Hey there ArenaNet,
so far the game is pretty good and your living world updates are awesome even though the temporary available rewards such as skins or achievements are a bad thing for returning players who would love to get them, but can’t anymore.
However, this game is now almost one year old and the Charr are still the least popular race despite their absolutely amazing storyline, humourous and likeable, charming characters (remember Tybalt?). I think one of the main reasons for the Charrs’ lack of popularity is how (terrible) almost any piece of armor looks on them. They still have billions of clipping issues with almost every piece of armor in the game and there is hardly any helmet that actually looks satisfying on a Charr. They look like somebody was lazy and slapped human armor on a Charr model and didn’t bother that it looks distorted and ridiculous at all. I can imagine you had other priorities at launch but the game’s now almost one year old and even the new armor you added to the gemstore does not look good on a Charr. Think Braham’s armor. The most significant part of it are the horns on the helmet. It looks just so good on an Asura but on a Charr it looks like somebody put a cleaning rag on their head that happens to have some tiny horns attached to it and that look even worse than the original Charr horns, that meanwhile somehow managed to turn invisible all of a sudden. And, as every Charr leg armor piece that conceals the legs, it has horrible clipping issues with the tail and partially with boots, which is very very unfortunate since players are spending most of the time watching their character from 3rd person view behind them. This is just so sad!
You also released Achievement reward skins, but the helmets look absolutely ridiculous on a Charr. You can barely see the molten helmet thing on the charracter you’re playing. This is very sad especially since the reward is quite hard to get and it only looks good on the other races.
There was some interview with the developers at launch where they stated the’re disappointed with the lack of popularity of the Charr and that most people roll humans. Well, the reason for this might be that humans look good in every armor set, whereas Charr even look bad in their very own cultural armor.
Can Charr players expect some love and polishing of the armor skins anytime soon, so that they finally start looking good on a Charr, too? Yes, I know that is not going to be easy but since your game and endgame is about looks, as you mentioned multiple times during interviews, Charr get the short end of the stick unless you re-adjust or re-design the armor pieces specifically for them so that they can finally get rid of clipping issues (leg, boot, hood/head armor) and they finally get some armor that doesn’t look like somebody forced them into a distorted human armor.
I know this is not your top priority, but still. A lot of players and of course an entire race would appreciate it. Even Grumpy Charr ;-)
Sincerely yours,
a sad Charr.
(edited by shedim.8504)