Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

revodeel.2651:

Any dev have an update as to when we can obtain the tribal armor set?

Sorry, no update. It will come when it comes, but we’re not able to give a date at this point.

Sorry to hear there is still no update. But thank you for the reply.

CETheLucid.3964:

Svarty.8019:

I’m surprised the devs are aware it’s missing and doing nothing about it, to be honest. I thought they didn’t notice it wasn’t available.

How do you get “doing nothing about it” from “it will come”?

The amount of time since it was available is quite considerable.

Why is this so difficult? We’ve been asking bout this armor for long enough.

GW2 is the only game I’ve played where they take stuff away and act like they did us a favor.

i have the full set, i never used it, and never knew it is that great…..
well i don’t like it even today. :P

PLEASE bring back Tribal Armor Anet. It’s by far one of the coolest light armor skins out there (in my opinion) I am sure a big part of the gw2 community would also agree with me. But to that we should also bring back any other existing skins only obtainable in old PvP because I feel as though these new players coming to the game see this unobtainable skin and become sadden by it. If it’s much of an issue just make it a challenge for us to acquire. Please hear my plea and bring it back to us. Thank you!!!

Dont worry, it will come in the gem store for only 99 dollars a piece.

Pandeh.5248:

Dont worry, it will come in the gem store for only 99 dollars a piece.

Honestly would not be surprised….

Xaton.1902:

think about ot HOTs has tribes perfect place to rebring in the armor sets even possibly more versions of tribal like armor heavy light medium versions of it and so on. and probly the old version and then a old version on steroids.

Anything is possible. Since HoT is a full on expansion, we have to see new armor or weapon skins in there as well as the specializations.

I’m not sure where to post this, hope it’s the correct spot. I was recently viewing light armors when I came across the cool tribal armor set. But I learned it is now unobtainable (used to be a reward in pvp). Is there any way I can get the set or will it be coming back soon? Thanks.

Bring back Tribal armor, even if it can only be unlocked piece by piece like glorious armour can.

Please see all the past threads about Tribal Armour inc the devs response to the matter

Here’s hoping we’ll see the tribal armor in the HoT expansion. It seems like an appropriate time for it to show up.

Svarty.8019:

CETheLucid.3964:

Svarty.8019:

I’m surprised the devs are aware it’s missing and doing nothing about it, to be honest. I thought they didn’t notice it wasn’t available.

How do you get “doing nothing about it” from “it will come”?

The amount of time since it was available is quite considerable.

Don’t worry. We got the ol’ Soon™ which means it will indeed come sometime between tomorrow and when the sun explodes.

Yay for necro threads.
When the wardrobe patch hit, some of us pvp’ers who knew there were a few pvp only obtainable armors, knew that these would not be obtainable after the patch hit, so we made the ones we wanted.
Personally, I don’t think legacy armors should be available to buy or be easy to obtain. I hope they make it hard to get all pieces, similar to how it was originally obtained (RNG pvp forging or boxes). An RNG reward track in pvp for certain armors would fit just right.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Leo G.4501:

How do you think I feel when the lock out skins like Braham’s weapons and such? It just feels like pointless exclusion of players and it stops people from giving Anet more money for it! It’s lose lose.

The living story skins aren’t “locked out”, they’ve gone back on sale multiple times since they originally debuted.

Indeed, the churn is a marketing tactic and probably necessary in keeping the gem store from feeling stagnant.

aspirine.6852:

Probably in HoT.

I really hope this isn’t the case. These skins were available in THIS game. I can see waiting until HoT is launched before reintroducing them, but to limit new availability to just the sequel would come off as a cynical money grab.

Sariel V.7024:

aspirine.6852:

Probably in HoT.

I really hope this isn’t the case. These skins were available in THIS game. I can see waiting until HoT is launched before reintroducing them, but to limit new availability to just the sequel would come off as a cynical money grab.

Agreed. I’m actually thinking that the Tribal Armor (and all other PvP armor sets) will be reintroduced upon release of HoT, but will not necessarily be exclusive to that expansion.

… Though I could be wrong and the Tribal Armor could show up available for purchase through some hylek merchant in the jungle, but I’m getting HoT anyways, so it makes no difference to me.

Just throw the set in an sPvP track already. We all know that’s what’s going to happen anyways. Anets been pushing sPvP incentives and this is a good one.

