Guild Wars 2

Darx.9842:

Took me a while to get this look right.

Thief starter hood
AC shoulders
WvW chest
Vigil gloves
Orr karma legs
Orr karma boots

Dude that looks amazing!!

Omar Aschi Popp.7496:

I would like some side-by-side comparison of a full set of x armor and the mix-match version. Some of these while looking awesome, look like they are part of a set anyway(maybe you’re that good at matching).

Most players post what the parts of the armor they are using.
I use norn T3 + ascended medium + thief hood + HoM gloves, which of those should I wear as full for comparison?

Sieur Robitaille of the Queen’s Guard.

Omar Aschi Popp.7496:

I would like some side-by-side comparison of a full set of x armor and the mix-match version. Some of these while looking awesome, look like they are part of a set anyway(maybe you’re that good at matching).

I like this format. My general tips for mix and match are:

• Look for pieces that evoke the same theme (otherwordly, mechanical, stylized, dressy or simplified, modern).
• Similar texture (rustic, shiny, silky or rugged, chapped), similar design or element (layers, curve, stripe, ornate).
• Streamline the silhouette. If they look busy, choose a more simple one. Less is more.
• Blend everything in the harmony with dyes.
• Bring about the subtle pop with one or two pieces of statement. Or highlight the detail with a really eye-catching dye.
• Experiment a lot, and share your result with friends

Here are some examples of my characters. All these armors are easily recognizable. If anyone needs more details on them, I’d be glad to elaborate on them later.

Hat- Inquest hood
Shoulder- Watchwork
Body- Magitech
Gloves- Rawhide
Pants- Magitech
Shoes- Asura T1
The main theme of the armor was to give my character a very inquest vibe.

StinVec.3621:

Omar Aschi Popp.7496:

I would like some side-by-side comparison of a full set of x armor and the mix-match version. Some of these while looking awesome, look like they are part of a set anyway(maybe you’re that good at matching).

Many people really are just that good at coming up with real nice combinations of armor. Many times the armors look “better” in the mixed appearance a player posts than they do with the individual armor sets they came from.

Sites like Argos-Soft already have images of the full armor sets and most posters here are kind enough to follow the encouraged and appreciated behavior of including the names of the sets that the pieces are a part of.

If posters were to include images of the full sets for each individual item used in the mixed images then they could be unnecessarily including 6 or more additional images, one for each piece of armor used in the mixed appearance, that can already be found on armor sites like the one I mentioned.

If you see an appearance you really like, but the poster did not include the names of the sets the armors came from, quoting their post and asking what the names of the armors are is usually quickly followed by that poster (or someone else) responding with the names of the armors used. We’re a really friendly and helpful community.

Oh cats, that’s a great resource, thanks for the link.

Helm- Adventurer’s mantle
Shoulders- Sorcerer’s epaulets
Chest- Forgeman Raiment
Gloves- Arms of koda
Legs-Illustrious Breeches
Boots-Forgeman shoes

My personal battlemage looks.

I need that relatively expensive staff skin (Bloody Prince Staff) to complete the looks though.

my own Techno Pirate

My Warrior and my mesmer

Might post a pic of my Ele later

My necro – Dr Formel De Hyde.

Nornpunk?

Gobhoblin, not only is that an awesome look, you did a glorious presentation of it. I miss my old Photoshop … as it is I won’t even be able to do the fancy new Mix + 6 Origins style people are rocking now. I should get some current shots up, though.

My Engineer with Scarlet’s Rainbow

Its been awhile since I posted anything new on looks. But with the patch, I had the itch to mix and max again. Still not as good as my necro I think, but good none the less.

Edit: And yes, if I had 1500g, i would use the Greatsaw Skin

here is my warrior!
cant decide wich head item to use!

Heres Some of my Armor Mix Match’s

Still a work on progress

Head: nothing yet
Pauldrons: nothing yet
Chest: Zodiac light armor chest
Pants: Masquerade leggings
Gloves: Exalted gloves
Shoes: Conjurers shoes
Back: Fervid Censer

Hmm, Awkturtle, take a look at the CM headpiece. It has two dye channels, one for the gem and one for the tiara part, and would show nicely on your sylvari’s forehead without covering her leaves and glow.

My Guardian, but I’m not sure I’m in love with the armor setup currently.

Head: Gas Mask
Shoulders: Splint Pauldrons
Chest: Whisper’s Secret Breastplate
Gloves: Whisper’s Secret Gauntlets
Pants: Whisper’s Secret Tassets
Boots: Phalanx Warboots
Back: Scelerite Karka Shell

Dyes:
Mithril
Summer Grass
Pastel Sea

The set is a mix of magnus eye patch,trickster top + bottom, AC boots, masquarade gloves and Teq staff. The dyes enamaled jungle (SP?), icing dye and midnight ice.
Now, one may be asking, if I wanted a black witch character, why didn’t I get necro? In response to that, I have a few reasons.

