Guild Wars 2

I’ve been looking at the T3 medium cultural coat for my female Sylvari, but noticed in the preview is seems to have really bad clipping issues with, well… every weapon. Since it’s a whopping 30 g, I thought it best to ask first:

Does the coat, in actual practice, clip a lot with weapons (swords and bows especially) or is that just an error with the preview window?

Most Medium armor clips with weapons as a Sylvari, especially with males.
See this thread for details; https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/sylvari/Sylvari-skirts-bugged-need-fix-bad/first#post2108353

I’m well familiar with our scaling problems, but it’s not quite the same issue—the skirt’s width is actually fine (as is the way most cultural sits on Sylvari) but my weapons are sitting too close to my body and don’t seem to be scaling out to the coat (mostly the sword and, though you can’t see it, pistol), hence the clipping. Female Sylvari had a big issue with this until it got fixed in Feb, so I’m not sure if this is possibly still an issue with some coats or if it’s just an error of the preview window and it’ll look mostly fine in the actual game.

athuria.2751:

I’m well familiar with our scaling problems, but it’s not quite the same issue—the skirt’s width is actually fine (as is the way most cultural sits on Sylvari) but my weapons are sitting too close to my body and don’t seem to be scaling out to the coat (mostly the sword and, though you can’t see it, pistol), hence the clipping. Female Sylvari had a big issue with this until it got fixed in Feb, so I’m not sure if this is possibly still an issue with some coats or if it’s just an error of the preview window and it’ll look mostly fine in the actual game.

No, it is the problem. Switch your armor back and forth with something like AC body armor (one of the few that doesn’t change our shape) and you’ll notice the weapons moving. My T2 Coat does it and I never even noticed the change till I did that when looking for something new to wear.
Armor just changes shape strangely on us, even invisibly and pushes our weapons away from our body and through our hands/arms. It’s not just skirt stretching, it’s like it stretches/changes our mesh in general er something. This is on male though, either way our armor is kittened so hard and needs fixed badly when theses issues apply to nearly every armor piece.
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yeah, any armor with armorpieces that flow outward will likely clip with weapons. if you have the T3 medium shoulderpiece, that will clip too. it’s just a fact of life. you’ll grow to ignore it eventually. i have full T3 medium (but male) and it clips with a lot of weapons but i don’t let that stop me from wearing my favorite armor in the game

I just wish they’d make armor like GW1 that had no skirts so we can stop dealing with it. ;/