Guild Wars 2

Hey everybody. I’ve never posted anything in the forums. I do read a lot of stuff you guys are saying and I must say I’m surprised that this forum is so civilized compared to what I’ve seen elsewhere.

I play Guild Wars 2 since its beta. I’ve played to the first Guild Wars and I loved it (sadly way more than this one due to its lore). In Guild Wars 2 like in Guild Wars, one of the most important things to me is the look of my character(s). From the creation to the clothes/armors and weapons, I’ll take a lot of time to chose the things I like the most. When I say “a lot of time”, I mean even after 1 year I’m still not sure what is the best looking stuff for all of my characters.

With my thief, I try to keep a maximum of sets (all exotics with the stats and the runes I use) so I can change if I’m bored. The thing is : I love mixing different sets. I don’t like to be like “everyone” (well, I’m kinda forced to since all the medium armors are trenchcoats and I don’t like it on female characters (though it’s worse for the male characters since they have only that)). It’s been a long time now that I have the krytan armor. I love it. Reminds me of Guild Wars and it is not a coat (at least on females) I really like the corset. It fits my character well, but I’m really bored with the whole set (I’ve been through human cultural armor, duelist, magitech, and even viper just for the boots (and sometimes the skirt but I think it just not fits my char). But here’s the problem (see picture below) : THIS. I just can’t use the krytan corset out of the set, because it is simply not finished. And even worse : the corset itself, is, in fact, the skin of the character !

So my question for Arena Net is : Why did you not designed the armor piece per piece ? Don’t get me wrong the whole armor is very nice, but… why isn’t the corset finished ? It stops with a straight line. I don’t think it would have been hard to make it right without interfering with the pants.

I also have a question for you folks : how do you feel about this kind of unfinished armor pieces ? Not only “unfinished”, it could be a big part of the armor clipping through the body for example (Magitech leggings on human female… I used it for a while but this clipping issue annoyed me so much). Do you think something can be done by Arena Net or have you lost all hope (I’m pretty sure this has been already discussed several times) ?

1. Bumping threads is against the forum’s code of conduct, so I would advise to not do that.

2. This is more of an issue with the Krytan’s mesh. You see, an armor’s mesh is made with a sort of formulaic process. The art team adheres to certain standards so as armor can be worn with as little clipping between parts as possible. The reason why the Krytan top stops so abruptly is because its leggings start where the top ends. If the top were to continue, then it would possibly clip with the leggings. However, it seems as though there are some female medium leggings that don’t start at that point, which is why you end up being able to see the line.

It is a bit jarring to look at. I won’t lie, and I have gone through the same problems when trying to outfit my characters. However, this seems more like a limitation in their tech than them not wanting to be thorough with their designs. I’m more than sure that they would have wanted armor layering to be different, and you can see that on occasion when pieces do overlap without any issues.

At the end of the day, I think this has to be something you’ll have to overlook when wearing that top. Hopefully in the future they’ll be able to spare the resources to go back and do something about this, but I wouldn’t expect this to be sooner rather than later.

Oh I’m sorry then, I didn’t read all the code of conduct (you can say it is bad I agree, but I did read some parts in case there were something important). I’ll delete that part.

Thank you for your answer by the way. Even if that doesn’t seem like an valid excuse. They could have made at least something to finish the top. Right now it’s like glued to the skin, don’t want to be arrogant or to make the impression I know what I’m talking about, I’m not sure what I’m talking about, but would there be a problem with the leggings if they had made a real end to the top ? I don’t think it would have clipped through the leggings, since the top of it isn’t glued to the skin and have some thickness. It’s like if the corset would have been the belly of my character, continuing under the leggings (I’m not sure what I’m saying is clear). Couldn’t they finished the design with that ? I’m pretty sure they could have.