I like it! I don’t like the big, bulky, busy outfits. I liked Nature’s Oath, and the uh…Monk outfit? Not sure if that’s what it’s called, but I used it on my Revenant, as she mostly uses her staff, and thought that would be a fun theme for her. Maybe the old pirate one (with the hat hidden, always with the hats hidden). I was pretty happy with it.
Some of us don’t like the really busy outfits. I think it’s got some great style to it, and since I really don’t like a lot of the heavy armor, will probably be a good ‘go to’ outfit for my heavies.
I’m not looking for big and bulky. I’m looking for good & semi intricate texturing and a few slimmer layers, nothing overly bulky and this outfit is so bland. I’d never buy it in the gem store at all….course most everything in this game is buttcapes and that ruins so many armors that have fantastic leggings that you can’t see when running your character around due to buttcapes. Most of the gemstore armors fall under that category too, so at least it’s nice that this one is a mid length skirt.
The monk outfit had a nice texture/pattern on it. The boots were too thin and sucked compared to how they were sandals in gw1 but the overall outfit was great. This one not so much. Glad that you like it though.
Really enjoying all the other stuff. Thank god the 80 boosts stack, never used the HoT one!
Outfit is nice, and I rarely like the outfits they do, just a handful.
That sunspear outfit, if it’s the same one on dulfy’s page, is SO BLAND looking. hardly any detail at all. Lazy artist work. Not very happy with it at all
I expected better of Anet.
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/gw2-sunspear-outft-human-female.jpg
It started with a double mesmer team that use to offer a taxi service to the top of the Obsidian Sanctum JP, way back when that was the only way to get siege blueprints
It’s been around in games far longer then gw2. They had taxi services in City of Heroes and way before that in everquest. Hell in CoH there was a Guild Named Taxibot just for getting people into events and across dangerous zones.
Stooperdale has a point, though I found myself excited by the OP’s ideas.
The thing is … normally I cringe at replies to suggestions that go, in essence, “I hate your idea because it would mean the devs doing your thing instead of this other thing I find much more personally important.” Like somehow suggestions shouldn’t be made in the first place because they aren’t in line with the responder’s interests.
Yet here, I’m going to be one of those people. Not because I think your suggestions are bad, quite the contrary, I love them (the tribal armor tie in is wonderful). Because right now it feels like we’re going to new places and getting new things and your suggestions would be near as much work as making a new zone, without actually giving us a new zone.
So I would love these to happen some day. Just not, y’know, now.
Oddly I agree I wouldn’t want them to do this now, as they’ve got the current story going but if they have the team, I’d like to see something like this in the near future. I feel it’s a waste of development time to make a zone that’s been almost totally abandoned and now that they seem to be on the right track with the last two zones they should fix this one.
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Some of these are pretty good questions, others are facetious.
That’s how I work. I don’t take this game too seriously or I wind up insane and drinking.
Or maybe sane and drinking, it’s hard to tell some days.
Side note: Guild Halls were a place for guilds to meet up and chat/spar/RP in guild wars 1. That would be a nice addition to gw2.
We’re talking about it in the CDI but I still haven’t heard many good compelling reasons why to devote a huge chunk to that content when we could push for other content.
I would like Guild Halls, personally, just for fun. But when I see people talking about how starved we are for content . . . and we’re looking at getting people to put a lot of time and energy into Guild Halls . . .
I just have to step outside the whole thing and go: “Why?”
I agree I’d rather get new content or if content gets revised have it revised so people continue to visit it…I’m looking at you southsun. Such a lovey island that doesn’t get visited much due to current setup.
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Wonderful topic and great questions OP. There are many more, I am sure.
GW2 hasn’t been holistically developed in the last 2 years, there’s a lot fragmentation of concepts and inconsistencies of design creeping into the game.
GW2 has a bunch of inexplicable and often inconsistent design elements.
- Why do some items (like Guild Banners or Skill Point Objects) have a pop up window and others don’t?
- Why make so many in-game items non-salvageable or non-vendor-able? (If you disable salvage on reward or loot item, just slap a 1 copper value to the item so it will at least show up in the vendor window)
- Why “streamline” Personal Stories but still have some of them send the player back and forth between zones just to talk?
- Why not just make the starter Profession custom gear (Engineer’s Backpack, Guardian’s Helm, etc.) items into skins, which would not require a transmutation points to use?
- Why doesn’t the “match my level” filter in the TP actually just match my level?
- Why can’t the game stop giving me Spoons I already have collected?
- Why are Collections (like Spoons) handled differently than other collections?
- Why does the new “helper” arrow insist on pointing out the nearest event instead of something more useful, like a Skill Point or Vista? (the priority is a problem when trying to clear maps)
- Why make NPC’s like the Battle Historian so hard to find (visually)? (Better yet, why require the player to have to visit the NPC in the first place?)
