Guild Wars 2

haven’t heard anything from anet about whether or not we’d be getting new character customization options with HoT (hairstyles, faces, ears, horns, etc). maybe it’s just something they feel they don’t need to announce? or are we not even gonna get anything new in that regard?

also, i wonder if they’ll ever make any of the hairstyles in the kits baseline? i personally doubt it, but it would be pretty cool if they did. don’t know if that would make some players salty, tho… *shrugs

RumRunner.7823:

haven’t heard anything from anet about whether or not we’d be getting new character customization options with HoT (hairstyles, faces, ears, horns, etc). maybe it’s just something they feel they don’t need to announce? or are we not even gonna get anything new in that regard?

also, i wonder if they’ll ever make any of the hairstyles in the kits baseline? i personally doubt it, but it would be pretty cool if they did. don’t know if that would make some players salty, tho… *shrugs

Since they have given us new hairstyles( i want more beardstyles personally.. there is no middle between full on beard and nothing on human males) with normal patches from to time, even if we do not get ones at the release of the expac i am sure we will see new hairstyles sooner or later.

The reason I posited my ponytail as Varian-like is because it is a realistic toned down version as I said. If you want your hair pulled back behind your head with a spike hanging down in front, you got it.

If you want a wild explosion of low-rez hair spikes, well … I don’t happen to like those on Charr and would find them even more jarring on a human. How much hair gel do Tyrians have on hand, anyway?

Beards, yes, please. Donari’s fine-line beard suits him but I would love alts to have more options than thin line, baby cheeks, or slightly unshaven stubble. Or sea captain too long at sea, for the one full beard.

Donari.5237:

The reason I posited my ponytail as Varian-like is because it is a realistic toned down version as I said. If you want your hair pulled back behind your head with a spike hanging down in front, you got it.

If you want a wild explosion of low-rez hair spikes, well … I don’t happen to like those on Charr and would find them even more jarring on a human. How much hair gel do Tyrians have on hand, anyway?

Beards, yes, please. Donari’s fine-line beard suits him but I would love alts to have more options than thin line, baby cheeks, or slightly unshaven stubble. Or sea captain too long at sea, for the one full beard.

The fab ponytail we have now is still a far cry from a Varian style ponytail no matter how you look at it. And considering some of the hairstyles and stuff we have in the game currently, I think “realism” is kind of a silly argument to use. Low-poly or high-poly is also dependent on how much effort Anet puts into rendering a hairstyle. I thought it’d be pretty obvious that I don’t want hairstyle renders as low-poly as WoW. Again, if you take a look at the edited screenshot I made on one of the first posts on this thread, what I’m looking for with that kind of a hairstyle (in addition to all the other great ideas here) isn’t totally outrageous. Quite a few people agree that it would still fit quite nicely into this game.

I will say that I do agree with you and pretty much everyone else here that human males need more beard styles! The severe lack of choices has always left me scratching my head. They don’t even have a simple chin goatee without a mustache.

THey should add back ALL GW1 haircuts… And manage to adapt them to other races (just to avoid any inegality).

I really do hope HoT comes with new hairstyles, I’ve got some kits witing to be used! xD (oh and make some of them base please, it would be rude to new players)

We should also be able to change the color of our beards/eyebrows, because I like my GW1 necromancer with white hair and black beard… And it would also be awesome if we could get some make-up options for ladies… Or at least the opportunity to change the color of the ones already existing.

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

THey should add back ALL GW1 haircuts… And manage to adapt them to other races (just to avoid any inegality).

I really do hope HoT comes with new hairstyles, I’ve got some kits witing to be used! xD (oh and make some of them base please, it would be rude to new players)

We should also be able to change the color of our beards/eyebrows, because I like my GW1 necromancer with white hair and black beard… And it would also be awesome if we could get some make-up options for ladies… Or at least the opportunity to change the color of the ones already existing.

The original GW game had some impressively creative hairstyles, especially considering the fact that each profession had its own set of unique hairstyles (I posted a couple of them here, too). I loved the ranger hairstyles! I’m surprised that they haven’t brought any of those back. Humans sure could use ’em.

iirc, I’m pretty sure the faces were also a lot less baby-ish in the original game, too. They had some pretty-boy ones, sure, but it wasn’t like 90% cutesy. Haven’t played that game in forever, so these are just my best recollections.

