Guild Wars 2

These guys need to add a ton more armor sets to the store. I mean like at least 50 sets. Give players some serious options through the store. The GW2 store is a joke compared to what other games have to offer.

No one take that the wrong way either. I said the store not the game. They obviously want to make money through the store and that is their main way of income now so it’s time to offer more than RNG and goofy town clothes.

Unfortunately, the male light does not look good on my main, who is a skinny sylvari and so, as usual has issues with the shoulders looking awful and the waist being weirdly high. The shirt is pretty cool, but it clips with every other shoulder piece that I have that I preview with.

So I’d love to spend ten bucks on an armor skin, but the pieces they chose to reskin for this new set are not ones that work with my main. When they come out with one that I can mix and match more easily (or wear as a set without shoulder issues— this is also why I haven’t gotten most of the dungeon sets) I will be happy to buy.

Annoying because I love steampunk. But I do compliment ANet on offering things directly for sale instead of RNG.

I want to buy to support but man they are so many ugly pieces to each set. Allow us to buy each piece separately for like 100-200 gems and I’d pick up SOME of them in a heartbeat.

ALSO why aren’t these armors tailored for charr? Other than the usual tail clipping and floating shoulder pads on all three; on the heavy boots there’s an odd metal plate floating over my charr’s claws. Someone should’ve caught that and removed it.

Anatolious.8539:

I would love to buy them, but they are fugly. The light armor set is especially hideous.

If they put up armor sets like Lady Kasmeer’s feathered armor I would buy 5-6 sets of the kitten thing.

Yeah, very much this

Using the cash shop only encourages them to implement it even more. This behavior needs to be punished, not rewarded.

Plague.5329:

Using the cash shop only encourages them to implement it even more. This behavior needs to be punished, not rewarded.

You are aware that “that behavior” is what allows us to play the game without having to play a subscription fee, right? You are aware that “that behavior” is what funds all the free content we’ve been given, right?

darkace.8925:

Plague.5329:

Using the cash shop only encourages them to implement it even more. This behavior needs to be punished, not rewarded.

You are aware that “that behavior” is what allows us to play the game without having to play a subscription fee, right? You are aware that “that behavior” is what funds all the free content we’ve been given, right?

This.

Also, what “behaviour”? Putting stuff in the gem store that EVERYONE can enjoy? That everyone can access pretty much using whatever method they choose – buying gems straight up with cash or grinding out the gold in whatever manner they want to convert it to gems to buy? Honestly, how is that bad behaviour?

IVIUIEI.9631:

Deamhan.9538:

Sometimes I take a step back and look at the big picture that is GW2 and I come to realize that this is Dress-up Dolls Online.

Isn’t all mmo dress doll? Would be boring without it.

To a degree, yes. WoW got onboard a while back but fo the longest time, the look of the gear you got was the look of the gear you got.

I haven’t played all that much of NWO but it doesn’t look like the look of gear can be changed there as well.

I’m hoping (if they really want to stay true to the series) that TES online won’t have re-skinning.

Then you look at Aion. The game is all about re-skinning.

Plague.5329:

Using the cash shop only encourages them to implement it even more. This behavior needs to be punished, not rewarded.

If this game was sub based I would be inclined to agree with you. But as it isn’t, a gem store is pretty much mandatory to keep things going. That being said, you do realize that the people that work at Anet don’t work for free don’t you?
In the end if the items in the store bother you, ignore it and move on.

Frankly I wish they would add more cosmetic items to the gem store. My biggest complaint with the new armor sets is the designs are different for each sex (except for Asura and Charr) and there is no choice between them. I would have gotten the heavy armor set used for the males on my female Norn warrior (I love the gauntlet/chest/leg designs, but the female version is not my cup of tea)

There are parts of the armor that are great, but the whole sets suffer from the typical “Steampunk virus” that I see at conventions every year.

There’s always some guy at the dealer’s room at conventions that is trying to sell ‘authentic steampunk gear’ when all they are selling are gold and gunmetal grey spray-painted casio watches with superfluous gears and wires and kitten hot glued all over them.

That is what I see when I look at these armors. There is no function to these clipart gears copypasta’d all over the clothing. Function over form is kinda the pinnacle of steampunk. It works, so they don’t care that it looks like a bag of wires and cogs. The heavy armor shoulder especially makes me shudder.

No thanks, i’m not going to pay 10 bucks (or several hours of my life to farm cof) for the privilege of dressing my character like a comicon cosplayer

I’m also ok with rng, i don’t feel entitled to have cosmetics. Cool if i get it, too bad if i don’t.

I take back what I said about the heavy armor, when using the correct dye combination it does look really good. Another $10 buck to Anet.

Now to find some weapons to go with the look.

Tower Guard.5263:

I take back what I said about the heavy armor, when using the correct dye combination it does look really good. Another $10 buck to Anet.

