Would you rather wield a good looking weapon skin, or a bad looking rare one?

I get whatever i feel like getting (within budget of course)

Mainly just to look nice + different

so basically for me

Rare (nice) > Good Looking (Relatively Rare)

id say the same a kobey....always like look > rarity

I'd rather wear a good looking rare one.

Personally I can care less if it is a purple or a rare skin. Looks is everything

For me, the order of importance is:
1. Stats
2. Skin
3. Rarity

Of my items, I've most often received compliments on my Shield of the Lion from the nightfall collectors

QFT 12 chars

From what i find, (no offence, just experience) that many of the people who would rather have stats over a rare skin, simply don't have enough cash to buy the rare/expencive skin in the first place. Or (not usually the case) but sometimes just can't bring themselves to spend that much money on a skin (my self lol, i got a few rare things that'd i'd just rather sell for the cash than keep).
Ultimately people with money will get rarer (possibly ugly) items just becase they can and status.
However you have to remember why some of these things became uber rare and expencive to begin with: they usually origionally had a good skin . Voltaic spears for example, there are other rare spears, just not as cool looking.

Personally, I would rather use a weapon that I like the look of. I've been using the same old Clairvoyant Staff that I crafted in KC for over a year now; common as muck, but I love the look of it. These days I have the funds to have pretty much any weapon I want, but in this case I don't want anything else (the staff in question was my first ever max weapon as well, so it's special - and totally irreplaceable).

Just my point of view:

Is gold vs purple considered rarity or good looking or not?

IMO, i rather have a r13 gold as compared to a r7 purple (of course it does not exist) just because the text colour looks nice :P

for me its skin first. the stats dont bother me too much as long as its 13-15>50 range. It doesnt really matter that its purple, but i like it to be gold, even if it costs a little more

Yea, I like the text color too.

Gold > Green > Purple > Blue > White...gold is so classic

Like my gold Shield of the Lion > Enadiz Shield > Turai's Shield

Must also have inscription slot -- I just like the names of those inscriptions

As for original question, I would rather wield rare to show off during PUG or PVP like everybody else

looks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rarity

which one is worth more so that I can sell it off?

I wield a gold furious salient sword of fortitude, all perfect!

I dont see many of them about although not sure if there rare or not, but i love it

Nick

Fall in love with tormented longbow. In that case it is rare and look beautiful

Looks + Rarity is a nice combo.

Example: I hate the Crystalline Sword, glass meat cleaver much??...

So, even though they are super rare, I could careless, I will never wield one, EVER.

stats > everything else
as for the everything else:
Prestige >>>> looks

this is the case with BMP weapons - they're top quality, some of the bestest looking weapons in game, but they're as prestigeous as /preorder weapons.

i go for looks here but i also have a thing for the gold text lol

Until recently i used a Fanged Sword on my Warrior. Have since about 2 weeks after NF came out. Fanged is probably considered middle of the road in terms of rarity.......not rare but not massively common either. I used it because i liked the look more than anything else, and when i got it it was quite rare (but then everything was 2 weeks after NF started, lol). Only changed because i got a Runic Blade drop a few weeks ago which i think looks better. I'd not have changed otherwise.

For me: Appeals to me > Rarity

If i like it, i'll use it. As Rahja said i'd never use a Crystaline because, rare as they are i don't like them much. I'd sell it Sold my only Elemental drop a few weeks ago because again, as far as i'm concerned what i have already looks better.

Depends on what I am doing, If i am wielding weapons in town, i want it to be the best looking one.

If i am killing monsters outside of town it better be max and have the best mod, I'd use it even if its ugly.