And I agree that having the ability to change the hair/eyebrow/beard colors separate from each other would be pretty useful. That way people can adjust the colors exactly to their liking.

time for a constructive bump because i wanna keep this thread in the back of anet’s mind for future hairstyle updates. there are just too many good ideas here.

i’d be pretty stoked if this was the kinda datamined stuff we’d find for human male hairstyles (i know it’s not, i’m just sayin)

They will sell them all back to us I’m sure.

I find it funny how humans got a real mohawk style while Norns got a… mohawk wannabe…

Now, seriously, it would be nice if, within the styles, ANet allowed us to further customize the hair looks. Like hair length, how many braids, how many (and how thick or long) tufts and so on. This is pretty much what they do with the facial styles now. We have some pre-configured styles but we can change nose characteristics, chin size and length etc.

Plus, since this game is so focused on styles (including armor), we need A LOT more customization options. More body types, more facial choices, more tattoo options (and customization) and so on.

Even though this thread is focusing on male hairstyles, this is an absolutely stunning curly hairstyle for females! Perfect for redheads/gingers. Why we don’t have styles like this one is beyond me.

Seabreeze.8437:

Even though this thread is focusing on male hairstyles, this is an absolutely stunning curly hairstyle for females! Perfect for redheads/gingers. Why we don’t have styles like this one is beyond me.

looks like louis XIV.
I think it would clip terribly wih almost every armor, but it would be a nice hairstyle for the guys.

I’m just annoyed at the lack (well there’s just a couple) of short, regular haircuts that don’t make you look like Ken. I don’t wanna look like a K-pop kid that got hit by a lawn mower, but I don’t want long, unkept, greasy lumps of hair like a caveman either (and no, the 90’s punk/dread mania can go die in a hole).
I want some of the gw1 mesmer short hairstyles back.
Oh, and the faces too! I’m tired of stupid-looking faces, babyfaces or ugly monsters.

Woops, a couple of the haircuts I had in mind were paragon’s. But yeah, I miss a few of the faces/hairstyles in gw1 ç_ç

So the expansion is finally here… and not a single new hairstyle or face was added.

…awesome

I guess I’m in the minority here. While I fully support Anet adding a bajillion more styles of everything so that we all look more unique, I like the face presets.
Due to FF7, all of my chars in any game are some variant of Sephiroth-looking. So the anime-styled face works for me. I do wish there was a longer-haired style to go with it that didn’t clip on all my armor but I understand the complications.
I’d also like to see some color variants in the hair.

Seabreeze.8437:

So the expansion is finally here… and not a single new hairstyle or face was added.

…awesome

And that goes for every race, not just the humans. No new hairstyles or faces, charr horns, asura ears, norn tattoos, nothing. Even the armor additions are pretty puny. I guess instead of including a handful of new customization options with the expansion like they’ve done with all of the original Guild Wars expansions, they’d rather slooooowly release a few hairstyles and faces at a time as exclusive gem store content. You know, to get people to give them more money for gems. But whatever, even if they added new customization options in HoT they’d have probably gated it along with everything else.

Yeah, I’m a little salty about this. But now that I’ve vented I’m just gonna keep offering ideas here so that maybe we can hopefully get a batch of fresh new looks for our characters sometime in the future. Probably won’t be anytime soon, though. It sounds like Anet has a lot of work to do given the type of feedback they’ve been getting recently regarding the launch of HoT…

I’ve been seeing a few threads pop up lately regarding the lack of new hairstyles and faces in HoT, so I figured I’d try to revitalize this one. I’m all for bringing in new hairstyles for every race and gender, but personally I still think male humans are the ones who need it the most. Again, that’s just my personal opinion.

So in case Anet hasn’t seen the hairstyle request threads, let’s keep offering some constructive ideas where we can. I’m just gonna remind them to please consider my boy Varian and his awesome hairstyle!

Feel free to throw in any other suggestions. This thread so far is full of ’em.

i’ll help this thread, too. even if it’s slow going, i mostly just hope the right people at anet look at this thread and get ideas for future hairstyle/beard additions.

speaking of beards, the norn can already get a mustache like this (even tho the texture of it is kinda ugly compared to the rest of the beards and i wish they’d fix that), but humans should be able to grow some pretty crazy beards, too. it’s been said before plenty of times but i’ll say it again, our human facial hair options just plain suck. i’m pretty sure the guy in this pic is just a human and look at that sweet fact pelt!

Because little kids (like all the face styles for humans in GW2) look stupid with dreads.

