Guild Wars 2

I’ve been asking for an aviator cap for my charr engineer since beta, so I was pleasantly surprised to see one at the gem store. However:

a) Although it’s clearly a leather item, I can’t wear it with the rest of my leather armour, because it’s not an armour skin (it’s a “town clothes” item). This means I can’t wear it in dungeons, etc., and I can only wear it with my (pyjama-like) town clothes. Useless.

b) While the cap looks great on every other race, it looks absolutely horrible on charr. It covers the eyes (with actual opaque leather plus the goggles) and it makes my hair, ears and horns magically disappear. The ears I can sort of understand, but the horns…? And charrs’ hair is mostly on the neck (nowhere near the cap), so why does it vanish too? The result doesn’t look anything like my character.

I guess (a) is a generic problem with the GW2 “town clothes” system not letting players mix town clothes and armour, but why isn’t this helmet simply an armour skin? I can understand restricting “silly” and oversized items (like the boxing gloves) to town clothes, since they would interfere with weapons, but this clearly looks like a piece of leather (medium) armour.

But, independently of that, is (b) a bug? Can’t be too hard to move the goggles to the forehead, raise the edge of the cap so it doesn’t cover the eyes (like on other races) and let the horns render through it, can it? Either that or rename it to the “horn-cutting, neck-shaving B&D mask”, because that’s kind of what it looks like on charr.

Everything looks bad on a Charr. Check out the light armor skin on the TP for gems if I am lying. My Charr looked like a backup dancer from a 1990’s movie.

Rytlock are you ok, are you ok, are you ok Rytlock? Tell me Rytlock are you ok, are you ok, are you ok Rytlock?

Will you tell us that you’re ok?
There’s a sign in the citadel,
You struck him with your pistol, it run out like a loud bell,
You came into the dungeon,
You left bloodstains on the flame legion,
Then you ran into the boss room.
With a human you struck down,
Lord balefire, it was his doom.

You’ve been hit by – you’ve been struck by a smooth charr general.