Guild Wars 2

I’m happy there has been a fair few amazing weapons and great additions to the game, yet no new armor sets. I constantly see new town clothes which is good but we have no reason to wear town clothes. People prefer to show off armor they have earned IMO.
There is only a select few armors that 90% of people wear and like, thus everyone is starting to look the same.
Anyone know if there are any plans to add new armor?

Maybe you could revamp old armor that no one wears?
I feel that if each class had a class-based armor set it would seem cool. Like Racial armor but classes.

GW2 has been amazing up to now and I understand it’s still fairly new, but I feel armor is starting to dry out a little now.

Update the light karma exotic armor it looks terrible on a necro. Or maybe just add a different skin for each type of amor so all the sets aren’t the same.

I’m all for new armor…At lvl 80, full exotics (karma) light armor, the skins are all the same… Whether you get it from Arah, or Grenth, or Melandru….

It would have been much better (opinion alert) if each one had their own “special” armor. Something “growing” for melandu, and “deathly” for Grenth, and maybe something like a Battle Mage for Balthazar, but sadly, no… they’re all the same.

I do hope they put in more skins, but I also hope they don’t make them so that anyone can buy them. I would rather be able to see some guy in Uber Super Skin Plate Armor and absolutely KNOW he earned it.

i want freedom of stats allocation.

give us blank skins.

let us slot in the major and minor attributions ourselves.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

i want freedom of stats allocation.

give us blank skins.

let us slot in the major and minor attributions ourselves.

Which isnt contributing to the topic, so please leave it in yours. You dont have to bring it up again and again if you were shot down before.

At the topic.

They stated in an interview that armor sets are more complicated then weapons to make and thus it takes some time till we will get new ones.
However you are right. There should be new ones.

Right now we only get some “lame” reskin townclothes in the gemshop and that is a disapointment in my opinion.

I don’t think we are going to see ANY new EXOTIC armor skins EVER!., The Ascended armor’s will be out new skins!.. This will be a while off also as i think they will want to make each Ascended armor looks unique and have one unique looking piece for every single stat combo.

To be honest i actually would rather like some armor that reflect certain classes first.
it is kinda hard to get certain looks right now.

Ironicly some armor from the light side would be great ingenieur armor, however he wears the trenchcoat loving medium armor which is apeaerently cowboys vs pirates vs skimpy ninjas

Medium armor in particular desperately needs new skins. I can always find a cool combo for my heavy/light characters, but it can be a struggle to get a medium armor setup that looks good.

New Armour skins would be great and I would also be behind the idea of a more unique class look.
However I want this for Exotic skins not Ascended, even just skins with no stats will be fine.
Since I am one of those players that refuse to care about the existence of Ascended items, I will be extremely ticked off if they introduce new skins and I need to get on the bandwagon to get stats I don’t want, just to get skins I like.

People have been screaming for more Armor skins for some time. They could even put them in the Gem Store and probably make a good bit of money off them. Not sure why this doesn’t get done, it seems to be one of the most popular and frequent requests in the game.

I would be glad for one Light armor that suited well on a Charr…

Gimme branded charr’s looking armor!

they should release this set for the cloth community !!! It so awesome, help support it release. Epic Mesmer clothing

I find the armour choices in this game range from terrible to horrific, with medium by far the worse. I just started a light armour class, but I suspect choice is no better than what we have for heavy armour.

If adding more armour skins means more of the same designs-from-hell, then no thank you. My eyes hurt enough as it is …

I don’t care whether we get new exotic armor skins – getting exotics is easy enough. I just want new skins, they can be on white armor for all I care (Except maybe for Ascended armor, I hope those will be really really ugly so I don’t feel the need to grind for them…)

Oh baby cats yes please. This game needs more sinister light armour, my Charr is restricted to CoF set mostly, and I’m getting pretty tired of that look, but my only other choices are cultural armour and that green set in Orr.

