Guild Wars 2

Could someone please link the asura armor especially medium, ty x

MikaHR.1978:

Its a subtle message from ANet to their payerbase.

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I think the main problem is in your dye combinaion. Try different colours.

haviz.1340:

Xae Isareth.1364:

You see, this is the problem. People rant about world events being spamming 1 and akitteng, then release a world event which requires co-ordination and strategy like Tequatl, and everyone calls for a nerf.

The problem you face here is that those are different people.

Sorry there is a middle ground between 1:

• ridiculously easy monsters to slaughter (aka. the ones being zerged pushing 1 skill)
• ridiculously hard monsters to be slaughtered by (aka. the ones one-hitting the player)

Anet doesn’t have a clue what strategy is and they sure have no clue what fun is.

Evans.6347:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

The problem is that the dye doesn’t work like that on the armor. The leg plates are all one color. It makes the outer part really shiny, and in between kind of an off color.

Wait what? That’s a horrible design choice =/
And that still looks horribly cheap xD

Yeah if you check out the screen shots the 4th dye slot isn’t used. It’s the first three.

To give you an example this is celestial and all the rest abyss. The grey color is actually the celestial because you can’t independently dye that part of the armor. Also the fur, or grass, on the shoulders can’t be dyed. Makes it even worse is that it clips with the chest pretty badly. Not as noticeable in still shots though.

For me, it’s the ugliest looking armor pieces in the entire game. Tried it on my Norn and it looks real bad, especially heavy.

It shows us what people who farm for ascended really are.

ToT.7018:

Could someone please link the asura armor especially medium, ty x

Any particular color?

Here you go. Again the fourth dye color is not used as far as I can tell. The colors are Celestial, Abyss, Blood, Blueberry in that order.

Astral Projections.7320:

The male human looks nice. Unfortunately I don’t have a male human. I have a male Sylvari and the poofiness bug hits hard, as usual.

If those are what ascended armors gonna look like, I think I’m gonna skip the pain of trying make them. None of them look good in my opinion.

lol no

Venirto.4208:

I think the main problem is in your dye combinaion. Try different colours.

You don’t need to preview the fourth color. I haven’t checked medium but I didn’t see the fourth used on heavy/light.

The problem is also the parts that can’t be dyed. The way the color gets “highlighted” for some parts, and then becomes an off color on the others makes it ugly. Then there is the fact that again they didn’t put any work into the non human variants. On charr it is horribly stretched, it clips through on the shoulders, chest, and it has floating parts (anyone that has played charr knows what I’m talking about). I don’t know about the other races, but so far it only seems to fit humans that have certain body types.

Do you have sparkles showing on the light shoulders? When I preview them- especially with dark dyes- you can see flashes around them. I am interested to see if these have effects with them.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Venirto.4208:

I think the main problem is in your dye combinaion. Try different colours.

You don’t need to preview the fourth color. I haven’t checked medium but I didn’t see the fourth used on heavy/light.

The problem is also the parts that can’t be dyed. The way the color gets “highlighted” for some parts, and then becomes an off color on the others makes it ugly. Then there is the fact that again they didn’t put any work into the non human variants. On charr it is horribly stretched, it clips through on the shoulders, chest, and it has floating parts (anyone that has played charr knows what I’m talking about). I don’t know about the other races, but so far it only seems to fit humans that have certain body types.

The armor design itself i like but i am hoping since this armor is not yet released they will take some time to work on it and fix the problems you are talking about.

Fingers crossed.

hahahahaha it’s so ugly omg hahaha

Venirto.4208:

I think the main problem is in your dye combinaion. Try different colours.

Dye combination is not the problem. They’re kittening ugly. Most of the existing armor looks better than these.

Gathslan.1870:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Venirto.4208:

I think the main problem is in your dye combinaion. Try different colours.

You don’t need to preview the fourth color. I haven’t checked medium but I didn’t see the fourth used on heavy/light.

The problem is also the parts that can’t be dyed. The way the color gets “highlighted” for some parts, and then becomes an off color on the others makes it ugly. Then there is the fact that again they didn’t put any work into the non human variants. On charr it is horribly stretched, it clips through on the shoulders, chest, and it has floating parts (anyone that has played charr knows what I’m talking about). I don’t know about the other races, but so far it only seems to fit humans that have certain body types.