Put the llama in one too.

Haleydawn.3764:

Yay for necro threads.
When the wardrobe patch hit, some of us pvp’ers who knew there were a few pvp only obtainable armors, knew that these would not be obtainable after the patch hit, so we made the ones we wanted.
Personally, I don’t think legacy armors should be available to buy or be easy to obtain. I hope they make it hard to get all pieces, similar to how it was originally obtained (RNG pvp forging or boxes). An RNG reward track in pvp for certain armors would fit just right.

This is pretty much THE tribal armor thread since it has multiple developer responses pertaining specifically to tribal armor.

I’d be on board for this, though. The reason I didn’t even try to obtain this set was because it was incorrectly labeled masquerade (it also had the masquerade icon). I didn’t like SPvP a whole lot at the time, and I wasn’t going to waste my time grinding for something I was almost sure would be turned into a yuck yuck armor set (masquerade).

I really want this armor to come back and I don’t really care how (although I don’t think it should be Legendary armor, or such, were such a thing to happen).

Honestly if it does come back i hope its kitten hella hard to obtain considering how annoying it was to obtain it in spvp.

1. Back then spvp ranking took a lot longer then it did now and the reward tracks were different. (i mean you see shark finishers , phoenix finishers , and dragon finishers everywhere. )
2. The chest from the ranks have a CHANCE of giving you an armor piece.
3. There is the option of crafting it in the spvp forge but again it was a chance to obtain the one you wanted.

This armor set was out fairly a long time about a year and a half or so before the wardrobe system was introduced. I personally HATED spvp but i farmed for 2 weeks straight doing nothing but spvp to get the whole set regardless of it only being spvp exclusive at that time.
Anet needs to stop kittening the general population that really don’t want to work hard for items and just being handed to them. How so? Well here is a few example.

1. Legendary items were much harder to get back then, back in the days of ORR farming.
2. With fractal of the mist i generally get 6-9 exotics alone in one run and im not even counting the rares that fill up my bag. ( The only thing worth getting in fractals are weapon skins which is still the only thing that makes me want to do fractals.)
3. With the new meta boss farms again another EASY way to get exotics and rares.
4. Dungeons being WAY too easy, I can literally do all the dungeons in just a few hours with my friends with zerker gears.
5. With the new magic find system compared to actually needing to gear magic find is a balance between should i gear more towards more dps and less magic find or more magic find and less dps.

And people wonder why GW2 is getting dull, its because EVERYTHING is basically handed to the players.

I understand that there are new players that joined and have never gotten the chance to get these armor but I mean come on almost every mmo has those things where it becomes exclusive to veterans…WoW is famous for it yet do people cry about that?

And watch with HoT being released it will be a GW2 craze for about 2-3 months then it will go back to people complaining about stuff or people wanting stuff or just simply “I’ve done it all is there anything else?”

The armor which was only obtainable in PvP should stay only obtainable in PvP.
Whoever posted about players being handed stuff on a platter with little or no effort is right. It’s why people get bored in this game.
Since there’s a few other armor sets unobtainable because of the same reason, and taking into account the RNG behind obtaining it previously…
Suggestion for PvP track, main reward boxes. (Giving the most popular choices of the unobtainable armor, Tribal, Stalwart, -insert heavy armor- I’ve not actually known anyone to request those heavy armor skins as adamantly as Tribal or Stalwart)
Tier 2 Box – Random Boot Skin
Tier 4 Box – Random Glove Skin
Tier 6 Box – Random Helm Skin
Track Completion Box -Random Chest/Leg skin.

Thoughts?

Gaile Gray.6029:

revodeel.2651:

Any dev have an update as to when we can obtain the tribal armor set?

Sorry, no update. It will come when it comes, but we’re not able to give a date at this point.

Could we get Deathly Mantle on next Halloween, too? Price reached the sky.

Normally I’d like Tribal to be somehow exclusive, because I like to own things which are unique. But then, I got it because I had tons of those parts flying around before april 15th.

You could possibly make it a very rare drop from winning in ranked or unranked. And, let’s say, guaranteed part every 100 tournament wins.

People will be motivated to get leg and chest pieces for their human females and queues will shorten.

I’m ok with them adding Tribal/Stalwart/Apostle skins back in if they add Greatsaw and other unobtainable skins back in as well for reasonable crafting prices(200g tops).

