Guild Wars 2

Hello dev Team, im really amazed about the fact how little nice leather sets are aviable compared to heavy or light armor. I dont even play a class which wears this armor, but i do feel very sorry for them and would suggest, that you would put a little more love into it.

noooo i’d say you’re mistaken. Leather definitely has many more, much nicer looking sets than plate. Light armour definitely has the edge, though

(which makes sense, because light armour is essentially just clothing, and leather reinforced clothing. As armour gets heavier, style must be sacrificed for actual function)

Leather has the cutest skirt ever <3 the Viper one. Though, the top is pretty horrid. Little to none selections even make sense :/

It’s all a matter of personal preference.

I personally think medium armor skins overall have the best options and that when playing with heavy/light armor classes, my options are very limited if I don’t want to look hideous.

It’s not that the individual pieces don’t look nice. Many are beautifully detailed. The problem is that there is little variation in the “silhouette”. The overall form as seen from a distance. If you have 5 medium armors standing next to each other, from a few feet away its long coat 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Its difficult to get an look that’s distinctive if that look is identical from a few feet away to almost every other medium armor.

each weight class has very few “sexy” options at the moment,
though Light certainly is winning!

fir sexeh medium armour you’re pretty much stuck to a human with T3 chest and either viper skirt or vigil leggings XD

Liewec.2896:

each weight class has very few “sexy” options at the moment,
though Light certainly is winning!

fir sexeh medium armour you’re pretty much stuck to a human with T3 chest and either viper skirt or vigil leggings XD

Whats so great in that except your character being half naked? Some people doesnt understand meaning of leather armor i guess.

Burtnik.5218:

Liewec.2896:

each weight class has very few “sexy” options at the moment,
though Light certainly is winning!

fir sexeh medium armour you’re pretty much stuck to a human with T3 chest and either viper skirt or vigil leggings XD

Whats so great in that except your character being half naked? Some people doesnt understand meaning of leather armor i guess.

I am more concerned about an armor with 4 dye channels getting dyed all black.

It’s not a matter of sexy imho. It’s a matter of extremely limited choice if you are not into coats. 99% of leather armor pieces are coats or long jackets, of which a very limited amount do not make you look like a pole tent from behind because the devs wanted to avoid clipping in the laziest way possible. . Just give us CHEST armor , not a freaking duster all the time.

dunno if you class this as “sxy” but you can make some good medeim/leather armour combos work.

Burtnik.5218:

Some people doesnt understand meaning of leather armor i guess.

i thought by “leather” you meant the “medium” weight armours in general.
“cloth” “leather” and “plate” are quite common terms for the usual 3 weight classes in MMOs, (those were also the terms used in GW1 iirc) sorry for the confusion!

Fat Disgrace.4275:

you can make some good medium/leather armour combos work.

see ^^^

There are definitely more long coats than any other style among the medium armours (for both male and female character) but there are other options available and you can do some interesting things with them by mixing and matching. Remember too that adding or hiding gloves and shoulders (and sometimes helms) can make a big difference in how an outfit looks.

Here’s some examples of ones which don’t have a long coat (for simplicity I kept it to ones that apply to both male and female models, females have a few extra options like the Krytan and Sneakthief coats):

• Priory
• Vigil
• Illustrious (ascended)
• Studded
• Duelist
• Viper
• Striders
• Glorious

To a lesser extent there’s also these, which don’t completely remove it but IMO are less noticeable, because it’s either not as long or only down the back:

• Heritage
• Carapace
• Outlaw
• Ascalonian Sentry
• Armor of Koda

It’s definitely possible to make revealing outfits on human/norn/sylvari female characters using medium armor, especially if you have the Viper skirt (which is just a mini skirt).

It’s not really possible to get something revealing on males or charr and asura (who all use the male models) but IMO (speaking as a straight woman) it is possible to make a “sexy”/attractive outfit, if you bear in mind that sexy doesn’t have to be revealing.

That’s the one area I’d most like to see some improvement if I’m honest (again speaking as a straight woman) – it’s so frustrating trying to make an outfit for a male character that doesn’t cover them completely. I don’t even mean something “sexy” just bare arms would be nice.