1. I already have a necro, my norn who is a sort of wraith theme.

2. I REALLY wanted a character that could use staff almost exclusively and still be useful in everything. As such, Ele was the clear choice.

3. The black mage/witch arch type has never been exclusively about necromancy.

http://imgur.com/a/gsYFy

Imgur because I tend to go overboard with action shots.

The time has come to reveal my main.
It took me several months of incantations and sacrifices but I have finally done it- I’ve became the right hand of Grenth. *evil laughter leading to asphyxiation! JK

Behold!

Ok, so here goes:

First up is my Necro, Nefeostra, who is wearing the Witchs Hat, Masquerade Mantle, Apostle Cassock, Winged Gloves, Acolyte Pants, Diviner Boots with the Sclerite Karka Shell back. Weapons are the Tormented Scepter and Dagger, and dyes are Abyss for the main body, with details in Midnight Purple.

Second is my Thief, who is sporting the Glowing Crimson Mask, Strider’s Spaulders, Auxiliary Powered Coat, Inquest Bracers, Inquest Leggings, Illustrious Striders with Rox’s Quiver back. Weapons are dual Marjory’s Dagger, and dyes are Abyss with Mithril for some detailing.

Up next, my Elementalist rocking the Feathered Headpiece, Mantle of Koda, Soul of Koda, Winged Gloves, Feathered Pants, Feathered Boots with the Fervid Censor back. Weapon is the Dragons Jade Quarterstaff, and dyes used are a mix of Latte and Celestial.

I do also have 2 more characters (a Ranger and Guardian, but my Ranger doesnt have a mixed armour set, and my Gaurdian is still trying to find the right look for him :P)

My Mesmer.

Head : Exalted
Chest : Incarnate
Gloves : Winged
Pants : Embroidered

Heres my warrior:
Helm: Hidden
Shoulders: Human Tier 2
Coat: Vigil Breastplate
Gloves: Human Tier 3
Leggings: Armageddon
Boots: Human Tier 3

For my Norn Guardian, its the full tier 3 set for the Norn. I tried to make the colors similar to my greatsword

Vodras Cogspin – engineer extraordinaire
In order: Gas Mask, Falconer, Magitech, Magitech, Viper, Magitech and Spinal Blades (which I hope to infuse soon!)

My Guardian – just finished today & I’m loving it

shades
T2 shoulders
Heavy Plate chest
Draconic gloves
Splint legs
Heritage boots

I’ll get an in-game shot of him rocking his weapons soon.

Here’s my main character. First ever created, so gets anything good that catches my eye.

I updated the look of my warrior to match the new ambrite weapons:

Here’s one I put together today to celebrate getting full ascended gear.

Head – Icelord’s Diadem
Shoulder – Scale Pauldrons
Body – Phalanx
Hands – Priory’s Gauntlets
Legs – Phalanx
Feet – Illustrious Greaves
Back – Wind Catcher

Seraphina.6859:

I updated the look of my warrior to match the new ambrite weapons:

Same here … however i have only 1 of them

Beldin.5498:

Seraphina.6859:

I updated the look of my warrior to match the new ambrite weapons:

Same here … however i have only 1 of them

It looks nice I was lucky with the fossils (probably because at first I wasn’t really interested in these weapons…) I hope you’ll get more fossils, too

Looking for my pot of gold.

Here is my Guardian and Mesmer. My guardian is mostly wearing ascended armor with Radiant Vambraces and AC Shoulder, and memser has;

Head – Mind of Koda
Chest – Incarnate vest
Shoulder – Exalted
Gloves – Feathered
Legs – Human light cultural T3
Boots – Winged

White Raven.4368:

Looking for my pot of gold.

Aaaahaahaaaaa that is awesome

My Fairy Mother with new sylvari head ^^

I got 2 armors

Sylvari Cultural head – and boots
Chest and sholders – Nightmare
Legs one armor is sylvari cultural and outher is nightmare

Me and my husband ranger ^^

Head: Magus’s Eyepatch
Shoulder: Phalanx
Gauntlets: Phalanx
Chest: Primeval
Leggings: Arah
Boots: HOM

It’s not much of a mix and match, but this is my current version of my celestial mesmer:
Zodiac chest, gloves and boots with nightmare court leggings:

Evans.6347:

It’s not much of a mix and match, but this is my current version of my celestial mesmer:
Zodiac chest, gloves and boots with nightmare court leggings:

Beautiful job with the colours, like it!

