Guild Wars 2

Legendary Armor will probably happen eventually, right? They’d have the same stats as ascended, but would also have the ability to change stats when out of combat, as well as the aesthetics of it of course.

So I thought… what would I want legendary armor to look like? Well, for starters, I’d want them all to be animated (though some probably wouldn’t want this and that’s awesome too), and when I was watching a music video of Sugababes and their song ‘Shape’ and saw this animated butterfly dress, I thought it would be an amazing homage to the Mesmer.

(skip to 2:44 for the butterfly dress)

Then I remembered The Hunger Games where a couple of the main characters are wearing fiery clothing. Wouldn’t it be awesome if, for example, as an elementalist, you switched attunements from fire to water, and it would change from a fiery animation to a water themed animation and vice versa? And with the earth attunement, you’d have floating rocks surrounding your armor or something. The possibilities are endless really…

(skip to 2:06 for the fiery clothing)

If Anet really wanted to go the extra mile, it would be cool to customise what the armor looks like. For example, for legendary elementalist themed armor, if you’re in earth attunement, you could customise the position of where the rocks/spikes are, on your armor. This way people with the same armor can look relatively different, depending on how you’ve positioned pieces on said armor.

TL;DR: Feel free to post your ideas and any inspiration for concepts of Legendary Armor

Edit: Added a screenshot of the butterfly armor (left) and fiery armor (right) from the videos

As long as it isn’t super-sparkle-unicorn-rainbow explosions everywhere I am a-okay with it.

i want this so bad! more the ability to change stats than the look. has there been any hint as to if they are planing to do this?

i hate having 3 armor sets

For those of us who remember Spamadan and the sea of chaos gloves I would rather not have the Legendary armor be glowing or particle effect heavy. Maybe something more like the shiro’ken have with the floating blades, or Margonite skin where the textures are always in motion with swirling patterns in it

Unforgiven Azrael.6203:

For those of us who remember Spamadan and the sea of chaos gloves I would rather not have the Legendary armor be glowing or particle effect heavy. Maybe something more like the shiro’ken have with the floating blades, or Margonite skin where the textures are always in motion with swirling patterns in it

Floating blade is cool as concept but in the current game engine it will look extremly ugly.
it will be fixed on your back like some kind of fake plastics, unless you have a skill set that’s made for you and have individual animation sets made with blades in mind.

other then that it will just look like another plastic made fixed black raven wings.

tbh i would want twilight effect armor, that would be insane.

having the twilight effect as armor would be pretty cool, as long as the armor is modeled well as well, and not like on the swords where is just a straight sword with a pretty texture on it

I’d rather have it be Zaps, Frostfangs or Flameseeker Prophecies of armor, rather than an equivalent of Quip, Bifrost or the Dreamer. So, sensible effects, rather conservative design (instead of jokes), and no battle bikini…

Unforgiven Azrael.6203:

For those of us who remember Spamadan and the sea of chaos gloves I would rather not have the Legendary armor be glowing or particle effect heavy. Maybe something more like the shiro’ken have with the floating blades, or Margonite skin where the textures are always in motion with swirling patterns in it

tons of players loved the chaos gloves… heck i would still wear mine in gw2 if i could they were epic. Just because everyone had them eventually doesn’t mean they weren’t really cool, just means there needed to be more variety of things that also looked just as epic.

I say they just go a really expensive route and make “Emperor’s Clothes”. You use a ton of mats and spend insane amounts of coin for invisible, legendary armor.

IDK. I think I would rather have a Fractal Armor set first. Some new ascended dungeon sets to give people a reason to play them again. Legendary armor would be cool if there were tail slots for Charr and gender defined sets for them and Asura. Heck, I actually would rather them go back through the old sets and do that first.

I’d rather they never come by..
Bolt of Damask will always haunt me in my dreams. (I couldn’t possibly imagine how many mats required for each pieces this time)