For example here’s what I’m planning for my engineer. It’s not supposed to be ‘sexy’ but it is very different from the typical long coat & tons of layers look of medium armour.

(I’m using the ascended leggings because I’m planning to make at least 1 set anyway and I like the pattern down the side, but really any relatively plain trousers would work.)

Strider’s armour on female human, norn and sylvari is gorgeous.

I don’t like showing flesh either- to me it doesn’t make sense to wear armour and have the most vulnerable areas on show. So something detailed, form hugging but covers the body is totally up my street.

Mixing and matching is the other option. Things get easier once you have a few “not-trenchcoat” tops. There are lots of wonderful looking leggings that you don’t see half of the time because of the knee-length tops.

Problem I encountered was, that even if you have a “non-trenchcoat” top, the waste line for most pants doesn’t match nicely. Showing your belly button or just really simple details with 0% effort put into it since they were gonna be hidden anyways.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

dunno if you class this as “sxy” but you can make some good medeim/leather armour combos work.

Does anyone know the name of the shoes and pants of this girl ?

khornemuse.5930:

Fat Disgrace.4275:

dunno if you class this as “sxy” but you can make some good medeim/leather armour combos work.

Does anyone know the name of the shoes and pants of this girl ?

Hi, i can tell you all of them.

head piece starter hood. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Subterfuge_Hood
shoulders – sneak thief.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sneakthief_Shoulderguards_
chest/coat – glorious chest https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glorious_Brigandine_
gloves – rawhide. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rawhide_Bracers_
pants/leggings – prowler. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prowler_Pants
shoes/boots human t3. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Assassin%27s_Boots

dyes are mostly midnight abyss though and i used deep glacial sky dye on the pants

I like a lot of the leather sets. Mist Walker (except for shoulders they don’t really match), Viper (boots are awesome and go with anything), Stalwart, emblazoned helmet (for the cool ninja look sneakthief is alright but too simple for my taste) are great, and on female players there’s a nice set of leather pants and good skirts too ^_^

Mix and match FTW!
Also bring back sab….

If by sexy/good you mean ‘shows skin’, then yes, leather does have only a few choices – Krytan top, Viper skirt + a number of racial armors. However if you think that ‘good and sexy’ can mean other things, then leather has a number of choices. With that said, trench coats ARE overabundant.

Zania.8461:

If by sexy/good you mean ‘shows skin’, then yes, leather does have only a few choices – Krytan top, Viper skirt + a number of racial armors. However if you think that ‘good and sexy’ can mean other things, then leather has a number of choices. With that said, trench coats ARE overabundant.

Almost all are female armor though. Male medium has a hard time finding “sexy” armor. Long coats from here to the horizon with hardly a break.

mmm

insanemaniac.2456:

mmm

White hair. Glasses. Machine gun. Reminds me of my 10th year English teacher. ^^

I think “there is no good/sexy leather armor” is due to:
*ingame lighting
*poor quality wiki pictures (someone recently updated them!)
*pictures don’t do justice for many of the skins, movement brings them to life
*dye choice (I love chocolate dye! )
*armor choice itself, look at some of the more basic sets not new shinyglowypretty

https://youtu.be/GJNOsVJ49Pg

wow, watched the vid @1080 and still its grainy. Ingame its 100% better.
Find the gear pieces that overall have a decent look together, then check them out ingame with a decent light source. Then experiment with dyes (NOT SHADOW &/or ABYSS DYES). You will be genuinely surprised.

yeah, I agree with flesh wound and Havok… the medium armor is dominated by long coats… I’d much prefer more variations of the human T1, duelist and studded armor tho, I think they’re the perfect length haha

I personally love the strider/viper top with aetherblade leggings because they just look classy (and not trench coats)

You just gotta know what to mix and match to avoid the constant trench coats. Sadly, most of the good stuff is in the gem store, so you gotta buy it if you want more non trench coat varieties.

