Guild Wars 2

Why are there only 9 choices? I have seen plenty of people in game with hair styles I can’t pick. Reserving a few for the restyle kit is annoying but understandable from a business standpoint, but having less that 1/2 the available looks of some other races at character creation is not. There are 18 choices in the restyle kit only, so twice as many options for Asura in post than at creation (similarly for the charr). I CAN’T come up with an Asura I like the look of to start with because none of the available hairstyles work for me, and I can’t tell if I will be able to come up with a look later, assuming I get a makeover kit, since I can’t even see the styles that are available later.

In contrast, Humans have 17 creation hairstyles and 18 post hairstyles.
Norn have 20 creation and 18 post, the most of any race.
Sylvari have 10 creation and 19 post, which is also not great but at least include a better variety of non-specialized hairstyles in the initial set.
Even Charr have 9 creation and 18 post, and similarly lack good creation hairstyles.

I’m trying to find a reason to disagree with you OP- like “Well, Asura have XYZ and other races don’t”. But yes, I agree with you- there should’ve been more asura hairstyles from the start.

But I think that ship has already sailed. I don’t see how they could add hairstyles to standard asura character creation without having to do something to the other races too. And besides, any cosmetic addition they add… they can earn a mint off of it, so it’s unlikely they’ll do it for free.

I’ve found that I can get a good variety of “unique” looks across my asura by being smart with the face sliders. There are a few faces which I would never consider because how scary/weird looking they are, but you can change their expression a huge amount by playing with the sliders. And the other option is to use headgear to obscure or hide their face/hair.

Other than that, you can preview the makeover kit selection at Aestheticians in-game: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aesthetician_
This way you can play around and decide whether you want to purchase a makeover kit or not.

Helmets

About 60 Armor sets with helmets,
then 21 standalone
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_standalone_armor<<<<;
and then about 40 outfits

“Hairstyles” are an absolute minority in “head dresses”, the designs added by the kit just makes them a little less insignificant compared to the helmets

Not only that, but 92.89% of the female hairstyles are up-dos. I’d love to have longer hair selections.

Boogiepop Void.6473:

Why are there only 9 choices? I have seen plenty of people in game with hair styles I can’t pick. Reserving a few for the restyle kit is annoying but understandable from a business standpoint, but having less that 1/2 the available looks of some other races at character creation is not. There are 18 choices in the restyle kit only, so twice as many options for Asura in post than at creation (similarly for the charr).

Given that most of the artwork for the Asura show them as bald, I assume that it was difficult for the devs to come up with multiple ways to be bald. If they could, I’m sure we’d have a lot more bald options.

Boogiepop Void.6473:

I CAN’T come up with an Asura I like the look of to start with because none of the available hairstyles work for me, and I can’t tell if I will be able to come up with a look later, assuming I get a makeover kit, since I can’t even see the styles that are available later.

Have you considered hats/helmets/etc? Cover up that pate!

Boogiepop Void.6473:

In contrast, … Even Charr have 9 creation and 18 post, and similarly lack good creation hairstyles.

The sad thing about this is that it seems that nearly every Charr player using a makeover/hairstyle kit chooses super-sayan. Does that mean that in effect there’s only 1 post instead of 18? (j/k)

~EW