Guild Wars 2

I’m specifically talking about the witch town clothing. I was SO excited that my little Asura girl could finally get an armor set that looks the same on other female characters. None of this sharing skins with the boys anymore! But alas, my joy wasn’t there for long after I read it wasn’t an armor skin but towns cloths. Don’t get me wrong, I love the item! I think it would be a great idea to come out with more feminine armor skins that look the same on ALL female races.

Asura are androgynous. They aren’t designed to be gender-distinguishable at a range, as the only difference in their bodies IS the face. Even their society is uni-sex when you look at it. You don’t see any sign of their culture where men/women have any advantage over each other – including the outfits.

LoreChief.8391:

Asura are androgynous. They aren’t designed to be gender-distinguishable at a range, as the only difference in their bodies IS the face. Even their society is uni-sex when you look at it. You don’t see any sign of their culture where men/women have any advantage over each other – including the outfits.

I’m aware and that’s fine. I’m not saying to redo all of the skins. Just putting forth the suggestion that more feminine armor skins that you can buy with gems would be a good idea.

Honestly I think the armor is mostly gender neutral looking. (excluding barbarian type stuff). Oddly, it might just be your perception that says ‘boy armor on girl’ rather then ‘girl armor on boy’.

man if youre finding grief about none feminim armors im going to complain about dye. theres no way to pull off looking manly with a coral and pink armor. no one wants to look dainty and pretty on the battlefield. they want to look like a kitten. and some fruity flower get up isnt going to do that. on the other hand you play the game too and it is what you seem to want. im just saying if you get your way i want my way too. i want an armor so spikey and impractical with a sword so large it will destroy you all.

I can never tell the diference between male and female asuras untill I hear the voices. If you wanted armor that makes your character look female you should have rolled a diffrent race.

Agreed. i haven’t really seen NPC asuras look “girly” either. Their society doesn’t seem to be based on that. It seems to be based on achievement, not gender. And they don’t seem to have strong preferences on how genders should look. Their society seems very androgynous. And seem to respect brains over “sexy” (or even “cute” or “super manly”) looks as a culture.

As RoflandRoll said, if you wanted to play a race with more traditional gender-rolls you shouldn’t have picked Asura >.<

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that said. i do wish the Halloween clothes being sold in the cash shop were skins for armour vs town clothes. but that’s a separate issue.

All of you are missing what I’m saying. They can continue to come out with armor just fine. I’m not saying give me or anyone special treatment. I’m just saying that making the Witch skin look the same on Asura females (as it does on humans) was a very nice change of pace. If they continued doing that (provided it isn’t something sexy) I’m sure a lot of people would be happy. I’m not complaining, I’m just saying that continuing to do that for future gem store skins would be nice.