High End Armor and the Jealousy Factor

I was thinking about vabian armor for one of my warriors. But after standing in a few places, I have heard nothing but abuse directed at the people that wear high end armor. Ok, yoyo's are a part of the game and being an idiot is the number one profession in game, we all know this. And to be honest Vabian isn't really high high end compared to say Obsidian etc..

I mean there has to be some people that got their armor in game by farming etc, and didn't just "Grab mommies credit card" and run to ebay to buy the resources.. Right?

Err...what kind of answer are you looking for?

No one has anything to do with what you buy with your gold/items/whatever. Just ignore that and play the game the way you want. ^^

Not everybody who has high-end armors Ebays it. Don't worry about what some noob will tell you in-game. If you like the armor then you should get it.

Well of 'course not everyone eBay's. But often people that are too lazy to farm but still want fancy gear take their frustration out on people that earned what they have.

The only time I've seen abuse directed toward high-end armor-wearers, is when that wearer, is, a) calling attention to their armor and b) forgive me, acting noobish. [Therefore kind of inviting the eBay reference, ie, how can you afford this armor without learning something about the game on the way...]

Yea it was a bit of a muttled post..

It's sad that so many in game drive so much pleasure from being as nasty as they want and feel nothing will be done about it. At least in SWG we could ask them to duel, and make them look cowardly when they backed down or logged.. *sigh*


Me personally, I tell them to get stuffed, it just bothers me that some have to take being an ass to the n'th degree,

I've never been too excited about "elite" armor. Unlike in other games, the expensive stuff isn't any better stat-wise than regular max armor.

If I had huge amounts of gold/materials though, I'd probably get it, but haven't been that wealthy yet.

Vanity is a strange thing, affects people differently.

I see people /laugh at me all the time, to which I just /yes. I've never really gotten pissed or upset over it. They're jerks, and I just ignore them.

Also, you *can* still duel in Guild Wars, it's just harder to set up. I've only ever dueled one guy out of this "armor business", however. Most were just out of fun.

I agree with you on this point. If I see some wammo running around with his fiery dragon sword and eternal shield agroing 10 groups and he has obsidian armor on, I'm going to assume a few things. He either 1) got many donations from friends 2) farmed it all in UW with a 55 or 3) eBayed.

Someone who is a wammo cannot have that many intelligent friends and I doubt his friends would be willing to donate to him for his obsidian armor. If you're a farmer you should at least know some mechanics about the game right? you know enchat strip is bad agroing too many will result in death etc. Not the best way to learn game mechanics but you're not completely clueless. The only possible explanation left is the fact that he eBayed his money. I won't openly voice my opinion to these people simply out of politeness.

When you see a guy being bashed and called ebayer its because they're jelouse and therefore they degrade him with insults. Its ironic how only the people that know the wearers of FoW armour appreciate its prestige. Jelousy has almost defeated its purpose.

This immature wammo in FoW armour thing people keep going on about is a myth just promoting the degradation of FoW armour if you think logically no immature wammo is going to be able to purchase items off ebay and no parent is going to help them purchase a virtual item. In my experiance going back to d2 the ONE person i knew that did buy items from ebay was much older(in his 30s).

Theres atleast 2 people in my guild with full legit FoW armour on multiple characters. They are farming the UW/FoW every night.

I recently (finally) got obsidian armour for my ranger. I must admit that the high level armour abuse you see in the game had put me off buying it for some time, but after 21 months of game play I felt my ranger deserved it.

Since getting it, I have not seen anyone direct any insults to me personally. It might be because I usually display my "Kind of a Big Deal" title though

I just bought my final set of 15k armour, now all of my chars has a set. I like the fact that I've achieved what I set out to obtain, so people who abuse others for something that they themselves are capable of are just being idiots. It's sad to see people go nuts just because they can't be bothered to do what other people have. IMO I don't see anything wrong with people that have legitimately earned high-end items of prestige flaunting what they've got a little bit, because they can at least say they've worked for it.

Yeah, the only people who I've seen get teased are the ones who call attention to themselves. I personally worked my ass off for my armor. What can you say when idiots are standing in the middle of Shing Jea in their Fissure armor quoting Ron Burgundy?

When nightfall started I saw a picture of it and wanted the dervish vabbian armor. Then I got to the bizzar and found out how much it cost.

Finally, months later I was able to afford it after makins some good trades. I don't have obsidian so I'm not sure how people react to it, but I have had nothing but compliments about my vabbian armor and I love the way it looks so even if people did comment, I wouldn't care. I agree, if you don't bring attention to it I don't think most people care...

Ancient news. Full FoW armor sets can be casually farmed in 2 weeks or less. Thats how long it took me to get each of my 3 sets. Some people who are lazy or suck at farming (usually the case) will just ebay it. Thats pretty much it.

heck id ebay it if i wasnt too cheap or id farm it - if i wasnt too lazy.
so for now - i keep telling myself i hate the design

besides - i am only jelous of the ppl with good looking armour - and i have most of those already in my storage.

Geez, and I remember a time when you could go into Droknar's and say I just got my 15k armor (or another piece) and people would actually say congrats. But then of course that was the time that 15k armor meant something too.

I've seen some players brag about buying e-bay gold and getting their armor that way, like they're inviting people to bash them (which plenty of people do). I got my end-game Canthan armor because....I liked it. Got it the ingame way--farming, trading...you know the drill. I havent been the target of abuse, but frankly, I could care less what people though of it (I actually get a lot of compliments about it).
To hell with what people say...if you want it, go get it! (Just don't ebay it....)

One of the reasons I stopped hanging around Grotto was because it was Snobville -_- I LOVE my druids 15k altho the gloves are not... I couldn't see spending 15k on gloves that didn't look all that much different. I don't like the look of FoW ranger or any other high end ranger armor except maybe the one that uses deld steel. I farmed UW witha guildie for a while so I could get a FoW top for my monk and now I've decided that I should instead use it on my mesmer lol...
No one pays attention to any of 15k armors unless they are a low levels of the class I am at the time. And I still don't have any FoW sets cause I dont like most of them.