Guild Wars 2

Some armor doesn’t have weights, some shrink my arms to stupid sizes, and some armor just looks silly, I will include in one picture almost all my complaints…

Some of the armor for sylvari male looks enhanced in the chest area, but then looks wimpy in the arm area, some of it doesn’t have weights and just stretches out unnaturally, can we please fix some of these?

Featured above, is “VERY SKINNY ARMS, Weightless floating skirted legs.”

Here is “Super Large chest, normal arms, Super Large legs.”

Daecollo.9578:

Featured above, is “VERY SKINNY ARMS, Weightless floating skirted legs.”

Here is “Super Large chest, normal arms, Super Large legs.”

Look like a Helghast in the making there.

Now here is.
“Huge chest, regular arms, and Weightless legs.”

And for my final act….
“HULK ARMS, HULK CHEST…”

Looks consistent with all other armor for every other race/gender to me.

I don’t have these problems at all if I tested this armor on a human male, same body type too.

Rhysati.4932:

Looks consistent with all other armor for every other race/gender to me.

Are you serious? LOOK how weightless the legs and look how small the arms are and huge on other chest plates, there is NO consistence like human males have.

here is a picture of my human wearing the same armor as the first picture of my sylvari, the legs are weighted down, unlike my sylvari’s armor, and the arms are consistent with the chest piece.

Why is sylvari armor so stretched and inconsistent, its like they mixed up some body types when they made some of the pieces, some of it looks like it belongs in body type 1 or 3.

What body type is your sylvari? Near as I can tell your feet are just small in comparison with a humans. Also none of this armor was ever intended to be seen without heavy boots as well which would also account for the artists making the lower legs a bit narrower to ensure they would fit with any and all boot types. You can even see this effect on the human character you showed.

Of all the pics you posted the only one that looks a bit strange is the “hulk arms” as it appears there’s a lot of padding underneath that chainmail. Otherwise it all looks fine to me, it’s heavy armor with thick plates, that will change the way your figure looks a lot. Especially so with the Primeval armor (2nd screenshot), I had that armor on my warrior in GW1 and in some of the later beta weekends, those are very thick plates on the torso.

Sylvari bodies are, as a general rule, much skinnier and more straight-shaped than humans. A lot of armors across all types don’t seem to have been given proper shape adjustments to account for this (and we’re hardly the only race suffering from that, look at Asura and Charr) and so you get really weird scaling issues like waists that don’t fit, poofy skirts, distorted proportions, etc.

Best we can do is keep reporting these issues as we find them and hope they get around to them—there was a thread in the game bugs that was all about our scaling issues, but I can’t seem to find it anymore.

Riot Inducer.8964:

What body type is your sylvari? Near as I can tell your feet are just small in comparison with a humans. Also none of this armor was ever intended to be seen without heavy boots as well which would also account for the artists making the lower legs a bit narrower to ensure they would fit with any and all boot types. You can even see this effect on the human character you showed.

Of all the pics you posted the only one that looks a bit strange is the “hulk arms” as it appears there’s a lot of padding underneath that chainmail. Otherwise it all looks fine to me, it’s heavy armor with thick plates, that will change the way your figure looks a lot. Especially so with the Primeval armor (2nd screenshot), I had that armor on my warrior in GW1 and in some of the later beta weekends, those are very thick plates on the torso.

And what of the VERY skinny arms of the first picture, along with the weightless legs? (the skirt is SUPPOST to be pulled down, but its stretched out like it was meant to fit a norn.)

I am hoping this will be fixed soon.. :/

It’s not just heavy armour. Many of the non-racial armours of all classes, have similar effects. Many of the coats, ands designs which have long tails etc billow out unweighted. Some of the coats I picked up, levelling my sylvari ranger and thief, just looked horrendous. From the back they look like victorian dresses, the ones with the huge kitten thing going on. My sylvari are typically the largest body size. Maybe that’s what is causing the issue. Largest type for syl, looks like standard for other classes while retaining the large marker in armour.

Result, ballooned up clothing.

I have a problem with my Sylvari guardians armor color. I chose Sky blue, Silt and Dust as my colors when I made this char. Nowadays it doesn’t let me to change the colors cept on my shoes.

I go to dye section and try to put different color but when I ‘confirm’ the new dye and close H window to look at my character it still shows the old dyes.

I sent report more than 2 weeks ago so I hope it to be fixed soon!

Yea female sylvaris have like calves of justice, and tiny feet. It doesnt look right to me and for the longest time I didn’t want one because of their strange calve to feet proportion lol I can’t offer any advice but besides picking more bulky looking armor to even out the weird lanky-ness

Is there going to be a fix for this?

This isn’t just one issue, it’s individual armor pieces that were not scaled correctly and need to be readjusted. These kinds of art problems are being steadily worked on, and your best bet is to go report them as you see them to the game bugs forum (they have a sticky for game art problems) so that they can add them to their list and get to them when they can.

This could still use a fix.

Daecollo.9578:

This could still use a fix.

you are defenitly right, the armor on sylvari doesnt fit, with medium armor u have flying shoulders, great… i agree that this needs a fix! shouldnt be that big of a deal to fix

http://www.gw2armor.com/sylvari/male/honor/heavy/display.php

Tell me this doesn’t look wrong…

I agree. My brand new Sylvari male mesmer (light armor) even looks weird in his armor, like he suddenly decided to sport an adult diaper (dumpy butt). I’m only level 9 so I might reroll as female. Male Sylvari have definite armor issues.

On my Sylvari Engineer, I have trouble with the larger shoulder armors (which I use to alleviate my character’s extremely thin body build) floating too high, so that you can see under them when running.

I have the same problem on my Male Sylvari Ranger. So far all the leather coats I find that hang down below the waste are flared out really far. It’s like I have a really big butt and hips. In fact most of the medium armors I’ve found so far, clearly seem to be too big for me. It’s as if I have an aura about me that pushes the clothes 6 or so inches away from my character’s body.

I don’t remember what body type I have.

Soltanus.6753:

I have the same problem on my Male Sylvari Ranger. So far all the leather coats I find that hang down below the waste are flared out really far. It’s like I have a really big butt and hips. In fact most of the medium armors I’ve found so far, clearly seem to be too big for me. It’s as if I have an aura about me that pushes the clothes 6 or so inches away from my character’s body.

I don’t remember what body type I have.

Yes, and it feels like nobody is doing anything about it either… :/

You should either re-post or move this to the bugs forum.

I tried that before.

I have this exact issue with Medium Armours on my Sylvari and its driving me nuts. Its near impossible to make them look as cool as the humans do as nearly all medium armours have some sort of coat, which bulges out and looks really lame on my sylvari. I only realised this since I’ve been trying to get exotic armour and I love my sylvari, I realllllllly want a fix for this