Guild Wars 2

Instead of selling reskins of old armors, which wastes store space, gives off a lazy image, and occasionally leads to downright insulting scenarios (such as a reskinned cultural armor), why not port some Guild Wars 1 skins in through the cash shop?

Guild Wars 1 skins already have existing concepts – you’ve done them before. You’ve designed them before. That cuts the first stage of armor design out of the equation entirely.

Certain Guild Wars 1 skins were extremely popular in that game and would no doubt become popular purchases in this one. Just look at the Primeval Heavy set, which is among the most popular heavy armor skins in both games. Now just imagine how well sets like Elite Kurzick/Luxon, Elite Templar, Druid, Elite Druid, Vabbian, Ancient, Non-Heavy Primeval, and Obsidian could sell if they were adapted to Guild Wars 2’s graphics and art style.

And, unlike bad reskins of existing Guild Wars 2 armor sets, these would not be likely to leave a bad taste in the community’s mouth. Primeval and Krytan sure haven’t. In fact, I’d wager that there are plenty of loyal fans from the first game who would be overjoyed to see such nostalgic sets get a face-lift. Why not throw them a bone and make some easy money on these traditional skins rather than create another Flame-Kissed fiasco?

My personal suggestion – release some of the simpler, non-prestige sets from the first game to game content while releasing some of the elite/prestige skins to dungeons or the gem store.

Me and a guildy before they left where talking about this. We both love to see necro scar skins added.

I love that idea. But I’m scared that the choices will simply be terrible…Medium will probably get ranger ancient or norn, light will get elementalist ascalon or istani and heavy will surely get dervish norn (If you don’t see what’s wrong with the last one, check the male armor carefully).

RedStar.4218:

I love that idea. But I’m scared that the choices will simply be terrible…Medium will probably get ranger ancient or norn, light will get elementalist ascalon or istani and heavy will surely get dervish norn (If you don’t see what’s wrong with the last one, check the male armor carefully).

Ranger Norn was a popular armor set – and it was one that I personally liked.

I also liked Dervish Norn Male; I’m not seeing the issue at all.

I didn’t chose them because I find them ugly. It’s because it “fits” with their ongoing theme :
-medium gets coats
-light gets overly skimpy for female and covered up for male

Except dervish. That tube top looks too weird on a male and I can’t fathom the laughs from seeing a male fat norn wearing one of those. Actually this would be awesome if it was added (and I like the female top).

after seeing what they did to profane, i’m not sure I want them to “attempt” to port them over into this game