Guild Wars 2

Can we get more asura boots skins! Having just finished my ascended armor it’s kind of silly that my asura’s toes stick out the side of my boots. I’ve only seen a couple of proper boots, the cultural armor that has ridiculous clipping issues and the aetherblade gem store skin.

There are a (very) few boots which cut the toes off (outch, I would never torture my asura like that). I like the way the side toes stick out.

Medium and heavy cultural boots are my go-to boots of choice. It annoys the hell out of me why they didn’t make them properly in the first place. Clearly the game can handle it as seen by the Charr, so why Asura get left out is unknown to me.

Of the three choices for style, I prefer side-toes to be covered – footwear designed around the toes or flaps over top of them.

However, the choice between having the toes blatantly clip through the sides or having them chopped off completely has me a little on the fence.

Clipping Through:

• Seeing the toes jutting through the sides of a boot screams laziness and shows no effort was made to account for the attributes of non-human species they have in their own game.
  However, I like that toes stick out on some of the footwear, but only on the ones where it would seem logical that they would be visible (though that doesn’t excuse their not having flaps over top of the toes when the rest of the top of the foot is covered).

Chopped Off:

• Seeing the toes being completely cut off and crammed into the boot also screams of laziness, just not as much as letting them clip through. Removing them actually shows acknowledgement of the toes’ existence and a conscious choice to ignore the foot features of the non-human species. This also shows they would rather put the effort into modifying it so the toes get amputated versus the effort it would take to edit the model to take the toes into account. This is where the laziness factor and lack of pride in one’s work shines brightest; 1 minute to make it so the toes get cut off, or 5 minutes to shape the footwear around the toes (includes model, texture and shader editing).

I’m a bit ok with them sticking out. What I’m not ok with is how they didn’t even bother to add holes on the shoes…

Then again. How they made the armor for Asura (and a kittenarr) is saying lazy. To me, it looks like they didn’t care how the Asura look, they just took the male human armor, made it smaller and put it in the game for us to use. The shoes (and sometimes even the rest of the clothing) can easily be seen that they aren’t made FOR the Asura. They are just scaled down human models.

Weapon sizing is irritating sometimes as well. Finished my infinite light last night and it looks like a little tooth pick when wielded…then sticks in the ground when sheathed…le sigh.

I agree completely, op.

While the charr got a nice setup for their claws, asuran footwear looks terrible. Toes either clip through the boots or are squished into the shoes.
Racial armor clips and there is no light armor which would cover the feet, only sandals.