I’m sure Anet will add new armor sets at some point. However, I hope we can just buy them normally and we don’t need yet another new form of currency.

Most people i see are running around in CoF armour or Duelist with a hood, which imo should spark some sort of signal for Anet, at the moment im using my heritage set with my ranger because apart from a couple of peices from different sets (whisper, vigil, ac and outlaw) every other peice of medium armour looks terrible. I’d gladly pay for some of the awesome looking ranger armour from gw1 or something new that isn’t a longcoat or chinos.

Some new looks would be awesome. Surely they haven’t gotten rid of their armor designers! Put them to work maybe new shinies for us!

Armour skins are significantly more time consuming then weapons.

With weapons they do one and it’s done. A new greatsword is a new greatsword.

For armour if they do, as an example, a light armour now they have multiple equipment parts to do plus race specific designs then gender specific designs.

So, new armour stuff takes a ton of time which is why I suspect we’ll only see new armour skins show up in the trading post where the cost to design said items can be recovered or in new expansions where the cost to design the armour skins is covered by new purchases or returning players who decide to buy stuff from the trading post.

Still, I’d love to see more. More is good. More options to express individuality in an MMO is always good.

The problem is resources like people have pointed, a new design needs to be made in 30 “variations”.

Weapons are FAR more easy to do, all it’s needed is to simply scale to be usable by everyone.
And unlike armor, people actually collect weapons.

Dean Calaway.9718:

And unlike armor, people actually collect weapons.

Speak for yourself. I almost couldn’t care less what my weapons look like (almost, I really didn’t like COF sword so I skinned Super Sword Skin), but really care what my armour looks like.

a) add more armor skins
b) Let us store them like in Spvp

Yes, to more armors. Constantly new weapons but same armor. We need more…

Medium armor that isn’t trenchcoats
Light armor that isn’t dresses

Just give us the epic PvP Masquerade armor in PvE/WvW and we will be happy

I’d love for new armor to be added, like the PvP ‘Masquerade’ armor- it’s all tribal with bones & skin paint. Not to be confused with the dry bone set.

Please add it to PvE

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

i want freedom of stats allocation.

give us blank skins.

let us slot in the major and minor attributions ourselves.

No please, they are already having enough trouble balancing the stats they have now.

Or better yet, just make it where we can transmute the armor skins of all armors to any class we want. More variety less time consuming in making new armor skins right now instead of improving on other things like new dungeons, more maps and events, etc. (Mind you I mean just the skins NOT THE STATS of the armor).

The issue with introducing new armor skins has been addressed by ArenaNet developers already:
They have to design 3 different “classes” for each armor set.
From there, they have to design for all 5 races (although, I’d argue that only the Charr and Asura need race-specific tweaking).

So that’s 15 (or 9, depending on how you want to look at it) skins for one particular armor set. Each one of those would need 6 different pieces of armor, so 90 pieces of armor for each set.

They claim this when responding to why they keep introducing new weapons and backpacks, but no new armor. They can spend a lot of time tweaking a backpack to make it look just right, whereas an armor set would require 90 pieces of armor.

Additionally, I think they’ve realized that a lot of their armor set designs are undesirable, so they’re possibly trying to come up with designs that people would want to grind/pay for.

I think they should let us wear town clothes over our existing armor. Like GW1. You have to buy town clothes in the Gem Store… So it’s not like they’d be losing out on Gem purchases (from the transmutation stones).

GW1 had just 5 armor pieces in a set. (No shoulders) And each armor set had a profession-specific set, but only one race. So that was just 50 pieces in a set…

Even if you assume that humans, norn, and sylvari can all wear the same skin with minimal tweaking… (I’d imagine that Tengu would be based around the Charr skin [what, with their feet being talons and all])
That’s still 64 pieces.

They’ve determined that backpacks are an easy sell. And they can have a uniform design regardless of class. Thus, to maximize profits… Selling backpacks makes more sense than paying artists to come up with cool, new armor sets.

