-Hero Armors-

After a long thought of process and finishing Eye of the North, I thought I would posted a long post once more in the great Guru Forum as I do once and a great while.

So, it is easy to say and presume that all of us have all of the Heroes or pretty well close to right? That all of us have that massive, unorganized drop list on our Party Panel to pick out our Heroes with, right?

It's also easy to presume you lug them around like a log sometime too right? Ok. So, if we are able to lug our pals around and give them the skills, runes and everything else that we can our selves, why is it that we can't get them more armors?

Fair question. Right? Right.

After my completion on Neriandal Freit, and gaining a few of the heroes (more of the primary ones at the moment), I was fairly amazed that we couldn't create armor for our heroes we lug around! Blasphemy!

Do you guys realize how many heroes we got? Let me borrow a page from GuildWiki and play "Show And Tell" for a moment.

Necromancer: Livia, Master of Whispers, Olias
Warrior: Goren, Koss, Jora
Ranger: Acolyte Jin, Margrid the Sly, Pyre Fierceshot
Elementalist: Zhed Shadowhoof, Acolyte Sousuke, Vekk
Assassin: Zenmai, Anton
Paragon: General Morgahn, Hayda
Monk: Dunkoro, Tahlkora, Ogden Stonehealer
Mesmer: Gwen, Norgu
Dervish: Melonni, Kahmu
Ritualist: Razah, Xandra

Now, notably that Zenmai requires you to own Factions and Olias requires you to own Prophecies, two games nearly all of us players own. So, as said before it's safe to presume that you have 70% of these characters with the other 30% being ones such as Zenmai, Razah, Anton, etc.etc.

Continuing on now...Our Nightfall characters (Zenmai and Olias included) have four (4) different armor attires for us to pick from, with three of them limiting which characters can have, exception being Primeval Armor, which all hero characters have access to.

Our Eye of the North characters have access to only two (2) different armor sets at this time! That alone is insane. Both at this time are Dwarven related armor, one of them being Slaver's Exile and the other from the Brotherhood.

If you've continued to read my post, I now offer this suggestion...read a bit more

You see, I decided that we need more hero armors in general. Not only should all of heroes be able to access each type of armor (Sunspear, Primveal, Slaver, Brotherhood) reguardless of their campaign, I also ask that we introduce new armor.

We have three very easy ways of implementing one with out anyone doing anything different. Faction.

We've got three types in this game: Balthazar, Kuzrick and Luxon. I ask that we do something to this effect, have us earn 100,000 or more (Kux/Lux/Balt) faction for Kuzrick Hero armor, Luxon hero armor and Zaishen hero armor. It would turn that faction into an item, which you give to a new Hero Armor NPC in say House Zu'Heltzer or Cavlon, or Battle Isles. They in turn allow you to give any of your Hero that armor. Naturally of course once used this item is gone and must be re earned!

All three armors are already implemented into the game. When you first get either of the Acolytes, they have Zaishen armor. Why can't (we) our heroes?

When you get to House Zu'Heltzer or Cavalon, you can obtain 1,500 armors and further in each Faction, the 15,000 armors for you. Why can't we implement Kuzrick Hero and Luxon Hero armor? We have Henchmen with said armors, why not our heroes we lug around with us?

Of course, I could also suggest creating a Obsidian Armor for our Heroes. Pricey, yes. But each of us have a Hero we almost always are using. Be it the same Primary as we are, or another class that we play quiet often. Regardless, most of us do it and favor that hero on that character, so let us spend more of our gold into customizing our characters and our heroes by purchasing Obsidian Armor for them!

I'm saying this over all - Give our Heroes the same thing we get treated to. Let them us experience the joys and pleasure of giving Gwen some Kuzrick armor because we feel a little Gothy today, or giving Jora ancient or Primeval armor of her ancestors. Why not let Zhed and Jin enjoy the Brotherhood's finest and Norgu experience the pleasure of the richest?

Let's introduce this and give us something else to work for while gaining these titles, as many of you players are unfortunately calling "Grinding Wars" now. I don't see it that way, but I do see that we could use even more armor access for our Heroes.

Because at the end of the day, if our Heroes we have are truly "Heroes", then give them what Heroes like Neriandal Freit has access to.

Thank you for reading and please post with all comments, my self and my guild (and alliance) await your responses!

A neat idea, but it'll never happen, not to mention there are other, far better things that Anet's time could be spent on.

Yeah, I get the feeling Anet won't be releasing much more content for GW1, discounting skill balanced and whatnot.

Well, I do believe they've said that they plan on adding more content (perhaps only to GWEN) at some point, ala Sorrow's Furnace. It'll probably be a while though, and we do have that Bonus Mission Pack coming up in November.

All heroes have 2 armor upgrades each, regardless of origin...

You mis understand me. There are 4 different types in Elona, only 2 types in Far Shiverpeaks. Each Hero has 2, yes, but, all heroes in Shiverpeak gain from the same while Elona doesn't.

Read the thread again, slowly...

They divided the rards like that so there where a reason to make each challenge.

In Eye of the north there is only one challenge, so they just used that for all armors of the first type.

What would the dividing of the rards (explain) have to do with each hero being able to access that type of armor? They still make the challenge, people might get into the challenges more if all of there Heroes would be able to access that type of armor.

So, by doing that these areas get active again for people who want to play these more.

I meant 'rewards'.

Well you got it wrong. You think 'each armor type is only available for certaine heroes' but it is 'Each hero has two additional armor sets, available in different places'.

I'm sorry, but isn't that the same thing but just said differently?

No. Not at all.

You think that Sousuke, Jin, Dunkoro and Koss have the 'Elite Sunspear' set.
But that's just a name. They have 3 sets. And names are irrelevant.
Olias 'Misterious' armor set is actually a version of the Elite sunspear, for instance.
Each hero hast two extra armor sets.

They have only two armor sets, I doubt any more sets would be added, at least for now.

Yeah, like player armor...

heroes get the cool armor
players get crappy armor (xept a few)
and you want more heroes armor? :S

We get crappy armor? Are you for real?

Our armor is good over all, we have many different varieties and we can choose and combine them to make them our own even more.

Great, we don't have a thousand spikes coming out our shoulders yet our Hero does. Your that envious of a computer character?