Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if any other charr players have noticed, but since the last patch ArenaNet seems to have changed the way some charr should armor scales with their bodytype.

Since I chose the skinniest charr body type for my female warrior this has drastically changed the way some shoulder armor now looks on her. Of course, this is much easier to show than explain so I have attached a comparison below. The first screenshot is before the change, the second one is after.

Gotta say, pretty bummed about this. The t3 cultural shoulders went from looking amazing to looking puny and well… Let’s just say I won’t be buying them now. I actually only noticed this because I was RIGHT about to buy them after saving up the gold. Glad I previewed them first. D:

Not sure what all shoulders have been affected by this change, but I know my Jofast’s Pauldrons have also been affected. They shrunk in size as well but the plates closest to the neck used to clip through the shoulder pads before and now they don’t. So, happy about that fix at least.

Anyways, I’m not sure if the way this change is affecting some shoulders for charr is considered a bug or not and I apologize if I’m posting this in the wrong forum. However, I did want to get this out there in hopes that maybe it can be addressed or fine tuned a bit more. Glad to at least see some changes going on for charr armor!

That’s a bit disappointing because I was saving up for those! They looked great before. I do hope they reconsider and revert (if this was intentional)

The upper arm portion of the armour is also different, not just the shoulder piece, so it was almost certainly manually tweaked.

I don’t know why. It made her look a lot more intimidating before, in the second one you can see how small she really is. It would make any Charr look smaller, honestly, and that doesn’t seem like a very Charr-like thing to do.

Yes, it’s more streamlined and less clunky looking, and that’s the problem; sometimes clunky works. An artist/designer needs to know when to quit and leave things alone.

My Charr, while male, also has the smallest/thinnest body type. I kinda hope none of the medium armours have this problem.

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I would also like the t3 charr shoulder pad to go back to original. Atm its too narrow from the side.

I also have the smallest female build for my engineer. The only shoulders that I’ve found so far that don’t look silly, are the pirate ones sadly – and that’s because they’re so small you can’t see the glaring problems.

For some reason, most medium shoulderpads float above my shoulders quite noticeably. It’s particularly easy to see, since I’m running on all fours most of the time… I’ll check it out on my Charr thief – she’s average built.

Wow, now I need to go check this on my Charr. That’s a real downer if that is the way it would look.

I prefer it the new way. Right now there are exactly four heavy shoulder skins in the game that don’t float on my female charr. This is become one of them, and it’s sadly the only cultural option. They don’t look puny: they look proportionate compared to the over-exagerrated Warcraft orc look that tends to plague our armor design.