Back in BWE1 there were complaints on starter gear being the same across all races. Not only were people bummed about lack of diversity in choice between the professions, but also in racial armor.
Immersion in creating a race outside Human was brought up. The non-Human races’ NPCs all wear their racially themed clothing/armor. Yet, the hero was not. They were stuck wearing human themed armor.
This complaint continued in BWE2 and became worse with BWE3 when the Sylvari and Asuran were playable. Sylvari players were even more upset than the Charr and Norn players that their avatars were stuck in human armor as it completely clashed with their avatars.
We were told by a dev at one point “It would get better later”.
Personally, I’m still waiting. Racial armor was reduced in price for the 1st tier. Dungeon armor is still locked* behind a horrid grind. And my level 80 is trying to afford a single piece of tier 3 racial armor so I don’t have a “butt cape”.
It is IMO, a severe lack of valid (good looking) armor across the game that kills a lot of the potential replay of the game. As an alt-aholic and usual collector of armor sets; there is very little for me to strive for.
So, I agree. Very boring design in armor and much of it clashes with anything but humans.
*I say locked behind, because there is no alternative way to get these armor skins. Dungeons are currently too difficult for their reward. I’m all for harder content, as long as the reward fits the challenge. But currently, challenge is gold coin and exotic item worthy not 10s in the hole and white salvage items… bleh
