All 15k armor sets?

Random question but do people bother to collect all the 15k armor sets for their characters? Currently levelling an E/Me and it seems the armor bonuses vs the elements seems like it'd be nice to have all the sets and switch to whatever elemental type I may be facing most in a mission/pvp/farming run.

I haven't had the pleasure of playing PVE all the way to the end of the storyline. I've only ever played PVP mainly and thus far I seem to put aeromancer on all the Ele's I've ever made just cause there are so many air spikers out there.

does the 15 AL stack ? Or is it 15 AL vs an element for at least wearing one piece.

Little confusion.

Or would say, 15k Pyromancer armor have 60 AL + 60 AL vs Fire?

Thanks for any and all responses. Haven't played in over half a year and I am RElearning alot :P

-E

I have a female mesmer.. and she's got 3 out of 4 sets of 15k armor, the dessert collectors and bits and pieces which I thought looked nice (mainly boots) from droknars.. currently though, I'd like to get the fissure top over getting the other 15k set, and storage is a problem with a large wardrobe like that.

I'm also female, which is what explains the cloth obsession.. there are two armors which are useful in that collection, my favourite the rouge stuff which is great if I don't need the energy and am scared of our monk(or me) being useless and the enchanters which gives more energy (and means more hexes) the rest of the armors are for show only.

The armor works identical to the one you wear in pvp though, and the stats are identical to the droks stuff, just.. more expensive

15K armour is the same as Droknar armour apart from the looks and cost. I plan on getting the odd 15K stuff for each of my characters purely for a change in their look, but I don't fancy spending my time farming away to get the gold for full sets of 15K.

My ele has all 4 sets of 15K. She's rather spoiled that way.

Started it with my Necro, but skipped the scars and still haven't gotten the 15k Tormentor's since the update. Its nice to have fun armor to change in, but it hurts inventory and storage more than anything...

Dear god, do I ever feel your pain. Not only do I have a full glad's + 1 knight's piece set, I have alternating sword/axe helms, alternating pieces with superior sword/axe runes, as well as the hex helm. (I like to switch off between axe and sword depending on my mood).

I'm rapidly running out of room here. I'm starting to get the feeling that lots of extra storage per character/account is more important than lots of extra character slots for Factions. I want to have multiple sets of armor. I really do.

Maybe I should just enslave somebody and make him/her carry around all my clothes and materials?

Yep I'm running out of storage space too I currently have the female necro's 15k bonelace set, half of the 15k cultist, one piece of 15k necrotics, droks tormentors with bloodstained boots and some of the collectors stuff for desert armor. Vanity is sooo much fun..hehe

I spoiled my Necro with 4 out of 5 15k sets.. Basically because I loved the looks of it.. the only one I don't have is the Cultist one but that is ugly.

It's really bad that I am now running out of storage because of the armor xD (then again I also carry all the necro greens with me.. leaving me only 1 bag for stuff to pick up in)

my monk has about 3 of the 15k armors. altho the ascestics arn't exactly 15k, but rather 8k.

and my elementalist has all of the 15k armors.
my mesmer has all.. but only 2 of the armors have the complete set.
my ranger has 3/4, drakescale is ugly imho.
my necro has 2.. scars are 8k tho..

i think for the elementalists armors are pretty nice, since they have different armor against different attacks.

but monks/mesmers seem to have same extra stats. :|

The 15 AC vs Element does not stack and it is location-specific.

Armor bonus vs elements is determined as the effect hits the area of the body. Most direct damage spells hit the chest I believe, definately things like arrows and elemental weapons hit random areas of the body as well.

Thus, if you are protecting yourself from Fire Imps or Charr, take full pyromancers. Ice-spearing golems - take full hydromancers.

Personally, for pve, those two sets should handle nearly all situations. For the rare lightning damage undead, bring the Winter spirit and hydro and you'll be fine.

Because I have several different builds for my different characters, and each build requires that attirbutes/runes change, so instead of rebuying runes, I get new armors with the runes set the way they need to be (aside from sup vig, thats always on the head gear) To me the 1.5 looks cheap and flat and since I like a little dimension in life and can afford it, I buy 15k.

Storage is the problem. All my characters have a full set of 15K (whatever I feel is most useful in general) and extra 15K pieces with different runes so I can be more versatile.

^ I would suggest putting superior vigor on chest piece, as this is the most costly in materials and least likely to have duplicate pieces. I tend to use different head pieces with corresponding superior rune. That will allow you to max that particular attribue to 16 if you so desire.

Meh, it gives people something to do I guess.

Me, I just buy the ones I like. For example, my main Warrior still uses Knights just because it's the one I like best. My Monk uses regular tattoos since I like the dragon design more than the 15K(as in 8K) ones. However, my Necro has Fissure, which I think looks awesome.

Usually whatever runes I need to swap out, I can handle with the headpieces alone.

Only get armour that I will actually use, my ranger for example has 15k druids, nothing more, because I dont see my self using frost or drakes in alot of situations.

I myself spoiled my warrior with a couple 15k sets a set of shields to use on differant occasions, a few differant axes to use with them, and like 3 helms to use also.

Storage gets tight sometimes, but I mainly keep my characters items in there own respective bags like the last 2 since they hold the most besides the main bag.

But yea I have seen lots of people that have all 4 sets of the 15k armor plus others I wonder how they keep there space going, they must have a storage character. I myself have 3 pve characters that I play lots so I have very little room to store my important stuff

I have 21 slots taken up with armor(all mesmer 15K+fow+partial(collectors+droks)), several with weapons off hands and salvage/ID kits. This leaves me with a grand total of 7 slots free for loot.

Apparently lots of clothes is not uncommon in mesmers.

for my only top lvl character, my ranger, I'll only get the 15k drakescale armor as it looks the best. I use druid armor all the time for extra energy. And I feel that the 15k druid is almost as ugly as regular druids so I won't get that. unless of course superior absorb runes start raining from the sky. in that case I'll definitely buy both!

Does someone have a link to show screen shots of 15K armor? I've searched but haven't any ss, just for FoW. Thanks for any help. I'm mainly interested in female Mesmer armor.

if you look in the screenshot explosion category - there is a post your necro thread, most your monk thread...and so on - i belive there is one for each profession - if you look at those some people have posted there 15k armor - and usually people post a picture and then tell what kinda armor it is and what they have used to dye it with.

anyhow - i have 2 sets of 15k on my necro (bonelace and scar pattern), I have 15k gladiatiors on my warrior, 8k aesthetics on my monk, 15k druids on the ranger - although i wouldnt mind having more it is expensive and takes up a lot of storage space - what i do when i get bored with armor or want a change is dye it

I second this statement! My mes scrapped her collector armor because she needed to start her collection of green mesmer weapons!

I'm really looking forward to some kind of additional storage, as I hate having to move armor just to make room to do a mission.

Additionally, once I'd scrapped the collector for the mesmer, it was an easy decision to scrap the collector armor for the rest of my characters.

Like Boxterduke has listed below, storage is a big concern as some characters have more than one full 15k set:

• Mesmer has 15k/cheap (but not trashy!) enchanters, 15k rogues, and 15k Noble dress - with 3 masks
• Ranger has 1.5k druids and 15k frostbound - with 3 masks
• Monk has 15k Saintly, 15k Judges/tattoos set, and cheap dragon tattoos - with 3 head tattoos

My later characters have avoided falling into this trap, as my necro only has one armor (15k tormentors & 3 three head scars) and my warrior has only the cheap stuff.