Curse

Matfei · Sep 04, 2007, 02:27 AM // 02:27

Monument - A
Dwarven - W (a change in leg style would be better; but I love eagle motiffs...)
Asuran - M

So kill me for liking a Dwarven set reskin.

hlc617 · Sep 04, 2007, 02:45 AM // 02:45

IMO All the female warrior armor is crap. Monument is almost cool, but the Luxon leggings and boot with that top? No, just no. I think the Eagle Dwarven female war armor is the ugliest ever. It's looks like.. what my friend said: a 7th grader tried to make an anime warrior princess.

I don't even care if the armor shows skin- just make it look like it belongs together and isn't a kurzick reskin :C pretty plz. ANet has/did have hugely talented artists working for them.. wtf happened? The male warrior armors look great! Why do u hate the womenz D:?

/whine

p.s. Asuran paragon girl armor is a joke right? The "elite" reskin looks worse than the original 1k armor.

Shadowfox1125 · Sep 04, 2007, 03:33 AM // 03:33

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Originally Posted by Arkantos

They should keep all of them. Many people have already bought the armor, and I'm sure they'd be disappointed because a bunch of people didn't like it. It's too late to rework the armor, but it's not too late to add more.

Yeah, I'd have to agree.

Friar Khan · Sep 04, 2007, 03:35 AM // 03:35

I have to say that I love necro girl monument armor, even though it's a reskin.

I haven't studied each armor pic thoroughly, but the ones that stand out as the best are...
norn - R, Rt, Mo, D, and Me
asura - N and Rt (although the Rt jacket looks all too familiar)
dwarf - D and A
monument - N, Rt, W, and (if they'd fix the boots) Me

Aethon · Sep 04, 2007, 04:06 AM // 04:06

It would be easier to list which armors I really don't like. Since I'm not going to waste that much cash on armors of unknown quality to me, this is all based off of the pictures provided. I'm doing it this way because I want to see the source material being used for something better than what exists; I mean, Asuran female Assassin armor isn't my cup o' tea, but if someone wants to use it, it looks fairly appropriate. On the other hand...

All new Paragon armors for females
They can't catch a break; at least males get pants in one of the new sets. Would even a little variety be impossible?

Dwarven Paragon
In regards to both male and female, for unoriginality and a man-midriff violation.

Asuran, Dwarven, and Monument female Elementalist
Fortunately, the Norn female Elementalist armor looks almost good enough to compensate for the others - but the "others" still look "slutty". What a shame, they could have been really interesting...in the appropriate ways, that is. The option for "slutty" armor existed since the initial launch, so can we please explore some other options now?

Asuran Ritualist
Both genders could use more upper body coverage, in my opinion. Besides, how could one differentiate these from Female Seitung armor or Male Vabbian from any reasonable distance? Dull.

Dwarven Ritualist
I strongly dislike the whole set for females for being boring, and males get struck down for another man-midriff violation.

Who at A.net is so obsessed with these freaking man-midriffs?! At least provide alternatives.

Norn female Mesmer
It's on my list entirely because of the chest armor. I have nothing against "those", but what if I don't want to flaunt them? I thought Norn armors were supposed to look warm, ya know? I have absolutely no problems with the rest of this set, but that one piece would totally dissuade me from buying it. It does feel kinda on the plain side compared to others, though.

Monument Ritualist
I really want to like this set; it looks like I could dye it green, mix & match, and end up looking vaguely similar (at a distance, if you squint) to Vayu from Digital Devil Saga. Unfortunately, the female set looks as retarded as their FoW armor, and that makes me very angry.

As for how to "fix" things, adding armor does seem to be the most viable solution. Like adding endgame destroyer armor, or something. Or collector armors to use as alternate pieces for sets that appeal to a lesser percentage of players (Although, being human/selfish, I'd prefer that my choice of offending pieces would get chosen for such an action.

