Curse

Scutilla · Jul 28, 2007, 10:12 PM // 22:12

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Originally Posted by Sorrowless

I have been thinking about this and looking at the background on which this character is placed.
This could possibly be a boss?
I am thinking this because of the cauldron like objects in the background,
But you won't know until GW:EN is released so i wouldn't lose sleep over it :P

It's definitely a player character, that dervish armor is one of the "leaked" armors. And that environment has been shown in plenty of other pics, it's possibly one of the 18 dungeons.

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Originally Posted by GloryFox

One possible theory on these gloves that I ascribe to, is their ability to add additional elemental damage to your weapon without truly altering the weapon. So a weapon with a +20% Sundering, Vamp, or Zealous mod would also have say

Magma Gloves, Fire damage
Earth Gloves, Ebon damage
Chrystal Gloves, Cold damage (I think these are Ice gloves not Chrystal)
Glow Gloves, Lighting damage

That's probably the most plausible theory regarding the nature of those gloves that I've heard, and a good one too. The only problem is that, as someone mentioned, it would make elemental prefixes even more useless than they already are.

FoxBat · Jul 28, 2007, 10:36 PM // 22:36

Seeing as the gloves are cross-proffession, they might not need to be crafted or customized at all. Just have them be a normal (albeit rare) drop like any weapon, or maybe attained through a special quest or challenge mission. It could then be traded to other players.

Free Runner · Jul 28, 2007, 10:51 PM // 22:51

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Originally Posted by FoxBat

Seeing as the gloves are cross-proffession, they might not need to be crafted or customized at all. Just have them be a normal (albeit rare) drop like any weapon, or maybe attained through a special quest or challenge mission. It could then be traded to other players.

A system like Hero Armor perhaps? you get a green armor drop from a dungeon (hell maybe your party get them as a reward for completeing it),go to a special NPC who changes it into customized armor?

Neo Nugget · Jul 28, 2007, 11:08 PM // 23:08

I dunno if i would like to see these drop and be traded.
Then people would PROBABLY be selling for extremely high amounts and i bet they would stay there because clearly people love them.

i vote customized quest reward

Ahern Gale · Jul 29, 2007, 05:29 AM // 05:29

On the GW:EN E3 demo video the presenter refers to 40 new sets of armour and then shows an example of an Assassin at the character creation screen. He points out the new 'Armour effects'

Are these two seperate things? Like can you modify your existing armour to be for e.g glowing red like magma? Or is he refering to a new set of assassin armour that the character is wearing.

If you think the first it might explain the picture at the top, perhaps the character has modified armour.

Horseman Of War · Jul 29, 2007, 08:26 AM // 08:26

Isnt the character in the pic also seen alongside the blonde cover-girl and another possible hero/ally/hench in the end of the video? This leads me to believe its from a cutscene in a mission... so Im pretty sure thats a hero, sporting her version of the elite armor set some of us saw last week - kind of like Goren's primeval that looks like 15k ss, etc. (?) the pic's deleted out of the thread... I guess it was posted illegally or something..

edit: I have a stack of spiritwood planks... should I get anymore? The fact that diamonds are higher priced than ecto scares me...

Free Runner · Jul 29, 2007, 11:52 AM // 11:52

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Originally Posted by Horseman Of War

Isnt the character in the pic also seen alongside the blonde cover-girl and another possible hero/ally/hench in the end of the video? This leads me to believe its from a cutscene in a mission... so Im pretty sure thats a hero, sporting her version of the elite armor set some of us saw last week - kind of like Goren's primeval that looks like 15k ss, etc. (?) the pic's deleted out of the thread... I guess it was posted illegally or something..

edit: I have a stack of spiritwood planks... should I get anymore? The fact that diamonds are higher priced than ecto scares me...

The magma gloves have been seen on the CSS part of the E3 Presentation (they were on an Ele) and on a Warrior through the armor leak (the armor leak had 4 different "special" gloves as listed on the first page). Also the Dervish in question is seen standing next to Jora and a Norn sending his Raven off in the trailer - this part looked like a cinematic. So i doubt shes a Hero.

The Mask is even more interesting...it looks like something from the Asura. What would be even more interesting is if these armor pieces were actually part of the storyline like in order to go deeper into the Great Destroyers Lair you need the Magma Gloves gained from dungeon 7 so you can survive the heat (Legend of Zelda OoT anyone?).

Ether way i dont think these gloves will be crafted.

ARK729 · Jul 29, 2007, 02:58 PM // 14:58

im thinking since they would want to make them usefull to all chars they would do it more as such:

Magma Gloves = % Fire damage reduction
Earth Gloves = % Ebon damage reduction
Chrystal Gloves = % Cold damage reduction
Glow Gloves = % Lightning damage reduction

So to improve survival rate in the really really hard dungeons. It would make sence, but it could also be a pve effect only, for instance to kill certain things that are emune to other damage besides; fire, earth, cold and lightning.

Morgoth the dark · Jul 29, 2007, 03:04 PM // 15:04

rangers with that + elemental insignias = gg.
so i kinda doubt that's gonna happen