The armor design itself i like but i am hoping since this armor is not yet released they will take some time to work on it and fix the problems you are talking about.

Fingers crossed.

I think that’s the point of people complaining. It isn’t that some of us are sitting around thinking “kitten I want to make someone feel like crap”. It’s that if Anet listens they can take some feed back from this and consider what they are doing. A few changes and these might look pretty good. I don’t think they will ever look good on Charr, the textures are just too stretched for my taste (especially from behind). The dye parts are a big one.

I could just be a fan of a different art style, which is understandable. I think another way to handle it might be to let people craft a stat mod or something. Then you can double click it to apply the ascended stats to a particular armor if they want. I hope you are right and that these are still in an early beta. I’m afraid though that the oct 15th update is going to introduce ascended armor crafting, and that these will be the final product. I don’t know why they would include the armor already unless they were gearing up for it’s release.

Sirendor.1394:

Sorry there is a middle ground between 1:

• ridiculously easy monsters to slaughter (aka. the ones being zerged pushing 1 skill)
• ridiculously hard monsters to be slaughtered by (aka. the ones one-hitting the player)

Anet doesn’t have a clue what strategy is and they sure have no clue what fun is.

The amount of one-hitting monsters could be probably counted on fingers of one hand. And most often it’s a specific mechanic that mob posses.

This suffers from the problem I have with many armor sets: I don’t like the dis-symmetry. Mostly in the arm and especially shoulder area. (In this case with the heavy and medium armors).

I also don’t like the mask fetish the art department seems to have (on many helms). Most people took more than second to choose their face. Why would they choose to cover their handiwork up? It seems like a waste of time and resources by Anet to design masks.

The “ears” on the medium helmet look silly. It reminds me of Aquaman from Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid or some alien from Star Trek.

@ GGSBlunaspike: does the mask remove hair or is your character bald? It wouldn’t be the first time a head armor piece removed hair/facial hair.

kRiza krimos.1637:

Shanna.4762:

I wouldn’t have a problem with ascended armor if i didn’t have to freaking CRAFT to get it. I do NOT WANT TO CRAFT, I hate crafting in any MMO ever especially this one. They’re gating stuff to force you to do something you don’t want to do to remain competitive. If there’s no alternative way of attaining ascended gear once ascended armor is in, I’m done with this game for good. I’ve been here since day one, and this is it for me. I will not be forced to do stuff I absolutely loathe.

Great! Less overflow and wvw queue for me! Enjoy your next game, ta ta.

If only I didn’t already play a game that GW2 is trying like to hell to compete with (and losing abysmally) already. I play LoL, you know the actual esport game, and GW2 in the downtime between matches. You guys can keep trying to break into that esport scene if you want. You might pull it off 100 viewers at a time. Not likely though, especially when so many players are quitting.

There are so many ghost town servers already, does anet really want players to quit? I don’t know, but I think the way they are going about things now certainly doesn’t seem to be working.

Edit
For anyone curious, yes I was trolling a bit with that other guy. Though I don’t think anyone can deny having servers that are mostly abandoned. I don’t think Anet is going in the right direction, but I don’t own/operate a game so my opinion means nothing.

Meadfreek.6789:

This suffers from the problem I have with many armor sets: I don’t like the dis-symmetry. Mostly in the arm and especially shoulder area. (In this case with the heavy and medium armors).

I also don’t like the mask fetish the art department seems to have (on many helms). Most people took more than second to choose their face. Why would they choose to cover their handiwork up? It seems like a waste of time and resources by Anet to design masks.

I’m with you on all that. Some of the armors already in game I’d love, if were symmetrical. Like the crafted heavy mithril one (can’ t think of its name), I’d love using that one, if the right arm had the same stuff that the left one get.
Same with the masks, for all my light characters I hide the helmet because I find all the masks ugly (never liked those kinds of ‘helmets’).

Carrot. Stick.

Seras.5702:

@ GGSBlunaspike: does the mask remove hair or is your character bald? It wouldn’t be the first time a head armor piece removed hair/facial hair.

