Guild Wars 2

Now I’m not talking about Cultural armor, although it is related.

Lets say you have 3 warriors, a Char, Asura, and Sylvari. All are lvl 35 and have full set of Scale armor. I find it strange that they all look exactly the same.
What I am proposing is that each set of armor will look different on each race. (as the devs groan) Why would Char Scale armor look the same as a Sylvari’s?

Picture this:

Char Scale is very rough, imagine taking scraps and pounding them together to make a Scale maille suit.
But a Sylvari Scale armor set will look almost leaf like in the scale plates,
And an Asure would be squares.

This would apply to all armor types.

Now I know this would be a minor nightmare for the devs, having to model different armor for each race but I think it would add a lot more depth to character creation and give the world a more realistic feel. You cant tell me a Char would wear the same style of clothing/armor as a Sylvari!

The problem with this is people wanting EXACTLY what that guy is wearing and cannot get it due to their race.

The worst part is that what you ask for is already in the game, at least in the case of sylvari. Several generic sylvari NPCs have custom armour that looks quite unique (and is probably a leftover from their original concept, before the more-plant-like idea took root)

The cultural armor is pretty useless who in their right mind would spend all that money for armor when exotic is cheaper. They need to upgrade it to ascended.

Absolutely, look at the Cook’s Outfit for all the races in the gem store. A perfect example of a common theme done right.

Currently all non-cultural armour sets are copy-paste warped-to-fit version of human armour. It is not necessary to go as flat out brilliant as with the Cook’s Outfit, but little tweaks to each set that at least make them properly fit each race would be an incredibly welcome use of artist time.

Please consider this ANet, with such beautiful scenery and a strong emphasis on visual character progression it is bogglingly inconsistent to leave 66% of the playerbase with extremely unpleasant half-baked armour sets.

We are more than happy to wait much longer for new sets if even half the time and care involved in the creation of the Cook’s Outfit is put into them.

Both Raseloc and Henge got a Point here! Both are right! The race thing would be cool. But it would also be nice to have for example a syrlvari made armour forr charr… especially fitted for charr (also that one unique) as the races might be interested in “other styles” than their own.

I would really like to see more “non human-based” armor sets. There are only 4 leafy armors in the game for any Sylvari character to obtain. There are only 4 “Norn-based” armor sets in the game for any particular Norn to use. IIRC it’s the same for Charr and Asura. But for humans…. there are countless armors. All the crafted armor is blatantly human-based.

It would be nice to see the armors in GW2 being more like the armors from GW1- But in GW1 there were no other races other than human- but the general idea of the armor was: Necro armor looked undead, fishnet stockings, skulls, spikes; while Elementalist armor was silks, jewels flowy things- It would be nice for more ‘racial’ like armors – charr having scrappy but still cool looking armors, sylvari; like you said. +1

And what about all the current armors? If they change all the armors we have now it will be a nightmare. People who like their armor will have their look stricken from them. Therefore I say no.

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And what about all the current armors? If they change all the armors we have now it will be a nightmare. People who like their armor will have their look stricken from them. Therefore I say no.

They don’t have to change the sets completely, simply edit them to actually fit races other than human. There are a great deal of dire clipping/stretching/squashing/floating issues with the armour in the game due to sets only being built for humans, then stretched to fit the other races.

Charr for example, being the least human-like race, are almost entirely limited to using Cultural armour because almost every other set looks so downright hideous. Not because almost no set makes sense on the race, but because all the armour is so blatantly warped.

It is all very unfortunate, being that it’s something ANet have proven they actually have the expertise to do right, if given the time.

It could be a good way for the devs to add several new Armors easily (well at least compared to from scratch). It would be nice to see sylvari and asuran takes on scale Armor. Just add the race name into the title.