Guild Wars 2

Seems to me that anything that replaces my carefully crafted (or purchased) Helm/Mask Armor should be something that I can craft (or purchase) just as easily. Is there any reason my characters are NOT able to craft a useful aqua/waterbreather with the stats and insignia I want on the item? Seems that something that was originally advertised as “great, new feature” has been somewhat slighted by this lack of foresight…. anyone else care to weigh in?

Totally agree. Aquabreathers should be craftable in some fashion. With how little support ANet’s given underwater combat, make it one recipe that makes an Exotic breather that lets the player choose its stats. Then do the same for Ascended.

Because no one plays underwater and they have no idea how to fix underwater combat to make it enjoyable.

I find it somewhat annoying that I can’t at least choose the stats on most of the lvl 80 breathers, but other than that I really couldn’t care less. It’s all about the rune.

Underwater content looks to me like it’s been abandoned in the middle of development. There are some nice underwater maps and weapons seem to be finished, but they somehow stopped in the middle of making utility skills usable underwater and before they completed underwater armor.

Maybe we’ll get a complete overhaul to underwater content by the time we fight against Bubbles (Deep sea dragon)?

Funny note: Have you ever seen a Charr with an aquabreather? Where I’m from we use those things to prevent dogs from biting passengers! Makes me laugh every time I see a diving Charr.

I’ve found a total of one aquabreather I can craft. It’s a purchasable recipe and only for the heavy class (level 30 or so, I believe, maybe less). It never made that much sense that it had to be purchased from vendors, and only karma vendors at that.

The question is: would tailor’s make light aquabreathes, and would it work just as effectively? They may not have insignias, but having more upgrades wouldn’t be unwelcomed.

I wish they would make a couple crafted ones sense release with only one option to get one at level 80 at launch like 3 now and all with stats that dont fit my builds its kinda weird. Maybe they do have them and no ones unlocked the recipe yet not sure but I think in 2 1/2 years someone would of found it by now.

But I agree there should be crafted ones that you can craft and then like the new back items they have one that allows you to pick the stats on it. Like an exotic and one for ascended would be great. For now most of my characters use the one from Orr you get for karma and its only a green item unless someone knows where to get a rare or better?

Wiki says that an exotic aquabreather drops from Tequatl, but I can’t confirm that myself

Rognik.2579:

Wiki says that an exotic aquabreather drops from Tequatl, but I can’t confirm that myself

Light medium and heavy ones drop. Theyre rares not exotics though.

Rognik.2579:

Wiki says that an exotic aquabreather drops from Tequatl, but I can’t confirm that myself

The Benthic Aquabreather drops from Teq, but it is rare, not exotic. I don’t believe there are any exotic breathers, and the Benthic is the only rare.

Those should be craftable by artificers. And each armor set should have its own breather skin.

But nobody ever told them how to make them.

That should be fixed.

There is one Exotic breather available – Rime-Rimmed Mariner’s Breather

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rime-Rimmed_Mariner%27s_Rebreather

if anything, they should make breathers global with an adaptive armor stat.
i think that’s better because then we only need one crafting station that actually makes sense, IMO leatherwork is the best fitting because cloth isn’t waterproof and i don’t think you want a heavy steel casing on your face underwater.

Honestly it’s mostly because underwater as a whole is very very low on the priority list. Skill balance is never touched, dodging, drowning, all but forgotten, and they even went to great lengths to factually remove underwater from sPvP and WvW to make sure they don’t have to worry about it again any time soon.