Guild Wars 2

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Above is my Asuran Necromancer, Yurtil. She is awesome, but the only really nice armor for her is the Asuran Cultural armor. The rest of the light armor on an Asuran looks like they rolled a couple of times in a bolt of cloth. Aside from the fact that we are forced into a child’s onesie when we take our clothes off (as apposed to the Sylvari’s genital leaves), the armor skins for the Asura are the weakest in the game.

Additionally, some of the weapon skins just don’t scale well. Note the scepter below:
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Thanks. Would like to hear the communities thoughts on this.

I only really dislike the non-cultural shoes. They spent so much time on so many details but didn`t adjust the shoes to the feet of asura. Either the toes are cut off or show through the sides of the shoes. I find that so ugly that I`m forced to wear cultural shoes even though I would like others more if they were fixed.

I agree. I posted in the guardian screenshot thread about how most armor textures are squashed or misshapen – or downright missing – when when worn by asura.

I wound up getting T3 cultural armor for my asura guardian after exhaustively attempting to put together a look I was satisfied with. Despite not liking the armor initially, it’s beginning to grow on me…it’s also very shiny.

It’s also important to note that the Asura (And the Sylvari) only get two cultural weapons, and the Charr, Humans, and Norn get three each. How is that fair?

Efut disapproves

My biggest, and currently only, problem with asura armor is the fact that the Savant Epaulets (Tier 3 Light Cultural) are still bugged/invisible for female characters.

Like.. really? Cultural armor is expensive, for that price I expect it to work..

I was going to make a new topic about this, but I’ll just put it here instead. The T3 heavy shoulders for asura clip with absolutely EVERYTHING. I kind of figured they would, given how absolutely huge they are, but it really takes away from the armor.

I mean, I still like the way my asura looks…until he moves. Regardless, that armor set me back 119g, there’s no way I’m going to replace it.

http://www.gw2armor.com/

The above link gives you a site where you can view all of the armor choices for all of the races, all of the sexes, and all of the classes in the game.

The key points with respect to armor for Asura are:

- There is relatively little distinction between the sexes in terms of armor skin.
- Many of the armor skins (with the exception of some order armor and cultural armor) look poorly scaled to the Asura form. When in doubt, it looks like they just simply wrapped a piece of textured cloth around them and called it a day.
- Many individual pieces have rendering problems mentioned in this and other threads.

With respect to weapons, it is evident that the Tier 2 Cultural weapon set for the Asura and the Sylvari are switched. If you look at the Tier 2 Sylvari weapon set, they are Asuran Glyphed weapons. They should be switched, but since I have multiple characters of multiple races, I’ve already rectified the situation and would hate to have to re-skin them, so if they are changed, I would hope that existing weapons in the population would not automatically re-skin.

Asuran weapons and armor are a problem. I would hope that ANet would address this aesthetic for a truly wonderful and dynamic race.