So if they introduce “rougher” haristyles for humans, they should definitely also introduce “rougher” face styles, too.

Try to make a middle-aged human character? Sorry, no can do. But you can make lots of asian-looking young dudes with emo hair.

Tom Gore.4035:

Because little kids (like all the face styles for humans in GW2) look stupid with dreads.

So if they introduce “rougher” haristyles for humans, they should definitely also introduce “rougher” face styles, too.

Try to make a middle-aged human character? Sorry, no can do. But you can make lots of asian-looking young dudes with emo hair.

I’m totally not against this. I’m very much in agreement that human males just have far too many baby faces. This is something I would’ve expected from a game like Final Fantasy or any other MMO from a Japanese-based developer, not really from Guild Wars.

This has been a while coming, but I just wanted to really thank Anet for actually bringing some much needed variety to human male hairstyles with the latest style kit update. So big time thanks from me, Anet!

Now, there’s no way for me to know for sure whether or not I had any kind of impact on bringing this hairstyle into the game, but I’d like to think I at least had some influence given how much I brought up how cool the Varian Wrynn ponytail would be in this game. I was completely blown away when I saw that they actually designed a hairstyle like that for this game! Needless to say, I used a makeover kit right away and I’m extremely satisfied with my hero’s new look.

Now, this of course doesn’t have to be the end of a good thing. I sincerely hope Anet keeps up this trend so we can start balancing out the sheer amount of super glossy boy band hairdos. The new dreads are cool (brings up our human dreadlock hairstyle count to two), but there are still many ways a person can wear dreads. So feel free to continue offering up suggestions to Anet, people! Considering the newest batch of hairstyles for male humans, they may very well be using this thread as a resource for ideas…

^ Agreed. This latest batch of hairstyles was a definite step up, in my opinion. They show more creativity and diversity which really helps provide a much wider range of style options for your characters.

In particular, I appreciate the additional dreadlocks hairstyle they added, even though I’m not a fan of the side cut. Here’s hoping we’ll see more creativity like this soon! There’s lots of good ideas in this thread overall!

I’m still looking for a no-nonsense haircut that doesn’t look like it’s from a 20 year old game. All the hairstyles have just so much obnoxious fluff, that I wouldn’t spend a cent on any of them.

Been a while, but I thought I’d offer suggestions on hairstyles that are more “messy” than the majority of what we currently have to choose from. Straight and curly hair included.

Side note: the face and beard in the first attachment (Simon Belmont, fyi) look really awesome. Rugged and tough, which we definitely need more of in this game.

Mullet! Bring back the awesome 80’s.

Charrbeque.8729:

Mullet! Bring back the awesome 80’s.

Did somebody say mullet??

Barber, I’ll have “The Beavis” please

I so agree with everything you’ve said. The modern hairstyles in this game just feel so discordant with the whole fantasy setting. I can’t stand the anime kitten either. I want something more Aragorn or Jon Snow. And I would love dreadlocked beards, even just for norns. And while we’re at it, why is it so hard to make a legitimately “ugly” character in the game? Especially women. Why do all the faces have to be pretty? the human females have one face i would characterize as “rough”, meaning, a couple of wrinkles, while the males have like 3-4 older looking faces, with one beat up face that still looks like a pretty boy lol. The humanoid males in general have much more variety than the females, so much I kinda wonder why you guys are complaining more about the male faces. The norn men are better, having only 3/9 pretty faces, and having 4 which i would consider to be genuinely “ugly”. The norn women have…one scarred face, with the rest of them looking like supermodels of course. Now let’s talk about bodies. Even the largest norn woman is a rail compared with the skinniest norn man. IDK if that’s just the sexual dimorphism of the race, but that sounds like yet another excuse a video game dev would use to avoid diversity and cater to males. Even the human males can be completely ripped. The women are tastefully “toned” at most. Jesus h christ sometimes video games make me want to burrow my head in the ground. /endrant

It’s been a while, but I thought I’d bring this back with a couple more suggestions. Norn and asura males both have a hairstyle with a headband included. The norn style with the headband has a really cool look with the beaded string wrapped around the cloth, and the asura hair with the dreadlocks and headband looks absolutely awesome! Why not have an option or two like this for human males as well?

Akuma from Street Fighter’s hair as well as the typical Shoto gi which would look the same across all armor types (in before heavy armor gi being silly that’s just a game mechanic)