And if they do add it back in I would suggest making it a track like Glorious armor one. One piece at the end, selectable stats.

Its like when I missed the first Halloween event for gw2 i lost my chances in getting greatsword skins, scythe, or even the shield which costs like 2-5k gold each, am i crying cuz they aren’t releasing them…no some things in game should stay rare and unobtainable because god knows everything else is common and easily obtainable, and yes that includes legendary items.

And it would kitten so many people off those who worked their kitten off to get the 2-5k gold to finally be able to buy those skins, and then suddenly popping out in a Halloween event thinking those skins were rare and unobtainable.

Also before the wardrobe system was introduced it was implied for many months that they were going to change it to the wardrobe system that was the reason why I farmed my butt off in spvp in hoping that was true. So there really isn’t any excuse for the veteran players who had the chance to get the armor set but decided “i hate spvp” “the armor set name was different” “i didn’t know” simply isn’t an excuse. The armor set name was different but you could’ve viewed it on the spvp wardrobe back then.

Bring it back please! Im dying to get my hands on the tribal set. I can understand the reasoning for keeping it rare but come on give us one day at least to try and get it.

PH Law.4063:

Its like when I missed the first Halloween event for gw2 i lost my chances in getting greatsword skins, scythe, or even the shield which costs like 2-5k gold each, am i crying cuz they aren’t releasing them…no some things in game should stay rare and unobtainable because god knows everything else is common and easily obtainable, and yes that includes legendary items.

And it would kitten so many people off those who worked their kitten off to get the 2-5k gold to finally be able to buy those skins, and then suddenly popping out in a Halloween event thinking those skins were rare and unobtainable.

Also before the wardrobe system was introduced it was implied for many months that they were going to change it to the wardrobe system that was the reason why I farmed my butt off in spvp in hoping that was true. So there really isn’t any excuse for the veteran players who had the chance to get the armor set but decided “i hate spvp” “the armor set name was different” “i didn’t know” simply isn’t an excuse. The armor set name was different but you could’ve viewed it on the spvp wardrobe back then.

All of this. But Anet will cater to the masses. So making it obtainable IMO should be RNG again.

The only items that should not have it’s obtainability ripped from game is if you need specific pieces for a collection.

ITT people thinking they’re special and solely entitled to tribal armor because they obtained and were allowed to keep a glitchy skin(s).

It wasn’t glitchy, the pvp wardrobe was like how the wardrobe is now. Just in like a test form.
Tribal Armor was named Masquerade because Tribal was taken for what you now know as Primitive. And what is now Masquerade was named something entirely different.
Anyone who wanted these skins, should have known back then PvP and PvE were completely seperate, and should have workes torwards ‘PvP Masquerade’.

I don’t see anyone who actually PvP whinge, they would have made this set because it looks so good… Apparently.

I don’t get why they do not add all items into the gemstore, trying to create urgency when they do or something? Silly thing is, they would have sold thousands of armor sets and other things that are currently not in-game. Makes no sense to me.

In that case can I request all the HoM skins be sold or obtainable ingame without actually having to get ANY achievements from GW1 plz pretty plz cuz im begging and I am too lazy to play GW1. Im pretty sure many more want the titles and skins from HoM then a pvp armor set plz sell it in the market becuz I want to get everything the easy way and becuz I know u guyz will make tons of monies from selling these skin plz pretty plz on the cherry on top! Becuz everything should be obtainable to everyone and I didn’t know tht if u played GW1 that GW2 will hav such awesome sauce prizes pretty plz add those skins in GW2 for everyone to gets!
Notice how annoying that is?

Yeah, it definitely is annoying.

Luckily for me I have all the skins I want, from the gem store and 50/50 HoM. It just strikes me as weird for a company to not sell something to people who want it and they have unlimited stock of.

PH Law.4063:

In that case can I request all the HoM skins be sold or obtainable ingame without actually having to get ANY achievements from GW1 plz pretty plz cuz im begging and I am too lazy to play GW1. Im pretty sure many more want the titles and skins from HoM then a pvp armor set plz sell it in the market becuz I want to get everything the easy way and becuz I know u guyz will make tons of monies from selling these skin plz pretty plz on the cherry on top! Becuz everything should be obtainable to everyone and I didn’t know tht if u played GW1 that GW2 will hav such awesome sauce prizes pretty plz add those skins in GW2 for everyone to gets!
Notice how annoying that is?

