Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed this now and then while leveling and wasn’t sure if I was just expecting too much or if a problem exists, but now I’m pretty sure there’s a problem. I was just checking the medium armor leggings from a level 80 kodan karma vendor and noticed that the appearance was IDENTICAL to pants I was using back around level 10-ish. So I thought that perhaps the armor was just lame by design so I looked at the heavy and light styles to see what they looked like. They were exceptionally cool and definitely something I’d expect to get from a kodan vendor, unlike the medium leggings, which looked to have been imported directly from Queensdale.

And this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this. I was likewise disappointed earlier in the night when I went to get an upgraded breathing mask from a level 80 quaggan karma vendor, and ended up with a simple “bandit” mask, much like the very first one I ever had, but far less ostentatious (really, it was that uninspired). Of course, I checked out the other classes of armor and of course, they looked really cool and unique. The heavy was a fully enclosed diving helmet and the light (oddly) replaced the chest piece and added a something like a tiara. Not sure. That could be a bug too. Either way, I’d certainly never seen either of those designs before and I they definitely didn’t look like they might have been loot dropped from a level 10 bandit mob.

Now I’m going to assume this is a bug and that the correct art assets aren’t being assigned to these items. I doubt that ANet simply dropped the ball that completely on medium armor designs. And like I said, I’ve suspiciously been looking at other karma vendors as I’ve leveled, because the mediums they’ve been offering have — well, to be blunt, they’ve sucked. I’m still using the skins from my tier 1 cultural set from level 40 because everything else that I’ve found since made me look like I’ve just stumbled out the tutorial mission. Thankfully there’s been plenty of variety with weapon skins. But with armor though — meh.

I’ve bug reported this most recent incident because I know for a fact that the appearance for those leggings can’t be right. I wish I’d been certain earlier so I could have bugged the many others as well.