No to find some weapons to go with he look.

Take a look at the Fixer Upper (mace) then, looks like a wrench. :-)

I would love to buy armor and weapon skins from the store to support the game. But frankly the armor and weapons they have put in…… are ugly as hell.

We need to be able to buy them IN SEPARATE PIECES!

I can’t justify 800 gems, when the only part of the light armour I’d like to get are the trousers.

Why would i buy something that i think is ugly ? Make sense……

Astral Projections.7320:

Take a look at the Fixer Upper (mace) then, looks like a wrench. :-)

Ohhh, that looks nice.

I would buy them if you could get the pieces seperately or if they were ‘saved’ on an NPC like the GW1 costumes I would get them.

As it is I don’t want to spend the money for a set of skins when most of them will sit in my bank unused on the off-chance that I’ll have a use for them later. And I wouldn’t want to buy them and then delete them either, that’s just throwing money away.

I wouldn’t buy them if someone else paid for them, if they were gifted to me I would return to sender. FUGLY!

I would love to, but they do not deserve it right now and the skins are really bad looking.

Medium looks fantastic… on an engineer.

Heavy looks way too old fashioned. When normal armours are lamalar, scale and ornate plate, going back to what looks like panel bashed basic plate chest with fabric elsewhere looks anachronistic for the sake of it. And the castellated C-Cups just look ridiculous. The gloves are nice, thats it.

Light wouldnt be too bad if the corset didnt look like a 1980’s Gobot.

Chase.8415:

I suggest everyone to buy the armor skins off the shop, it is possible that if they sell SIGNIFCANTLY more by selling the skins directly, they could change their marketing strategy to reflect it; which means this could end the RNG issue.

That or they’ll realize… hey people really want armor and guess what ends up in the RNG boxes next?

I would if they didn’t look terrible. Get some new artists. Seriously.

On one hand, Im sad so many people are saying they won’t buy the armor sets since it means it will be negative reinforcement for this model and they will likely go back to RNG lottery boxes.

On the other hand, I’m happy to near not many people will run the new armor sets, because then my character can be semi-unique =D

I like how it looks on my main, I still need to tweak the colors though.

The things I don’t like are those castle rampart on the chest and the helmet sucks to no end.

I don’t really have alts so I have 4 sets of full exotics for my main.

I love them and have bought all 3!

Yes, they could of done better…But they’re seriously not ugly.

Astral Projections.7320:

Take a look at the Fixer Upper (mace) then, looks like a wrench. :-)

It still irks me that engineers can’t use maces (and thus can’t equip that weapon).

I agree with everyone who is disappointed with gem shop armors. I would like to be able to earn them in game somehow (yes I know you could just convert gold to gems but the conversion rate has gotten a little too high if you ask me). Also, and this is my biggest issue with the new armors, they are kind of ugly.

I hate Steampunk

Not buying

Chase.8415:

I suggest everyone to buy the armor skins off the shop, it is possible that if they sell SIGNIFCANTLY more by selling the skins directly, they could change their marketing strategy to reflect it; which means this could end the RNG issue.

But…. they’re ugly.

Krosslite.1950:

I hate Steampunk

Not buying

I love steampunk, it’s just these are ugly.
People are buying these without RNG, release more armor Anet!

I bought the heavy set for PvP, and I love it. Except the helm, ugly as sin.

Actually, I think it would be helpful if I were more constructive and actually said why I think they’re all ugly:
Heavy – …Looks like a robot. It’s also incredibly plain and symmetrical. The female pants are actually pretty cool, but the male version fails to match the rest of the armor, has very low detail in general, and the belts are just lame.
Medium – With the male version; the skirt is horribly rigid and fake, the studded belts across the chest are too S&M and don’t match the rest, and the shoulders are WAY too big and also fail to match the rest of the armor at all. All of the gears across the set look tacked on and don’t blend in well. Like pins or something.
The gloves are just a mess and don’t even match themselves let alone the rest of the armor (sharp change between hands and wrist).
The pants are just all kinds of bad without any redeeming features; they look like something a comic book superhero would wear. Which is bad. They’re not Steampunk, and I could never picture them on an actual person outside a hardcore Sci-fi setting.
The boots are WAY too bulky, too many belts, and match nothing else in the set except the gloves, which also match nothing else.
The set as a whole also has much too strong of an Asuran feel. I understand that the Sky Pirates are working with the Inquest, but Asuran gear only looks good on Asurans. The Inquest dungeon armor suffers this same problem, much like the Twilight Arbor armor and Sylvari.
More of that wool pattern seen on the gloves and boots should have been woven into the rest, like a visible undershirt made of it with a collar, and the Asuran pattern should have been replaced with a more rugged Steampunk pattern.
With the female version; the chest is too shapeless and bulky with a big ugly spotted area right in the center, the skirt matches neither the rest of the outfit nor the theme itself by breaking off into full-blown cyberpunk (more Inquest theme problems), the shoulders have the same problem as the male version, and the boots are very bulky and plain. The pants and gloves are both basically fine.
Light – on the Male version; the chest is good, the shoulders share the same problems as the Medium armor, the gloves don’t match the chest and have a clumsily abrupt and plain end at the forearm, the pants share the same issue as the Medium armor, the boots are totally plain and devoid of any real style or detail, and the skirt is both rather plain and fails to match the chest piece at all.
With the female version, the skirt is good overall but flares out too much, the chest is horribly bulky and shapeless, the shoulders are just all over bad, and literally no two pieces in the entire set actually match. At all.

