Guild Wars 2

This may sound petty and weird in light of the challenges of building a fun and dynamic game world, but here’s my plea to you artists and developers out there… my one heartfelt wish for the new expansion: can you please, please create some practical armours for norn and human female characters in light and medium weights? I play a human female elementalist and engineer. Nearly every armour set for females has either a coattail or a skirt or is impractically ornate and what I would truly love to have are some options that look genuinely usable as armour, or at least something that wouldn’t trip me up in a fight. Something like pants and a breastplate, or a shirt and breeches. I’ve cobbled together a couple of sets that work for me but there really are so few options.

Again, I understand that you guys have what must seem like an impossible number of things going on right now (I work in a development environment and deadlines are rough), but back before GW2 had its first beta weekend, one of the things which I loved about this game were the clothes that the regular human citizens were wearing. I thought that my characters would get to wear those clothes. Some of the armour sets you’ve created look great, no doubt, but the the many coattails and skirts, and the hyper-sexy/opulent/impractical designs don’t really do it for me. I would love nothing more than to look like a serious, capable fighter when playing a light- or medium-armour class.

Please let me know what you think. Thank you so much for giving us this awesome game. Can’t wait to explore the new world!

You can have your pants when they give me some medium-armour dresses, skirts, and/or trenchcoats that are non-cinched.
>:-)

Truly! Trench coats do not form-fit in my (albeit limited) experience. It’s like the Rubicon was trying real hard but then just couldn’t let the hourglass go….