time for 30k, 60k and 100k armors...

Wings would look cool, but not gonna happen, and here's why. -> Aion

LOL you want to be flamed don't you.

I suggested this and got flamed to hell and back by the poor/lazy/PvPers.

People will dismiss you as either elitest/Ebayer/lazy bastard on welfare or all 3...

Time to give up on this thread.

I'd like to at least see another FOW/UW type place that has some new type of Obsidian armor. One that uses rubies and sapphires in the creation. The 1.5k, 15K pricing seems fine to me, so I dont have a problem with that.

The prices of the armor shouldnt change, but the difficulty of reaching the crafters could cut down on some of the clonage going on.

If they were to make any major changes to the way we aquire armor, the best way to do it would be through drops.

I realise this already exists in games such as WoW, but its a good idea.

We keep the standard 15k and obsideon armors, but introduce green armor drops which can be warn.

In a similar fashion to green weapon drops, they can only be obtained when dropped by bosses and would be VERY rare drops.

Bosses would only drop armor of the same profession as themselves, and they would only drop for a player of the same profession.

For instance if your fighting a red elemental boss. Their armor would only drop if your an elemental.

The reason being that the armor cant be sold to others. So you dont want warriors or rangers picking up elemental armor which they cant use or sell.

The same way that only professions can only capture elite skills from their identical bosses'.

Different classes of boss would drop different armor:

Mersaat drop mersaat style armor.
Undead drop undead style armor.
Etc etc...

They could be just as rare as green weapons, but because you cant sell them, it would depend upon you aquiring them yoiurself instead of buying them from others.

Obviously you wouldnt get an entire armor set in one drop. You would have to keep going back again.

But because Anet dont like to make things too hard for you, you wouldnt get the same piece drop twice and waste your time.

If you already have the leggings, they wouldnt drop again. A different piece would.

This would add alot more variety to armor as people could choose between 15k, obsideon, or green armor.

But like green weapons the armor cant be mod'd.

And each continent would add its own new armor sets to drop.

I have nothing against expensive armors, but I think having more character models would be good or have some short of way to change how you look (I believe this was discussed in lyssa concept).

I don't like the idea of having green armors...it would pretty much mean that all pvpers who want to play HoH and GvG seriously will have to PvE grind for them.

I wouldn't mind like a 20k armor being added though.

Thats assuming all GvG-ers and PvP-ers are going to be vain enough to want green armor :P.

I dont exactly know how PvP works, but they could have boss's (if they have them in PvP) drop wearable armor too?

/signed

I'd look forward to seeing many more sets of armor, too many shorter versions of me running around. Expensive or not, whatever, just different, it would be nice.

PS - I've got no time to argue.

~
Lord Darkforge

I agree with Horse of War way early in the thread,

Bring on the Cat-Ears (and tails?)

aslong as they have armors that look like real knights armors for the warriors then
/Signed

none of the warrior armors in factions appeal to me as they look nothing like knights armors, i would like to see more real knights looking armors and i will happily pay for a full set even if it means weeks or even months of farming.

A lot of people have been asking for wings; but the wings look kinda dorky.

i doubt the wings are gonna look anything like that in the game

I'm just hoping they improve the graphics...GW graphics lack substance.

I think the deal is that it would be nice if they made some more interesting looking armor sets. Some of them are indeed impressive but some are not that interesting/nice looking. I don't believe in a need for a even more expensive armor considering the general population probably doesn't enjoy endless grinding.

my monk NEEDS wings!!!!

and i really dont see why not more looks for armors?!!!!!!!

Obsidian? THATS ONLY 1 LOOK and most people get it not because its nice, because its 1337!

why not more?!

and 1 more point! if you make the 100k armor in a place like Forgemaster, it will make the players make more then 1 trip to craft the whole set, so more fun! more challenge!

C'mon bring it on ANET

The only way to decrease inflation is to introduce some form of tax into the game, say at 10% a week.

To get around of the issue of people trading gold into other things, EVERYTHING will be taxed, and weapons will lose 10% of their "durability points" with each week. Hence if you have a stack of ectos you lose 25 ectos a week, if you try to game the system and put your ectos into 249 stacks you still lose 25 per stack (duh, round up, since when does govt round down). Weapons that are destroyed cannot be repaired, so you will have to buy new ones.

Such a measure will solve inflation in NO TIME. A 100000 ecto billionaire will be a pauper in a mere 3 months.

Once again trying to tax the rich will always have effects on the poor :P

Its ok for the oober rich who have thousands of gold and can buy new weapons when they get damaged by this tax, or who have enough gold to last a while before it runs out from the tax.

But the poor ones out there who work for our gold will be stuffed if we have to buy new weapons all the time due to damage.

Having owned around 3000 ecto at one point all i can say is..NO

Why should the rich suffer because the poor cant be bothered to do anything about their financial situation?

This supid "suggestion" would solve nothing and just cripple the poor even more.

/Signed for dumbest suggestion so far.

15k armor= Basically, an entire set would cost you 120 or so plat.
Obsidian 15k armor (because that's what it costs)= 1300k or so for a full set.
So would that mean that a set of 60k would cost a 60k per piece, so that'd be...
240k for casters, 300k for everyone else JUST FOR THE ARMOR... so that would be around 350k for a full set... and you MUST farm for the gold to make it... ebay anyone?
also this belongs in sardelac.

