Do you think they will be better armor in "Factions"

Hey there. Does anyone think they will lift the armor cap? As in add higher powered armors?

I personally think they will only make new armors with better visuals, and that they will not be higher powered armors.

What do you think of this? Do you think they should be more powerfull armor?

If anyone has any solid evidence of any of my opinions, please link me to it.

Thanks.
Ash

well gaile has said many times that giving better armour in chapter 2 will be a no-no Its not fair for ppl who only got ch1

I just think there will be other armours with other stats, but not more powerfull then the once we have

Cool. That's me happy I also like the idea that the level cap will not be raised. I think it makes the game balanced, and that you don't have to grind constantly to achieve a level.

Thanks Silent.

yup. same here. I think armor stats will be corresponding to new spell conditions/stats (players/monsters).

(any chance of new conditions to defend? or have they covered it all?)

+Better looking armor. ftw!

Much like the level cap, the armors are pretty crucial to keeping the balance. At most I think they'll add some variety, but nothing actually better.

If they'd do that people with FoW armor (eg. me) would be royally screwed indeed. 1mil for an armor that isn't even max AL.
So no chance they'll do that.

a little offtopic , i think there will be a new kind of armor as expencive as the actual fissure.

might need 500 dark remains for each part , who knows , heh

I do hope that armor won't have a metagame... Example: Every PvP warrior is a PvE warrior with gladiator + ascalon boot. So much for vareity...

I think they will not change the armor ALs! They will only introduce new types of armor for all professions (some of which you can preview on the official guildwars website, under factions screenshots).

Also, unlike neoteo, I think they will introduce another type of armor that is between 15k and FoW armor in price (rubies and sapphires gotta be used for something!!).. and of course new FoW armors for the new professions.
But, hey, who knows..

Sorry, if I went off-topic...

so wy dont they put armor in random drops instead of forge becuase the desing in armors are very poor everybody has the same armor or hoppes to get the same armor.

Armor randomly dropping from foes would severely disrupt the game's balance and player economy as Guild Wars is designed to prevent low-level characters from acquiring high-level armor via twinking. As it stands, only real way to do it is to hitch a ride to Droknar's Forge, which tends to cost the average guy a hefty chunk of change.

Besides that, having to have armor custom fitted to your character alone makes real-world sense as well :-P Armor you spend money on shopuld be armor crafted to fit you and you alone like a second skin; crap you pick up off brigands and weird snake people would fit very poorly and offer much reduced protection. So...I suppose if you have to have armor in random drops, it'd be inferior armor nobody wants to wear. Personally, I'll wait till I get to the Forge, whether via run or no.

Besides. Whether all the armor is the same or not, at least ye can try and look different. Such as 15K Druid's bra and loincloth combined with Droknar's Druid's gloves and boots, all dyed a lovely silver, to attain a look I have never seen replicated, or even approximated, elsewhere XP.

I think that the new armor ALs wont change, just some of the stats for the new skills. And only the armor(s) look will be different. Plus I think there will be a different form of FoW, & 15k, maybe even a 20k. And when I mean different form of FoW, I mean a different place.

I don't think the Armor Level's will change. Just new sets of armor. After all if I had FoW armor i wouldn't be too happy having to buy a new set.

As I had mentioned before, there should be bonuses for wearing a complete set of a certain armor, like Dungeon Siege has. Not something that will be an imbalance, but enough to be an incentive to drop the cookie-cutter molds.

I'd like to see different armor models, definitely, perhaps even some higher-AL Armors introduced to all players. I'd also like some immensely difficult mission where you receive majorly cool armor. I'm talking really hard. Perhaps a level 30 boss at the end. This would be something that you couldn't just go out and pay someone to run you through, the whole team build would need to be carefully thought out.

Just my 2 gold.

as i stated i really would like to have many armor desings isted o the same thing.

Havent we already seen at least the new classes armor over the preview weekend?

Level 30 Bone Dragon at FoW ftw.

FoW armor people would be screwed.

Yes, new armor, only new looks, thats all.

I don't think there will be better armor per say, I think there will be different ones (new armor for existing classes) and alternate "duplicates" of existing ones.

Something they might do is have 1 specific set of armor that has a higher armor level than normal that also has some sort of disadvantage to balance it out. Sort of like what they did with the Necrotic and Tormentor Necromancer Armor sets.