Well to be fair the HOM rewards were known before the game. When we first saw the concept pics of this armor it was a necros dream but nowhere did it say only pvp armor. I was pretty kittened off when I read that.

Are people forgetting the year or so before wardrobe and PvP tracks the countless PvE only skins? Yeah, it works both ways I’m afraid.

PH Law.4063:

In that case can I request all the HoM skins be sold or obtainable ingame without actually having to get ANY achievements from GW1 plz pretty plz cuz im begging and I am too lazy to play GW1. Im pretty sure many more want the titles and skins from HoM then a pvp armor set plz sell it in the market becuz I want to get everything the easy way and becuz I know u guyz will make tons of monies from selling these skin plz pretty plz on the cherry on top! Becuz everything should be obtainable to everyone and I didn’t know tht if u played GW1 that GW2 will hav such awesome sauce prizes pretty plz add those skins in GW2 for everyone to gets!
Notice how annoying that is?

Except no one is talking like that (except you) and Guild Wars 1 is still a perfectly functional game. You could easily have unlocked all the skins (30/50) in the Hall of Monuments for how long the Tribal Armor has been completely unattainable. Even if they made the HoM skins available through Guild Wars 2 I wouldn’t care; the skins aren’t that great and we’ve had our exclusivity to them for long enough.

Haleydawn.3764:

It wasn’t glitchy, the pvp wardrobe was like how the wardrobe is now. Just in like a test form.
Tribal Armor was named Masquerade because Tribal was taken for what you now know as Primitive. And what is now Masquerade was named something entirely different.
Anyone who wanted these skins, should have known back then PvP and PvE were completely seperate, and should have workes torwards ‘PvP Masquerade’.

I don’t see anyone who actually PvP whinge, they would have made this set because it looks so good… Apparently.

Uh, how is that not glitchy? Items that were titled Masquerade and had the Masquerade icon unlocked Tribal armor. They even fixed the icon and name later because it was a glitch. But they fixed it after the tribal armor was attainable.

Anyways, I’m done arguing with you all. They said they’re bringing it back eventually (and a much earlier Reddit post said it would most likely be through SPvP anyways, so).

Edit: I love the two people freaking out and posting multiple times (to no one specifically) to try and keep this from happening. It’s like they’re entering some hot sweat at the thought of other players obtaining this armor eventually.

So many people are mad that a thing they have might not make them special anymore because the unwashed masses can get it…

I just want my kitten Stalwart Shoulders and Apostle Leggings.

It kind of doesn’t make much sense why this would take so long. The items already exist, the skins already exist, PvP tracks already exist. It can probably be set up in like 15 minutes. Everything has to be a big project with Anet. Even the simplest little Quality of Life changes need to be in giant patches for some reason. Maybe I can wrong but I don’t know why they need to make everything so kitten complicated. Even something as simple as revealing the new elite specializations requires months of mystery and breaks.

Dinks.2478:

It kind of doesn’t make much sense why this would take so long. The items already exist, the skins already exist, PvP tracks already exist. It can probably be set up in like 15 minutes. Everything has to be a big project with Anet. Even the simplest little Quality of Life changes need to be in giant patches for some reason. Maybe I can wrong but I don’t know why they need to make everything so kitten complicated. Even something as simple as revealing the new elite specializations requires months of mystery and breaks.

I agree with you for the most part but as far as the elite specs go it is probably because they are still working on them.

They’ve been planning HoT for a while, most likely since before they removed the skins which leads me to believe that those skins are going to be released with HoT not as pvp gear but PvE which will be pretty irritating especially for the people that grinded for them while it was available.

Those skins should be restrcted to pvp and be part of a reward track for Dragons, because the nerf to pvp xp created a lot more Dragons, and over time the title will not mean anything anymore.

Two things need to happen, reward tracks exclusive to Dragons and one more title that requires 3x (or more) the total xp required to get from rank 1-80 which also gives a legendary weapon of our choosing. The xp Dragons have gained since gaining Dragon of course should reset before this happens.

