Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

As many players I am a fan of customizing my chars in unique way to reflect their roles and playstyle.

Unfortunately, I note that many skins repeat each other (like for example Stalwart, Commando, Pirate are very much similar and in fact they could be combined into one), do not bear any special meaning (like Prowler armor) or simply look awkward (Emblazoned, Arah or Sorrow’s Embrace). To see my point you can browse GW2 armor galleries.

I know that we are all human beings and everyone has own taste, opinions above are my personal ones but I would not start this topic unless I heard from others, that many skins are very,very odd looking like “There are plenty of monstrosity sword skins but only one rapier skin”. I spent hours searching for pistol skins and saw dozens of really absurd skins while I was looking for a classic wheelock pistol. Is not that wrong? I do not mind that legendary pistol looks more like a vaporizer for ironing not like a real gun but I would really like to see more realistic designs.

Also, I have a strong feeling that designers of skins are big fans of medieval Asian armor styles – terracotta warriors, samurais ets. Which is fine but there are plenty of other styles that are currently being overlooked. I’ll throw a few proposals, hope this helps to understand my point:

- more profession taylored sets, like sets tailored for bombers or tankers or fire mages.
- more attention to different designs that had historical background like Teuton knights or mousquetaires not just to amount of barbs, furs and length of mantles. I like furs and barbs but there is too much of attention to dozens of spikes and no a single classic set of shining glorious plate armor.

Ideas of aetherized armor very really cool, and I bought one for my engineer but the latest flaming ones are only appealing because of flaming animations. The design was mostly copied. It has place to be in this game but it does not deserve 800 crystals.

Also, I would really love to see some options to reflect the age of the character. All of them are young boys and girls but I cannot imagine a young necro.

Just my personal opinion.