Guild Wars 2

There is something that has been bothering me ever since the release of GW2: the head size of any Norn characters compared to their stature.

Even when you select the maximum size, the head still looks like it has been glued to a body that doesn’t belong to it.

Female Norn
You have to select the slimmest body, even though it might look anorexic and not fit for a muscular fighter race, because if you pick a normal or stronger stature the head looks as described above. Hence, all your female Norn end up looking like some sort of Barbie clone. I had to make my female Norn warrior male so that I wouldn’t have to walk around with an anorexic barbie doll. Not pleased.

Male Norn
All have bully body shapes, with hyperdimensional muscles and feet that would make a yeti proud. Since one cannot pick a slimmer body shape, you would expect that you could at least adjust the head size to not look completely ridiculous on that body. But, again, not possible. The maximum head size is still too small for that brawny body.

Please, ArenaNet, do something about it. How hard can it be to add more body options or to increase the maximum possible head size?

Thanks for reading.

I’ve been playing a female norn with the largest body type and a medium sized head since launch and I think it looks fine. In fact I think it’d look a bit weird if I made her head bigger.

I just tried playing around with the character creator, recreating my norn to see what she’d look like and I think with the biggest head size on the smallest body she looks like a strange cartoon character.

Here’s a quick comparison I made:

OH MY GOSH, SO IT’S NOT JUST ME WHO NOTICED THIS! XD I always play thinnest Norn girls with biggest and fattest head and sometimes it still feels too small, lol. It’s annoying. Edit: I also have my Sylvari main (female) with max head size and width, anything smaller than that just looks weird. The smallest head is the best for Asura.

well, if u look at the human body u can see the similar efects just wtch a normal man, and then a mr. O bodybuilder, its the same story >> steroids dont enlarge brainz))

just watch this living norn

Mea.5491:

OH MY GOSH, SO IT’S NOT JUST ME WHO NOTICED THIS! XD I always play thinnest Norn girls with biggest and fattest head and sometimes it still feels too small, lol. It’s annoying. Edit: I also have my Sylvari main (female) with max head size and width, anything smaller than that just looks weird. The smallest head is the best for Asura.

Tiny heads confirmed. Otherwise, the little geniuses would tip over at the slightest provocation.

Meanwhile, dude-chests for humans and Norn are just overly long enough to put me in the Uncanny Valley. >.>

this is actually an artistic trick to emphasize musculature (q.v. The Incredible Hulk). Not sure if the ANet artists are using it intentionally.

The usual rule is: “The bigger the animal, the smaller the head (proportionally speaking)”. It is not an absolute rule because some animals aparent to have bigger or smaller heads due to other factors, but it is true in the vast majority of cases.

Humans have, proportionally very big brains, (I mean, really gigantic heads) so we already break the rule somehow. But still holds true within humans: normal human head sizes doesn’t vary as much as the body sizes. The result is tall people and small people have very similar sized heads, wich in turn make small people to look big headed and big people to look small headed.

It is normal: babies with “normally proportioned” heads will be very disturbing (and probably sick) and basketball players with “normally proportiones heads” will also be weird.