It’s been a few years now, and light armour looks as amazing on female humans as ever – yet I find it severely lacking in the human male department.
On Mesmers, especially, I’d much prefer to wear coats and pants over dresses and robes – which, don’t get me wrong, works wonderfully on Elementalists and Necromancers, but are – in my own, humble opinion – not a great fit on the aristocratic master of illusion.
The Noble Count outfit has an amazing looking chestpiece! Alas, I don’t want to wear entire outfits, much preferring to mix and match myself.
Any word on coming light armour designs? Lyssa’s armour, perhaps?
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu, Art of War
It depends on personal taste. I think female light armour is generally terrible as it ranges from 1900s fully covered drab to kitten with very little middle ground and slanted more to the latter.
Edit: Figured that word would be blocked. Kitten = someone who “gives it away” and is “very easy”.
It depends on personal taste. I think female light armour is generally terrible as it ranges from 1900s fully covered drab to kitten with very little middle ground and slanted more to the latter.
Yeah, I agree. I switched my Mesmer from Sylvari to Charr for precisely this reason (which had its own set of problems).
Armor in this game is made with female human and norn in mind. In case you didn’t look at Luminescent or Dwayna armor, or mostly everything for that matter, males are an afterthought.
I managed to put together a pretty good look for my male sylvari Mesmer, but it took a lot of doing, and I’m not sure what else to do. It’s mostly a combination of the Honor of the Waves and Vigil sets, with Exalted shoulders.
At least there’s the Exemplar’s Attire outfit for some GW1 Mesmer goodness, right?
Well I always hated the long cloaks and robes and clothing hanging like drapes so I gave my mesmer a bit more “modern” twist, (I guess)
Head doesn’t matter to me (if only I had those Wide rim glasses)
Inquest Vest
Shoulder Scarf
Gloves….I tend to not use..Idk why it’s on in this pic.
Ascalonian Performer pants
Conjurer shoes
I try to sway away from that common theme of purple, pink, magenta or most shades of red.
Illustrious shirt and pants and the rest is just glorious armor, Illustrious dyed with antique gold and glorious with white and illumination
I managed to put together a pretty good look for my male sylvari Mesmer, but it took a lot of doing, and I’m not sure what else to do. It’s mostly a combination of the Honor of the Waves and Vigil sets, with Exalted shoulders.
At least there’s the Exemplar’s Attire outfit for some GW1 Mesmer goodness, right?
I agree that light armor on human males looks meh compared to females.
I’m bad at mixing & matching myself (i think, honestly never really bothered with it) but I love he Trickster set.
One of the only light armor sets that looks good on males.
Here is my little mesmer male asura Assassin I made yesterday. Think it should work on humans as well. Looks bad kitten to me. Winged headpiece, Magician Mantle, Vigil’s honor vest, Vigil’s honor leggings, Vigil’s honor boots, and Flame Legion Wraps. Dye colors are just brick and iron.
I managed to put together a pretty good look for my male sylvari Mesmer, but it took a lot of doing, and I’m not sure what else to do. It’s mostly a combination of the Honor of the Waves and Vigil sets, with Exalted shoulders.
At least there’s the Exemplar’s Attire outfit for some GW1 Mesmer goodness, right?
That is an amazing look! O.O
Thank you! It took a lot of effort to finally find a combination of armor and dyes that I liked and that worked well with his skin/hair (leaf) color.
Light Armor on human males is generally mediocre to terrible. There are some great pieces here and there, but because there’s so few of them, they might not even fit your intended character’s style while the ones that do are completely ugly.
GW2 is a game that prizes itself on cosmetic horizontal progression, but, apparently, it does not have enough talent to pull it off. Some excellent armor artworks are translated poorly into the in-game models, some excellent models can’t save the terrible art that sustains them, and only very occasionally will you get a set of armor that looks both artistically and technically good.
It’s not just human males. Norn males are deformed, hideous creatures with huge gap between their legs, a hunching pose with shoulders going inwards, drooping manboobs, and undersized heads for the body size. They have a bad case of chicken legs so tiny and stubby compared to their larger upper body.
If anything needs help in this game, it’s male norns. They look absurd in almost everything.
I’m mentally kicking myself for joining the Order of Whispers instead of the Vigil – the light armour provided from the Vigil (especially the legs) are actually quite nice.
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu, Art of War
As far as male armor go, you do have some decent, robeless options.
If you have GW1 and EotN, the legacy armor is very good for a noble look, as long as you leave the headpiece off. I personnaly go with a monocle with that, but it doesn’t come cheap.
You can also get a nice dueling vibe for a moderate price with the following:
- human t1 (“researcher”) shoulder armor;
- ascalonian catacombs chestpiece;
- human t2 (“aristocrat”) pants;
- vigil boots;
Glove and headpiece as you see fit
Pssh. As someone who would prefer to have options for the ability to have her female mesmer wear snappy suits, I’m constantly envious of a lot of the male light armor mixes and outfits that I see. This is about as close as I’m allowed to get. How I would love to be able to wear the male Noble Count or Wedding version. The male light Heritage and Illustrious armors are also way better and more detailed than the female. So remember how lucky you are.