I like the idea of more looks. I understand some people dont want to look the same as others.
However if you mix and match I dont think you can look like others, I havent found a single player wear the way I am now.

And if you can only appreciate beauty by its price, I feel bad for you.

overall /not sign
armor npc->storage->armor npc 5 times is just laughable, unlike material which you can bring as many as you want(it stack to 250 but you can bring more then 1 stack)

i like FreakedOutFish's idea.

a green armor would be this s*** if done pretty much exactly like he describes it.

If they DID make 50k armor (shudder) I would sure hope that they raise the price of FoW to match... FoW is supposed to be the 'hardest' to get... and I dont think they would want to change that.

Realm of Torment armorforge? I hope so. More than 15k+mats... i hope not.

Ok i have been reading this thread and most of you guys have forgotten a basic GW fact. 30k,60k,100k armor would never work as you are limited to 100k on you at one time, so unless you want to make bunch of trips just to get ur armor this wouldn't work.
so my suggestion is this. It is a suggestion that benefits everyone and is realisticly feasible to impliment. 20k armor that way u can get all 5 pieces at one time. Now this is where my idea gets good; In fow at the back u have a fortress that is pretty much empty so u put a armorer there, It is harder to get to so
more people would be willing to go into those areas instead of quitting after forgemaster as they do now.wereas obsidian armor is based on ob shards make the new armor based on ectos. you could setup each piece is translucient like the ghost in fow are. have it be 20k per piece say 500ectos 500 ob shards per piece plus materials. now the way that benefits everyone is those with too much G for brains can have something to save up for. give noobs something to drool over and those of us not interested in crap like that....well being translucient you would be much easier to ignore...

I dont think is stuped man for example i spent more that 200 kurzik keys before i got the drop for the dual gothic axe perfect mods and all in it.

if you conver that it should give you 120k plus the time spent in it id say its ok to pay or sell that kind of stuff.

Besides its not hard to get 100k ( id say 1 day for farming and selling)


ohh and for the topic starter dont you think that Fow armor is more that enough to craft 120 ecto and 120 shards ( 1,260)k just on those materials most of us dont even have that kind of money on us.

id say if you make the things more expensive you will make the online money sellers more rich.

lol RoT or RT armor (from Realm of Torment).

I am against grind as much as the next guy. But adding in new armor similar in the way it is aquired to the FoW armor is a good idea. It's ugly and it's hard to get.

Expensive, hard to aquire armor is like the guy in the city with the new immitation hummer. The closest he's ever gotten to actually using it is that one time when he made a trip into the country and had to drive it on a gravel driveway.

I think that sort of armor is a status symbol. A symbol that says, "Look at me! My manhood is 3 inches long but I have this sweet looking armor to make up for it."

Actually, to be more realistic. It would be something more like "Look at all this time I spent farming to get this armor instead of actually learning how to play the game!"

So, I say. Fire away! Go get your uber expensive armor with absolutely no game-effecting bonus at all. You'll look good as corpse under my foot.

Mehh another "I can't afford it or don't want it so nobody should be able to have it" thread. If you can’t afford it or simply don't want it, then don't buy it. Don't deny others the OPPORTUNITY to DECIDE if they want it. I see a lot of "I can't even afford 15k armor" posts, and have to wonder what that has to do with anything. Almost everyone who says they can't afford it also says that they think expensive armor and/or weapons are a waste of money anyway. Ok so what’s the problem? You don't want it then don't buy it, simple as that. From what I can see in most of these whiney posts is that the truth of it is more like, "I can't afford it but I wish I could and I am jealous of those who can so I want to deny them the ability to get it too. I'll accuse them of being e-bayers, insult their manhood, belittle their skill level, and cry about some fictitious need for grinding in order to get it". I don't have FoW armor, even though I can afford it, simply because I don't like the look and it's far to common. I go with the armor I like the look of regardless of the cost, which right now is 1.5k and some 15k pieces. I can't tell you how many times some lil punk has called me a noob because my ele is decked out in Shing Jea 1.5k armor. WHO CARES what they think? My ele has well over 2 million experience and has more then 97% of both continents explored, several titles, and more rare perfect items then most people will ever see, so who gives a rat's arse what you think of my armor, I LIKE IT. The point is, just because it exists doesn’t mean you have to have it, weather you can afford it or not. Please, enough of this, "I can't afford it so it's a stupid idea" crap already. So far the ONLY reason anyone has given for not wanting different things in the game is that they can't afford them. Sure they've used different words to express that, but all they have realy said is that they can't afford them and don't want anyone to have anything that they can't have themselves. Many of you say that those who "have" are vain, but in reality the ones who say that are the truly vain ones because they would deny everyone else the things that they themselves can't afford. Some of you have said that anyone who wants rare items should go play WoW, well to those people who say that and don't want rare items in the game I say go play checkers on MSN.


/signed for more diversity even though I couldn't care less what the costs are, just want more options.



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Right I'm closing this thread.

Its an interesting idea, which should have been posted in the Suggestions Forum, but there a lot of negative /nosigns and flaming coming from some people.

So I see no point to keep this +` post count flame fest going. Sorry

- RTS