Which armor holds more prestigue? Obsidian or Vabbian?

I came back from a 10 month layoff from playing WoW. When Obsidian shards and Ecto where the most expensive items in the game. Now i come back and i see that although Vabbian is more cool looking accesible and cheaper, their items are uber expensive. And the prices has come down for Fissure armor.

My question is simple. Which holds more prestige in the world of GW Vabbian or Obsidian armor?

Sorry if this thread was already made, but i just want to buy the right choice of armor.

neither.

no one cares anymore.

Well, most obsidian looks good. I think the sin and rit vabbi are the only good looking ones.

Personally, I agree with this. I think nowadays people just buy whatever armour they think looks best. I have eight characters now and I'm not going to attempt to make that kind of money for every single one of them, so instead, I buy whichever armour I think looks best. My elementalist for example has the basic Kurzick robes, just because I think they look cool. Why bother saving up 120+ platinum for the Vabbian, when I don't even like how it looks?

If you really want to go for one or the other though, I think it's probably Vabbian, as Rubies now cost more than Ectos. Also, I think most of the Vabbian armour looks very better, and is more detailed, than the fissure stuff.

True, rubies do cost more than ectos, but you only need 16 of them for the full set, whereas you need 120 ectos for obsidian.

Well if you just looked how much ecto does fow armor needs and how much rubby+saphire does vabbi needs you could understood. Vabbi needs like less then 30 of both but fow needs 120 of ecto+saphire Very easy to say fow armor is more EXPENSIVE(I dont say prestigue cause people are using e-bay so much)

I never knew that it mattered what others thought of your armor. You learn something new every day.

To be honest, if you would make some kind of poll just to see which armor OTHER people like better so you buy the one THEY like, you shouldn't buy any "prestige" armor at all...

well tbh...i think most vabbian armors look better than FoW armors
They usually have more details....just look at female monk vabbis and FoWs!

Well I think most FoW armor is lacking in a lot of detail I mean there are alot of 1k sets that have more details than FoW now. If I were you I'd try to go for Vabbian, it looks better than FoW (in detail) and it's cheaper, but you still get some respect of having it. And just about everyone now days thinks if you have FoW you eBay'd every cent that went into it. But then again it depends on what class you get Vabbian for, because some of the armor doesn't look like it's worth the money.

IMO don't get armor for the prestigue because you'll end up getting more insults just having it, but if you like how it looks go for it.

didn't realize people still respected others on the value of their items. only times i've ever got comments on my armors is if it was dyed a nice color or when i was swapping between all 25 ele armor sets to see if i could find any good combinations.

honestly, just pick whichever armor you like the most.

I still have my 15k Luxon on my male Necromancer, best looking armor set in the game IMO, I think some of the newer armors aren't good enough for the high price tag.

~S I N M A N

To give you an idea what I feel about FoW armor. I earned FoW armor on my monk before factions came out. Once factions came out and I saw 1.5k Kurzick armor, I didn't even think twice before switching to that and salvaging my FoW. Even though I didn't get any ecto back, I still feel it was a good move.

By the armor you want maybe?

Most vabbian armor looks better then fow imo.

Their is a latin phrase I ran across in a thread one day. I can't remember the exact words, but I know the translation.

"You can't argue with taste."

most fow is butt ugly (cept maybe the mesmer ladys boots---) in my opinion.

I go more for looks that cost....so I dont think many people now look at fow or vabbian as prestige, but what looks good together (combined with other armors) or the dye combos. (and personally black is BORING).

Obsidian.

But now that the game has been out for two years and ectos/shards have been overfarmed it doesn't hold as much prestige as it used to.

Vabbian is more prestigious to me...
FoW is ugly, and I only respect either people with playing skills, or people with style.

Male ele Obsidian armor is just awesome. I always love seeing that set ingame.

I dont get all these thread now about how one armor effect peoples thinking of you in guildwars.

No one cares what armor you have, cause this doesnt show your level of skill.
NO one cares anymore

Vabbian armor is much easier to get as you get FREE trade contracts from quests and If you have more then one char in nf you can easily get all the gem mats you need, Same with killing djinns, white jeweled dagger drops = gems
Obsidian is so common now it doesnt even matter anymore.

Do you really think when someone buys an armor there saying "OMFG wait till those noobs see my awesome armor zomgs!"

no. people buy it based on looks. What good is buying obsidian armor if u dont like it? really shoving stuff in peoples faces?

really I could give a rats ass what you wear.