Guild Wars 2

So a brief explanation, I have created about a dozen male Norn characters because they (in my opinion) have the best cultural armor for medium and heavy skins. I particularly like the Norn medium armor skins for tier 3 and would love to have those skins on my human thief. The problem is that the Norn animations just do not appeal to me. The GS low carry is cool, but the male Norn run animation feels so slow compared to other races that it makes me want to cry.

I would be happy to purchase this armor via the gem store. I think another good route would be to create a high level cultural quest so that my human has to complete a Norn specific quest in order to gain access to purchase the Norn cultural armor.

I don’t believe that this would be very difficult to implement since there are essentially cross-race armors for every other armor set in the game including the story based factions armor. Also, if Anet decided to go with a quest based option it would satisfy lore concerns. I can buy cultural weapons after all!

tl;dr, please god let me get Norn cultural armor on my human, I’m willing to work for it!

Welcome to the club of humans who want the norn racial “cape-like” armor, but don’t want to make a Norn because they all seem to have a bad issue to their left shoulder that makes them look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

No way, keep your grubby Human mitts off my Cultural.

CULTURAL

Can’t you transmute it from Norn to whoever using a white item as a go-between? I think a guildy said this is possible.

Could be wrong

The racial gear is bought soulbound, and transmuted items are soulbound. Therefore, it is not possible. Also, I’m afraid the racial gear has no models for other races than the one they are made for, so even if you’d manage to equip a piece of another race’s armor, it’d only result in a glitch. And creating these models takes time, especially if the design is complex as most racial armors are (perhaps just because they don’t have to fit other races, less attention must be spent for having the armor fit different body shapes, leaving artistic freedom). It’d be no small effort to recreate the racial armors (three armor classes, on three tiers, four races without those particular three sets, two genders for each, save for Charr. That’s 63-72 sets of armor that would need to be fitted and tested, on all the body types available for all the races) for the rest of the races.

EDIT: Fixed my calculation to include the different tiers of racial armor.

There is a bug with transmuted gear that effectively removes the soul-bound property, allowing it to be given to your other toons. People were/are using them to get armors from factions they don’t belong to. They can use this with cultural armors too but there isn’t anything programmed in, so it doesn’t load on other toons of different races.
Edit: It used to result in toons being completely naked, but that was fixed.

Tuomir.1830:

The racial gear is bought soulbound, and transmuted items are soulbound. Therefore, it is not possible. Also, I’m afraid the racial gear has no models for other races than the one they are made for, so even if you’d manage to equip a piece of another race’s armor, it’d only result in a glitch. And creating these models takes time, especially if the design is complex as most racial armors are (perhaps just because they don’t have to fit other races, less attention must be spent for having the armor fit different body shapes, leaving artistic freedom). It’d be no small effort to recreate the racial armors (three armor classes, on three tiers, four races without those particular three sets, two genders for each, save for Charr. That’s 63-72 sets of armor that would need to be fitted and tested, on all the body types available for all the races) for the rest of the races.

EDIT: Fixed my calculation to include the different tiers of racial armor.

Tuomir.1830:

The racial gear is bought soulbound, and transmuted items are soulbound. Therefore, it is not possible. Also, I’m afraid the racial gear has no models for other races than the one they are made for, so even if you’d manage to equip a piece of another race’s armor, it’d only result in a glitch. And creating these models takes time, especially if the design is complex as most racial armors are (perhaps just because they don’t have to fit other races, less attention must be spent for having the armor fit different body shapes, leaving artistic freedom). It’d be no small effort to recreate the racial armors (three armor classes, on three tiers, four races without those particular three sets, two genders for each, save for Charr. That’s 63-72 sets of armor that would need to be fitted and tested, on all the body types available for all the races) for the rest of the races.

EDIT: Fixed my calculation to include the different tiers of racial armor.

I know that this seems like a lot; however, consider all of the armor bought with tokens that is available for all races and armor types light/medium/heavy. Also, cultural armor isn’t any more complex than CoF or Orrian armors.

Oglaf.1074:

No way, keep your grubby Human mitts off my Cultural.

CULTURAL

because no one ever visits other cultures and adopts their styles ever! ;P

I would love to see cultural armour being wearable for anyone like the cultural weapons though would say that to do so you’d have to pay a bit more (or the race who’s armour it is pays less for their cultures clothing)

that said with transmute stones allowing for some freedom doubt a cost difference would ever really work.