Guild Wars 2

Really, most of the weapons/armor in game looks so bad on asuras, i guess is the price to pay for the tactical advantage of being small, but god they look so bad, and the only few that look good, ends up with overlapping visual animations or stuff like that, really ugly, if i wasnt so lazy to make another elemental of another race i would but not worth the effort of farming all the exotics/ascended gear.

Having used only the Prowler armor for the most of the game, I’m heavily inclined to disagree.

I’ve always been confused as to why the T2 Asura weapons are Sylvari Racial weapons. :/

I don’t have any objections to the animations, at least not the ones that I’ve seen. In fact, the opposite: the animations are part of what made me a convert to the Asura. Nor do I think that the Asura are the most screwed on weapon models: consider that the Sylvari don’t get any race-appropriate weapon models (except for one or two obscure heart-vendor weapons) prior to level 35, whereas we get Glyphic weapons from level 1. I do agree with you that the Tier 1 weapons shouldn’t be identical to the Glyphics and having no Tier 2 weapon models of our own is lame, but there are people who are worse off.

I won’t disagree with you at all about most of the armor, though. Too much of the armor was just the same patterns shrunk morphed to our shape, and the results look muddy — and, consider who we are, embarrassingly low-magic. At least some of the light armors got redrawn, but the heavy armors in particular are just awful. In particular, I can’t imagine any Asura even wearing the Barbaric or Gladiator armor. It’s so overtly neolithic, so Norn-like! If I wanted to look like a savage primitive swinging around rocks tied to sticks, I’d play a Norn, not an Asura.

Even among the racial-specific armors, at least one of them also has the embarrassingly low tech look: the medium armor tier 1 looks like something a Sylvari would grow, not something an Asura krewe would design.

So, yeah: I wish that, at some point, they would re-texture all of the heavy armors (as worn by Asura) and maybe one or two others to look more cyberpunk and less stone-age or medieval, and simplify almost all of the texture files to reflect our smaller size. Oh, and one more thing: given that it’s canon that Asura are vain about their ears, there is no excuse for any Asura to be wearing a helm with no ear holes. But other than those couple of things, I think we’re doing great on the armor front.

VulShanna.5702:

I’ve always been confused as to why the T2 Asura weapons are Sylvari Racial weapons. :/

Well… the T1 – T2 weapons are not unique skins for any of the races and are frankly not worth looking at, at all.

InfamousBrad.5879:

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On a few of those points:

Armor: Agreed that we need more asuran-looking armor. At present, the only options for asura who want to stay culturally asuran (with regard to armor) are the cultural armors and the inquest/CoE set. I personally don’t wear any asuran armor on my characters, but I like them very much and I do want to see more added later.

Weapons: We’ve got a few more options here. Glyphic, dark asuran/tainted glyphic, peacemaker, CoE/inquest and I guess by extension mystic (since they’re basically blue inquest weapons and reasonably look like something an asura would use).

On ears: Agreed. Thankfully the vast majority of headgears show the ears, but the few that don’t… Well, they’re a bit odd, canonically speaking, for the reason you suggested.

Most of the dungeon set looks awful when they look awesome on other races.
Plus Arah light shoulders overlaps with every back piece you equip making it useless and ugly.

I’ve looked at all of them and find Asuras to look the best in it. I guess it is just about personal opinion, but I love the look.

I will say this tho…. Medium Cof helm looks better on Asura than any other race imo.