Some nice additions here I do hope an ArenaNet Dev will see this even if we don’t get a response.
Why is the style section of the Black Lion a vertical listing with large icons rather than a grid, or a listing like in the trade post or merchant? Clicking one brings up the preview regardless, to me it seems like the Gem Store has an unnecessarilly bloated interface.
Interesting question. I wonder how it would look as a grid with the info below the items and the preview window still on the left. I wish we could zoom the preview window too. Hard to really see how something looks with a tiny image.
1) Probably easier to classify armor and outfits which skin armor as usable outside of cities than to have outfits that are city only. They probably data mined that for the vast number of players, time spent in a city is relatively small as well as wearing town clothing, thus the two hour limit.
2) Fair point, only slotted piece we can’t craft.
3) See 2.
4) Because along with Legendary and Ascended, it was meant to be a Level 80 look.
5) Likely because that’s how the character model generation code works. Head with and without head piece, not with or without skin.
6) Valid question.
7) Another good question since they drop and not bought from an NPC.
8) Probably because when the recipe was developed, silk was plentiful? But yes, it’s still twice as much T5 cloth as leather. Plus on top of that it’s used everywhere for insignia which bolstered demand to the point where silk scrapes are in short supply while leather is only used for “basic” armor components for light and medium. Maybe in the future there will be a need for Elonian Leather Squares as great as Damask has with insignia. There’s 11 million Thick Leather Sections on the TP, 1.5 million at vendor adjusted minimum versus 275K of Silk Scrap and nearly 400K drop in supply since the announcement of profession skewed drops.
1) Fair point. I can see how they may have wanted town clothes to only be worn in town, though the loss of the ability to color the outfit is terrible and I never see anyone use these tonics anywhere in town or out of town.
I think they’d get more life from them if they’d convert them to outfits…this would also promote that you get a free outfit in the game and not all of them being gem-store bought. Everyone could at least look a little different with various colored outfit-town-clothes then all the same.
4) But they aren’t L80. They’re L78, heh. At least adding a weaker celestial gem creation would give Jewelry something new as they don’t have crafting to 500 yet.
5) Yes but they had to code the outfit interface and could have coded it in at that time. They just for some reason chose not to. /shrug
8) Agreed. Hope they do something about both these issues.
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Rebuttal (good replies by the way)
1) they had to fuse the armors together to make the tonic in the first place and outfits are just fused armors so there should have been very little that needed to be done for outfit instead of tonic.
2/3) Yet they went and added various re-breathers for the new level up rewards so it’s not quite a non-existent thing for Anet.
4) the stats of the new backpacks, even at L78 are a tad bit better then any other backpack, once you include a lower tier gem, so why was the Celestial one left out in the cold as there is no lower tier celestial gem? It is silly how much materials the Ascended backpieces use.
5) This is probably very true, why they didn’t take that extra step and make the helment toggle-able from the outfit tab/area is weird.
6) 3 sets huh? That totally sucks and I wish they’d put them into PvE so people could get ahold of them. Via crafting, or a quest chain or something interesting.
7) They removed a bunch of grids recently with the removal of mini-pets going into the bank. They could have added them then and they also kept adding some new materials but not all of them. Perhaps the UI guy needs to get back on this?
8) Yet leather was far more common and cheaper then silk as you mentioned so this change makes no sense at all. They should backpedal but I’m betting like you that won’t happen.
9) Ohh good addition, why aren’t wvw tickets in the wallet?
Oh Devs please grace us with an answer to these confounding questions.
Please, I could really use some good news right about now, and this would really make my day. I’ve wanted this set for so long, and I don’t know how many of these threads I’ve posted in. I don’t know why we haven’t received any info about the state of this armor set yet and it honestly worries me.
And why is this subject being avoided so adamantly? Even on the Dolyak Express thread, they answered so many questions EXCEPT this one. It’s depressing me, as the character I REALLY want to create needs this armor to work. It may sound silly, but I need that armor set more than any other armor.
Just… please give me some good news about this.
They didn’t give us any info about it when we asked in beta and I don’t expect any now, though I’d love to be proven wrong in that regard. I dislike pvp and would like to get this set in pve.
oh and dyes…PAY to dye something?! What genius thought that up? Your repugnant money grabbing attempt is going to prompt me to get a refund on my outfits and never spend another cent on GW2 in any way, shape or form.
Dyes should NEVER cost to apply them to outfits/armor. Fire the idiot who thought that one up.
I wish you had taken the time you spent writing that post to actually notice that applying dyes is free but because you can also change skins at the same time it will display the total charge cost even on the dye page (if you have the skin change still in process).
TL;DR applying dyes was and is still free. Only skin changes require charges.
Then i have a bug to report because it didn’t show a 0 in my charges use, it showed a 1 Off to submit a ticket i go.