Guild Wars 2

Hi devs,

I like the charr character design but charr looks so awfull in light armor. There are few light armor that suits charr properly (few = max 2).
Of the total number of light armor available, it is little, far too little.

So please, design light armors on charr again because everyone does not play charr in intermediate or heavy armors.

Thank you in advance for all the charr in light armor.

Why stop at light armor? They look awful in everything. Even their cultural armor with the exception of heavy tier 3. IMO of course.

how about change light armor across the board? i’m amazed that chain isn’t an armor class.

And add some medium armors that are just tops, not coats!

Give me super-heavy armor which is basically like an exo-suit, while you’re at it. “Heavy” is not heavy enough.

Light armor really is god awful on charr. There are at least a few sets on medium/heavy charr that look nice, but there really isn’t much for light armor. There’s only one mixed skin set that I’ve found I can actually look at on my charr ele, but it’s still not that great. It’d be nice to have other options.

And light cultural armor… * shudders *

Charr armor in general with just a few exceptions was handled very poorly. They have a different enough morphology that just copypasta+ deforming the meshes and textures, while efficient in resources and manpower, ends up looking really bad.

And that’s ignoring they have physiological differences that would affect their clothing choices…like fur. Something that a human could wear comfortably would rapidly cause overheating on a creature that is both larger in mass and has a built in insulating layer like fur.

(In before “but people also throw fireballs and there are dragons!” red herring. There is a concept called suspension of disbelief. Look it up and realize that making basic stuff like racial clothing choices reflect certain mundane realities such as climate and physiology is the key to immersive fiction.)

Honestly, IMO most the light on charr looks markedly better than medium or heavy. Most the light shoulders ACTUALLY FIT, whereas almost every medium and heavy shoulder levitates above the character like some kind of magical drone.

I keep reporting the shoulders as a bug – there’s no WAY they are working as intended. But, over a year in i have my doubts

I’ve managed a good light armour for my Charr Necro. Most of the sets have at least one part that doesn’t work so the trick seems to bo mixing and matching around the duff parts.

Medium armor looks worse on Charr.

Come on, Arah medium armour looks EPIC on charr, as long as you use something else for the head. as the mask lets it down.

The secret is to disregard the clipping issues and take the sets for what they are.

Like my mesmer. He tucks his shirt into his belt, and laughs it off.

Or my guardian. He doesn’t care that his armor is so bulky that his kneepad is crushing his foot, that extra plating is what they put on tanks to tell elder dragons to kitten off. What a badkitten.

Or my ranger. His massive eyebrows bulge through his headband and his arms are on fire/exploding. Don’t give no cares.

They’ll fix what clipping issues they can eventually. Keep mixing and matching, and eventually you’ll find the heritage sets which are the best period a set that you like.

I agree with Argon… there is 1 thing that is NOT a COAT in medium armour on Charr…!!! There need to be better fitting/better looking armours! It would do so much for this race and its popularity!

And Sharkeye… Its good that u can live with the clipping but I just cant stand the clipping – at least not on my own characters…

Argon.1563:

Medium armor looks worse on Charr.

Which is really a shame, given the most iconic Charr class wears medium armor.

I was upset that I couldn’t make a good-looking Charr Engineer.

You can do a good looking Charr engineer, I have not one but two outfits for mine to wear.
First one’s the more eccentric, I use it with a flame thrower a lot. the second’s more traditional.

Sartharina.3542:

Argon.1563:

Medium armor looks worse on Charr.

Which is really a shame, given the most iconic Charr class wears medium armor.

I was upset that I couldn’t make a good-looking Charr Engineer.

Mine is using temple karma armor, other than the tail clipping it’s pretty much perfect and exactly the kind of look I wanted.

You just have to learn how to mix-and-match armors with Charr. Minor clipping issues don’t really bother me since every race has theirs. As far as looking good as a Charr, I can say mine look pretty sweet in their wardrobe/weapon mix.

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heres what i got
head- flame eye (starting ele head gear)
shoulders-acolyte shoulders (if i recall, I GOT A HOODIE =3)
body- t3 chest
pants- HotW light pants
gloves- winged gloves
boots- ascended boots (if i recall)

I think I made it work rather nicely.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Sartharina.3542:

Argon.1563:

Medium armor looks worse on Charr.

Which is really a shame, given the most iconic Charr class wears medium armor.

I was upset that I couldn’t make a good-looking Charr Engineer.

Mine is using temple karma armor, other than the tail clipping it’s pretty much perfect and exactly the kind of look I wanted.

I haaaaaaate how big they are! Make them smaller in select! Now!

Hi! I disagree if you’re creative you can make your char look amazing.
Here’s my Necro charr for example.

archon… all the way

It depends of tastes, the dyes and the form you combine them, but we have less options than other races:

In yet another a thread about how horrible the clipping and stretching is on Charr armour, you should not be posting images hiding the clipping/stretching, and saying that there is no problem, or posting clipping/stretching and saying you don’t mind. Complacency like that is doing the opposite of helping.

Yes there are some armours that don’t clip/stretch that much, or are more bearable. But that’s only because we have so few options in the first place, and those few options are generally just “it clips/stretches less”. It’s still horrible, and there is no reason to defend Anet’s apathy on the topic even though this thread has been done 9000 times before.

I find that with light armour I have a reasonable choice in chest pieces, and that’s about it. Headpieces are usually okay but if you want to keep your horns / mane there’s only a handful that aren’t ridiculous masks or tiaras. Shoulders float on some skins but there are plenty of good mantles.

It’s gloves, leggings and boots where you have claws and tails poking through fabric in unnatural ways. Very very few options for those aside from the cultural sets. Medium armour is even worse.

The only light armour I’ve found to look good on my charr is the T2 Cultural.
But I do agree with the fact that most sets look pretty bad on them and I wish they would get fixed. This issue pretty much kept me from making more of my toons charrs. Since I just couldn’t find much that looked nice on them.

I dunno, as a D/D ele i think my light setup is pretty decent

Mishmash of T2, Exo set, and T3

I’ve found a variety of looks for light armor charr that I like.
These are some of the more current ones.

This is not my usual colour palette, as I am already in my festive Halloween colours… even though I’m a bit early on that.

I have my mesmer on a “charming” themed outfit.After all, mesmer is all about playing with the mind.

I think the Cultural and CoF Heavy armors look very nice on a Charr. I only have a Charr Warrior though, so I can’t comment on other professions.

My own Light armor Charr looks.

Mixing and matching is seemingly the best option we have, as more often than not, whole sets look rather ridiculous.

It feels so much easier to put together a look for heavy and to a lesser extent, medium.