Now hold your horses there ladies and gentle lads. I am not too savvy with forum posts and etiquette (if you saw my previous reply to an age old post forgive me, and if you saw my EARLIER post that utilized a more common word for “gluteus maximus” forgive me as well (I still think that mod removal was a bit overzealous…)) So! Please keep that in mind as I type.
I play this game a lot, unfortunately not as much as I would like to (Pesky real life!), I played GW1 from the early days and rolled an Ele, so, naturally, when GW2 came out I rolled an Ele, male (Human), and… I must say… I find the Armor to be quite lacking :
NOW HOLD ON THERE! BEFORE YOU YELL IN PROTEST! Hear this old badger out.
ISSUE ONE: Tighty Whiteys
I’m not saying it is ugly… just… lacking… particularly light armor… (some heavy stuff looks mad!) In my opinion, CoF armor looks amazing, I’m currently farming my way towards it with full AC gear… I have AC gear and I dye part of it white and such… and I play with my buddeh (engineer) and EVERY TIME he sees my character… he snarks inappropriate remarks about my characters… rear end… (changed dye. still too sassy)
I mean, really… Tighty-whiteys? I love the set’s stats and I love what it allows me to do but I mean… My exotic MF gear that I crafted looks better, and when I bought the set I was seriously considering transmuting the GW1 reward armor to it… It should be epic…
And here’s the best bit! Then when I found out the legendary staff leaves a rainbow effect behind my character… I pictured myself… in tighty whiteys… charging into battle… with a rainbow stream behind me… I mean… COME ON >.<!
ISSUE TWO: HEAD!
From level 1 to level 80 I have not seen a descent head piece for an Elementalist… (CoF not included). I AM NOT A MESMER >.<! I shouldn’t need to wear those masks, and don’t get me started on the way the rest of the options look, like a very lazy shark is eating your head or something… I mean… We’re elementalists! We should have elemental related armor pieces, especially for the head, crowns of fire, frost… etc (insert rubbish suggestions here) and this finally brings us to issue 3.
ISSUE THREE: No Profession Specific Armor
I only realized this quite recently (largely due to me constantly screaming “I’M NOT A MESMER” every time I see an armor set with a mask – and if you are wondering what I am talking about I guess you had to play GW1 – masks were specific to Mesmers, it was their thing, illusions and such…)
Where is the profession specific armor? I think that’s something we can all agree is missing here? Elementalist armorsets, especially those that are exotic from dungeons and such should have elemental themes to them (PLEASE NOTE: I am talking scarcity here… as in for every possible ONE set (CoF being all fiery) there be a MILLION whitey-tighties!
I believe this is something that might affect other classes too and some sexes more than others (Female ele gear is not as bad as male tightywhiteyness? I hear chars look ridiculous in light armor…)
Well in any case, this old badger has said his piece… I quite enjoy this game but I really hope Arenanet does something about all this.
PAYCE!
(edited by Loony.3865)