Guild Wars 2

After perusing the new hairstyles and such released in the latest vanity updates, I’m starting to feel that segregating the Charr by gender is … well, silly.

On near every basis aside from the creation of our characters, the Charr have been unisex. It’s actually something I’ve come to greatly enjoy about them, too. Yet for some reason it has been decided that hair styles (or horns, which seem a little odd to split as well) need to be kept separate.

… okay, I’ll be honest: the reason I’m posting this is because I main a female Charr and I’m intensely jealous of my male counterparts who got some fabulous new hairstyles I will not be able to make use of. (I’d even considered shelling out for a makeover kit, but that feels wrong, you know? I can’t just erase the character I’ve played for years for a hairstyle!)

Since all our outfits and almost everything else are already unisex, why not just make “CharrLooks” be a thing and let all Charr mix and match? I could understand keeping faces separated (mostly because of structure issues there and the hassle of remapping bones to different bodies), but horns and hair seem quite trivial.

I bring this up from having spoken with a few guildmates earlier in the day. Several replied with similar feelings: wishing they could have used a female-exclusive set of horns, or wishing they could use a male-only buffed-up appearance.

Considering how long the vanity of the players has been a huge focus for ArenaNet and the Guild Wars franchise (I have very fond memories of GW1), it almost seems silly to have this sort of a limitation!

(I would even go so far as to say the Sylvari are another good candidate for a unified chargen palette, all things considered.)

I enjoy the differences between the genders. Personally I feel it would be a sad day if I could only really determine a Charr’s gender by their tail alone. Granted, that is how many players identify them…. But as almost all of my characters are female charr, I’ve come to recognize male and female by their horns, faces, and hair just as easily.

You choose to view this as a limitation.
I see it as specialty customizations for each gender.

While I’ll never play a male character, and therefor will most likely not have access to their specific customization options, I can still admire them when I see other players running by.