AS good as the exotic armor, but it should at least be comparable.

I FINALLY was able to find a grp for CoF, we finished, relatively painless too. The kite room is still a corpse lobber, which is lame. I haven’t ran anything for…2 days? got 13s…..

I agree that some of the armor is cosmetically bland and completely unattractive. UGLY would be a much more appropriate term.

Yeah, the medium armor set for humans just looks like somebody took a bunch of tattered scraps of leather and draped it over my character’s body. It’s a huge disappointment.

I understand why they made the change, however they still could have created a lower set of armor that was still not as grandiose as the upper level but still showed that it came from the dungeon.

This was a very cheap solution that is very distasteful.