I personally went with a kind of steampunk feel on my Ranger. Used to have a neat tribal set up on her with Krytan gloves and boots, duelist top, vigil leggings, and avian pauldrons, but got tired of that after awhile.

I use rubicon on my charr, with noble eyepiece.

on my male engineer, I think either the viper or vigil coat looks great
I don’t have a medium charr unfortunately :\

Narrrz.7532:

noooo i’d say you’re mistaken. Leather definitely has many more, much nicer looking sets than plate. Light armour definitely has the edge, though

(which makes sense, because light armour is essentially just clothing, and leather reinforced clothing. As armour gets heavier, style must be sacrificed for actual function)

Not if you’re male. We’re completely neglected.

Human Male Ascalon Sentry Coat with main dye Chocolate is pretty nice. Shame I don’t see that coat more often. Don’t call it a trench coat. Toss in some rascal boots, easy.

Doggie.3184:

Narrrz.7532:

noooo i’d say you’re mistaken. Leather definitely has many more, much nicer looking sets than plate. Light armour definitely has the edge, though

(which makes sense, because light armour is essentially just clothing, and leather reinforced clothing. As armour gets heavier, style must be sacrificed for actual function)

Not if you’re male. We’re completely neglected.

Well i actually like the trenchcoat look, so i can’t really comment on that. As i said above, my engy looks fantastic in rubicon and my ranger wears a full garb of sneakthief (with the rascal mask) – looks very mercenary ;-)

Justine.6351:

Then experiment with dyes (NOT SHADOW &/or ABYSS DYES). You will be genuinely surprised.

Just want to highlight this because I think it’s a really important point.

I actually like a lot of the dark dyes, including Abyss, I think they can look great. But if you want the overall outfit to look good you need to consider what looks good on that skin/character and some skins only look good with bright or contrasting dyes.

My pet hate is the medium ascended coat dyed entirely in matching dark colours. IMO the best thing about that skin, and the thing that makes it look special, is the embroidery, and that only shows if it’s dyed in a colour that contrasts with the background. If it’s all in Abyss (or other dark dyes) it loses that. The same is true of the carapace coat, sylvari/TA skins and a few others – you can only see the detail with contrasting dyes.

Admittedly it can be really hard to get contrasting colours to look good and not like you just lost paintball, but when it looks good it looks so much better than all abyss.

my previous vid quality suffed cause I think camera movement, hope this shows better. also used camera settings to zoom in a little closer for the armors details.

female norn rascal coat.

https://youtu.be/1DUiWiZMCfA

It’s so ironic that people seem to think that the more revealing armor – the better looking. For example when I see people mix profane pants/apprentice skirt with sorcerer’s top. Or the worst ugliest combination I’ve ever seen on norn (medium armor) and not just once; norn cultural tier 3 pants (same as Eir has) with sniekthief top. Eeeeeeeeew. I can just imagine how bad these people must dress in real life. Ew just ew.

Medium armor lacks option if you dont like trenchcoats. Im a male human thief. I have no options at all that show some skin. Not even the chest… i want some leather tigut clothes or leather harness for a more savage look

Glorious medium armor from pvp was a revelation for me. Perfect for my female sylvari thief. It’s athletic looking which I think is important. I Wouldn’t call it sexy per se. It’s attractive though. Like a tough cat suit.

Narrrz.7532:

noooo i’d say you’re mistaken. Leather definitely has many more, much nicer looking sets than plate. Light armour definitely has the edge, though

(which makes sense, because light armour is essentially just clothing, and leather reinforced clothing. As armour gets heavier, style must be sacrificed for actual function)

Viva bikini plate! Seriously though…bring on the bikini plate :-)

This, just like all online games…are fantasy games…function is irrelevant. Once magic is introduced…logic is dismissed. I’m all for variety in aesthetic style. There should be choices for all mindsets. There should be a full range from full body coffins to skimpy beach wear lol. It would be nice if they would introduce alternate art models for sets to accommodate.

Danikat.8537:

There are definitely more long coats than any other style among the medium armours (for both male and female character) but there are other options available and you can do some interesting things with them by mixing and matching. Remember too that adding or hiding gloves and shoulders (and sometimes helms) can make a big difference in how an outfit looks.