Every version suffers from a few problems. The biggest issue is that they’re supposed to be Steampunk, yet Inquest style was ham-fisted in for arbitrary reasons despite being a completely different theme; Cyberpunk. It’s all a mixed up mess as a result.
The other problems would be the helmets and shoulders. They’re all horribly bulky and just irredeemably hideous in every regard on top of failing in every case to match the rest of the set properly. Like they were lazily tacked on just to have them, without even trying to tie them into the rest of the outfit.

I think the light armor set is awesome and would totally buy it…
If I could wear it on my engineer

There is a fairly small percentage of armors in the game that are nice, but there are way too many that are ugly. The gem store armors generally follow the trend. I know they must have a number of artists responsible for armors. I also assume that one or two artists are likely responsible for the best armors and there are some artists that just can’t make armor that isn’t ugly as sin.

This really is the notable weakness in the art dept. The game itself is beautiful and full of detail. Fashion is difficult. A very skilled and talented artist may still have zero fashion sense. It’s well past time to get the fashion impaired artists off of armor and onto something better suited for them and actively search out game artists who have a solid portfolio of fashionable game armor.

BTW, IMO, both Heavy sets are by far the best of the gem store armors. The original medium armor was decent, the new medium armor had potential but was ruined by the chest. Both Light armors are just plain horrid.

Actually, I’ve found it’s incredibly rare to find a game in which much of the clothing/armor is NOT ugly. At least in games where you have many outfits to choose.

Bring in some of the AWESOME LOOKING armors/weapons from GW1. There’s your money ANET.
One of the best looking IMO were the TAT armors.

Tower Guard.5263:

I like how it looks on my main, I still need to tweak the colors though.

The things I don’t like are those castle rampart on the chest and the helmet sucks to no end.

I don’t really have alts so I have 4 sets of full exotics for my main.

Looks good on your female char now try on your male char…lol thats what thought

Alot of the heavy armors should have a nicer polish on them like the new heavy set.

I would because I like steampunk/ cyberpunk looks in stuff… but I main a female light class.. No way would I ever wear that look.

I think the medium armour set and the heavy sets are 10x better looking but once again…light class so no go on that.

I love the new Steampunk armour skins! I bought the light set for my ele.

I see that they aren’t liked by all, but if you like steampunk, you’ll probably like the new skins. If you don’t, well, each to their own.

Honestly, alot of it has to due with your dye scheme. You have to play with it a little bit otherwise yeah, when you preview them they look horrible. They all are quite nice, though. They could do better but it’s only 800 gems for 1, and if we want them to release more armor skins they need to do well as I think that’s why it’s taken so long for them to do new ones since launch.

I agree, I would like to see upgraded versions of the best GW1 skins in the gem shop, there’s no reason why they couldn’t make some extremely beautiful sets for the gem shop and thus make armor skins a very, very big selling point. But we may never see anything like that if these don’t sell well.

Idea: maybe they could put it up for a community vote, between two or 3 different concepts that we would like to see in the gem shop

darkace.8925:

Katai.6240:

God. I feel like like if they put the armor in an NPC shop for 50 gold, people wouldn’t be complaining like they do now, even though buying with gems is 50% cheaper with the gold-to-gem conversion.

They could give them away for free and people would still find something to complain about.

Did people complain about the Dragon Back pieces? (Serious question)

I would buy the Armor skins off the store but they are hideous! Whoever designed these latest ones “Sky Pirate” needs to seriously consider a career change.

On Asuras, beautiful, leather and fabrics!

The skins have terrible clipping issues on charr and I don’t feel like making a new character for them. If anything they’ve encouraged me to avoid putting more money into this game/company.

I would if I could take a pair of scissors to the medium skirt.

Plague.5329:

Using the cash shop only encourages them to implement it even more. This behavior needs to be punished, not rewarded.

what behavior? Selling vanity items for money so that the game could survive in the first place and they wouldn’t need to charge for a sub fee? Do you even know how a B2P and F2P models work?

They’re hideous. If you want more of my money make something actually good.

Abhor.5602:

They’re hideous. If you want more of my money make something actually good.

depends on your taste in my opinion. For example I think that medium armor for asura looks great.