Cool skins? you are a guardian or a warrior
For weapons it seems you already hit the nail on the head: the smaller weapons are going to get less attention because there isn’t much to them while the larger weapons get more because there’s more to work with. Also, there are some great focus, swords, maces, etc. skins.
For armor I’m not entirely sure. Heavy Armor is metal so perhaps it’s easier and more fun to design where as with Light/Medium armor it’s a cloth and they have to keep true to the material’s ability to function (metal is rigid whereas cloth is not). I think there are some great mix-and-match capabilities with any armor type though. To be honest, I made a Sylvari Guard and I HATE the way he looks. Human-heavy armor characters look the best in this game. . . at least in my opinion. I’ll stick with my Sylvari though.
….you are trying to say that thief can’t use sword or what…and you aren’t going to design but size and how often people can see it, ill tell you right here that the best designed legendary is spear…and legendary dagger is way better designed then GS.
as of armor, tbh its all about personal taste. what you want to make light and med look like heavy with all those shiny metal and horns?
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I do not find a bias toward any armor class, and I think the reason for certain weapons getting attention has more to do with the number of professions that can use it, as well as scaling for detail.
-Mike O’Brien
Because we can’t be angry about both?
Swords are fine, and also legendary dagger.
But effects on weapons are way beyong better in other weapons.
The new 2H sword woth bats is really cool, why we dagger users can not have something like that?
i do really understand that the smaller the weapon is, harder to show effects.
But come on is time to hace cool daggers, pistols, rifles, axes, short bows, equaly to other weapon types.
I wish i know more english to explain myself, i know you get my main idea of this topic.
I do love this game, i just want more mature and cool efects on my items.
Saw a thief running around with two legendary daggers, looked pretty cool… ^^
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Another thing is that medium armor skins are quite lackluster compared to heavy and light.
Mesmers and Rangers can both have GS.
Mesmer, Ranger, Thief can all have Sword. Mesmers can even have 2 Swords.
Engineers can have Shields.
(please do not argue about Engineer, i know about the kits problem and i feel for you)
You can easily make a Mesmer(and a viable one too) with GS + Sw/Sw combinations.
(Please dont argue about GS sucking compared to Staff etc etc, viable =/= optimal)
As for making a viable Ranger, dont ask me.