Guild Wars 2

Charr armor was such a let down its sad everything clips or is stretched, nothing looks like it is made for them

Only cultural and maybe the duelist one sadly ( if were talkin bout medium one eh)…. 90% of the armor sets just aren’t for Charrs.
I know its unfair.
When i play my Norn i can choose between so many armors, with my lil charr ranger so few choices..

It’s medium that has most problems. I have so much difficulty finding a proper outfit on my charr thief. I also have charr warrior and seems like heavy has some nice options.

It’s unlikely that they are going to go back and fix it now. I just hope they do a better job in the future and add in some more cultural sets so they have more armor specifically made to fit them. Some more plant armors for the Sylvari would be nice too.

seeing as how they won’t even bother rotating the hidden pistol racial skill 90 degrees so it’s held right, I’m going with NO, NEVER, AND THEY DON’T CARE AT ALL

Look at the tail and the weapons. LOOK AT THEM.

It’s not a big deal to me.

It’s a huge deal to me.

It is an issue for me. I hate clipping and I hate huge floaty pauldrons both of which the Charr armors have in abundance so my armor choice for my Charr is somewhat limited.

I was really happy to finaly lvl my charr warior to lvl 80 and buy some exotic gear only to see that my intire back is clipping the armor.. There’s hair sticking out of my armor…

Well my Charr warrior looks awesome. Zero clipping.

I think we need some better designed armors for Charrs, especially light and medium, ‘cause they’re looking worse than heavy. I don’t really think, they fix what we have now, but I wish we will see something new, much better.

Demented Sheep.1642:

It is an issue for me. I hate clipping and I hate huge floaty pauldrons both of which the Charr armors have in abundance so my armor choice for my Charr is somewhat limited.

Huge pauldrons are what Charr armor is famous for. If you don’t like them, there’s an option to hide them. There’s also a lot of options for smaller ones as well. Use them.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Demented Sheep.1642:

It is an issue for me. I hate clipping and I hate huge floaty pauldrons both of which the Charr armors have in abundance so my armor choice for my Charr is somewhat limited.

Huge pauldrons are what Charr armor is famous for. If you don’t like them, there’s an option to hide them. There’s also a lot of options for smaller ones as well. Use them.

Charr are famous for huge pauldrons? That’s news to me…

yes i hate the charr armor so much its such a shame. I ended up making a Norn Warrior and making profits off my Charr to build my Norn to the same level and ill end up letting this Charr collect the dust until Anet decides to show Charr some love.
My Charr

I want this armor for my Charr. Best Charr armor is the one we can’t have.

This is the garbage I have to settle with for now.

I doubt we’ll see a “fix” for this, ever. If we do get one, expect it as a side-effect of an expansion release (like, say, they add tengu as a player race and then go to the trouble of making places for tengu tail feathers, extending that to charr in the process).

I think all of you are crazy. I love my charr’s armor. As someone else suggested, if you don’t like it, make something else.

Heck, even HUMANS have clipping issues

‘Outlaw Coat’ causes ANY pants including the freaking ‘Outlaw Pants’ to clip through the coat.

Human, max height, medium-ish build…IDLE ANIMATION (so I’m not nitpicking about run animations or combat poses).

Shame too, because some of the low-level armors look way better than end-game armor sets. Especially when mixed with other armor pieces.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

I think all of you are crazy. I love my charr’s armor. As someone else suggested, if you don’t like it, make something else.

You wanna lvl my guy up for me?

Goobaaa.8241:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

I think all of you are crazy. I love my charr’s armor. As someone else suggested, if you don’t like it, make something else.

You wanna lvl my guy up for me?

This is a troll joke right? Leveling is not hard or long drawn out. You can have a level 80 toon in a matter of weeks and if you’ve already got a level 80, even less if it provides the other with gold (ala crafting).

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

This is a troll joke right? Leveling is not hard or long drawn out. You can have a level 80 toon in a matter of weeks and if you’ve already got a level 80, even less if it provides the other with gold (ala crafting).

I think it is you who make a “troll joke”. If you think that all armors in the game are fine on charr, then I must say that YOU are crazy. =) They don’t look fine, not even close. Almost all of common armors look like a bad joke on charr.

I love my charr’s armors too. But my charr has only 2 armors. One is cultural t1 and the other one is Durmand Priory armor. In time I will going to get all cultural armors, but that’s all. This is far from okay. It’s not okay, not at all.

For example armor from CM (on charr and on human). See the difference? And you think such armor looks as good as on human? If you do it doesn’t mean that it does. It’s just your personal taste. But objectively speaking it’s not.

Sure there are armors which look normal on charr, but they are very few.

Hammerguard.9834:

I want this armor for my Charr. Best Charr armor is the one we can’t have.

apparently it’s already in the game. =/

www.gw2armor.com/charr/male/k5/light/display_looks.php

Light armor though. =(

Kreslin.6832:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

This is a troll joke right? Leveling is not hard or long drawn out. You can have a level 80 toon in a matter of weeks and if you’ve already got a level 80, even less if it provides the other with gold (ala crafting).

