Suggestion for underwater breather

[Pirindolo.9427]

Instead of being just a substitute of the regular, land headgear, why not make it behave like a 7th armor piece that has only effect while underwater and, at the same time, limiting it's infusion slot to swim-speed infusions?

 

That way it would make swim- speed infusions useful and valuable, at least for the short time of the gameplay that average players spend underwater.

 

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

I've always wanted it to be "skin only" and always use the headgear. I think it's unfortunate that ANet has doubled down on requiring 7 runes, especially since some effects don't work underwater (and lots of skills for each class don't work).

 

I'd like to see the breather work more like an amulet.

* Most ascended gear holds an infusion and only weapons, armor, and back provide a skin.

* Amulets have an enrichment, that provides some sort of reward bonus (gold, magic find, reward track progress, etc); they don't provide a skin.

* Proposed: breathers provide a skin only and ascended breathers have a slot for a "swim speed capsule"

 

The capsule is the same as the existing infusion, with a different name to avoid the confusion that exists now, after ANet went to so much work to separate enrichments.