Guild Wars 2

Sooo the start of Guild Wars 2 I created a Sylvari, I liked them a lot and story wise they seemed a lot more interesting than humans (Since I played Guild Wars 1). But the one thing I cant stand about the Sylvari is the customization. For some reason I cant stick with a theme, or even remotely find something thats great or outstanding look wise. To me customizing a Sylvari is hard, because I not only have to worry about my hair and color, but also my skin seeing as all the Sylvari armor pick up on your skin tone. All in all, we could really use some more customization (Especially hair!).

Well, i actually would like to have more character costumization, though i can’t agree when u say it doesn’t let you create an oustanding character…

• First of all, no character in any MMO is outstanding by itself so the ratings of awesomness upon entering the world with a brand new character are…low?! What may eventually make your character outstanding at some point is the combination between what you’v created and the armor you wear upon it, and well, actually if u combine the several armors available throughout gw2, u may get an oustanding, or at least really nice look…
• My second thought on this matter is as simple as this question “What races do you think, upon character creation, can guarantee you an awesome/outstanding character?”

So this is what i didn’t agree with, on all u talked about…Now the cultural armor colour beeing similar to your skin colour…I kinda understand what Anet tried to do, they wanted the build an armor that was more than an armor (and since they had that opportunity, why not?)…they clearly wanted to design cultural armor, to be more of an extention of one’s body, then a layover. Therefore the colour is similar to the skin colour…Sometimes this is not so pleasent, for some ppl don’t want this “body extention” effect to happen at all, and actually there should be an option to change this colour, on that i agree with you…

About the character costumization and new hairstyles, there’s a quite long thread about this issue, where Kristen Perry has given us the pleasure of some answers and possible tips for the future, check it in here

And that’s it…enjoy your sylvari, and lets hope we get more character costumization soon

I actually disagree with your first statement. Any character in a MMO can be outstanding, it all depends on personal preference. For instance, if I made a blonde human and every single armor I had matched with his/her appearance then that would be the idea of outstanding. However it seems in GW2 armor types are only fitted towards humans, for instance Medium Armor users for the Sylvari end up looking clunky and odd as the armor outfit looks wider on the Sylvari because its meant to be worn by a human.

What races do I believe have outstanding looks and creation? Easy, humans and female Norn. The reason for this is because they all have a wide variety of hair styles and faces to choose from.

Now I am not saying the Sylvari are ugly xD. My main is a Sylvari. All I was pointing out is that it seems to be difficult for me to get a certain look right. Like lets say if I wanted to go fall colors right? Well thats easy, just make my skin a tannish brown color and find a good hair color like orange or red to match it. Well no, that doesn’t work out right. As even the hair will pull off the brown from my skin and never actually keep the orange color that I wanted for the hair. Also various areas on the face will still be a bright green, rather than staying the rest of the skin color.

I agree with you on your last point however. And I have looked over that thread and I hope that they listen to the cry of longer hairstyles for both males and females. :O

“it all depends on personal preference” that sums it all, no need to go over this issue…in my opinion a character rarelly looks outstanding when he’s just “born” into the world

Although i agree we need more character costumization…as they added glow colours, ear options they cut on the hairstyles…it’s such a pitty cos there’s so much pottential on sylvari for some nice hairstyles…i came up with some sketches on the thread i linked, and i made some more meanwhile, i’ll upload them soon

vgomes.7380:

• First of all, no character in any MMO is outstanding by itself so the ratings of awesomness upon entering the world with a brand new character are…low?! What may eventually make your character outstanding at some point is the combination between what you’v created and the armor you wear upon it, and well, actually if u combine the several armors available throughout gw2, u may get an oustanding, or at least really nice look…

you never played perfect world, no?
well, i think, we could use alot more faces and hairstyles for some races here in gw2

MidnightX.6294:

you never played perfect world, no?
well, i think, we could use alot more faces and hairstyles for some races here in gw2

I actually did, and i thought of it as i was writting that reply, and honestly?? doesn’t apply for i never really liked much PW char creation… as wide as they show their char creation to be, it’s as limited as many other games i’v played…Honestly of all i’v played until today there was only one game that actually had a great character creation (ofc taken PW and many other games by base) and it was Aion… Not saying PW char creation was bad, although it never really caught my eye, as many other games didn’t… Gw2 char creation has potential, but as i said and made clear on my previous replies, we would need more character costumization options, overall…And honestly in a game like GW2 where Anet promises us a unique experience as player and hero into the world, appearance matters should be considered as part of this unique experience…

But well i believe Anet has in mind some kind of enhancement of the character creation, afterall this is not the first, nor last time ppl will be talking about it and asking for more!

vgomes.7380:

...in my opinion a character rarely looks outstanding when he’s just "born" into the world

Naked, covered in blood n’ ick, screaming and crying, and depending on the goodwill of others.

Yes, I’ll take falling on my head off the Pale Tree any day. Sure I was naked and depending on the goodwill of others, but I got to skip the rest since I knocked myself out cold when I hit the ground.