He’s bald, but the mask might remove it. He was supposed to look like Yoda. Looks more like him in the brown robe I have. I tried but couldn’t find a hair style that was close at the time. I have some of the make over kits saved up so maybe one of the new ones would work.

The point of Ascended armor is to prove that acquiring Exotic will still be more than viable after adding a new tier, since Ascended will desperately need to be transmuted with Exotic skins as soon as is possible.

Holy Smokes thanks for the picture, think i still to my T3 cultural look

So happy I have the Heritage armor to transmute over this clown costume.

Oh btw i use Celestial, lightish blue and pink colour to match The Dreamer, sorry dont know exact names as im at work, ty again for your time

ToT.7018:

Oh btw i use Celestial, lightish blue and pink colour to match The Dreamer, sorry dont know exact names as im at work, ty again for your time

If you were talking to me, np at all. If there is a particular setup you want me to post for you I can. I don’t play that much anymore, mostly just idle in LA between matches so it’s no bother.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

nicknamenick.2437:

Molch.2078:

Well, can’t argue about taste. I like them.

Show helm on Charr pls.. omg i think it looks terrible (again..)

There you go

Yes half of the face sticks out. It looks like it’s just sort of stuck on there. The shoulders are colored midnight ice because I was looking at different colors. The back, ugh more of my tail jutting out of the armor. The metal “bends” around my tail. Of course there is also the typical floating parts that don’t fit the body.

omg…. why Anet?? tjeeezz after sooo many posts about clipping they still make armor that doesnt fit a Charr.

Thanx for posting this pic!

Honestly. I was expecting them the be ugly. Just like the weapons are. All the more reason to skin them.

Dual.8953:

Honestly. I was expecting them the be ugly. Just like the weapons are. All the more reason to skin them.

All part of Anets plan to make you buy t-stones/crystals.

Would be nice to get sets like that.. but i don’t think its ever going to happen in GW..

Gear tiers are content in Gear Wars 2.

You know I’ve done everything I want in this game. I don’t care about weapons but I do like armor (a lot).

If you want to craft (exotic) armor there is only 1 for each class and 3 type of weapons (corrupted, destroyer and pearl) for each class. There a no mystic forge armor but a lot of mystic forge weapons. There are no legendary armor but there are legendary weapons and there are even more coming.

So I’ve stopped playing this game cuz there isn’t any long term goal to aim for and I placed all my hope on the ascended armor and I thought they’d make them look awesome cuz they’ve put no effort to making new armor. Look at the aetherblade armor (the first new armor set after 10 months), it’s ugly and caters to people that like steampunk. Look at the armor released in august; a norn armor, a engi armor and a royal looking armor (I don’t count the achievement armor cuz it’s only a half non-dyeable armor).

So like I said I expected it to look awesome, better then all current armor or at least what people would put in their top 3 cuz they had plenty of time to think of something (over a year) and cuz of the effort and time you have to invest in making these armor. But nope they come with this crap.

The light armor looks like one those entertainers the royalty had in the middle ages, who the hell is going with that outfit into the battlefield, maybe a roleplayer can use that in game. The medium doesn’t look special at all and there are plenty of better looking armor you can get in game. And then there is the heavy armor, the one I was looking forward to the most. I like everything about it except for the helmet. But it still looks less then the draconic armor and like I said previously these amors needed to look awesome, better then all current armor or at least what people would put in their top 3 cuz they had plenty of time to think of something (over a year) and cuz of the effort and time you have to invest in making these armor.

So yet again no long term goal I can aim for. And after seeing this I have no hope for the legendary armor whatsoever. Please stop treating armor lovers like me like crap and put effort into making armor, awesome ascended armor, legendary amor and mystic forge armor cuz people like me don’t want to put effort into a backpiece item or a weapon.

the point of ascended armor is to kitten me off.

Get your eyes checked soon.

champ.7021:

Now here is my question that i would like to pose to all those who enjoy ascended armor and for the kind kind anet devs.
what is the point of ascended armor?
now ascended weapons were created (based off of anet’s logic) to bridge the gap between exotics and legendary.
however, there was no gap between exotics and legendarys in terms of stats only in looks. Ascended weapons on the other hand have better stats but worse looks than both legendarys and exotics. It was really just a reason to put in weapons that took people longer to get so that those grinding hamsters would have something to do.

