I know there are some heavy armors that show some skin for males, but for medium or light armour most ofg them cover you from head to toe, and most of them are cloaks, why do girls have all the fun? I’d love to have some more form fitting armor for males.
I don’t mean chainmail speedos, fit shirts, leather strap tops, open jackets, there are many options.
For females there are many choices, both for more or less conservative tastes. but for guys all our choices are to be dressed in huge cloaks.
Even most costumes dress you 100% and those who don’t look a bit ridiculous.
Since I’m a thief, I can’t even wear those heavy armor that show more skin anyway…
am I the only one who would like his male char to have some more attractive clothes?
Sexier armor for males?
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it’s the age-old issue of fashion always being focused more on the female characters.
Female leather, of course, looks awesome
Resident smug Englishman on the NA servers, just because.
MMOs are always sexist against male characters so it’ll never happen.
GW2 was supposed to break all those bad MMO norms too. ;-;
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Please Remove/Fix Thief Trait: “Last Refuge.”
“Hard to Catch” is a Horrible and Useless Trait. Fixed 6/23/15. Praise Dwayna.
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| Fort Aspenwood (NA): Sylvari Daredevil Thief Main: All Classes 80. |
Please Remove/Fix Thief Trait: “Last Refuge.”
“Hard to Catch” is a Horrible and Useless Trait. Fixed 6/23/15. Praise Dwayna.
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We should get the option to show the chest part or not, would be cool to run around shirtless
And if they add it do it for females too. 
I still want my Assassin’s chest piece from GW1. Really sick of waiting for it. =/
That is awesome. Should be pretty easy to make some medium leather revealing armor. The ninja look is a cool one, form-fitting, midriff exposed, mask, maybe a hood or scarf…shiny leather with some touches of metal or chain. Just too good. Not a fan of those shoulders though.
They have more revealing armor for the guys, but the armor are more “male power fantasy” then really sexy…
What does that mean?
It’s just a tumblr feminist buzz word. It doesn’t really mean anything.
Oh, alright. As long as we got that cleared up. XD
I don’t have tumblr. I don’t know were I have it from.
For me it mainly means, that the guy is naked not to appeal to his on-lookers, but to look more bad-kitten …like for example Tacitus talking about the Cheruskans in the varus battle fighting naked, to make them sound more frightening.
It was very unlikely intended to make them looks more “sexy” for the invading Roman soldiers.
I don’t mind revealing armor for the women. I actually like some of them a lot.
I just want male armor without a skirt or a coat, where you can see the hip region and the b*tt. People don’t have to be naked to look sexy. My human would look so nice in tight pants.
I know it is not very practical, since the guys of course would want to protect the jewels and so a longer gambeson or chainmail is probably much more realistic, but I’d like to have the choice to have a more appeling looking guy.
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| Fort Aspenwood (NA): Sylvari Daredevil Thief Main: All Classes 80. |
Please Remove/Fix Thief Trait: “Last Refuge.”
“Hard to Catch” is a Horrible and Useless Trait. Fixed 6/23/15. Praise Dwayna.
(edited by Doggie.3184)
I still want my Assassin’s chest piece from GW1. Really sick of waiting for it. =/
That is awesome. Should be pretty easy to make some medium leather revealing armor. The ninja look is a cool one, form-fitting, midriff exposed, mask, maybe a hood or scarf…shiny leather with some touches of metal or chain. Just too good. Not a fan of those shoulders though.
They have more revealing armor for the guys, but the armor are more “male power fantasy” then really sexy…
What does that mean?
It’s just a tumblr feminist buzz word. It doesn’t really mean anything.
Oh, alright. As long as we got that cleared up. XD
I don’t have tumblr. I don’t know were I have it from.
For me it mainly means, that the guy is naked not to appeal to his on-lookers, but to look more bad-kitten …like for example Tacitus talking about the Cheruskans in the varus battle fighting naked, to make them sound more frightening.
It was very unlikely intended to make them looks more “sexy” for the invading Roman soldiers.I don’t mind revealing armor for the women. I actually like some of them a lot.
I just want male armor without a skirt or a coat, where you can see the hip region and the b*tt. People don’t have to be naked to look sexy. My human would look so nice in tight pants.
I know it is not very practical, since the guys of course would want to protect the jewels and so a longer gambeson or chainmail is probably much more realistic, but I’d like to have the choice to have a more appeling looking guy.
But strong masculine traits are sexy to some (if not most) women (and men?). There is no real difference between “power fantasy” and “sexy” when it comes to men. Masculine traits in men are considered sexy. Feminine traits in women are considered sexy. Revealing armor for men can be both empowering and sexy. Revealing armor for women can be both empowering and sexy. Many “progressives” do not understand this.
I still want my Assassin’s chest piece from GW1. Really sick of waiting for it. =/
That is awesome. Should be pretty easy to make some medium leather revealing armor. The ninja look is a cool one, form-fitting, midriff exposed, mask, maybe a hood or scarf…shiny leather with some touches of metal or chain. Just too good. Not a fan of those shoulders though.
They have more revealing armor for the guys, but the armor are more “male power fantasy” then really sexy…
What does that mean?
It’s just a tumblr feminist buzz word. It doesn’t really mean anything.
Oh, alright. As long as we got that cleared up. XD
I don’t have tumblr. I don’t know were I have it from.
For me it mainly means, that the guy is naked not to appeal to his on-lookers, but to look more bad-kitten …like for example Tacitus talking about the Cheruskans in the varus battle fighting naked, to make them sound more frightening.
It was very unlikely intended to make them looks more “sexy” for the invading Roman soldiers.I don’t mind revealing armor for the women. I actually like some of them a lot.
I just want male armor without a skirt or a coat, where you can see the hip region and the b*tt. People don’t have to be naked to look sexy. My human would look so nice in tight pants.