Here is my Necromancer. I am not sure what each of the gear pieces are from, I know they are from 3 different sets though.

This is my all mighty set that i call: The essence of Halloween! Weapons are currently in progress.

Rouven.7409:

Evans.6347:

It’s not much of a mix and match, but this is my current version of my celestial mesmer:
Zodiac chest, gloves and boots with nightmare court leggings:

Beautiful job with the colours, like it!

Thank you!
I spent a fair bit of time on getting it right, so I’m delighted to hear it

Alright, here’s my Scarlet Pimpernel sylvari. When he’s being all “sink me, I got a spot of dirt on my cuff, woe,” he’s in Country Mask, Masquerade Mantle, Nightmare Court Robes, Student Gloves, Snapdragon Leggings, and Snapdragon Boots. Colors mostly Lifeblood, Redemption, Strawberry Breeze. I’d prefer no weapons show; I was using Zenith to add gold glow while leveling but don’t need double weapons just to match the outfit when he’s no fighter while in his cover identity.

When he’s masked and rescuing those in need or doing other sneaky Whispers stuff, he’s in Gas Mask, (shoulders hidden), Aetherblade Light Vest, Apostle Wraps, Ascalon Performer Pants, and Aurora Shoes. Colors are various dull shades with a touch of Abyss here and there. I haven’t finalized the vest hues yet, I want to see how I like the current layout, as I only applied it minutes ago. Weapon shown is Ebon Vanguard GS; he also uses Priory’s Historical Scepter and Seraph Focus to keep the low-key dull silver look going. I might swap to Ebonblade for the GS.

I’ll add a shot of his stealth outfit from before I decided to fully cover his head with the gas mask and build an outfit around that.

edit: Oops, got a shot without the shoulders showing for the foofy outfit, so now that’s at the bottom out of order.

My guardian Sholto.

Head: adventurer’s mantle
Pauldrons: Banded pauldrons
Top: Galvanic coat
Gloves: Galvanic gloves
Legs: Heritage Legplates
Boots: Galvanic boots
Dyes: Chocolate, bronze, molten and emerald.

Been meaning to post my sylvari mesmer’s armor for a long time now.

First set is:
- Chest: Dry Bones
- Legs: Way of Koda (from HotW dungeon armor)
- Gloves: T2 Sylvari cultural
- Boots: T2 Sylvari cultural

Second set is:
- Chest: Inquest Vest (from CoE dungeon armor)
- Legs: Order of Whispers legs
- Gloves: Embroidered gloves
- Boots: Apprentice shoes

And a random fact: I have learned from swimming with the first set on that the sylvari glow shows up on the bottom each individual toe!

And now for my just-turned-80 asura engi. She got a new hairstyle and outfit to celebrate, and I think she is perfectly adorable!

- Chest: Priory chest
- Shoulders: T3 Asura cultural
- Legs: T1 Asura cultural
- Gloves: T1 Asura cultural
- Boots: Council Watch boots (from CM dungeon armor)

Nepik.6318:

Sieur Robitaille of the Queen’s Guard.

May I ask what armor/armor skins you’re using? Looks amazing!

Thief isn’t “amazing” but Im pretty happy with it

Head: Starter Hood
Shoulders: CoF
Coat: CoE
Gloves: Arah
Pants: Lvl 80 Exotic medium pants at TP
Boots: Leather Boots

My main Necromancer.
Has no holes on the armor.

Acolyte Mask
Devout Mantle
Acolyte Coat
Dry Bones Gloves
Acolyte Pants
Apprentice Shoes

My Engineer.
To look as much as possible as a Pyro Asura with protective gear against high temperature exposure.

Gas Mask
Auxiliary Powered Epaulets
Auxiliary Powered Coat
Auxiliary Powered Gloves
Protean Leggings
Prototype Boots

Not the best pics, but I love how my Elementalist and Warrior turned out.

For my ele her chest is Nightmare Court Robes, Legs and shoes are T2 Sylvari Cultural
For my warrior her chest and legs are Phalanx armor, boots are Human T3 Cultural, Shoulders and Gloves are Arah skins.

My norn elementalist.
I had a Raven shaman look planned for her, but I don’t have all the necessary skins yet. For the time being, I still wanted to give her a little treat for hitting level 80, so I went with a completely different theme for this armour set, working with what I have unlocked already.

I consider this her visceral combat look. The highlights are the general silhouette, the mask (especially with her shaved head and tattoo) and her mantle.

1) Mix and match set.
2) Havroun norn racial.
3) Seer armour.
4) Winged armour.
5) Ascalonian Performer armour.
6) Masquerade armour.

The mask is the mesmer’s “Fanged Dread” mask, so it’s not part of a specific armour set.