Guild Wars 2

A lot of people are having the same issues right now. Happened less than 5 minutes ago. There’s a reddit post, too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/54cnd2/are_the_servers_partially_down_or_something/

So, I am not a huge fan of the light armors, as a whole. Like the trope of medium armors being largely trench coat-y, I want a little more than dresses, bikini’s, and lingerie (I am over exaggerating a bit here). While most of it I do like, I have one character based off a concept in my head, and she is a battlemage. Much like the mage-hawk’s armor in DA2, she proudly sported a breast plate and pauldron over her sword-arm.

Guild Wars 2 is lacking a good battle mage ARMOR (some outfits are nice, but I REALLY want my Chronomancer’s shoulder pieces to show, because they are awesome, also, I don’t want a full suit of armor, i want something light, that still offers some vital protection to neck/heart/ribcage). Just a simple, elegant, not-skimpy breast plate, and a sensible, equally elegant pauldron.

Since our eles, mesmers, and necros all enjoy the melee love with daggers and/or swords, it would make immersive sense for some battlemage armor.

I will attach a simple drawing later once I make it of my idea (beware, I am re-discovering how to draw, don’t expect much from me!)

So I guess this thread is being made to see the thoughts that players and devs have on the idea of a battlemage-like armor.

TL:DR- our light armor classes enjoy being close up and personal sometimes, wouldn’t it be nice to have a few armors (not just outfits) that offer legitimate, lightweight protection to vitals?

Lanfear enters the thread! I love this, good work!

Themes:
Drawn from each dungeon, racial city, and maybe a couple from places like orr.
Stuff:
Multi-room or chamber, especially one for a guild bank
A large court yard or meeting hall where we can gather prior to missions or WvW runs so we can visually organize into teams, without any cramping or confusion.
A trophy room for guild statistics, like how many challenges were done successfully (bounties, rushes, puzzles, ect).
Add a small portal like the one found in Sorrow’s Embrace that leads to LA or a home city the guild hall theme is based on.
Have an array of custom upgrades that can make a CM style hall look like a classy gentleman’s home or on the other hand a frat house.
Add a couple of plant nodes, mining nodes, and logging nodes that change places every day and has a chance to be any mat, one day being iron, the next being mithril
Add an interface button in Guild UI that takes you to the currently repped Guild Hall

What I would want a guild hall to be is a place to chill when I’m doing nothing, so I don’t have to see a ruined LA, and a place to meet up before GM, without having to deal with a chaotic Might and Main when every guild on earth decides to run missions at the same time.

On one side this will kill the clothe trade by making those of us who main guardians, thieves and such more likely to get leather and metal armor (because the price of mithril is obviously too high).
On the other side this might kill the over-priced wood as most weapons can be reduced to logs, or have a chance to be. Unfortunately the drop in wood is unlikely to offset the price in cloth, especially since they are never used in conjunction with one another.
I do admire the thought behind the small variation in loot, but that small variation among hundreds of thousands of accounts, and easily a million characters, will definitely alter the market and prices of the TP. Stock up on your silk, wool, and cotton. I doubt it will be an instant spike, but it will be a steady increase for a while.