dont bother coming back, the game just went wrong in so many ways. Im convinced anyone who still plays gw2 is either overweight, stinks, scrawny, premature mentally, hideous looking people hiding behind their ingame persona, or all lol. I dont think Mightyteapot ever changed his shirt. Dude is a walking meme himself.
Honestly i expected bit more ... creativity from a-net. They just slapped glowy runes and called it a day. Concept art medium armor had awesome white glowy eyes effect for that full assassin look. Why wasn't this carrried over as an on/off effect? Either show your face a bit or go full dark assassin face with your lege face mask! Also glowing runes don't fit everywhere. Heavy and mages may be eating good, but rangers, thieves and engies aren't professions that wanna glow like an x-mass tree. A much better approach would be to give each weight class of obsidian armor 3 effects to choose from - one matching each profession. For example medium armor could leave small ink/smoke trails (thief variant), or some small leaf particles (ranger) or small static discharges (engi). Choose one you like, or to disable the effect all together...
Absolutely agree! I was trying to build this and now seeing the outcome for them seem really cheap and uninspired really deterred my motivation. They could have done something really personalized with them like the legendary weapons.
considering how lackluster Soto has been I was expecting this to turn out half assed like this.. It sucks. Anet used to put in such great effort into their designs and now it's just eh.. The concept art was perfect, crazy they moved quite far away from it to give us some glow in the dark exotic looking gear.
Absolutely agree. Concepts have 10 times better look (Even T1 were more promising). This shiny upgrade looks like impotency in the meaning of art in 2024.
oh man it's really nice, I like that it's glory but once the animation settles down it's not over the top. and if you do want it to be over the top, pick contrasting color from ur armor. if don't want it to be glowy, then pick a darker color or something that blends in with case color. love it!!
What I'm getting from observation is: The character glows brightly only in combat? The chest is the only one that matters if you want the unsheathe effect. Unsure if the glow requires more pieces I really wish I could get these particle and glow effects if I skin over the chest with something else, but I assume if the chest has a transmuted appearance, all the fancy effects are lost
Effects are a step down from raid armor but it looks about as good as the default ascended armor. It's fine with me. More importantly, THE NEW RANGER PET
The skin for the legendary fasioned from Peitha's armor is my all time favorite so I cover the obsidian leg srmor with it. I probably wont get infused.. though i unlocked the ach. The new gizmo is awesome@!!!
The issue is calling it a variant when it’s not really adding anything significant but requiring more effort to obtain. It’d be like if the aurene weapon variants didn’t change weapon models, but just threw a color filter on the weapon. Would they still be worth a second grind?
Honestly i expected bit more ... at least our Raid armor still looks better and i dont need to craft this one. a-net lost a big oportunity to give us a "villian - spect" legendary armor here.
Not at all. Outside the fact it just costed a lot to make, it was just some spikey black armor with muddy textures. Many other armor sets looked way better.
@@AmberWills-f3r not a fan of the raid armor aswell (except heavy is decent), but at least theyre unique and the effects actually match their look. here they just slapped weirdly placed runic effects on every set. it goes decently well with the heavy version, has that templar theme, but it looks really out of place for the medium and light version. its so unoriginal. its like the budget for the designer was cut halfway through.
@@user-xo2og8kv1o At least the base model is nice enough itself to use even without effects which is arguably preferable. WvW/PvP legendary sets are even worse budget cut sets, which tells you which game mode Anet favors the most with the most fancy set lol.
I was so excited for this when they showed the concept art.. now it's just.. this. Guess I got to start raiding now, as much as I hate it. If I'm going to put the time and effort into getting legendary armor I want it to look legendary, not something that looks like a cashshop skin. Soto has definitely been the worst time for guild wars 2, I really hope things change around in the next expansion or this game is in trouble potentially.
other way around for me. Heavy looks like a basic exotic set. Medium is okay but not bad, light is the most "legendary" looking out of them all, more so the actual design of the armor and its detail. I still don't find the visual effects added for this are "legendary" at all though.
What's bugging me the most is that, pve armor always look so dull, so boring compared to pvp ones, but it's like "since it's just pve, you better be happy to even have one"
Sry, I do not want to hurt anyone's feelings, but it would be nice if it cost like let us say Runic Armor, but with the current requirements and the effort it needs it is just disappointing and ridiculous. Especially the light armor variant, that is very pale.
yep, the quantity and placement of the runes and their effects make it look really clustered and uneasy. its okayish on the heavy, bc at least it fits that templar vibe, but on the medium and light it just looks straight up bad.
