Guild Wars 2

I have been looking at shields for my Charr warrior and found a baffling and frustrating anomaly between PvE and PvP. While PvP models appear normal, identical (equivalent) PvE shield models are all essentially embedded in the arm of the Charr. While I have not been able to purchase and test all shield models, I observed this same problem for any shields that I owned in PvE while I was actually wielding them.

The following picture shows previews for identical PvP (top) and PvE (bottom) shield skins, illustrating the problem. The clipping is so extreme that any shield models are essentially obscured and an eyesore.

That’s not all, try wearing the scale armor (default PvP heavy armor) in PVE and you’ll see a hideous sight with the shoulder and arm pieces.

But there’s more though, for some reason newer characters don’t have any clipping issues in PvE. What’s up with that?

This inconsistency is a serious problem.