Now for ascended armor. There is no legendary to make the excuse of bridging the gap and the armor looks terrible anyways. This armor is almost a game breaker for me. I thought anet would have looked at all the complaints and the arguing about ascended weapons and realize people didnt want ascended armor…especially not so soon. This will of course not be taken out of the game once it is released so i plead anet and other players like me who dont want grind but want fun to try and change this direction they have taken.

They were referring to the time gap between how long it takes to get exotics and how long it (theoretically) takes to get a legendary.

You are correct that originally (as far as we knew) legendaries were limited to weapons (probably why they opted to roll out craftable ascended weapons first). Now though, they are talking ‘full’ legendary sets…. weapons, armor, trinkets. Which theoretically will take forever and a day to obtain for average players. (Not saying this is a bad thing, always good to have goals). Having the ascended tier between acts like a stepping stone of sorts, if you choose to build those legendary pieces. (And why wouldn’t you with free stat swapping?) Of course, if you opt to stop at ascended, you’re not really out anything either…

Edit: And additionally, there will be those that never opt to get Ascended either. For them, exotics are more than enough. There is nothing in the game that says we ‘must have’ that tier, except other players. Now, should they add elite content, this may change since having BiS would be advantageous at that point.

I rather wear lady gaga’s outfits.

Apparently I missed the announcement that they were rdy to add the ascended armors (and I can’t log in to preview the codes…. kitten!)

Afya.5842:

I rather wear lady gaga’s outfits.

Try throwing a selection of stacks of meat in the MF, you never know…

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

champ.7021:

Now here is my question that i would like to pose to all those who enjoy ascended armor and for the kind kind anet devs.
what is the point of ascended armor?
now ascended weapons were created (based off of anet’s logic) to bridge the gap between exotics and legendary.
however, there was no gap between exotics and legendarys in terms of stats only in looks. Ascended weapons on the other hand have better stats but worse looks than both legendarys and exotics. It was really just a reason to put in weapons that took people longer to get so that those grinding hamsters would have something to do.

Now for ascended armor. There is no legendary to make the excuse of bridging the gap and the armor looks terrible anyways. This armor is almost a game breaker for me. I thought anet would have looked at all the complaints and the arguing about ascended weapons and realize people didnt want ascended armor…especially not so soon. This will of course not be taken out of the game once it is released so i plead anet and other players like me who dont want grind but want fun to try and change this direction they have taken.

They were referring to the time gap between how long it takes to get exotics and how long it (theoretically) takes to get a legendary.

You are correct that originally (as far as we knew) legendaries were limited to weapons (probably why they opted to roll out craftable ascended weapons first). Now though, they are talking ‘full’ legendary sets…. weapons, armor, trinkets. Which theoretically will take forever and a day to obtain for average players. (Not saying this is a bad thing, always good to have goals). Having the ascended tier between acts like a stepping stone of sorts, if you choose to build those legendary pieces. (And why wouldn’t you with free stat swapping?) Of course, if you opt to stop at ascended, you’re not really out anything either…

Edit: And additionally, there will be those that never opt to get Ascended either. For them, exotics are more than enough. There is nothing in the game that says we ‘must have’ that tier, except other players. Now, should they add elite content, this may change since having BiS would be advantageous at that point.

So, it will be EXACTLY like it was with exotic-legendary except with 1 of most pointless tiers of gear in MMO ever.

You DO need THAT tier for fractals. duh

And by raising power cap you will eventually need it for other stuff.

Some pieces look very nice, but others are pretty ugly and impractical.

MikaHR.1978:

So, it will be EXACTLY like it was with exotic-legendary except with 1 of most pointless tiers of gear in MMO ever.

You DO need THAT tier for fractals. duh

And by raising power cap you will eventually need it for other stuff.

Yes, it was a nod to those the hollered, and loudly, for more gear grind. For some it will be pointless, not for all. For some, it will be the stepping stone anet claims its supposed to be, to bridge the time gap between easily obtainable exotics, and longer term legendaries. It’s all perspective.