). This basically sums up why reskins often turn out for the worse, although I do want to applaud the new monk and ranger armors in particular, which look very good. Warrior armors are "meh", but someone might like 'em (After all, I see people running around in purple 15k Gladiator armor every once in a while.).

dansamy · Sep 04, 2007, 05:24 AM // 05:24

Norn: Keep R, Mo, N, E, D, Rt
Asuran: Keep Mo, E, Rt
Monument: Keep R, N, Me, E, A, Rt
Dwarven: Keep R, Rt

pamelf · Sep 04, 2007, 05:36 AM // 05:36

All Norn armour can stay as is. They did a stylistically good job with those ones.

No Asuran armours are good except for the ritualist. The rest are not even stylistically different to their reskins.

Ranger and Necromancer Monument armours are also fine.

Dwarven: Necromance, Ranger, Ritualist and Mesmer are all quite good.

Nevin · Sep 04, 2007, 06:19 AM // 06:19

I really think it doesn't matter if they update the current skins, as many people I've seen (on the forums) that have purchased reskins regret it.

Wolf_Lone · Sep 04, 2007, 09:00 AM // 09:00

For sure Anet know most of the good armor designs in Gw:en are Norn. That's why they made Norn armors accessible during preview event. I just wonder how many customers they would have lost if they let them see those reskins during the event. You can call it good marketing, I'd say it's good cheating.

Seissor · Sep 04, 2007, 10:24 AM // 10:24

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Originally Posted by Scutilla

All of them. They shouldn't delete armor just because a large number of people don't like them- even the most unpopular armor set will have at least a few fans, and it's not fair to them to change it after they buy it.

I'm all for new armor sets (either in a second expansion or as a free/purchasable stand-alone pack), but please don't change existing sets just because some people complain about them.

That's my thoughts. I dread all the warrior armor for females except dwarven. But just because I dont like it, there might be some who do. So I say keep the current sets but in time, please add further sets.

In fact, you could even hold a competition like with the weapon art, etc.

SetsunaSamurai · Sep 04, 2007, 11:58 AM // 11:58

To everyone jealous of us warriors in Silver Eagle armor, there is a silver lining for you.
It won't show up in our HoM.

In all honesty, the only set I'm not thrilled about is the Monument sets. I can look over the Asuran re-skin, especially for all the Luxon Warriors out there, but I can also see why everyone is up in arms about it as well.

SotiCoto · Sep 04, 2007, 12:13 PM // 12:13

The only armour of worth I've seen so far are the Norn Monk and Ritualist armours....

Almost everything else is just total crap.
There is NO justifying the Asuran Necromancer and Assassin armours. The Necro reskins are just raped, substandard copies of Elite Luxon (which, I might add, I already have... if you check my avatar)... The Assassin Asuran is a slightly more "interesting" texture than its predecessor,... but the Imperial mesh was obscene in the first place, so there is no justifying its re-use. It just doesn't look right at all. Furthermore, it is even more blatant in design than the Ancient armour in Nightfall (substituting in obscene shiny plates and blueness in place of the spikefest of ancient). I'm not liking it.

Assassin Vanguard armour would be better if they removed the few flimsy little blades that are left on it, as the skin itself is quite nice (if a little gaudily coloured). Assassin Norn likewise needs the flimsy blades removed.

The Glasses with the Asuran armour are a nice touch... but they need to be better meshed. They look flimsy and horribly low-res as it is.

All the Elementalist armour is boring.
The Necro armour is badly reskinned. I could personally do better.
The Dervish armour all looks the same but for the Norn one, which looks Yeti-like and amusing at best.
The Warrior armour is boring.
The Ranger armour... Norn is alright, but the rest is ugly reskin nonsense.
Paragon armour? I have yet to see a good suit of Paragon armour full stop. Ever. Only General Morgahn's armour even comes close.

Basically.... I doubt I'm going to bother with most of it unless they get some new meshes... My Monk will be getting Norn, and my Rit will quite likely get Norn too... and I'll get Glasses for a few characters... but that'll likely be it. The whole of it.

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Originally Posted by Aethon

Unfortunately, the female set looks as retarded as their FoW armor, and that makes me very angry.