I think it is you who make a “troll joke”. If you think that all armors in the game are fine on charr, then I must say that YOU are crazy. =) They don’t look fine, not even close. Almost all of common armors look like a bad joke on charr.

I love my charr’s armors too. But my charr has only 2 armors. One is cultural t1 and the other one is Durmand Priory armor. In time I will going to get all cultural armors, but that’s all. This is far from okay. It’s not okay, not at all.

For example armor from CM (on charr and on human). See the difference? And you think such armor looks as good as on human? If you do it doesn’t mean that it does. It’s just your personal taste. But objectively speaking it’s not.

Sure there are armors which look normal on charr, but they are very few.

No, that’s not what I said. I never said all armor is fine. I do think most of you are nitpicking at things, but that’s just me. I do agree there are a few models out there that need help, I think the Arah heavy gloves for example look terrible on a Charr compared to a human or norn. However, overall, the armor isn’t as bad as most of you are making it out to be. But as you said, it’s just my personal taste I guess.

For the record, I don’t see the differences in the CM armor in your example above, with the exception of the helmet. Looks to me like you just don’t like the body shape of the Charr.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

For the record, I don’t see the differences in the CM armor in your example above, with the exception of the helmet. Looks to me like you just don’t like the body shape of the Charr.

I do like the body shape of my charr. If I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have played charr. But charr is my main. I love him. He is cute tiger who makes me smile every time when I look at him. ^^

I just don’t like how this armor looks on charr. But I don’t mean that CM armor is a completely trash on charr, but I would like to see some modifications, so it would look better then it is at the moment.

My point is that not cultural armors need modifications, so they would look better on charr. They don’t at the moment. I don’t mean that common armors on charr must look like something completely different, but they must fit charr’s body form, and they don’t. That’s what I’m talking about.
Many of not cultural armors has a potential of “good look” (sorry if there are mistakes, English is not my language). They just need some modifications, that’s it. Many aspects of armors are ignoring charr’s body form. Because they were created for human’s body in the first place, then they were just stretched on charr’s body.
Even CoF heavy armor (I don’t know about medium and light armor) has an issue with tale.
And it looks stretched (but I can live with that).

There is only one not cultural armor, which fits charr’s body form, if not perfectly, then better then any other armors which I know. It is Durmand Priory heavy armor. In my subjective opinion of course.

I don’t think that developers will make modifications on armors we have right now, but I hope, in a future, armors will look better.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

You’re also comparing a male human with a female charr btw. Whereas there aren’t supposed to be many differences with male and female charr armor, there do exist some differences.

It’s not a female charr, it’s my male charr. Screen shot below.

I think people mis-speak when they say Charr armor looks like human but stretched. There is no way (NO WAY) you can simply ‘stretch’ human armor to fit on Charr. They have too different a body structure to just stretch. The chest is bigger, the neck wider and the shoulders far broader than a human not to mention the legs are completely different and the posture isn’t the same.

Charr armor isn’t quite unique for their body shape, but it is far from stretched. It is modded to fit their shape and incorporate their features (ears, horn, claws and such).

Kreslin.6832:

There is only one not cultural armor, which fits charr’s body form, if not perfectly, then better then any other armors which I know. It is Durmand Priory heavy armor. In my subjective opinion of course.

Perhaps you’re not looking hard enough.

Here’s the parts of the armor set my Charr uses (pic 1) and a current pics of him. I have his 2nd look already but dunno what stats I should transmute them to.

The thing is, even with their completely different body structure, all they do is stretch the armor which is why it looks so horrible. They have to customize the armor to the body of the Charr… a lot.

This is the definition of stretched…

Hammerguard.9834:

The thing is, even with their completely different body structure, all they do is stretch the armor which is why it looks so horrible. They have to customize the armor to the body of the Charr… a lot.

This is the definition of stretched…

A. You’re looking at the most unflattering angle of that armor as there isn’t really anything in the front that needs accommodating for on a Charr.

B. You picked the most ugliest and unflattering armor for a Charr and it looks equally ugly on a human, so that distorts the point you’re making.

Looking at the same armor from the other angles, you’d be hard pressed to say the armor is stretched in the general meaning of the term. If you’re talking about sharing the same texture skins, maybe you’re right. But one simply does not stretch that skin over the Charr model without modding it to fit properly. But some armor even has features specifically unique to Charr which is a huge deal compared to other races.

I remade my Charr ranger into an Asura for armor reasons. Despite that, the Charr are still my absolute favorite race in this game. To make up for it, I created new Charr Warrior and Guardian characters as heavy armor looks ten folds better than many of the light and medium options. At least in my personal opinion. Concerning medium armor, it was not the overall shape that really bothered me. The problem was actually the clipping of the tail and stretching of the textures. I could easily deal with the stretching textures if more armors were made to accommodate Charr tails. Unfortunately that is not the case with a lot of medium armors.

I don’t think they will ever go back and fix the old armors because art is expensive and cost time better spent on more important things. Of course, that does not mean that future armors can’t be made better. ^^;;