Guild Wars 2

So, the orders all seem to have uniforms and special colors. However, I have noticed that some NPCs deviate from this occassionally. For instance, I know Forgal’s wearing some cultural armor with the Vigil armor, the one guy you meet in the Norn PS representing the Vigil is wearing cultural armor as well.

There are some just not even wearing pieces related to their order, but just have the same color scheme?

Me being kind of an in-head RPer, this was something that always came up for me. So, what do the regulations on uniform armor seem to be with the orders? It seems like the higher ranks got the more lax dress-code, but I could be wrong.

Almorra seems to give permission to outstanding individuals to go outside dress code – according to Dougal Keane who joined the Vigil after the events of Ghosts of Ascalon.

The Order of Whispers I’d imagine to be very lax overall, given their spy network and secret society persona.

Priory is hard to tell.

In the case of Priory and Whispers, I think it’s a case of being ‘dress uniform’. You’d wear it for formal events and out of a sense of community, but neither organisation is militaristic enough to insist on it at all times.

In the case of Vigil, I suspect the laxness is a kind of pragmatism – the exceptional individuals in question possibly have access to higher-quality stuff than Vigil standard issue and may object to being asked to wear inferior gear in battle, and it also serves to make leaders more recognisable.

I do have to wonder, though, why Almorra seems to have a fetish for revealing the waists on human, norn, and sylvari women, and why the uniforms of women of those three races are so sexualised in general. But I digress.

Maybe because the cats don’t have huge breasts – her first priority was getting those strapped down so they don’t cause trouble. To her alien eye it seemed like a central issue…

Cross-racial clothing design is bound to include some ‘oops’ moments .

Vigil armor straps down boobies in no way at all – well, it does, but not in a way a sports attire does, for example. Maybe cleavage is emphasized to make male soldiers stand at attention when serving under a female superior?