the most overrated skin/title/armor/accomplishment

The only things I find really, really overrated are certain item skins (weapons, etc).

Titles for the most time part I respect, because even if don't they require a lot of skill, they still require a lot of time and dedication (say, Savior of the Kurzicks or Luxons, where you must HFFF repetitively).

So I still get amazed when I see a high title (KoaBD ones, Hero, Glad, Champ, Kurz, Lux, Lucky, etc), knowing I myself will take a while to get there (if ever!).

Of course looking at some posts on this thread, it could be renamed to "which title you hate because others got it and you envy it because you don't have the amount of required dedication/patience to get"? lol

Edit: Oh and on Monk FoW armors. Both male and female versions are way too common indeed, although I find it looks good. I might buy a set someday... lol if I weren't wasting money on my Zrank I could have one already, in fact. No regrets though, I like the shiny emote.

Fixed.

You think titles aren't a waste of time? When you could be banging your missus? Sinking some beers with your mates? Actually having a proper social life?

So you spend so much money on armour just to boost your ego? *claps* Now make sure you pick up a leaflet about gaining a life on your way out of the door.

To each, their own. What one does with their time is purely their decision. If one finds it more fun to play a game than to go to a bar, so be it - it is their life anyway.

People make out of the game what they want. If you have a too busy of a social life to grind titles, have fun that way, playing for the sake of fun without titles in mind. If you like to be home and dislike social stuff, have fun maxing your titles out and stuff. And if you are really good at managing your time, it is very possible to have both a social life and max titles out.

It is really difficult to please everyone. Show your low rank at HA and hear a sound "GTFO noob, l2p"! Show your rank 14-15, and hear a sound "get a life, loser".

What people really need to do is respect the way the others decided to spend his/her time.

In 3 years my mind hasn't changed: I vote for Firey Dragon Swords and their little sisters Icy Dragon Swords. The skin is ugly, and it always comes with a pervert mending wammo dancing around female monks in towns.

There are many people like that. The only reason they're back to using their shitty builds is because ursan got nerfed.

EDIT : reminds me of this one ranger that made me /facepalm... He used Ursan, as a R/N touch ranger to cover the downtime ._.

I think people who complain about the opinions of others are overrated.

whats wrong with the bandana? i use it on my monk....half the time it hides the ugly hair choice you made anyways.


most overrated thing in gw: c + space
most overrated title: all of them. every title can be farmed easily.
most overrated armor: fow with tormented shield. yes, it even might look cool, but its still over rated.
most overrated accomplishment: thinking your good at a dead game

I sigh whenever I see a shiny cape and a champ title.

Not to take anything away from Starcraft, Leeloof, and that other guy, but r15 has got to be the most time-intensive and obnoxious title to get, considering what a gank-fest HA is. If you so much as look at any of your opponents wrong, they'll construe it as a gank and counter-gank you immediately.

So if nothing else, the title itself is cool (albeit a tad small), and mad props for having the patience to grind that one out over god knows how many hours.

Oh, and every time Jaden flashes his Z-Rank while talking about being poor I want to smack him.

you sigh when you see someone in a trim cape? yet you smurf for trim?

and chamlee will eventually get r15, aslong with everyone else. r15 is the new r12. with the amount of hall skips and hero teams, its easier to get fame at holds.

WARRIOR FOW ARMOR...... u look at it....... blink........ rub your eyes.......press f11 and make sure the graphics r on high.......then your like....thats hella blurry....it doesnt look cool at all.

/fail

Most overrated title:all pve titles,actually..all titles...i guess champ is kinda sorta decent...

Thing:Mini's

Armor:Male monk fow

Most underrated thing:Chaos Gloves..even with all the hate they get,there awesome imo.

i think ur all haters...

who cares, let ppl do what they want

for the ppl whose hatin on fow armor, chaos gloves,

theyre the most expensive armors in the game, i'd want to show it off too if i could afford it

its overrated, cause its the most expensive, thats like tellin a rapper to not dress in there high end, jordans, and nikes, with there chains, and grills, and theyre expensive jewlery, and everything else that cost em so much.

or like asking an nfl or basketball player to use there million dollar pay checks on an aprtment instead of a mansion

stop hatin. its not epic fail to wear black fow armor, and black chaos gloves,

its sumthin yall dream u could do

Yes. I admit. I do have wet dreams of touching myself in rubb... I mean, Chaos gloves.

I don't believe any accomplishment in itself is over rated. It just depends on the mentality of the person behind it. Many people show off their pvp titles and think that gets them out of conforming to the group.

All the title specific bashing seems inappropriate, sure some can be farmed or bought with a credit card but bashing specific titles without taking into account the person behind the title is childish. The only problem I see with titles is those that use them as a crutch to show how good they are.

The funny thing about black FoW armour is it looks better on you than on others (probably because my PC is crap).

