Guild Wars 2

Anyone who has seen my name in these forums knows I have a lot of complaints about armor designs. Since I still believe that looking pretty is the only “endgame” in GW2, I feel it is totally warranted. That aside, I have a specific one at this time.

Norn Tier 2 heavy armor on females. Just one piece is wrong, the shoulder. The entire rest of the set is 100% symmetrical, just for some reason the shoulder was randomly made asymmetric. While I don’t mind asymmetry as such, I have a rather simple test for whether I feel it is warranted when making a costume like these, “Does symmetry look out of place, or just bad on this as a whole.”
I feel if asymmetry is going to be anywhere in the outfit, it needs to be built with that very specifically in mind from the ground up, and not thrown in rather randomly to an otherwise perfectly symmetric set. So I am pointing out this one, and asking that another shoulder piece option be added to that vendor as an option for myself and others like me (many of whom tell me in game they avoid these forums like plague) who like symmetry where it belong, and asymmetry where it belongs.

Sorry in advance for the bad cut/paste work with mspaint

Dont want be negative but you wont probably succes. As its issue probably for minority of people. Personally i also like symmetric armor, even sometimes isnt so bad if its asymmetric (sylvari cultural T3 heavy armor). The only real suggestion is try search for another shoulders with similar design. This lead to other problem i would like to point out (sorry for using your topic :P ).
When you use different armors even with the same dye, the color looks often totally different (mostly during night).

Andiela.3759:

Dont want be negative but you wont probably succes. As its issue probably for minority of people. Personally i also like symmetric armor, even sometimes isnt so bad if its asymmetric (sylvari cultural T3 heavy armor). The only real suggestion is try search for another shoulders with similar design. This lead to other problem i would like to point out (sorry for using your topic :P ).
When you use different armors even with the same dye, the color looks often totally different (mostly during night).

Weird differences in dye channels are one of my many, many gripes about what I feel is supposed to be my endgame…Looking good.
Trying other shoulder armors is what I do now, I actually use the shoulders off the Norn tier 1 armor set, which clashes in style, and dyes differently from the t2 depicted above. Norn females are also at a severe handicap with shoulder armor because they use the same shoulder designs as Norn males, who are basically shaped like gorillas and have no real shoulder or neck… I’ll try to get some pictures together for this one.. it’s another thing I don’t believe a lot of people who don’t care about their armor’s looks really seem to get.
And I don’t know totally how they go about designing their armor mesh and skins, just that it’s really strange looking when I’ve seen people post detailed info about it… But in the cases of out of place asymmetry, I don’t understand why there would be a huge technical hurdle in mirroring the design on the other side of the character. I’ve meddled some in programming, and I know it isn’t mspaint copy/paste easy…but I don’t see how it would be so complicated that 1 guy couldn’t make a change like this in less than an hour.

I get they will not change the frame of the armor, these pictures were cobbled together a while back but here are some more (and sorry for repeat postings)

Also, to the one reply I have while making these posts, if “I don’t think they will make it happen” is the reason other people who agree stay quiet, consider this: after a whirlwind of complaints, Arenanet forced a change of a gem store armor skin (total redesign) against the will of those who bought it for sure. That’s the cash shop we are talking about here, and if they have no bones messing with stuff people pay real money for, they can’t seriously have a hangup about adding a different version of something that costs like 1g. Again, I don’t see how it could possibly be a huge technical hurdle.

Here’s one that perfectly demonstrates to my eyes what is going on, and I’ll let it lay here, but there are plenty more demonstration pics like these. Pay attention to how the shoulders hang on the 2 female models, and obviously the norn male vs the norn female… To the point of my original post and the reply, this is why it’s so hard to find shoulder skins, and while the norn t2 heavy shoulder certainly does suffer the same basic issue, I feel it is compounded into something I can’t stomach by the out of place asymmetry on the 1 piece.

If a mod can merge this with the bug report forum under the topic of character/armor art please, that would be appreciated and I apologize for posting in the wrong forum.