Guild Wars 2

I just put a radiant mantle on my human male mesmer, and wow is it huge. Much larger than the preview images I see on Dulfy. It almost looks like he’s wearing the Charr or Norn-sized mantle instead of the human-sized one.

I’ve attached a screen shot below. For comparison, take a look at the preview images at Dulfy.net:

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-radiant-and-hellfire-armor-skin-gallery/

Is the mantle supposed to be this large? Or is it a bug?

Yeah, noticed that too in-game.

Something´s definitely not right here. Although the version on Dulfy looks too small.
If we could get a “size and a half” in between those two, that would be really super.

I want to wear these so bad. They’re perfect for my human guardian. But…they’re just too kitten HUGE!

Heavy armor on light skins…its just so…wrong…

Im having the same problem, the radian mantle on my sylvari thief is waaaay to big!, it looks normal size on my other characters

It looks fine on my female norn. It also looks normal on my human thief. Maybe it has something to do with the body type?

Venirto.4208:

It looks fine on my female norn. It also looks normal on my human thief. Maybe it has something to do with the body type?

The shoulders in your picture are almost exactly what I was expecting. They reach up to your character’s chin and about halfway down her arms. And, by the way, I really like your character’s costume. It looks great!

On my character, the same shoulder pads reach halfway up his ears and almost all the way down to his elbow. If he tried to lift his hands into the air, the shoulder pads would crush his head like a nut. In fact, they clip into his head and neck on most of his animations.

Hopefully this is a bug that only affects male human and sylvari characters. And hopefully it gets patched soon.

Either way as a light armor wearer these pauldrons are horrendous. Way to cater to the warriors and guardians only… again. The gloves look sleek enough for my ele at least.

This happens with almost every heavy shoulder piece on my female charr, they are massive and float off the shoulders.

They don’t look so large on female, Norn and Human at least.

Come to think, I have always had problems with the shoulder pads with my sylvari, especially with Commando’s Shoulderguards, which are extremely large (but not so in my other characters), so I always play with the shoulder parts hidden, because I did not like it how they look. I always thought that it was just a bad design, so I did not care…. thats why wen I saw the preview of the radiant mantle on dulfy i thought that my character was finally going to have pads …. but I was so wrong u.u

Hope they can fix it… at least the radiant, i can provide screen of how extremely big are almost all the shoulders on my character if that helps for something

They’re huge and look out of place on light/med armors unless you’re using full Dredge. That said if they reduce the sprite 25-33% and sharpen the quality I think it’ll look much better for all classes involved and not just heavy.

It almost looks the male Human and Sylvari are getting the Norn model?

So a bug then.

I’d pay to see what the mantle looks like on an asura. Anyone care to post a screen?

It’s definitely something to do with the body type. For example, as a human male, choose the last body type and put the heavy plate shoulders on. You’ll notice they look stretched and crap. I had this body type before and aside from it looking kinda unrealistic, it made those shoulders and the radiant ones look odd so I used a total makeover kit and fixed it up. In fact, using the total makeover kit, you can directly see how body types affect the shoulder models.

Silver.8023:

It’s definitely something to do with the body type. For example, as a human male, choose the last body type and put the heavy plate shoulders on. You’ll notice they look stretched and crap. I had this body type before and aside from it looking kinda unrealistic, it made those shoulders and the radiant ones look odd so I used a total makeover kit and fixed it up. In fact, using the total makeover kit, you can directly see how body types affect the shoulder models.

That’s it! I just tried a total makeover kit, and body-type has a huge effect on these shoulders. When I switched out of the largest body type, the shoulders shrink down to a normal size.

Like most things, they’re bigger on Sylvari males.

signahead.7281:

When I switched out of the largest body type, the shoulders shrink down to a normal size.

AHA!
So it must be a bug then, the game falsely chooses the “Norn shoulders” for the beefiest Human body type.

Please fix it ANet.

signahead.7281:

Silver.8023:

It’s definitely something to do with the body type. For example, as a human male, choose the last body type and put the heavy plate shoulders on. You’ll notice they look stretched and crap. I had this body type before and aside from it looking kinda unrealistic, it made those shoulders and the radiant ones look odd so I used a total makeover kit and fixed it up. In fact, using the total makeover kit, you can directly see how body types affect the shoulder models.

That’s it! I just tried a total makeover kit, and body-type has a huge effect on these shoulders. When I switched out of the largest body type, the shoulders shrink down to a normal size.

Thats great!! but they should fix it, i like the body-type of my character, why make us choose a body size if then i have to buy a total makeover kit and change it to another one to fit the armor? T.T
I want equal size armor for everyone!! =P

well, hope for the best! maybe with that info they can fix it =)

I think that was all part of their plan.

Programmer: Boss, the shoulder is bugged and makes it huge on characters with large set body sizes.
Boss: I see, how much will this cost us to fix?
Programmer: /Hands over note
Boss: Throw in a free makeover kit in one of the achievement chests instead.

Here’s a comparison of the radiant mantle sizes when I choose the very last body type for human vs the second last body type.

The difference is remarkable. Presumably a bug

So I wonder if there are any plans on Anets part to fix this?

The glove and mantle skins look ridiculous on my Mesmer as they only take the appearance of heavy armor. If I had known that they would be so ugly and don’t transition to light armor appearance I would have taken the hellfire skins for my guard or warrior.