Guild Wars 2

The face of the Mother Tree (Sylvari) is exactly the face I want for my Sylvari character, and, for that matter a character of another race.

Why aren’t the necessary customizations to make this face available to the player?

all the major characters are not replicable. it’s the keep them unique.

Forget the face. I just want her hair and the outfit she has (with the glow of course though w/o it works too).

Maybe humans wanted Balthazar’s face, but they don’t get that. Unique characters should probably remain unique.

You can get close to Caithe’s face but like everyone says you can’t get their face.

I don’t mean that there should be a ‘mirror-image’ option. I just want the base shapes and sliders available.

“Keeping the characters unique” as an excuse to limit the amount of customization possible, is just dumb kitten

Like anyone really cares what somebody else’s face looks like anyway.

Pure Heart.1456:

I don’t mean that there should be a ‘mirror-image’ option. I just want the base shapes and sliders available.

“Keeping the characters unique” as an excuse to limit the amount of customization possible, is just dumb kitten

Like anyone really cares what somebody else’s face looks like anyway.

It’s not dumb, they’re important NPCs. They want the significant NPCs to have strong, reconizable appearances. Having players running around with the Pale Tree’s face, of all NPCs, would hurt how special and beautiful her appearance is because it’s not unique. They kinda need to stand out.

I still have a hard time not seeing Malyck every time I click on the face option that mirrors his in the character creation.

I’m going to give you a really simple answer for this one: The Pale Tree is not a Sylvari (her avatar is not Sylvari either, it’s just slightly Sylvari-ish which she does because it makes it easier for the Sylvari to view her in a motherly way I guess?)

I can understand you wanting to be able to achieve something like this though and why it gets annoying. You only have to take one look at Zoja and compare her to EVERY single other Asura to realise she hardly looks like them.. Caithe also has a really strange face/markings compared to other Sylvari. I understand Anet wanting to make them stand out, but it does make people feel as though their own choices are limited (which they are in a lot of ways, hopefully later expansions bring more customisation)

@Ba air,

I’m not saying the idea of not being able to look like an NPC is dumb. I get that.
I’m saying its lame how we’re so limited in base face shapes and sliders.

Pure Heart.1456:

@Ba air,

I’m not saying the idea of not being able to look like an NPC is dumb. I get that.
I’m saying its lame how we’re so limited in base face shapes and sliders.

But we’re not really limited? The Sylvari get a ton of faces and the sliders are plenty to create some really unique looks. Not getting a few faces for NPCs is not limiting us much.

Ba air.1372:

Pure Heart.1456:

@Ba air,

I’m not saying the idea of not being able to look like an NPC is dumb. I get that.
I’m saying its lame how we’re so limited in base face shapes and sliders.

But we’re not really limited? The Sylvari get a ton of faces and the sliders are plenty to create some really unique looks. Not getting a few faces for NPCs is not limiting us much.

Take a look at some other MMOs, or even single player games. (Age of Conan or Aion for example). Then you will notice how limited Guild Wars 2 is in this respect.

Pure Heart.1456:

Ba air.1372:

Pure Heart.1456:

@Ba air,

I’m not saying the idea of not being able to look like an NPC is dumb. I get that.
I’m saying its lame how we’re so limited in base face shapes and sliders.

But we’re not really limited? The Sylvari get a ton of faces and the sliders are plenty to create some really unique looks. Not getting a few faces for NPCs is not limiting us much.

Take a look at some other MMOs, or even single player games. (Age of Conan or Aion for example). Then you will notice how limited Guild Wars 2 is in this respect.

I’ve played Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age with their huge amount of sliders and what have you. Yep we’re still not that limited. The amount of options we have is very reasonable and makes it easy to make a myriad of unique and interesting characters. The only thing I’d really ask for is more body types really. Yes it would be nice to have more but to tell me that GW2 character creation is limited is kinda laughable.

I don’t know about ALL the important NPCs being unable to be replicated… I’ve seen plenty of Logan Thackerys running about in DR…