Guild Wars 2

I have seen people interested in having all armor types opened up to any class, meaning all classes can wear heavy, medium and light armor. I to think this is a great idea seeing as heavy armor classes can hit every bit as hard as a light and medium armor based class and still get the same level of stats.

However the fact that heavy armor gives more armor and still has the same stats as the other two armor types would mean everyone would literally be running around in heavy armor if they were to allow all classes access to the different types. This is unless they actually put restrictions like the heavier the armor the longer your CD’s or reduced stats on heavy armor.

Though I am pretty sure they will lift class restrictions for weapons long before they do armor.

In any case what are your thoughts to make armor balanced if all three types were available to all classes?

This is a fifty fifty for me. A part of me says yes while the other part says no.

I don’t think it will happen though. Curtis Johnson quoted a post that explained a little bit how it is. The reason why this will probably not happen is because the same reason with Town Clothes.

Armours are built up in different ways, and mix-matching such will cause more problem than just clipping, but might cause big holes appear all over your character.

This is from a cosmetic point of view though.

I’m 100% against Elementalists running around in heavy armour with heavy armor stats, or Guardians running around in light armour with light armor stats.

hmmm how about NO

you sound like a scrub mesmer or mage who just want to wear a heavy armor and saw the excuse to do it with this account wide armor change.

there is a good reason why Heavy armor is only for Heavy armor users, their ranged weapon SUCK. try being a Warrior or a Guardian and hit someone in top of a wall in WvW with a ranged weapon.

lol people can afk while we shoot them and they still wont die thats how weak they are. People who need to go into the fray get HA, people who are not even suposed to get hit get less armor.

Thats how WvW work, i don´t care about PVE they can give ranged classes super heavy armor with 1000 defenses, if thats what they want. It doesnt seem enough that mages are able to get more toughness and hp than a guardian could ever dream of, but they might want more

Benkei.6293:

hmmm how about NO

you sound like a scrub mesmer or mage who just want to wear a heavy armor and saw the excuse to do it with this account wide armor change.

There is no need to make personal attacks when all I was doing was asking for opinions on armor. You don’t even know me, yet you are making false assumptions instead of contributing.