Wow, every set is mid or worse. When you compare it to the other legendary armour sets, it's hard to believe they thought this looked good enough. I genuinely look better now with mistforged pvp gear
As cool as they look, the sad reality is... the old ones tranformed physically, these only add sparkles to it. If you have any visual-infusion on your armor, you basically cannot see the sparkles anymore 🥲
I had no plans to get these even if they looked good since I only have one set and i need to work on more but man. These new affects look bad. Easy pass.
comparing raids extensive summon when going into combat vs this??? its overwhelmingly disappointing in terms of a legendary armor set, even if it is strictly PvE, not saying it should be flashy to the max, BUT its legendary armor, it SHOULD be flashy to the relative max just like the Raid armor is. It looks like a strong armor outfit you can buy off the TP
I mean. Let's all be honest here. Armor design was never A-Nets forte. The vast majority of the designs in the game look awful. I wasn't expecting much with these new designs so I'm not as disappointed as others seem to be.
To be honest, Concepts have 10 times better look (Even released T1 were more promising). This shiny upgrade looks like impotency in the meaning of art in 2024 and that DOESN'T EVEN FIT. It just litters the surface of armor with unreadable elements.
Dam this feels really f-ing lazy. Compared to Envoy, this feels like we’ve been robbed. Because hear me out, we bought the expansion and waited months, MONTHS, FOR THIS! The same armor, but with glowing lights, that’s it. Wow, amazing. Something that looks like you can buy from their cosmetics gem store for 10 bucks. This is the new legendary armor set. I swear if it’s not a black lion exclusive, this is the garbage they think is alright to release for a paid expansion. This feels like, a cope out, and a rushed job. The devs were like, meh we gotta release something… what are we going to do? Random Joe, meh just put some lights on it, we gotta get ready for J Wild. Devs: sighs… ok.
I spected way more from this... Requierm Armor set has way more passion design than this piece of junk... devs who designed this should choose another proffesion...
I am glad T2" didn't make previous legendary armor obsolete. I can understand that it feels cheap though, for those who expected more. The fault lies in expectations, the ship has long been sailed.
To be fair nobody cares about the design of any leggy armor, the gemstore is for that purpose, we care about leggy armor for the quality of life experience
This looks so cool, I stopped playing GW2 many years back but I'm glad there's now legendary armour for every aspect of the game.
dont bother coming back, the game just went wrong in so many ways. Im convinced anyone who still plays gw2 is either overweight, stinks, scrawny, premature mentally, hideous looking people hiding behind their ingame persona, or all lol. I dont think Mightyteapot ever changed his shirt. Dude is a walking meme himself.
Honestly i expected bit more ... creativity from a-net.
They just slapped glowy runes and called it a day.
Concept art medium armor had awesome white glowy eyes effect for that full assassin look.
Why wasn't this carrried over as an on/off effect? Either show your face a bit or go full dark assassin face with your lege face mask!
Also glowing runes don't fit everywhere. Heavy and mages may be eating good, but rangers, thieves and engies aren't professions that wanna glow like an x-mass tree.
A much better approach would be to give each weight class of obsidian armor 3 effects to choose from - one matching each profession.
For example medium armor could leave small ink/smoke trails (thief variant), or some small leaf particles (ranger) or small static discharges (engi).
Choose one you like, or to disable the effect all together...
Absolutely agree! I was trying to build this and now seeing the outcome for them seem really cheap and uninspired really deterred my motivation. They could have done something really personalized with them like the legendary weapons.
considering how lackluster Soto has been I was expecting this to turn out half assed like this.. It sucks. Anet used to put in such great effort into their designs and now it's just eh.. The concept art was perfect, crazy they moved quite far away from it to give us some glow in the dark exotic looking gear.
Absolutely agree. Concepts have 10 times better look (Even T1 were more promising). This shiny upgrade looks like impotency in the meaning of art in 2024.
Valheim pixel armors of ashlands are much better than this. It's shameful.
They fked up one of the most important armors in the game by not spending enough time designing it.
There is going to be a tier 3 armor after that, right ?… Right ?
no
oh man it's really nice, I like that it's glory but once the animation settles down it's not over the top. and if you do want it to be over the top, pick contrasting color from ur armor. if don't want it to be glowy, then pick a darker color or something that blends in with case color. love it!!
These look like gem store sets imho, really dissappointing considering the amount of mindless rifting this takes...
I agree. These designs are terribly underwhelming. I'll stick with my set from raids.
