New Horns? When?

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Posted by: Frostfang.5109

Frostfang.5109

There have been new faces once, new hairstyles twice… (wich is AWSOME)

When will there be new Horns for Charr?

I’d really love to have some new horns that goes with the new face and hairstyles and that are designed with the same ammount of love as the other things that have been added for customizing the look of u’r character.!

Kima & Co

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Posted by: Electro.4173

Electro.4173

Female Charr got Rox’s horns shortly after she was added to Living Story. That’s pretty much it so far, though.

I’m not sure if we’ll ever get a big batch of new horn styles, honestly. See, the thing is, while horns are a pretty big thing for Charr, the other races get much less impressive “secondary features”. Male Humans and Norn get facial hair, which is relatively major. Asura and Sylvari only get ears. And female Norn and Humans get nothing at all.

Given that imbalance of features between the races and genders, they wouldn’t make for a very good makeover kit / gem store addition. They may be exciting for Charr and male humans / norn I doubt the other 2 races would care that much about new ears (well, Asura might, sylvari probably not since half the hairstyles hide them anyway) and female norn and human players, which is the largest or 2nd largest chunk of the playerbase, wouldn’t get anything at all.

So my guess is that at most we’ll get a new horn style added passively every so often if they add a new character with different horns, but that’s about it.

I’d love to be proven wrong, though. New horn styles would be great.

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Posted by: Black Teagan.9215

Black Teagan.9215

I would love new horns, especially Ronsohorns

Caleb Ferendir
-Charr Thief-
It’s good to be bad!

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Posted by: Rahar.9872

Rahar.9872

Female Charr got Rox’s horns shortly after she was added to Living Story. That’s pretty much it so far, though.

I’m not sure if we’ll ever get a big batch of new horn styles, honestly. See, the thing is, while horns are a pretty big thing for Charr, the other races get much less impressive “secondary features”. Male Humans and Norn get facial hair, which is relatively major. Asura and Sylvari only get ears. And female Norn and Humans get nothing at all.

Given that imbalance of features between the races and genders, they wouldn’t make for a very good makeover kit / gem store addition. They may be exciting for Charr and male humans / norn I doubt the other 2 races would care that much about new ears (well, Asura might, sylvari probably not since half the hairstyles hide them anyway) and female norn and human players, which is the largest or 2nd largest chunk of the playerbase, wouldn’t get anything at all.

So my guess is that at most we’ll get a new horn style added passively every so often if they add a new character with different horns, but that’s about it.

I’d love to be proven wrong, though. New horn styles would be great.

Unfortunately you’re likely right. ArenaNet, at it’s core, is a business. You’re wrong about one thing, though: Female Norn get tattoos as a secondary feature. ‘So do male Norn’, you say. While this is true, they do not share the same patterns.

However, the best way to release horns would probably be an extra pair or two along with a face update for the female humans/norn. Even though Charr are probably one of the least played (if not the least), there still should be updates to their visual appearances, as with the other races.

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Posted by: Lady Celtaine.3760

Lady Celtaine.3760

Personally I’d like to see some curly ram type, curved over the top buffalo type and a variation on the antler-like type of horns if they decide to release new horns for the charr.

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Posted by: Frostfang.5109

Frostfang.5109

I’d love to have…

  • antler-like, deer-inspired horns…
  • Ram inspired horns…
  • Gazelle inspired horns… twisted style…

As for the other races…. Azuras have ears… could be earrings and other decoration ect.. Norn have their tattoos and males their beard
Sylvari their skin pattern and ears (they probably have the most customizable features)
Humans – males have beard…

Charr cannot even choose color on their horns… (could be a few natural ones at least)

Kima & Co

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Posted by: Seabreeze.8437

Seabreeze.8437

I’d love to have…

  • antler-like, deer-inspired horns…
  • Ram inspired horns…
  • Gazelle inspired horns… twisted style…

As for the other races…. Azuras have ears… could be earrings and other decoration ect.. Norn have their tattoos and males their beard
Sylvari their skin pattern and ears (they probably have the most customizable features)
Humans – males have beard…

Charr cannot even choose color on their horns… (could be a few natural ones at least)

I totally support the antler-like, deer-inspired horns concept, Frostfang! I’ve had that idea in my head for ages, and would LOVE to see this implemented in a future update!

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Posted by: Frostfang.5109

Frostfang.5109

Awsome with more faces, but WHEN will there be new horns added to create more variety to the horns (and other features for the other races)?

Perhaps the question should be: Will there be new horns at all? A simple “yes, in the future” or “soon” or “No, there wont be any” would make me so happy, just so that we could know ANYTHING on this subject! The charr thread is incredibly silent from Devs speaking/posting.

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Posted by: La Goanna.8142

La Goanna.8142

Female Charr got Rox’s horns shortly after she was added to Living Story. That’s pretty much it so far, though.

I’m not sure if we’ll ever get a big batch of new horn styles, honestly. See, the thing is, while horns are a pretty big thing for Charr, the other races get much less impressive “secondary features”. Male Humans and Norn get facial hair, which is relatively major. Asura and Sylvari only get ears. And female Norn and Humans get nothing at all.

Given that imbalance of features between the races and genders, they wouldn’t make for a very good makeover kit / gem store addition. They may be exciting for Charr and male humans / norn I doubt the other 2 races would care that much about new ears (well, Asura might, sylvari probably not since half the hairstyles hide them anyway) and female norn and human players, which is the largest or 2nd largest chunk of the playerbase, wouldn’t get anything at all.

So my guess is that at most we’ll get a new horn style added passively every so often if they add a new character with different horns, but that’s about it.

I’d love to be proven wrong, though. New horn styles would be great.

I disagree about the “imbalance” of features between races. Charr have their horns and fur patterns, while Asura have ears and skin patterns. Sylvari also have distinct ears to choose from along with skin patterns and two skin types under the body types tab in character creation – one tree-like and one plant-like. Norns desperately need some more tattoos to choose from, and more facial hair types and textured muscle definition options would be welcoming as well.

This really only leaves humans at a disadvantage, and unfortunately 40% or so of the playerbase rolls human. So you can expect plenty of complaints and whining coming from the human players for not having enough distinct features – despite all of the armor skins catering to their racial body type and leaving the other races to suffer from clipping and texture stretching because of it.

However, even then you can still find good alternatives for humans. They could be given the opportunity to choose different make-up types and colors, freckles, moles, scars; accessories such as ear, nose and lip piercings and of course facial hair options for starters. Maybe even tattoos (of course none that are as detailed as the Norn variations, but may like, small shoulder or arm tats or something.) Norns could benefit from scar options as well.

Either way I agree with you, it’s about time Charr had new horn options, same goes for Asura and their ears. Another thing that would be nice is iris customization for both Charr and Asura, since eyes are one of Asuras’ most prominent features and Charr players could benefit from the option to choose between round or slit iris types.

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