No one is preventing anything from happening fact is everyone wants to obtain something in a manner that you wouldn’t need to do much to obtain those skins in which others worked hard for. I would be kitten fine if they reverted back the old spvp rankings and made it harder for people to actually get phoenix rank or dragon rank because right now its WAYYYYY to easy to get it. Like the tribal armor set either set it up like fractal weapons where its complete RNG or revert back to the old sPvP system where shark rank actually ment something instead of spoon feeding the rest of the population. With the new sPvP reward tracks Ive manage to get 2 precursors from the mystic toilet from exotics I get from the reward tracks in sPvP it’s simply is too easy. I mean its already bad enough that legendaries are going to be flooded when HoT comes out.

I mean nothing in GW2 shows obtaining something requires great feats, back then legendaries ment something but look at them now. They are probably more common then fractal weapons.

PH Law.4063:

No one is preventing anything from happening fact is everyone wants to obtain something in a manner that you wouldn’t need to do much to obtain those skins in which others worked hard for.

Yeah, except the few people who have the tribal set didn’t do much work to get it. They just got lucky and got the skin before Anet removed it from the game (very, very early into the game’s life).

I dont know, a one time completable PVP track would do just fine i think.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Yeah, except the few people who have the tribal set didn’t do much work to get it. They just got lucky and got the skin before Anet removed it from the game (very, very early into the game’s life).

Getting to rank 40 back then took a lot longer than it would now. Your rank points were dependant on your personal score at the time and winning/losing a match gave nothing outside of paids iirc.

Lol obviously most of the people now have no idea how bad it was to get ranks in spvp back then. The Phoenix and dragon ranks now were mostly bumped from bear or shark ranks. Spvp back then was a nightmare because the queue was just as bad also you didn’t get as much points if you lost unlike now. So getting lucky is not the case so please just stop before you embaress yourself.

DarkOcean.8746:

Haleydawn.3764:

It wasn’t glitchy, the pvp wardrobe was like how the wardrobe is now. Just in like a test form.
Tribal Armor was named Masquerade because Tribal was taken for what you now know as Primitive. And what is now Masquerade was named something entirely different.
Anyone who wanted these skins, should have known back then PvP and PvE were completely seperate, and should have workes torwards ‘PvP Masquerade’.

Uh, how is that not glitchy? Items that were titled Masquerade and had the Masquerade icon unlocked Tribal armor. They even fixed the icon and name later because it was a glitch. But they fixed it after the tribal armor was attainable.

All the PvP items are still in the system (though you can’t get them). They still largely have their old names, and are still using the wrong ones in a lot of cases. Tribal being fixed is an anomaly. :/

ZZZzzzzz,

Uh….. what? Still not?

Ok , ZZZZzzzz

(Wondering: Is it’s me who’s sleeping or the one guy who has to program the Tribal set to return to the game with 1-6 vendor(s)?)

I have a feeling tribal armor has been forgotten. It’s been 6+ months o_O. Along with the revenant forum that was supposedly happening. :-/ at this rate the revenant forum will come out when the HoT expansion actually comes out, and tribal is either forgotten or coming in a year or 2 when they have time >_<

Zaoda.1653:

I have a feeling tribal armor has been forgotten. It’s been 6+ months o_O. Along with the revenant forum that was supposedly happening. :-/ at this rate the revenant forum will come out when the HoT expansion actually comes out, and tribal is either forgotten or coming in a year or 2 when they have time >_<

Heh, it’s been nearly a year, unless you’re counting when they specifically said they would bring it back.

I mean, since they came out and said that they’re bringing all the PvP armor sets back eventually, there’s no question that we’ll see these armors again. It’s really just a matter of… when???

So I was recently looking at my Mesmer when I got upset. He’s ugly I can’t undo the ugly cause there is not a single set of armor I can put together to make him look decent, at least not without the tribal set. He sits in my character select hoping to be not ugly one day so that I may play him. When will that day be, Anet?

This may seem silly but this was a question I had a year ago when I stopped playing. I wanted this set SO badly and it was never released.

But now I came back to the game and was hoping that it was in by now. Maybe via Gem Store or an achievement…

However, it is not. And I am still sad. Is there some way we can show Anet a show of support so that we can finally get this set? I mean since the set is already in the game, avoiding issues with clipping shouldn’t be a thing and with the new Wardrobe system, you don’t even have to attach stats to it.

I literally think it’s something they forgot about. So I would love to remind them. That and it seems that said skin would fit in well with the new expansion that we are getting… so even though I know they are busy with getting that all squared away, now perhaps is the time to remind them that people still want access to this skin.