Guild Wars 2

Could we PLEASE get them soon? My OCD tells me I need to have a full set of Ascended gear for my elementalist, and the only thing missing is my breather…

Please don’t mock me. OCD is a serious condition.

Well they need to give us more options to get exo ones first…

It’s funny that they said they would introduce FULL Ascended Armor back in December 2013, but they never really did. There’s still a piece of Ascended Armor missing.

Yes it does count as Armor as it replaces your Headgear while underwater.
It’s been over a year since this has been left Incomplete.

Characters can breathe fine underwater without one equipped (or can hold their breath indefinitely except when defeated), so it just feels tacked on and unnecessary. Even though I don’t mind underwater combat, the whole having to swap out my helmet for a breather every time get’s annoying.

They could just remove the breathers entirely and let us wear our full armor underwater, and nothing would be lost from it… (well, save for all the breather pieces).

Derigar.7810:

Could we PLEASE get them soon? My OCD tells me I need to have a full set of Ascended gear for my elementalist, and the only thing missing is my breather…

Please don’t mock me. OCD is a serious condition.

What you’re describing isn’t a symptom of OCD. You might very well have OCD, but you feeling the need to get an ascended breather isn’t part of it. It’s a common misconception though. A lot of people think that OCD is the urge to complete something, finish something, make something whole, etc. etc. etc. but that’s not what OCD is. I know because I have real OCD.

I’d rather they be removed and I had suggested as such months ago. I don’t see the gameplay purpose and they require an additional duplicate rune/upgrade to boot since it doesn’t take the Helm’s rune as a sixth. Then out came the exotic aquabreathers over Christmas (but only available over extreme RNG or through PvP) so one could presume they do not intend to abandon it.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

Derigar.7810:

Could we PLEASE get them soon? My OCD tells me I need to have a full set of Ascended gear for my elementalist, and the only thing missing is my breather…

Please don’t mock me. OCD is a serious condition.

What you’re describing isn’t a symptom of OCD. You might very well have OCD, but you feeling the need to get an ascended breather isn’t part of it. It’s a common misconception though. A lot of people think that OCD is the urge to complete something, finish something, make something whole, etc. etc. etc. but that’s not what OCD is. I know because I have real OCD.

The desire for completion, wholeness, etc. is a PART of OCD. My wife has OCD and things like one things being out of place (in this case a different “colored” armor piece) will driver her up the wall. And will eventually have a anxiety attack. Is it OCD? Absolutely. Does everyone who suffers from OCD have the exact same problems? Not at all. Theres no need to disregard his condition, or call it fake or not “real” OCD.

In any event, yes an ascended aqua breather would be awesome. Although there isn’t much in the way of underwater combat any more, it still would be cool to have. At the very least just to be able to have a different skin.

Derigar.7810:

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Please don’t mock me. OCD is a serious condition.

….that you shouldn’t use as a “reason” to get something added to a video game….

Actually on topic: The game needs fully crafted Re-breathers or simply ditch them for an item that transfers your current helm stats to underwater combat.

Breathers should be available per armor set. And they should be mere skins like outfits.

You go to the outfit view, and there along the Outfit and the new Hat and Swimwear slots there would be a breathing apparatus slot to choose breathers. If the apparatus skin is not enabled, the Hat skin is used. If no Hat skin is enabled, the armor’s headgear is show, if the armor headgear is not set to be visible, nothing is shown, just the bare head.

I would rather see water breathers reworked as separate from the armor system. Where the upgrades are specific for underwater, or if they are make into a costume piece then a mastery line could sever a similar function.

I’d settle for exotics that are available beyond horrific RNG or PvP reward tracks first. The jump from rare to exotic is much bigger than the jump from exotic to ascended (and even the rare ones aren’t exactly super easy to come by and only come in 1 stat combo).

But seriously, they’re basically the same as a helmet, so I see no reason why they’re so rare in general. Getting a breather should be no different than getting a helmet for land. Craft ’em, loot ’em, everything. Why are they so difficult and annoying to get?

Brother Grimm.5176:

Derigar.7810:

…….
Please don’t mock me. OCD is a serious condition.

….that you shouldn’t use as a “reason” to get something added to a video game….

Actually on topic: The game needs fully crafted Re-breathers or simply ditch them for an item that transfers your current helm stats to underwater combat.

Totally agree. While I don’t use ascended, I do have a couple of buddies that sometimes complain when their ascended helms get replaced when an underwater section shows up in a fractal.

I want a New Craft profession.

Fisherman or w.e name you want

Can Craft underwater weapons (I mean we got this is other professions but be better here) Fishing and Aqua Breathers

I ground the Wintersday PvP track so I could have an exotic aquabreather for each of my alts instead of just a rare soldier stat breather. Then I discovered how stupidly limited those aquabreathers are in stat choices.

Given how ANet can’t seem to bother give a full selection of stats for their only exotic aquabreather, or even give a full selection of stats for ascended trinkets, I wouldn’t hold my breath (heh) for ascended aquabreathers.