Inscribable Armor

Hey i bought the empty version of 15k exotic armor and i cant inscribe it, why the hell wont it let me inscribe it, i didnt get screwed did i?!!?!?!

Exotic armor? I do believe that's a Factions set, and no armor in Factions is inscribable. Only armor in Nightfall, or one set from the Fissure of Woe if my memory serves me, can take an inscription.

Wow.. good one. Nightfall contains the only armor that can be inscribed

You could say.. you kinda screwed yourself

I think you guys mean insignia, inscriptions are for weapons/off-hand items only.

VGJustice is correct though, only armors crafted in Elona or FoW can use insignia.

Oh yeah, oops. It's still new, I get those terms mixed up. =\

Yeah so far Nightfall and FoW are the only places for armor that accepts insignias, and the other day Gaile was saying that to her knowledge insignias will remain for Nightfall armor only.

Wonder if future expansions use the insignia system then, it would seem odd that one expansion has a radically different armor system, compared to expansions that came before and after NF.

Thenagain, it would seem equally weird if the first two chapters have the old armor system, and latest 3 chapters would have the insignia system :B

Yes it would be weird, I really don't like how they are only having insignias on Elonian armor (so far) especially when you can buy the insignias in Prophecies and Factions. I don't know if they would have the insignias for future games, but IMO I think they would because it wouldn't make sense to just have them for one game and then drop the insignia system all together.

Having to recode all the old armor and weapons to be inscription/insignia based would be time consuming, and a huge waste of that time. I would much rather have the programmers working on new content and fixing game bugs, not redoing old crap that is completely unnecessary.

I don't see how'd they need to "recode" anything, it'd be more of an issue of running simple search-and-replace on the items DB. Depending on how Anet has built their game, of course...

And they could always leave the old collector weapons and such as is, and add inscribable versions of the armor into the prophecies/factions vendors (atleast for those who have NF)...

Prophecies armor probably wouldn't even need this treatment, due to all armor sets having different looks, but Factions armor looks all the same no matter the mods, just like NF armor, so why not add inscription possibilty to Factions sets atleast?

Items are hard coded in, not stored in a database. Changing the dye tables took an incredible amount of recoding. Redoing old weapons and armor would take a lot of work.