TL;DR: I’m not so sure ArenaNet artists can provide us with amazing armor sets. GW2 was in development for over 5 years, and none of the armor has an incredible “WOW”-factor to it.

Leather need some of these

Eh, I’m on the side of the fence that thinks there are too many armor sets and not enough unique weapon graphics.

I mean, half the level 80 weapons still use the same level 1 weapon graphic. That’s just…wrong.

Its very over due brah.

PlagueParade.7942:

Or better yet, just make it where we can transmute the armor skins of all armors to any class we want. More variety less time consuming in making new armor skins right now instead of improving on other things like new dungeons, more maps and events, etc. (Mind you I mean just the skins NOT THE STATS of the armor).

I never really understood the point to removing profession-specific armor AND the so-called-trinity, but keeping three distinct classes of armor.

Aside from the fact that it mimics the structure of the leading MMO. (like crafting professions)

We had a lot of new weapons sets added in but we did start with a lot of armor sets. I guess all in time!

Aeonblade.8709:

Eh, I’m on the side of the fence that thinks there are too many armor sets and not enough unique weapon graphics.

I mean, half the level 80 weapons still use the same level 1 weapon graphic. That’s just…wrong.

See: Flame & Frost weapons, Wintersday weapons (both Gem Store and toy skins), Halloween weapons (both BLC and pseudo-Legendary), Consortium weapons, etc.

ArenaNet’s been introducing new weapon skins. They just want you to gamble REAL money for them.

Oh, right. They did give us the hideous Guild weapons for “free” if you are willing to join a large-enough guild.

Minos.5168:

Aeonblade.8709:

Eh, I’m on the side of the fence that thinks there are too many armor sets and not enough unique weapon graphics.

I mean, half the level 80 weapons still use the same level 1 weapon graphic. That’s just…wrong.

See: Flame & Frost weapons, Wintersday weapons (both Gem Store and toy skins), Halloween weapons (both BLC and pseudo-Legendary), Consortium weapons, etc.

ArenaNet’s been introducing new weapon skins. They just want you to gamble REAL money for them.

Oh, right. They did give us the hideous Guild weapons for “free” if you are willing to join a large-enough guild.

Yea, I meant skins that people can get without real money. Should of been clear on that. 60$ is more than enough, unless they come out with some really amazing skins I doubt I’ll spend more money any time soon, sans possibly inventory upgrades. I haven’t had a space problem yet though.

Aeonblade.8709:

Yea, I meant skins that people can get without real money. Should of been clear on that. 60$ is more than enough, unless they come out with some really amazing skins I doubt I’ll spend more money any time soon, sans possibly inventory upgrades. I haven’t had a space problem yet though.

I’m with you there. Though, I’ve bought several character slots and a few bank upgrades.

IMHO, they should have given us a Flame & Frost weapon ticket for completing Braham and Rox’s storylines.

That way everyone could get one weapon of their choice for free. (I’m sure there’d still be plenty of people willing to gamble their money away for more weapon skins.)

Some sort of good-will gesture from the developers would have gone a long way.

Instead, we complete the events and get silly titles that are trivial to get.

Whereas, if we had a weapon, we could be like “Yeah, I was a part of the Frost & Flame war. I lead the Charr and Norn to victory over the invaders.”

I haven’t even bothered with the story events yet… I’m overall disappointed with the Living Story. It’s still a huge improvement from the miserable Karka event.

Jemmi.6058

Speak for yourself. I almost couldn’t care less what my weapons look like (almost, I really didn’t like COF sword so I skinned Super Sword Skin), but really care what my armour looks like.

a) add more armor skins
b) LET US STORE THEM LIKE IN SPVP

Allow me to elaborate on my previews post, collecting armor sets it’s very unpractical in the current game setting do to inventory limitations, 6 slots each set, weapons on the other hand, 1, ence my comment “people actually collect weapons”.