The most over-rated thing - people thinking their opinion is more than just one voice in a crowd.

If GW is dead why are people still on this forum? I stopped playing GW for 4 months and didn't even look at the GW forums. Why the hell would you? If you've stopped playing the game, get off the forum. It isn't for you.

I have black FoW armour and a pile of weapons that are shiny. I have a tonne of titles. Do you really think I care if anyone thinks they're over-rated? If you aren't in the same alliance as me the chances of you seeing it are pretty much zero.

The most over-rated thing for me would be having a pile of gold and ectoes sitting in storage when GW2 comes out. Go and spend it on things you like. You can't take it with you to GW2 so you might as well enjoy it. Spend your time and gold on things that make you and the people you care about happy and don't worry about what is and isn't over-rated.

Of course this is only my opinion and I could be completely wrong. Don't do anything that may lead to a title. Don't buy elite armour. Bin all black dyes. If someone has done something before, don't do it. Most of all, trawl through the forums to find out what you should be thinking and what will make everyone else think you aren't a poser.

Dunno, I kind of like most Fow armors, as good as any.. Warrior one sucks a lot tho.
Titles were useless from the start, it is a lot worse now tho.. All the idiots "bragging" with their lame GWAMM or w/e makes me really wonder..
as for weapons/armors I dont really like anything from EotN, everything seems quite fugly to me. Core/factions items still look best. Nightfall has some beautiful clothing, arm, armors

KSmod lets you show other people's armor in High Res in towns too. Takes some computer power though.

Oh I'm sorry, I can't hear you guys over the sound of how awesome my fow armor is.

Most Overrated Skin: Voltaic Spear. It looks like shit tbh.
Most Overrated Title: all of them. every title can be farmed easily with enough cash.
Most Overrated Armor: kinda tricky, but honestly most of them as there is no armor that will ever make you truly "unique" that someone else doesn't already have and that you won't see within 5 minutes of any major town.
Most Overrated Accomplishment: Bragging about your accomplishments like they actually mean something...

True, but you can have a unique colour of armour if you dyed monk obsidian before the update. In the 4 years that I'm playing I never came across someone with the same colour as me and you can't produce that coulour anymore. It doesn't mean squad, but it's just fun to have something different than all the rest. Downside: I can't make spare parts for it anymore and it shows up as standard brown in the HoM.

I don't really think any accomplishments/titles are overrated unless they're gotten cheaply, like getting Lucky/Unlucky by AFKing in Nine Rings all weekend.

It's the armor and weaponry that really bug me.
I'll start with the weapons list, because it's shorter.
1. Destroyer weapons: Hideous. Honestly, I look at these and go "Oh yes, I shall be teh 1337 because I shall go and grab a random chunk of volcanic rock and make it pointy and shank people with it!" They're terrible. And yet these and Tormenteds (which actually look pretty good, I must admit) are the only weapons displayable in HoM? What is this?? I understand not being able to include my ele's crazy blue daggers that she paid through the nose for at a weaponsmith, but for Balthazar's sake at least let us include our greens! I want to put my trusty Orosen's Staff in my HoM!
2. Plastic weapons. Yes, I'm looking at YOU, Amethyst Aegis and Saurian Scythe. Seriously. They look like they were made for a Barbie! How any Derv with a mote of self-respect can run around with a translucent plastic dino head on a stick, I don't know.
3. Crystallines. Okay, so I still have my Long Sword from Pre that has the Crystalline skin, but that's mainly because of nostalgia value and it's an okay caster weapon for someone who's too lazy to farm up Rajazan's Fervor. Yes, it's interesting-looking, and occasionally pretty. But is it worth the price it usually goes for? Heck no. There are far, far better looking weapons out there. Come to think of it, Fellblades are pretty blah looking too.

