Sometimes people demand big things thinking those things are deserved, sometimes people ask for big things thinking those things are small. Sometimes people ask for small things when in fact the things they ask for are, well, small.
Yet this is not an excerpt from Great Expectations. This is a tale of frocks, pants and a medium more tedious then washing powder adverts.
There is seldom much creativity seen with general leggery. As a swath of gem store items will denote, the creative potential of helms, gloves, boots and back pieces greatly outweighs what one can achieve with chest pieces and leg wrappings. Gloves stick out, helms denote the intent of the user and shoulder pieces often consist of exotic (dolyak skull) ornamentation glued to the upper segment of the shoulder blades.
The smaller pieces of armor thus allow an extreme level of customization which chest and leg pieces seldom match. Near all female chest pieces offer little more variety then the amount (and selection) of chest which is showing – or in the case of the Zodiac armors’ percentages, the UNIVERSE!
Legs are possibly the worst of the lot. Past the heritage armors, the only notable variation in heavy legs pieces seems to be the size and shape of the loin cloth (both genders) in front of the heavy plate. Light armor leggings seem to unilaterally consist of baggy pants surrounded by a dress – with varying amounts of pant and dress lopped off per item.
And this is where the sadness enters my tale. While it can be disheartening sifting through the heaps of drab leggings left discarded in yonder wardrobes, it is truly unfortunate when a spectacular piece is lain low by pure silliness.
I talk of the Norn tier 3 light cultural leggings, the lupine leggings. What are these lupine leggings you may ask? Well, I might say, they are a kilt with crytally bits left dangling on threads.
Imagine that? Something creative done with a dress, no less. Doing something besides trimming the frock to bear serrated edges – actual Mystical Devices “TM” have been ornately strung from yonder pants.
The look is actually impactful, highly ceremonial, and given the textural detail of a tier 3 cultural armor. And then having gathered the… generous… amount of gold required to buy these lupine leggings, I encountered a snag. The crystals of the lupine leggings are not colour customizable.
This is quite odd. Obviously special effects are not something that should be customizable on armor pieces. The crystals of the lupine do not have any special effects however, they are just a very striking hue of blue. And so, the leggings which are potentially the most striking man-dress in game, are only applicable if you can colour co-ordinate your entire character to a fixed hue of blue – the likes of which I haven’t seen outside of limited time dye packs.
Why are these crystals not dyable in the dye section? Why is a forth trim colour not added to replace the swath of blue with the swath of colour of your choice? Why are these epic manly dresses not made applicable to men of all stylish preferences?
We may never know.
All I know is that my necromatic norn, with his glowing green eyes, spare mantle adorned green eyes and glowing green snake regurgitating knife thing if left with un-greenable crystals strung to his leggings. This brings my necromatic norn to tears – big, husky man tears.
- sad face