You need _some_of the tier for fractals. As people have already shown, you can do the higher fractals with exotic armor and weapons, with only ascended trinkets. Something they have been doing for months now. Adding in the weapon simply makes it easier because they can get more AR and some additional damage output. There will be those that desire the challenge of doing it without the upgraded weapon, just as there will be those that feel they can’t do it without. The exception here is Maw, where agony neither caps nor functions quite like other fractals. Outside this, it is simply perspective differences is all.

Yes, the higher stat cap potentially means we may need it later on. Down the road. In the future. At some expansion point. It does not mean we need it right now. Of course, anet could add harder content at a later time, that recommends ascended, and people still do it in exotic. It all depends on whether anet falls into the gear gating trap of other games. At this point, they haven’t, with the single solitary exception of fractals which appeals to a very specific subset of players.

You don’t have to be a kitten in your response. Can you not have a civil conversation with those you don’t agree with, or do you simply lack manners in general?

Problem is that if you spend all the time and effort to get that and it will be a LOT of time, effort, and money it should look much better and not make people want to reskin those items immiadetly.

“ascended gear is to be a bridge between exotic and Legendary”

I love ascended.
Finally something I personally enjoy.

Teege.4623:

Jabberwock.9014:

Good. Seriously don’t any of you see how horrible it would be to have good looking ascended armor? You would never be able to transmute over it since it is so costly to get the skins back if you change your mind (either un-transmute stone x6 or make a new ascended set).

In my opinion Anet went the right way by making them vanilla and not nullifying all the other awesome skins in this game.

Ugly armor + ca$h $hop stones = profit.

= Free to play

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

MikaHR.1978:

So, it will be EXACTLY like it was with exotic-legendary except with 1 of most pointless tiers of gear in MMO ever.

You DO need THAT tier for fractals. duh

And by raising power cap you will eventually need it for other stuff.

Yes, it was a nod to those the hollered, and loudly, for more gear grind. For some it will be pointless, not for all. For some, it will be the stepping stone anet claims its supposed to be, to bridge the time gap between easily obtainable exotics, and longer term legendaries. It’s all perspective.

You need _some_of the tier for fractals. As people have already shown, you can do the higher fractals with exotic armor and weapons, with only ascended trinkets. Something they have been doing for months now. Adding in the weapon simply makes it easier because they can get more AR and some additional damage output. There will be those that desire the challenge of doing it without the upgraded weapon, just as there will be those that feel they can’t do it without. The exception here is Maw, where agony neither caps nor functions quite like other fractals. Outside this, it is simply perspective differences is all.

Yes, the higher stat cap potentially means we may need it later on. Down the road. In the future. At some expansion point. It does not mean we need it right now. Of course, anet could add harder content at a later time, that recommends ascended, and people still do it in exotic. It all depends on whether anet falls into the gear gating trap of other games. At this point, they haven’t, with the single solitary exception of fractals which appeals to a very specific subset of players.

You don’t have to be a kitten in your response. Can you not have a civil conversation with those you don’t agree with, or do you simply lack manners in general?

Except there already is a gear gated content.

Seriously?
All this waiting and we get ONE set? Just ONE type for medium/heavy/light?
And not to mention they look terrible. This needs to be redone.
If that is HEAVY armor i’m a talking cat.
How about this : http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/19457386/images/1339546175810.jpg

Doesn’t it look a tad better?

HiddenNick.7206:

Teege.4623:

Jabberwock.9014:

Good. Seriously don’t any of you see how horrible it would be to have good looking ascended armor? You would never be able to transmute over it since it is so costly to get the skins back if you change your mind (either un-transmute stone x6 or make a new ascended set).

In my opinion Anet went the right way by making them vanilla and not nullifying all the other awesome skins in this game.

Ugly armor + ca$h $hop stones = profit.

= Free to play

Well, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Anet needs to make money and to pay for continued maintenance and development somehow. At least we have a choice. We don’t have to buy the more attractive skins in order to play the game.

I tend to disagree with you lot! I think new armour looks amazing, but of course with right colour combo! Thank you Arena – these armours are intricate and thanks to the devs that modeled them!