I know it is not very practical, since the guys of course would want to protect the jewels and so a longer gambeson or chainmail is probably much more realistic, but I’d like to have the choice to have a more appeling looking guy.But strong masculine traits are sexy to some (if not most) women (and men?). There is no real difference between “power fantasy” and “sexy” when it comes to men. Masculine traits in men are considered sexy. Feminine traits in women are considered sexy. Revealing armor for men can be both empowering and sexy. Revealing armor for women can be both empowering and sexy. Many “progressives” do not understand this.
But a man hasn’t less “masculine traits” when wearing no coat or skirt to hide his backside/hips.
A lot of the armor makes the hips look wider and give the hip and thigh region an A-shape and while I’m okay with them I’d like to have the choice without excess fabric or metal around the hips.
I want a male outfit that’s “intended” to look sexually appealing and I think there are much more women and men finding a man in for example tight jeans appealing than in a skirt.
One of the biggest genres for looking at fanservice for a female potentially gameing-affine audience would probably be the Shojo/Josei genre…the men there can be pretty powerful, but they usually are a lot less " pure power fantasy", less over the top muscular or less uselessly equipped ith bulky armor and weapons than comics and literatur for a male audience, the same when you look on literature for a heterosexual female audience.
GW2 has a big female fanbase and they tried to appeal to them already with a lot of the faces or humans males, so why not with atleast one armor?
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I still want my Assassin’s chest piece from GW1. Really sick of waiting for it. =/
That is awesome. Should be pretty easy to make some medium leather revealing armor. The ninja look is a cool one, form-fitting, midriff exposed, mask, maybe a hood or scarf…shiny leather with some touches of metal or chain. Just too good. Not a fan of those shoulders though.
They have more revealing armor for the guys, but the armor are more “male power fantasy” then really sexy…
What does that mean?
It’s just a tumblr feminist buzz word. It doesn’t really mean anything.
Oh, alright. As long as we got that cleared up. XD
I don’t have tumblr. I don’t know were I have it from.
For me it mainly means, that the guy is naked not to appeal to his on-lookers, but to look more bad-kitten …like for example Tacitus talking about the Cheruskans in the varus battle fighting naked, to make them sound more frightening.
It was very unlikely intended to make them looks more “sexy” for the invading Roman soldiers.I don’t mind revealing armor for the women. I actually like some of them a lot.
I just want male armor without a skirt or a coat, where you can see the hip region and the b*tt. People don’t have to be naked to look sexy. My human would look so nice in tight pants.
I know it is not very practical, since the guys of course would want to protect the jewels and so a longer gambeson or chainmail is probably much more realistic, but I’d like to have the choice to have a more appeling looking guy.But strong masculine traits are sexy to some (if not most) women (and men?). There is no real difference between “power fantasy” and “sexy” when it comes to men. Masculine traits in men are considered sexy. Feminine traits in women are considered sexy. Revealing armor for men can be both empowering and sexy. Revealing armor for women can be both empowering and sexy. Many “progressives” do not understand this.
But a man hasn’t less “masculine traits” when wearing no coat or skirt to hide his backside/hips.
I didn’t say that a man would have less masculine traits when wearing no coat or skirt. If anything I was arguing the contrary.
I don’t care much for hips or kitten but I would like to see some outfits that show off my male character’s chest, abs, biceps and/or backside.
Forever a supporter of more male skimpy armor
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heh, the problem here is that ppl confuse the term “sexy” with “cool”, a male character can be sexy but for the most part that’s not how a male character dresses.
in battle a male character doesn’t look sexy, they look cool as in, you look at him and you pee your pants from fear cool.
this picture shows a “sexy” male, dresses to impress the females by showing of muscles and prowess.
http://popori-cbt.narod.ru/armor-castanic/castanic-male-plate-03.jpg
this picture shows a “cool” male, armor that makes his enemies fear by just looking at him.
http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/12629-4-1331615305.jpg
ofcouse it’s each there own, one can call pic 1 sexy while someone else calls pic 2 sexy.
the point however is that, just because a bare chest is shown doesn’t make it sexy, i am to much a hetro and male
)to understand what true sexy is for women but there is a difference.
when i look at female characters in this game none of them is truly sexy, some are in fantasy and others are cool but sexy they are not.
this armor is cool and fits the world, doesn’t make it sexy:
http://madartlab.com/files/2011/12/hildelarge.jpg
another this ppl confuse with is sexy and skimpy, sexy doesn’t have to show skin and skimpy doesn’t have to look sexy at all.
this is skimpy:
http://madartlab.com/files/2011/12/Screen-shot-2010-07-05-at-11.11.08-PM.png
only interested in showing skin and nothing else, it doesn’t even invites you.
this is sexy:
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/66602/bs-female-design7.jpg
shows of here shape perfectly, doesn’t interest in showing skin but it invites you in.
it’s just that, ppl need to know the difference, sexy isn’t always skimpy, skimpy isn’t always sexy.
also, for male characters, sexy isn’t always cool and cool doesn’t have to be sexy.
the whole point of male characters is not to be a ken to barbie, the point is to make the male character look touch as nails to the point that he impresses not by sexyness but by showing of his experience.
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I completely agree that ANet is being sexist when it comes to male/female armour diversity. It’s extremely easy to dress “skimpy” for females, and extremely easy to dress “power fantasy” for males. I wish they would make both skimpy, and sexy for males (we have enough droll and power fantasy). And I wish they made more “power fantasy” and droll for females… enough skimpy (never enough sexy for either sex).
If I could dress my male like I have dressed my female I’d be happy.
I just wanted to say that I have the same chest, pants, and boots on my female warrior. I opted for the TA shoulder and gloves, though.
You have good taste.