Guild Wars 2 brings with the upcoming update “Crisis Center” not only a new episode of the Living Story. For Raiders, there are now Legendary Armors as loot that are designed with great care. Therefore, they should provide no or minimal clipping across all races.
It is the curse of the MMORPG player: You just found a particularly cool item in an MMO that also looks good. But the bulky shoulder pads blend with your hero’s face in every movement during cutscenes, or armored gloves grotesquely merge when the character crosses their arms.
Such clipping errors are annoying but hardly avoidable. Except for the new legendary armors from Guild Wars 2!
Guild Wars 2 – (Almost) no more clipping
According to the designers at Arenanet, Legendary Armors are supposed to be one of the coolest rewards for Raiders in the game. After all, it takes a lot of work to farm such an overpowering armor. And if players are already toiling for hours for the armor, then the developers must also spare no effort to create the best armors.
Therefore, the designers at Arenanet have invested a lot of time to create beautiful armors of all three types – Light, Medium, and Heavy – all with their own animations and minimal clipping. However, it seems that they were ultimately unable to eliminate all clipping with certain armors, as not all overlap points could be removed or concealed. Still, according to Arenanet, the end result should be convincing.
Guild Wars 2 – The perfect armor for every situation
To ensure that the Legendary Armors also have legendary values, you can freely change these outside of combat and choose between the available configurations. For example, to switch from a damage build to a tank build as a warrior. Runes and infusions can also be easily swapped.
Each of the three legendary armors is supposed to fit every race (including Charr!) and each weight class has its own look and unique theme:
- Heavy armors are massive and made of steel
- Medium armors are made of bones from dragon beings that discharge excess magical power
- Light armors are adorned with magical crystals
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