Here’s some examples of ones which don’t have a long coat (for simplicity I kept it to ones that apply to both male and female models, females have a few extra options like the Krytan and Sneakthief coats):

• Priory
• Vigil
• Illustrious (ascended)
• Studded
• Duelist
• Viper
• Striders
• Glorious

To a lesser extent there’s also these, which don’t completely remove it but IMO are less noticeable, because it’s either not as long or only down the back:

• Heritage
• Carapace
• Outlaw
• Ascalonian Sentry
• Armor of Koda

It’s definitely possible to make revealing outfits on human/norn/sylvari female characters using medium armor, especially if you have the Viper skirt (which is just a mini skirt).

It’s not really possible to get something revealing on males or charr and asura (who all use the male models) but IMO (speaking as a straight woman) it is possible to make a “sexy”/attractive outfit, if you bear in mind that sexy doesn’t have to be revealing.

That’s the one area I’d most like to see some improvement if I’m honest (again speaking as a straight woman) – it’s so frustrating trying to make an outfit for a male character that doesn’t cover them completely. I don’t even mean something “sexy” just bare arms would be nice.

I agree with you on the disparity of lacking enough options to show any skin on male medium armor. They really need to open up their art choices a bit more. I’m a bit disappointed in just the general lack of options besides full body straight jackets though…whether male or female. I like the human T3 medium for female characters, but not enough to roll human. They need more choices like that that aren’t race dependent. Same with the norn T3 heavy for female character models….every other race is just out of luck?

In general medium armor is pretty meh to me, but the T3 sylvari med armor is one of the best sets in the game IMO http://imgur.com/a/x9Idt/embed#0

There are some good options.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Male medium has a hard time finding “sexy” armor. Long coats from here to the horizon with hardly a break.

True. I actually “cheat” when I want to make some revealing armor on my medium armor characters. And by cheating, I mean using the right dyes so I can pretend some parts are actually the character’s skin. It works better on dark-skinned humans or Sylvari, but it’s never gonna be perfect, of course. The Strider armor is actually fine if you want to pretend wearing fishnet.

Too many Long Coat leather is rather annoying, most of them are horrible..

Scarlet Johansan would disagree with you.
(Not my toon lol)

Thats why you roll a Sylvari for medium armor classes. Thier T3 cultural is some of the nicest armor in the game for all weight classes, especially medium IMO. I agree though, medium has the worst choices for cool armor

leather doesn’t even look, heck, it doesn’t even shine like leather.
the OP is right to a point, leather should look like leather, it curently looks like ether cloth or dull rags.

But I do agree with there not being much options Op, one of the reasons I’m glad I main a sylvari.
They have some nice looks with medium.

Note the righteous underboob and the netting in thigh.

Spurrlock.3219:

Note the righteous underboob and the netting in thigh.

Makes me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkTZ8BVAlFE

Spurrlock.3219:

Note the righteous underboob and the netting in thigh.

Speaking of underboob

The only leather available in-game that is somewhat sexy, without being almost inappropriate (blatant underboob!), or a long coat, is the Sneakthief set.

This “choice” might be OK for a straight man, who is playing a female char, as he will probably like the underboob look; but, for a woman playing a female char, it’s obviously not really an adequate choice, at all.

I hope they will add more plainish, leggings and top/jumpsuit options, that are neither nun-like, nor really overtly sexual.

Light armour is almost worse, in terms of options, though.

As the only non-skirt leggings (that don’t have the bottom half of a heavy jacket over the top of them) are the Profane ones and they have a gap at the top of the thighs with garter straps.

It’s a nice set, in terms of the overall silhouette etc., but I just wish a slightly plainer, more modest version was available, with no thigh gap, or straps.

In both cases, they seem to go from one extreme to the other, in terms of modesty (or lack of it) – we need far more options in between the two.

I want my characters to look streamlined and dynamic (and I guess somewhat “sexy”); but not semi-naked, or dressed in what looks more like underwear.