Just starting a thread for Anet design team a thank you for the Monk outfits released this week. I think they should get kudos for their effort, mostly because positive feedback can promote more content like this.
Anyways, as you may or may not know, I love my Asura that I play in this game and I’ve always wished for the option (as so many others have) for Asura to wear slightly more feminine clothes. Now I know they are suppose to be practical but honestly, if they were being practical, they’d let male Asura wear more free-fitting clothes like dresses and skirts (also stuff people have discussed in depth in the past.)
The point here is that yes, there have been some female outfits released already that Asura fans can put on their femsura. The reason I want to give the design team praise today is because these monk threads are really really cute and well made, and it’s a dress… for female Asura to wear <3
Now, the parts I love about this outfit are the loose pieces of cloth that wrap around the shoulders and the top part of the dress fits very well with the Asuran chest. Not sure if other people have noticed how silly boobalicious dresses look on Asura, but sometimes it doesn’t even really look good as a design (no offense to the oriental outfit, but the chest hole doesn’t exactly work when you have no cleavage x3)
I noticed or perhaps I think I notice, that the dress has been stretched out more on an Asura, making it appear to be more of a dress than a skimpy desert skirt like we see on the human designs, but here’s my take on it: Asura should have the option to show more leg. There are some marking patterns like the speckles on my Asura, that show really well on the thighs and rest of the legs and since Asura normally all wear male clothes scrunched down to fit their body type, you don’t normally see that. Like, the only pants that ever showed decent leg before they turned it into a casual clothes tonic, were the khaki shorts. They should release more summer-y clothes for all types since we’re in the middle of summer,— but I’m getting on a tangent.
Now, the dress length might be just how it worked to fit the outfit to the Asura’s skeletal structure, just like how most clothes are designed on the human body and then stretched and shrunk to the Asura body type, post-design. But whatever they did with the top part of the outfit, it looks -really- really good and naturally fitting— anyways, the dress part looks like it was elongated on purpose. Whether it was or wasn’t if it was, I speculate it’s to keep Anet’s nose clean because of the hyper sensitivity people seem to have when a short person (or thing on two legs) looks like it might be more exposed than necessary.
My point here is that if they’re going to do that, do it, but I love that they’re offering more feminine clothes to Asura. If they haven’t realized fully what they’ve stepped into, make even more feminine clothes, make shorts and a tank for summer time’s sake, offer alternate bathing suits (if I can squeeze in that request) because it’ll sell BIG and your player base will love it. The supporters will overpower anyone with a bug up their butt about some slighted moral agenda. I am broke and I found the money to buy that monk dress because I was so in love with the design. I want more, I’m sure others do too!
Anyways, there’s my two bits for the month, sure I complain about stuff now and then but figured I’d express when I was rather satisfied with something in this game too.
Anyone else want to join in the thank you? I think we could all tell Anet something they did right and let them know the player base they’ve already established care what our devs do~<3
(edited by Jawbreaker.5968)