Guild Wars 2

I saw the new “Crystal Nomad Outfit” in the outfit previews today, and I decided to look it up to see if it looked different on other races and genders.

Dulfy link: http://dulfy.net/2015/02/25/gw2-upcoming-gemstore-items-from-feb-24-patch/

Look at the first lady shown wearing the outfit. I think its a norn female. Why is the norn female one prettier than everybody else’s?

Its got that nice asymmetrical dress bit on the bottom, its got a clean, uncluttered torso area, and on the right leg, where the draping cloth doesn’t covered, its got a nice set of cloth tassels that hang on that side to balance it out, yet ArenaNet made a different version for everybody else?

If the norn female’s variation was copied for everyone, or even just other females from different races, I could buy it, it looks like an outfit that could feasibly be used in battle, while looking good, but everybody else gets a cumbersome skirt, with a chest area cluttered by glass bottles.

ArenaNet could even publish them as two different outfits. More revenue for them, more outfits for us. Everybody would be happy, rich, and good looking.
“Crystal Nomad Outfit – Glass bottle battle skirt edition”
“Crystal Nomad Outfit – Pretty one-side skirt with fancy tassels edition”

I want the norn female’s version for my female Charr Revenant when she arrives in Heart of Thorns. If we could get that, I would totally buy it. Give the male Charr the current one if you want, but please make the female Charr’s one the same design as the female Norn’s.

Considering its not out yet, I won’t freak out too much, in the hope that the Charr female’s being the same as the male is just a placeholder thing while they develop it, because normally, when an outfit in non-unisex, the female Charr get the female version, the same as all other races. Make me proud (and fabulous) ArenaNet, and ill pay your coffee bill for a week using my gem money for that outfit.

I decided to test that comment about “normally.” I have a female charr and I have all the outfits except Crystal Desert as it’s not out yet.

Executioner — unisex
Shadow Assassin — male
Noble Count — male
Witch’s — female
Imperial — female
Arctic Explorer — male
Ancestral — female
Raiment of the Lich — male
Mad King’s — male
Arcane — unisex
Jungle Explorer – male
Cooks — unisex? (I have no male charr to compare and this outfit alters with race)
Ceremonial Plated — male
Bloody Prince — male
Pirate Captain — male
Hexed — female
Fancy Winter — female

So that is 3 unisex, 9 male, and 5 female implementations of outfits on female charrs.

For further discussion you may want to refer to those threads discussing why charr and asura don’t wear boob-window frilly things as a rule.

The human female and sylvari female will also have the female norn version. That’s the way it’s always been with most outfits. This is one of the few outfits where a female version for asura and charr would work though because it isn’t sexualized in any way. Such a shame.

I understand the purpose behind not giving them certain outfits like the female Noble Count outfit, because it has loads of boob exposure, but the Crystal Nomad outfit in no way, shape or form can be seen as “sexy”, it can almost be seen as the opposite.

Neither of the variations of the outfits have any gender defining features, at all, so why even bother giving this outfit gender variation, then not applying it to all races?

Really, really disappointing. 1 outfit I would be willing to buy, and im genderlocked out of it.

I can sympathize – I don’t know why the noble count outfit was unisex with the male version. Too late to change now. I bet a lot of female Asura and Charr were disappointed they got a tux instead of a dress.

To be fair, the Crystal Nomad outfit is similar enough to both male and female. Rendering the costumes would take time, and it’s less time consuming to render for one gender than both, I assume. It’s not that big of a difference from “tux and dress”.