Entropy.1938

Again. To me the armor is not about prestige. There are now four paths for legendary armor, pick your favorite. The arguments of "_____ way was so much tougher than ____________." are, quite frankly, ridiculous. I don't begrudge anyone their legendary set - they earned it, more power to them. I crafted the raid armor because I had started raiding and the convenience of not having to swap armor sets, stat swap, or craft yet another ascended set when the meta changed, was appealing (at one point I think I had 10 full sets of ascended armor). When raiding it is not uncommon to swap roles, toons, or stats mid-wing. I guess, in my mind, Anet sort of does what I'm suggesting with the Aurene weapons. Once you make the legendary axe, you can unlock other skins via collections. You don't have to create six more legendary axes. If people want to make a case that ALL legendary armor skins should be able to be unlocked, once you craft an actual set, I could get onboard with that.

Wow! The vitriol from some folks. . .my point, which I know will be wasted on many of you, it seems: I, personally, don't see legendary armor as a status symbol or flex - it's just about the convenience and QoL (given that ascended has the same stats). In fact, several of my toons wear outfits or have transmuted the legendary raid skins to ones that I like better. I happen to like the Obby skins better than the Raid Skins. I wouldn't ask this about the PvP or WvW sets as those require different game modes - if I want those, time to engage in that game play. The Obby set is from the the same game mode as Raids: PvE. Was simply putting it out there to see if there was a way to obtain, only the skins, through a somewhat lesser grind.

I have all three sets of the (Raid) PvE legendary armor. Was it a bit of a grind? Yep. Is the convenience worth it? Yep. Would I do it again, IF I still needed legendary armor? Yep. But I like the new Obsidian Armor skins. Yet, I don't want to make 3 MORE sets of legendary armor. Any chance those of us with the original PvE sets could obtain just skins for the Obsidian somehow?