I like to experiment with the look of a character when I create one and with the Norn males especially the ‘barbarian’ looks often works very well. However, running around the landscape with your chest piece off just to look more imposing has some serious drawbacks; the most obvious being that you are no longer protected by the armor rating it provided. It is for this reason that I’m proposing that the game be amended to allow the concealment of the chest armor so that the character’s physical attributes can be admired.
I realize of course that this may not work for everyone and that there may be some gender related issues too, but that can be taken care of in the case of females with a portion of suitably moral armor or coverings as we don’t want to offend anyone with the human/norn/sylvari/charr or asuran body now, do we? Anyway, for a demo of my idea, see the attached image – a simple mock-up I created to demonstrate the point.