Given that FoW Ritualist armour is the least retarded-looking FoW armour (helmet possibly discluded), I'm inclined to believe that Female Ritualist Vanguard armour (which I haven't taken a good look at yet) must look pretty good. Why this makes you angry, I don't know.

vergerefosh · Sep 04, 2007, 12:41 PM // 12:41

I like Silver Eagle for Male warrior, Norn Ranger, and Norn Ele, although I admit I haven't looked at too many others. Asura female Mesmer, and I believe it's monument are also quite nice

Jongo River · Sep 04, 2007, 12:41 PM // 12:41

I like the look of Norn Monk, Ranger and Asuran female Warrior - very Robocop, like Sunspear, but more so. I'm guessing it has the same "Warrior by day/stripper by night" ass problem though - anyone got a behind shot?

Most of the armours aren't really that bad, they just don't blow you away and feel like they're worth the cost/grind. The only one I outright hate is Asuran Ranger, but I never could stand Drakescale, which it's very clearly taken from.

TideSwayer · Sep 04, 2007, 12:54 PM // 12:54

FWIW, I'm fine with the current armors and wouldn't want any of them removed for any reason.

If there isn't time/resources to make completely new armor sets, I wouldn't mind if they just made all the hero/hench armors (this includes the default sets and all the armor remnant-upgrade sets - obviously ignore the non-human sets

) into craftable sets. Let's be honest here - heroes and henchmen have awesome armor. The art for all of them is already in the game so there's one step out of the equation. The hardest part would be adding in the dyeable parts, coming up with the material requirements, and finding places to have them crafted. Shouldn't be too bad, especially compared to starting over from scratch and making entirely new sets, where all of the previous steps would be required anyways.

Let players craft the hero and henchmen armor sets for our own characters. It would rock.

EDIT: I understand this would be an insane number of sets added, but why the hell not? They could be added a few at a time, if it came down to it.

Takuna · Sep 04, 2007, 05:10 PM // 17:10

I liked all the Asura armours and heck, I even like the Dwarvn ones. I really wish people would stop moaning about how the armours aren't to their personal taste.

I think that, regardless of the Assassin's Asura armour being a reskin of Elite Imperial, it is an improvement.

You're like those guys that rate a sequel game really badly because it was exactly the same as the previous, brilliant, unbelievable game and not tonnes better.

Quote:

The Assassin Asuran is a slightly more "interesting" texture than its predecessor,... but the Imperial mesh was obscene in the first place, so there is no justifying its re-use. It just doesn't look right at all. Furthermore, it is even more blatant in design than the Ancient armour in Nightfall (substituting in obscene shiny plates and blueness in place of the spikefest of ancient). I'm not liking it.

That's just your opinion. Others may like the imperial sets, ancient and Asuran. I had Imperial, have Elite Imperial, have Ancient and am trying to get Asuran. Sure, they look impractical but then heck, most female caster armour looks impractical.

gentrinity · Sep 04, 2007, 09:02 PM // 21:02

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/9/9...an_armor_f.jpg

that's the set i just got for my warrior. Female warrior asuran. I like it -- my only complaint is.... what exactly dyes?--only the lines on the silverpart of the armor.... you can't get rid of the red.... kinda a bummer.

Bryant Again · Sep 04, 2007, 09:08 PM // 21:08

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Originally Posted by gentrinity

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/9/9...an_armor_f.jpg

that's the set i just got for my warrior. Female warrior asuran. I like it -- my only complaint is.... what exactly dyes?--only the lines on the silverpart of the armor.... you can't get rid of the red.... kinda a bummer.

Texmod, awaaaaaaaaaay!

That is awfully crummy, though. I thought that was the dyable part.

gentrinity · Sep 04, 2007, 09:40 PM // 21:40

its ok. Its much better than what i had... just kinda misleading.

Don't suppose i could bribe a Dev to make it dyeable.... a little more???

Was thinking i could dye the red completely -- would be awEsomE if it was solid black with silver -- futuristic warrior FTW! Heck i'd grind to the max level for that lol

Darksun · Sep 04, 2007, 09:44 PM // 21:44

Getting rid of ANY of them would be a mistake (since some people want what they bought) They should just ADD a suit for every reskin they made. Then give the option to trade in a reskin Armor piece for one of the new pieces. (incase you bought a reskin and want one of the new ones)