I myself have 3 armor sets on my main toon and 7 weapons, and like most people I’d really like a system like in PvP where I could easily change the skin BUT with that there goes the transmutation crystals usefulness, in the game that’s “depending” on the money people put in the gem store.

ok… how about this….

Since they glorify the idea of nobody being in set “roles” in a group (i.e. every class can damage, every class can heal, no Trinity, etc…) why don’t they just let us mix and match armors? I am sure we could come up with some EPIC looking combinations taking pieces from all 3 types of armor. Just let us choose our skins .

Dean Calaway.9718:

Jemmi.6058

Speak for yourself. I almost couldn’t care less what my weapons look like (almost, I really didn’t like COF sword so I skinned Super Sword Skin), but really care what my armour looks like.

a) add more armor skins
b) LET US STORE THEM LIKE IN SPVP

Allow me to elaborate on my previews post, collecting armor sets it’s very unpractical in the current game setting do to inventory limitations, 6 slots each set, weapons on the other hand, 1, ence my comment “people actually collect weapons”.

I myself have 3 armor sets on my main toon and 7 weapons, and like most people I’d really like a system like in PvP where I could easily change the skin BUT with that there goes the transmutation crystals usefulness, in the game that’s “depending” on the money people put in the gem store.

OK, that makes sense. I don’t carry around alternatives for either, just pick one and go with it.

Ashabhi.1365:

ok… how about this….

Since they glorify the idea of nobody being in set “roles” in a group (i.e. every class can damage, every class can heal, no Trinity, etc…) why don’t they just let us mix and match armors? I am sure we could come up with some EPIC looking combinations taking pieces from all 3 types of armor. Just let us choose our skins .

Although I 100% agree, I believe the design philosophy is that you can tell what type of profession someone is by their armour.

Ashabhi.1365

ok… how about this….

Since they glorify the idea of nobody being in set “roles” in a group (i.e. every class can damage, every class can heal, no Trinity, etc…) why don’t they just let us mix and match armors? I am sure we could come up with some EPIC looking combinations taking pieces from all 3 types of armor. Just let us choose our skins .

One of the problems is actually matching, remember the preview? It was clipping hell, to the point it was taken out for a “fix” and came back as it is now, when you preview a class of armor you can preview pieces of that class only so you can’t mix it with others.

To fix to a point of being usable in game they’d have to redo… well pretty much everything.

I much rather all new sets and a lot of them if possible.

If they make new armour skins I want to see more practical ones. Armours that actually look like something you might wear.
I also wouldn’t mind if they took some inspiration from Dark Souls. The armour in that game is stuff I wish I could wear in Guild Wars 2, particularly Ornstein’s Armor (with a shorter neck and the red plume), Havel’s, Silver Knight, Elite Knight and Steel. (Elite knight and Steel being good examples of good looking practical-ish armour.)
Oh, and also Smough’s and Catarina armour, dem currrrrvvves.

From how complicated it is, we will only see new armor as added ascended content or expansion pack content, either way its looking like we will be waiting a while and it will be hard to get or we will need to pay for it.

If armor was easier to make we would have already got more.

Heya
I’ve seen good weapon skins added since launch.

Is there any word on new armor sets/skins?

Couldn’t agree more. I’m not gonna rant about something that everyone has already mentioned, but I would like to see some more leaves for my sylvari.. please.

I would love to see additional choice and designs. I have been surprised by the lack of variety.

Ashabhi.1365:

I’m all for new armor…At lvl 80, full exotics (karma) light armor, the skins are all the same… Whether you get it from Arah, or Grenth, or Melandru….

It would have been much better (opinion alert) if each one had their own “special” armor. Something “growing” for melandu, and “deathly” for Grenth, and maybe something like a Battle Mage for Balthazar, but sadly, no… they’re all the same.
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This.