Guild Wars 2

Last week after one of the patches a number of Charr Heavy armor shoulder graphics had their size and look changed. I am trying to find out if this was an intentional change or is a bug currently being worked on.

Because at the moment items like the T3 Charr female shoulder armor look terrible. The reduced size is one thing but the over all shape of the design is different and, at least on my model makes it look like melted plastic. For a piece of armor i spent 20 gold on, this is a huge disappointment and my interest in getting the T3 set, as well as any other bugged/changed set on my female Charr has gone to zero. Since getting nice skins is considered an endgame feature find this a serious issue.

Here are some images showing the difference from the old look to the new.

OLD T3
!https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/10739/before.png!

NEW T3
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/10741/after.png

OLD T3

http://i.imgur.com/F9KHB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CAPGZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3KQIT.jpg

NEW T3

http://i.imgur.com/4rNuZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/a8M3z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cVTAK.jpg

Not only are the shoulders now half the size of the males, the muzzle design is pushed in and less detailed, and the back portion is warped and missing half of it, which seems to bend inward onto itself. It just overall looks terrible.

OLD Gladiator Shoulders

http://i.imgur.com/wsvNe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/m8kxa.jpg

NEW Glad

http://i.imgur.com/V5obp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ChiFO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/anw1g.jpg

Now I imagine this change, if intentional was intended to fix the horrible clipping/ floating issues on many Charr shoulder armors that are clearly do to rushed production, but as it stand if you look at the second to last New Glad Screen shot they floating problem still exists, and now us females look like we are wearing toy pauldrons .
On behalf of myself and all other female Charrs I’d like to know Arnet, if this was an intentional change, and if you really think those T3 shoulders look better now, because i would never spend 20 gold for them as they are now (they really did not have much of a floating issues to begin with).

Well the changes are quite significant on those shoulders, Im not sure if they wanted to define the differences between female and male charrs with that, but it looks so… wrong to me. The shoulder differences is noticeable and quite a turn off of wanting to buy any and at that price too.

Looks like a problem that needs fixing. I would be very disappointed in that buy seeing the before and after photos. Let’s get it fixed!

Would greatly love a Arnet response.

still would love some response on this.

If you haven’t, this should be posted/noted in this thread too.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Seeing-map-armors-stuck-weapons-or-other-art-issues/first

I think i’ll do just that, thanks for the tip.

Huh, I thought I saw something odd on the Sentinels in Blazeridge but I couldn’t quite place it. It was this! They are wearing gold T3 shoulders and I distinctly remember thinking they looked weird for some reason, and now I know why.

That is too bad, because I saw a female Charr player in full T3 not too long ago and thought it looked really good. I wonder when that model change happened?

Also, I really hope “differentiation” in female vs male armor doesn’t happen. The fact armor is the same between both is an enormous plus to me.

Yeah it really is disappointing Aryto, is does not look better in any way what so ever, particularly in regards to T3. Since Charr females don’t get different armor skins like other races, it seems silly that we should have to suffer the humiliation of being considered weaker with smaller looking armor.

Still hoping for a response

Tis’ like shouting in the wind o here.

Y super necro post but looks like they never ever wanted to fix this problem for Tier 3 Charr shoulders, they bend so much its a terrible design flaw.
This is since the start of the game, Anet asked to report stuff via ingame or on forum, but they never explaned why they dont or cant or changed those shoulders.