Guild Wars 2

The norn Males need a little bit of a change. All I could suggest is making them a little thin width-wise. They seem a little bit too awkward at the moment – the ranger sword attack animation is terrible – and all long hair clips through cultural armors (making them somewhat redundant in my mind).

Also – the width at which they keep their legs is a little awkward too. There is something particularly wrong about Male Norns in Medium Armor – it just doesn’t look right usually.

One of the issues i have with norn already is that, aesthetically, they are basically tall humans, in contrast to asura, charr and sylvari, which are explicitly non-human. Fixing clipping issues is always good, but trying to make them thinner only makes them even less unique and more like humans with a different name.

You can get close to huamn proportions with the thinnest body and the biggest widest head. But as TJV said, i wouldn’t like it if that was the only option for Norn. They are savage drunk tribal GIANTS!

My only problem with male norn is their awkward running animation. I think it’s the way the shoulders hunch mostly. Otherwise I like their look. My two norn are female largely because of this.

I chose Norn because I wanted to play a nine foot tall Nordic juggernaut of death, not because I wanted a oversize human.

If anything, they should make the Nord models even LESS human, not more.

They need to be even BIGGER!

Bluestone.7106:

They need to be even BIGGER!

Sadly, they were. Got nerfed in the last BWE. Plenty of people complained, but I guess it wasn’t enough. For some bizarre reason, there were people that wanted them smaller.

I want Small giants! Miniscule even. No larger than my thumb!

Fee fi fee fim, I smell the breadcrumbs of an englishman!

The long hair clipping with cultural armor is just ridiculous. Even with a hood, the hood clips through the tier 1 light shoulders. It’s so annoying!

Yes, norn males are the worst bodies in the game at the moment I think. Conceptually, graphically, lore-wise, you name it, they just don’t feel right to me. But of course it’s highly subjective.

KrakenAZ.9367:

Bluestone.7106:

They need to be even BIGGER!

Sadly, they were. Got nerfed in the last BWE. Plenty of people complained, but I guess it wasn’t enough. For some bizarre reason, there were people that wanted them smaller.

could be because they were taking up all the screenspace, they’re still an issue imo; especially as most norn are guardians/warriors meaning they prefer meleeing in dungeons and making it hard to see wind up animations… and JPs… dont forget the JPs XD

xman.4576:

I chose Norn because I wanted to play a nine foot tall Nordic juggernaut of death, not because I wanted a oversize human.

If anything, they should make the Nord models even LESS human, not more.

though i agree with this; if you want a char with human proportions; play a human, norn arent human thus (imo) they shouldnt have similar proportions/animations

What exactly is wrong with Norn? Nothing!

You just can’t live with such an epic character. They are Like Space Marines-do not treat them as mere humans. Perhaps Kurgans or Barsonlings would be better example(War Fantasy). Anyhow…

I love all Norn. And all things Norn! Asura and human are fine. Charr are despicable cannon fodder. Sylvari are just too dam alien! Hell Tyrannids are less alien kitten

It seems I have changed tho. Few years ago I would flock to Asuran way of thinking ASAP. But, somehow, I ended up LOVING Norns. A different way…

As long as you don’t pick the ridiculous Hulk-like bodytype (which makes all armour look horrible by default), I’d say Norns are right where they should be. You just need to frame their heads with hair and beard because their heads are totally round which looks rather silly.

No, it makes it look awesome!

My big huge mc large Ranger looks just rad. As does my Warrior.

However, this is foolish. Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder-as they say. Nothing more, nothing less…

Gorwe.9672:

No, it makes it look awesome!

My big huge mc large Ranger looks just rad. As does my Warrior.

However, this is foolish. Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder-as they say. Nothing more, nothing less…

Being appropriate to their own lore has nothing to do with it being in the ‘eye of the beholder I don’t think’.

i think the movement must be changed, i veel everything but kitten when running as a norn, i feel more like a clown tbh…..