Guild Wars 2

I would love to see a set of armor that is covered in mud and blood and scratches and dents and looks like it’s actually been worn in combat. Shiny is nice, but I think there is an element of dirty reality missing in the armor sets we have today.

What say you?

Could be interesting, don’t know if that wouldn’t recquire too much work tho…

I kind of think the rampart armor looks a bit like this, but that’s probably just me.

The CM dungeon heavy set is pretty beat-up looking.

If there was wear and tear in this game, then it would have been cool for our armor to get more worn out, dirty and damaged the further we progressed without repairs. Then, we could have gone to a repair vendor and our armor would be new and shiny again (or back to however it was).

As it is, we could potentially have it so that as each piece gets damaged (after each death), the damaged piece would look worn out and, well, damaged. Then, when it eventually gets destroyed, it could just disappear like it currently does.

However, this is one of those things that are just nifty and cosmetic and will take an insane amount of work by ANET for them to make damaged/dirty/worn out versions of each armor piece for each race and gender, so I’d rather they just focus on things we really need.

… sounds like a lot of work. Instead of coding/modeling/working on one armor per race and per gender they’d also have per wear… ouch.

Darthaemos.6370:

If there was wear and tear in this game, then it would have been cool for our armor to get more worn out, dirty and damaged the further we progressed without repairs. Then, we could have gone to a repair vendor and our armor would be new and shiny again (or back to however it was).

As it is, we could potentially have it so that as each piece gets damaged (after each death), the damaged piece would look worn out and, well, damaged. Then, when it eventually gets destroyed, it could just disappear like it currently does.

However, this is one of those things that are just nifty and cosmetic and will take an insane amount of work by ANET for them to make damaged/dirty/worn out versions of each armor piece for each race and gender, so I’d rather they just focus on things we really need.

This.

I have nothing against the idea in general. I agree that I would prefer, however, to see the effort put into other things. If development resources were unlimited, there are a lot of things that would be cool. Given the scarcity of resources, though, things like this kind of gravitate toward the bottom of my wish list.