These upgrades are worth 500g just in terms of ectos (1500) for one set of armour
What I'm getting from observation is:
The character glows brightly only in combat?
The chest is the only one that matters if you want the unsheathe effect. Unsure if the glow requires more pieces
I really wish I could get these particle and glow effects if I skin over the chest with something else, but I assume if the chest has a transmuted appearance, all the fancy effects are lost
The concept art looks so much cooler.
Heavy armor looks awesome!
Tier 1.5
2:52 : "...Ladies"
I like it, extra bling to the set but not obnoxious
They still look way better than the raid armor excluding the heavy armor
Effects are a step down from raid armor but it looks about as good as the default ascended armor. It's fine with me.
More importantly, THE NEW RANGER PET
The skin for the legendary fasioned from Peitha's armor is my all time favorite so I cover the obsidian leg srmor with it. I probably wont get infused.. though i unlocked the ach. The new gizmo is awesome@!!!
Looks good, not sure what the fuss is about. Prefer it to the raid tbh.
tripping
The issue is calling it a variant when it’s not really adding anything significant but requiring more effort to obtain. It’d be like if the aurene weapon variants didn’t change weapon models, but just threw a color filter on the weapon. Would they still be worth a second grind?
Honestly i expected bit more ... at least our Raid armor still looks better and i dont need to craft this one.
a-net lost a big oportunity to give us a "villian - spect" legendary armor here.
looks like gemstore armor sad
I disagree. Some Gemstore armors look cool.
Some gemstore outfits look more legendary than any legendary armor set.
I was waiting farming like craxy for this shiat?!?!?!?!?!
yep xd
Looks a lot better than what Anet showcased in that awful trailer but still underwhelming for the amount of work you gotta do.
Obsidian armor was the best in Gw1
Not at all. Outside the fact it just costed a lot to make, it was just some spikey black armor with muddy textures. Many other armor sets looked way better.
The only good one for me is the medium one. But these are so much more expensive than raid legy armor oh my
Bring back Gw1 obsidian armors
I don’t hate it…
It’s not envoy, though.
Envoy armor is incredibly ugly. Instantly reskined mine.
@@DaFunkzNot Heavy
Meh, raid armor is still the best looking
@@AmberWills-f3r not a fan of the raid armor aswell (except heavy is decent), but at least theyre unique and the effects actually match their look. here they just slapped weirdly placed runic effects on every set. it goes decently well with the heavy version, has that templar theme, but it looks really out of place for the medium and light version. its so unoriginal. its like the budget for the designer was cut halfway through.
@@user-xo2og8kv1o At least the base model is nice enough itself to use even without effects which is arguably preferable. WvW/PvP legendary sets are even worse budget cut sets, which tells you which game mode Anet favors the most with the most fancy set lol.
Light armor looks bad in all legendary armor sets. I'll keep wearing outfits I guess.
I was so excited for this when they showed the concept art.. now it's just.. this.
Guess I got to start raiding now, as much as I hate it. If I'm going to put the time and effort into getting legendary armor I want it to look legendary, not something that looks like a cashshop skin.
Soto has definitely been the worst time for guild wars 2, I really hope things change around in the next expansion or this game is in trouble potentially.
Love heavy, medium is kinda meh, and light is horrible IMO
other way around for me. Heavy looks like a basic exotic set. Medium is okay but not bad, light is the most "legendary" looking out of them all, more so the actual design of the armor and its detail. I still don't find the visual effects added for this are "legendary" at all though.
Just the other way round, lol
Maybe your character is horrible so you cant wear everything 🤣🤣🤣
I'm actuallly only going for light because of the looks, heavy is better from raids, medium sucks everywhere
@@AmberWills-f3r that must be it
What's bugging me the most is that, pve armor always look so dull, so boring compared to pvp ones, but it's like "since it's just pve, you better be happy to even have one"
Don’t care what anyone says, the armor looks sick as fuck. Could use more effects, but i’m very happy with the design
Very underwheming effects. Not awful but not amazing either.
What exactly is the problem people have with this set?
its fucking ugly
Sry, I do not want to hurt anyone's feelings, but it would be nice if it cost like let us say Runic Armor, but with the current requirements and the effort it needs it is just disappointing and ridiculous. Especially the light armor variant, that is very pale.
Medium is kinda mid, but Heavy and Light look really good
They're a bit "noisy", too much detail. With half the golden parts they would look much more elegant and premium.
yep, the quantity and placement of the runes and their effects make it look really clustered and uneasy. its okayish on the heavy, bc at least it fits that templar vibe, but on the medium and light it just looks straight up bad.
