I love playing as Humans. The thing that would make my day is to see GW1 style customization options for the face, eyes, hair, hair color, skin color and body/face shapes added. I’d pay for them. Real money. No question, no doubt.
In GW1 one of the interesting things about its Humans is that, well, some of them looked like you’d expect Humans to look, but others did not. Humans of classes associated with certain Gods often seemed, “corrupted” or, “influenced” by the power of their God. I’ll give some examples:
1. GW1 hair styles. The GW1 Humans had some great, terrible and ‘unique’ hair styles. I’d love to see updated GW2 versions of these from all three GW1 Human races. I’d love to see those weird hair ornaments and tied up, and braided and Tyrian Gods know what styles. The really strange hair colors they could have are another thing I’d like to see make a come back. Particularly the the Necromancer, Dervish and Elementalist hair colors and styles.
2. Necromancers and Ritualists often had these weird fingers that ended in points like claws. It was a strange touch, but it was also nice variety. Being able to pay to add this customization to the list of body options would be nice.
3. Necromancers, particularly the males for some reason, had a hunched animation, but both male and females had strange skin color options. Especially the males. Then ashen gray variants of dark skin tones, these near ghostly white skin tones and the strange decaying look the male skin could have. This would be a nice ‘option’ to pay for, and add. This is what the cash shop is for, no?
Not only Necromancers had this, just look at the elementalists. The palest skin tone option in GW1 is this near luminescent white skin tone, that makes the Elementalist look almost airy. Strange and unique things influenced by either your class or your faith or something, I don’t know what was supposed to cause it – but it was neat.
4. Eyes. I don’t know why, I always associated it with their gods but Necromancers, Elementalists, Dervishes and a few other classes could often have their strange eyes. Not just strange colors, but strange pupil and irish shapes, even the sclera could be a strange color. This is yet another customization option from GW1 I’d pay to have back in GW2.
5. Scar Patterns, Facial Scar Patterns, Body Paint, Face/Head Tattoos and more are all things Humans in GW1 had. From monks to necromancers to ritualists and more. Seeing these sorts of customization options make a come back in the gemstore, that I could buy to have back again in GW2, would be lovely. And I would pay.
To me this is one of the promises of the gem store. Paying for more customization. Supporting your product at my leisure, but supporting it. And, I think you already know, in order to put my money toward your game, I need to have things to buy. We all need things to buy. Customization options, for me, are the primary thing I look to buy in the gem store, and GW1’s customization options are some of my favorites from any online RPG I’ve come across. It just had really neat visuals it presented, from hair styles, strange color decisions, neat ornaments, scar patterns, tattoos, strange inhuman eyes and more.
Things I want to pay for, but can’t, because they just aren’t there. You haven’t presented nearly enough in the range of new character customization options. Please A.net, can we have some more? In the gem shop? Where we can pay you for your work?
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I’m talking a lot about Humans, but near every race can be classes associated with these corruptions and strange visual elements. They may not come from the Human Gods, if they’re non-Humans, but seeing extra customization options for sale, all around, is something I’d like to think everyone, regardless of the race they play, would want coming their way. I play Humans. I’m coming from that perspective, but know there are people out there that want more for the other races too, to buy from the gem store.