Now, on to the armor, where the real offenders lurk.
1. All GW:EN Common armor, with the exception of glasses (look pretty nice, IMO - understated but adding to the look in a good way) and woads (when worn well - you can't just throw a woad with any old armor; I'd imagine it'd look pretty stupid with Elementalist Elite Canthan, for example). I've seen the Bandana worn well (by a particularly creative, pirate-themed Ritualist I encountered in the Tarnished Coast), but for the most part it's overrated. The worst of these is the Dread Mask. Go ahead, wear it - if you want to look like GIR disguised as a porcupine. Truly awful, yet so many have these or the other GW:EN headgear (they don't necessarily look that bad, but I'm sick of ninja monks and blindfolded assassins). The gloves suck too - heck, they barely even match the Elementalist armors of those elements. Don't even get me started on the Dragon Hand Puppets.
2. FoW armor, especially for Warriors (let's chuck random obsidian bits at the hot metal and see if they stick, hur hur!) and Ritualists (my God, she's wearing a bloody ANTIQUE VASE on her head!). The exceptions to this are Rangers (looks more professional than many of the other Ranger armors, and as an archer I can tell you it's one of the few armors that'd actually be viable for trying to shoot - nice as Norn may look, there's no way all that bulky, furry sleeve wouldn't impede the bowstring) and Elementalists (gogo tire armor! no, actually, the good thing about this is that it's one of FIVE - count 'em, FIVE - female ele armor sets that actually includes pants. It's also the only fully concealing armor set for female eles, though it makes up for that by being skintight and probably insanely uncomfortable). The others, while generally ranging from boring as heck (Monk) to fairly nice-looking (Paragon, though why it's made of plastic I'll never know - maybe to go with Amethyst Aegis?), they aren't enough of an improvement over regular armor to waste the cash on. Also, double cliche points when dyed black.
3. Ritualist Ancient armor. Okay, yes, you get a rit that looks like a mummy. It was novel. For about five minutes - then suddenly everyone had one. Dyed white, of course. Really, I know Rit armor selections are limited, but there are far better sets than this. I've only seen this used well once, on the same pirate Rit mentioned above (in case you're wondering now, she had the Bandana, Luxon Raiment and Bangles, Ancient Leggings, and Canthan Shoes, all dyed red - it really looked great, a good theme, and one of the few Rit armor combos I've seen in which the tattoos didn't clash). Other than that, I hate this armor.
4. Monk Primeval armor. Actually, most Primeval armor, with the notable exception of the Elementalist (just because most people hate it, and I actually like the Scaffolding Corset, not to mention being able to wear PANTS). Most Primeval armors are just blah at best(Ranger bug armor, Necro fish suit, fossil-man Derv, wilting-plants Paragon) or truly ugly (what IS that thing the Mesmer's got? Elf shoes, tattoos, skirt that wouldn't be visible under most t-shirts, freaky legwear that can't decide if they want to be pants or legwarmers, waist-feathers that are wholly unflattering... overall, a terrible armor - but I've never seen anyone wear it, so it's certainly not overrated). The Monk armor, however, is truly an abomination. I've seen tons of monks wearing this, and I don't understand why. As someone on GuildWiki once said, "It's like, hold still while I jam some wooden stakes into you randomly." Another person described it as being "sooo ugly, ugly sticks get ugly when they're hit by this," and I must agree. Why on earth anyone would want to run around wearing freaky dead skin and have spikes impaling them and causing their clothes to bulge in weird places, I cannot understand. It would be a nice-looking armor if it just had the tattoos and the cloth part, but no. Just no.

That's all I can think of, so I guess those are the things that bug me most.

Wammo FoW helmet.

Especially when combined with chaos gloves (and other assorted ugly pieces).



Yar.

Wow, that is pretty egregious. The monk next to him, despite Chaos Gloves and FoW, however, is looking pretty good. If I were here I'd tone down the gloves a little, mute it with some neutrals so they don't stick out quite so much against the rest of her arm, but other than that, she's managed to pull off a boring, overused armor fairly well.

See? It's just a matter of wearing the armor tastefully, I guess, instead of funnelling all one's money into showing off that one has (or had, rather) a large wad of cash.

Titles: All PvP titles, especially the "Hero" title.
Armor: All the FoW armor with spikes coming out, an armor that can kill the wearer does not look good in any sense.
Skin: Fellblade, and similar "big" items, except maybe voltaic spear.
Accomplishment: Having one of the "lucky to get" minis like polar bear, doesn't mean anything other than getting randomly chosen.

Titles: GWAMM. R5 is just as good, except that you haven't wasted several days of your life on alcohol and sugar.
Armor: A lot of the EotN headgear. It's interesting for a little bit but then it gets old really quickly when everyone gets it just for the sake of having it. For example, some professions look good with glasses, some don't. Also Dervish primeval armor. Ancient and Elite SS are much better than that.

QFT. This is the 1336th thread on this topic since I've been posting here. People always whine about things they don't have.

"Male Mesmer" and "awesome armor" are mutually incompatible concepts, I'm afraid. All the creativity went into the girl armors

Monk chaos gloves look pretty terrible too. IMO the only scenario when chaos gloves look good is on a mesmer with a chest piece that has sleeves going down to wrist level.

Rofl

Go start a trinny and susanna-ish blog on failed guildwars armour creations, now! for great justice!

Seems like there's a lot of stuck up people here thinking there better than everyone else just because they don't want to spend money on good armor.
I recently bought the chaos gloves and mo zing mask for my assassin because I thought it looked cool and what other people think is completely irrelevant, I feel that I worked hard to get that armor, I put the hours in and now my sin is a walking piece of coolness.
Everyone has there own play style and everyone has there own opinion on what they think looks good on them, just what exactly gives you the right to judge other people when your just another player like them?