Tbh transfer the runic effects to the runic armor set and start over anet that shit doesnt make sense. You can do so much better.
Wow, every set is mid or worse. When you compare it to the other legendary armour sets, it's hard to believe they thought this looked good enough.
I genuinely look better now with mistforged pvp gear
Glad I have the raid armor and didn't waste time for that
So how much additional grinding for these extremely underwhelming 'upgrades'? Asking for a friend because I will definitely not bother.
I like a few pieces from the light set. Thats about it. 90% of Lege armor is ugly af.
they look great on dudes, absolutely atrocious on women
Meh, boring and a little bit.. ugly? Animation quality has obviously degraded compared to raid leggy sets.
ugly AF
As cool as they look, the sad reality is... the old ones tranformed physically, these only add sparkles to it. If you have any visual-infusion on your armor, you basically cannot see the sparkles anymore 🥲
Expected more visually from legendary tbh... looks like a gem store Armour set imo....
I had no plans to get these even if they looked good since I only have one set and i need to work on more but man. These new affects look bad. Easy pass.
The base skin is amazing, but the glowy/transformation in T3 might be the most underwhelming out of all the leggy armor.
may as well die and get the sublime wvw armor
Only the heavy armor looks good and then again, the heavy raid armor looks better. I would even say the wvw and pvp armor looks better .
ARE YOU FKING KIDDING ME
comparing raids extensive summon when going into combat vs this??? its overwhelmingly disappointing in terms of a legendary armor set, even if it is strictly PvE, not saying it should be flashy to the max, BUT its legendary armor, it SHOULD be flashy to the relative max just like the Raid armor is. It looks like a strong armor outfit you can buy off the TP
Honestly i like them all !
overlay with some glow then it's Legenary . looks cheap
GW1 obsidian armor looks way better than this crap
I mean. Let's all be honest here. Armor design was never A-Nets forte. The vast majority of the designs in the game look awful. I wasn't expecting much with these new designs so I'm not as disappointed as others seem to be.
Damn u fast
I'd love to goon in these armor sets.
I just got refined envoy armor, and ill keep going at perfected envoy. cause this obsidian armor looks like shit...
Looks nice, thx
To be honest, Concepts have 10 times better look (Even released T1 were more promising). This shiny upgrade looks like impotency in the meaning of art in 2024 and that DOESN'T EVEN FIT. It just litters the surface of armor with unreadable elements.
Light armor is embarrassing
Light awesome, heavy really good and mid is meh
Ok
I haven't played GW2 in awhile but sheesh this is some sad looking "Legendary armor"
only heavy looks good, and raid leggy are even better looking then this. pretty scuffed when taking the timespand into account.
Dam this feels really f-ing lazy. Compared to Envoy, this feels like we’ve been robbed. Because hear me out, we bought the expansion and waited months, MONTHS, FOR THIS! The same armor, but with glowing lights, that’s it. Wow, amazing. Something that looks like you can buy from their cosmetics gem store for 10 bucks. This is the new legendary armor set. I swear if it’s not a black lion exclusive, this is the garbage they think is alright to release for a paid expansion. This feels like, a cope out, and a rushed job. The devs were like, meh we gotta release something… what are we going to do? Random Joe, meh just put some lights on it, we gotta get ready for J Wild. Devs: sighs… ok.
I spected way more from this... Requierm Armor set has way more passion design than this piece of junk... devs who designed this should choose another proffesion...
By that logic, you would deserve to get fired from your job, after a bad week.
@@BlackSkyZ2 womp womp the armor looks bad
@@BlackSkyZ2more like a year
@@legendofnat5477 well the designers of that armor probably got hired for a week, internship
@@BlackSkyZ2 true lmao
The light armor is the most disappointing. The others looks good.
no
I am glad T2" didn't make previous legendary armor obsolete. I can understand that it feels cheap though, for those who expected more. The fault lies in expectations, the ship has long been sailed.
yeah kinda meh. Raid leggy is vastly superior
HORRIBLE
Meh
Fml im so disappointed.....
Mediocrity in a mediocre expansion
Mediocre?!? Pure shit
To be fair nobody cares about the design of any leggy armor, the gemstore is for that purpose, we care about leggy armor for the quality of life experience
UNDERWHELMING 😮
they're kinda mid
:(
L
big L
super L
i still like the light the best but yea raid is still superior
Looks bad.
this looks like trash
Disappointing
So lame.