Guild Wars 2

Ever since LS2, Anet has been introducing slowly a series of Upgrade components and skins that grant cosmetic auras in the same vein as legendary weapons.

Chak egg sac, Preserved Queen Bee, Poly-luminescent Undulating Refractors, Moto’s Unstable Baubles, Night fury, ghostly infusions, etc to name a few.

One issue I notice though, is that ANET doesn’t seem to follow any rhyme or reason regarding their implementation.

Sometimes they are shoulder skins… sometimes they are infusions… and sometimes they are exotic quality celestial stats gem-like upgrades…

Why? This only reduces the choices players have to use these items.
why cant I use my Shoulder Scarf item from the gem store with snowflakes aura this xmas? wink

Or worse, why do I have to kitten myself and my raid by using exotic trinkets with worse stats so I can use the Chak egg sac with… celestial stats I don’t want on my chrono tank?

So far, the only upgrades that have been safe of these issues have been the moto baubles and the ghostly infusions, precisely because their infusion nature. You can already use them with the best gear possible, enjoy them in the stats of your choice, and enjoy the aura at the same time without messing up with your stats or overall looks.

These ultra vanity items, just like legendary weapons, should always be compatible with the best tier of gear possible, ascended gear, and provide selectable stats of the same nature. And regarding the shoulder skins, they should not interfere with other armor skins and work like just auras instead.

Would it be possible, (maybe possible is not the right word here, cuz they can do anything they wanted with the game lol) for Anet to unify this?

Ideally, all these items should always be a +5 +9 infusion and function the same way as the Moto baubles, which are to me the best implementation of such cosmetic items in the game.

I just wanted to bring this issue up and hopefully have Anet notice before we are swimming with a plethora of cosmetic items that each follow their own convention, ending in a hockeypockey of different kinds of upgrades all over the place.

Don’t worry.

In feature pack 6 we’ll get a cosmetic /aura slot.

I agree: be consistent. Make them all enrichments and enable some sort of way to equip multiple ones. Or make give them their own wardrobe slot(s).

(Not sure about the AR+9/stat+5 aspect; I prefer that cosmetics are separated from stats entirely, which is partly why we have a wardrobe.)

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I agree: be consistent. Make them all enrichments and enable some sort of way to equip multiple ones. Or make give them their own wardrobe slot(s).

(Not sure about the AR+9/stat+5 aspect; I prefer that cosmetics are separated from stats entirely, which is partly why we have a wardrobe.)

yeh that would be nice

even if anet limits us to 3 Auras active at once

Personally they should all be enrichment slots, and can only have one active.

I think at this point we should get an aura slot (or potentially more than 1, I don’t really care). All of the current aura granting items should have their auras split off into the wardrobe automatically (so for ghostly infusions, you would keep the 9/5 infusion, and get the ghostly aura unlocked in the wardrobe for the aura slot).

It will be a lot of work, but I feel like this is the best way going forward.