Guild Wars 2

Anyone else notice how incredible low quality the helm looks? Especially compared to rest of armors, the model looks like it’s cut with scissors and the textures veryyy compressed. Not to mention the wierd dirtyness? The picture is with celestial.. not very celestial to me.

Anyone else think this should be patched to look a bit better?

Also it’d be nice if they made holes for asuran ears or just hide em.

Wait, let me get this right. You rush to buy a helm, then figure out what they look like?

It wasn’t that bad in the preview.

I am rather sure it looks EXACTLY the same in the preview as when you buy it.
It does put it on your characters head after all.

Please, upload a picture of you previewing it and having it look different. I’d like to see the comparison.

I feel like your logic was thrown out of the window for this one because you wanted the shiny asap. (Skritt moments!)

Not quite. He does have a point in that previews don’t quite allow you to zoom in and see the preview up close. That is perhaps what he meant. Only when you actually have the item equipped and can get a closer look can you see the fine detail (or lack of) in items.

His screenshot shows the same distance as in the preview window, so unless he’s playing on a really low resolution (where the preview window will shrink itself), there should be no difference.

Also, all that detail is in the preview, having previewed all of the skins on the first day (and seeing the same image as above, albeit without the 45 degree angle).

The ear “problem” is also visible in the preview.

Dumb question, but are you running on max specs? I noticed a similiar thing with the dragon weapons: they looked fine in the preview but crap in the world if I didn’t have max specs.
Also, try to look at it in some not so crowded area as lions arch. It seems that the game sometimes uses lower quality models for some items when there are lots of people around.
The helm should not be low quality because I’ve seen several of them and they looked pretty high-poly to me.