Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I don’t know if this really is a bug but I play a Charr and noticed that some of the pauldrons practically float on your shoulders.

You can see the underside and the background through it and it’s really ugly when running, especially since the Charr run on all fours.
I have a Norn warrior too, and they have the same problem but the pauldrons aren’t floating as high.

I don’t know if this is unintentional or supposed to prevent clipping but I’d rather have shoulder armor that doesn’t look totally out of place. You’ll be staring on their backs for 90% of your playtime anyway so that little bit of chest clipping on the front wouldn’t be so bad IMO. I currently have shoulder armor turned invisible until I get a better set but it just looks incomplete.

I’m wearing the feathered (level 75-80 tailor armor) chestpiece and mantle in my attached picture and as you can see it’s really bad. The dry bones set had it, too.

I noticed this as well with my new “citadel of flame” shoulders and i must say it’s painful to watch.. It looked somewhat ok at preview, but when you observe it from other angles it’s “floating”. Such a shame, cause i really like the looks of the shoulders, they are just placed awkwardly. It seems like female charrs have these issues more than other characters. I know it’s not as bad as the op’s shoulders, but still.

Similar issue happens with medium SE shoulders on Charr. The piece comes with a section that widely surrounds the neck, but on a Charr, it’s just unconnected to the body piece.

Yeah, this is extremely common on Charr. Really limits the number of shoulder armor pieces you can use, on a race that is already quite limited in the number of things that look okay on them.

I always make my characters the smallest size and I assume that’s the reason why I have this issue with my female warrior charr, my female human guardian and my female norn ranger.
Nearly every shoulder armor looks terrible (but not all, some indeed do fit a little bit more)…

The size of the Charr character doesn’t make a difference, but there is a difference between male & female Charr— females suffer more than males.

((Bought a complete makeover kit for this very purpose, in case the only way to wear the armours I want turns out to be to turn my female character male))