Were the design team playing chess while working on the obsidian weapons?

Just asking, No particular reason.

i love it tbh

add a chess armor set too pleasemaybe the light armor classes can be a bishopand the heavies can be rooksand the mediums can be horsies

and then t2 is a mix of that with king/queen bits

@Sarrs.4831 said:i love it tbh

add a chess armor set too pleasemaybe the light armor classes can be a bishopand the heavies can be rooksand the mediums can be horsies

and then t2 is a mix of that with king/queen bits

And then add an option to game menu where all players below bronze rank display on screen as pawns rofl!

I like these reworked skins, atleast the gun, shield and sword, they look very clean and I hope someone finds an armour skin combination that fits well

Was a nice try by Anet try to rework some of the skins, but they still look bad...only way i can find myself even consider using any of those, is if that is the first weapon set that comes with dye channels, that would make a big diference in my opinion, this "chess" kind of theme they going in here aint working for me, atleast this way I would be able to dye everything the same...but still, the design itself still ugly, they should put the same art people who make the gem store stuff, would look 10 times better.

While I still don't really see these weapons as "Obsidian" weapons (should be more black obsidian than this weird checker pattern) these new skins are LIGHT YEARS better than the hideous tribal stuff they released first.

Could we maybe hold a competition to get them community designed instead? I feel that it would hold more meaning and pride. Heck lets do one for every server heheh. Like a Sea of Sorrows/Maguuma/Blackgate/Dragonbrand/Yak's Bend/etc/etc weapon collection. It would be nice to commemorate the servers and also keep the community busy in the meantime.

@DemonSeed.3528 said:Could we maybe hold a competition to get them community designed instead? I feel that it would hold more meaning and pride. Heck lets do one for every server heheh. Like a Sea of Sorrows/Maguuma/Blackgate/Dragonbrand/Yak's Bend/etc/etc weapon collection. It would be nice to commemorate the servers and also keep the community busy in the meantime.

EU says hi.

I vote for WSR to have various depictions of Chris Whiteside as ours, I know he’s left but we still remember.

@apharma.3741 said:

@DemonSeed.3528 said:Could we maybe hold a competition to get them community designed instead? I feel that it would hold more meaning and pride. Heck lets do one for every server heheh. Like a Sea of Sorrows/Maguuma/Blackgate/Dragonbrand/Yak's Bend/etc/etc weapon collection. It would be nice to commemorate the servers and also keep the community busy in the meantime.

Aye all servers, na/eu. I'm sure there's some interest in this kind of thing especially if we got some of our opinions on the design involved.

Honestly, I appreciate that you had someone take actual time and design new skins for these weapons. Says a lot about how you regard community feedback.I can guess the theme with these weapons. Something like I'm guessing either royal or chess like, and I like that direction much, MUCH better than the first iteration.With that said.

I don't think the weapons having changing effects does the set justice.My opinion but having the sets change colors to the green,blue,red coloring kills the whole design for me. I would rather see the weapons have an effect like the mount skins you just releasedA black mist oozing out of the weapons where the obsidian is located would look cool.

Also thank you for redoing the meme shield. The new one looks SOOOO much better.

The whole weapon set is now looks much much better, thanks for listening, Anet!

Should just ditch the team color changing and stick to improving upon the Chess theme if that's what they want to go with. I mean, why even call it obsidian at this point? How does obsidian support the chess theme? Idk. You tell me.

D:

Feels like Scourge design: trying to do too much of everything.