Guild Wars 2

Recently, I have tried to persuade a few PvE-minded friends to give structured PvP a shot, promising that it is both fun and rewarding. I was appalled to discover that only stronghold maps are available for players under rank 10.

I realize why there’s that restriction, and I don’t dislike stronghold, but it is a terrible way to introduce someone to structured PvP. Strongholds can be confusing even to veteran players, and much harder to explain than the Battle of Kylho.

Moreover, this makes unranked stronghold worse for experienced players, as it guarantees that most players in the map will be new to PvP in general.

I realize that it doesn’t take too long to get to rank ten, but for many of my more casual friends, that’s a lot of messy stronghold matches to endure. At the very least there needs to be a conquest bracket for players under rank ten, as that would greatly improve a new player’s introduction to PvP.

Thank you for the feedback on this idea. I think the town clothes option would certainly work out best. The clipping might be part of the reason, but honestly, even a lot of items of the same armor class have clipping issues.

Also I’d like to note that I don’t think reducing armor restrictions would be a can of worms regarding weapons. Players understand that their weapons are their abilities, so it’d be unrealistic to demand less weapon restrictions.

maddoctor.2738:

Why would anyone want to nerf his/her character with lower armor? Heavy armor gives higher armor rating, who would ever want to use Medium or Light that give far less? :S

I don’t know, because it’s fashionable? Not all players keep gear exclusively for actual gameplay; some of us just want to RP in it, or even wear it casually while hanging out in the city.

As I said:

I’m sure this complaint has been made before, and I know it’s of little consequence to players who don’t care about fashion or role-playing, but some of us would like it a lot if our warriors could walk around town wearing leather jackets.

When I joined GW2 I was disappointed that characters in heavy armor couldn’t wear medium or cloth armor. I was reminded of how much I dislike this when I discovered that a new update made it impossible to even preview armor of a different class.

I can understand why a light armor character might be fully restricted to light armor – MMOs have always done that – but never before have I heard of heavily armored characters being restricted to their own.

I’m sure this complaint has been made before, and I know it’s of little consequence to players who don’t care about fashion or role-playing, but some of us would like it a lot if our warriors could walk around town wearing leather jackets.

Please, ArenaNet – let characters wear armor lighter than their own (with a penalty, of course). If not, could we at least be able to transmute them, or make them function the same way town clothes do?