Hero armor VS Player armor

Well, the answer of "why" is obvious, although I don't like it.

It's easier to create one set of armor for one model (a hero) than to create 20 new sets for every player. (profession times gender).

Still don't know what Anet was thinking, though. That we wouldn't notice?

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Another Few reskins brought to light.

Necro Mixup what a waste


I cant believe they made the same reskin twice -.-


Hydromancer + red dye = NEW ARMOR!!!


Another reskin of a armor already pretty undesirable.


Livia raises her Middlefinger to all female necros out there.

Wish you were a npc now dont ya.

I know that it would probably be difficult to give us the hero armor straight as it is, but can we at least get the guys creating the hero armors to switch teams with the player armor designers? Like seriously.

Bryant, art teams are usually divided into Props, Characters and Environments.

Anet's job titles on their page include: Artist, Level Designer, Prop Artist, Animators, Game Designer, Writers, Graphic Designers.

I doubt its a different team that did the NPCs differently than the players.

The thing that irks me the most out of all of this is the fact that the Asuran armour is reskins, yet they're a totally alien race to humans, and they happen to create similar armour to what we've seen before? As far as lore and atmosphere goes, that annoys me more than anything else. I've got no plans of getting any complete sets and have only seen a few pieces that I want for any of my characters.

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heroes are spoiled rotten...they make us pay for their runes, weapons, and insignias...steal our loot...AND they get all the cool armor

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Id love to see Gaile or anyone else from Anet justify these reskins, We know hero's can have better skins because their only one layer scale whatsoever. This still doesnt excuse the fact that the armors are POORLY reskinned and require work to buy them. I know theres a common selling technique by putting something on a great golden plate but a load of crap still looks like a load of crap even on a golden plate. Reskins are fine if they arent that obviously dissapointing. To the people yelling prophecies had reskins true but prophecies had unique armors 1 normal and 1 elite version of it gwen gives us a crap version of the elite ones we already have gwen should have 2 unique armors just like prophecies and factions and some nf armors.

I keep telling myself that they plan to slowly give us new armor over the next year or so until GW2 is out, like they did when they recently gave us the new elite armor for monks and warriors.

But yeah, I hadn't looked at all the hero armor until I read this thread...did indeed almost piss myself. Such incredibly gorgeous stuff....so cruel. Especially since we can only have 3 heros around at at time.

THe whole thing...it was bait and switch. I can't see it any other way. Any dev with any sense knows what players expect when they hear "new armor". We have two campaigns of examples of what "new armor" is. Somewhere a long the way you know someone pointed out "um, we say new armor, but we're doing mostly reskins...people aren't going to like it", and someone replied "whatever, they're more likely to buy if they think there are 40 new armors. We'll just play deluded and act like we had no idea they wanted new meshes". Not saying it's a big evil conspiracy, just that I know human nature, and somewhere along the way someone decided that it was acceptable to get folks hopes up in the interest of better sales.

Very disappointing, but, eh, nothing folks haven't said already.

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Shame on you for creating a post like this. Now I'm disappointed as well. I didn't need to know that they did that crappy of a job. But now that you pointed it out, I agree...very sad.

Ignorance was bliss.

Since now Gaile has gone into one of the armor threads and said "tuff". Are you more, less or neither; inclined to invest any more money in A-Net?

I didn't read through all of this because well... I am lazy. So if someone made this point, then just humor me. I won't try to validate the reskins, but I am tired of people using the argument that "the heroes have better armor, therefore we were screwed." Why?




Even back in the Prophecies, the henchmen were getting nice, unique armor. Eve and Cynn have armor that is much nicer than some of the armor in the original Prophecies campaign. Heroes/Henchies getting nice armor is nothing new! I can understand being disappointed in the EotN armor reskins, that's fine. But complaining about something that has been going on since Prophecies (and was never complained about as best I can tell) is just completely pointless. You want to be mad at the reskins... fine. But don't try to make like heroes getting nice armor is something new.