This is one thing that consistently upsets me in Gw2. This game seems to be pretty on the ball for the anatomically correctness of Races. With two major races the Charr and Asura being very well handled.
The Charr males and females are almost distinguishable. Much like animals they their sexual characteristics are are minimal are could only be noticeable when naked. The underwear on female covering up its midsection covering most likely multiple nipples indicating they probably breed in litters and males only covering up the crotch for clear reasons. They are a great example of sticking to a clearly truthful anatomic aesthetic. Like bears, tigers, and wolves its hard to distinguish a male from a female unless seeing their private parts.
Asura are another great example. Both nearly indistinguishable indicating gender are a rather less important issue for them. Their time underground has probably caused them to develop with intelligence of both genders being equally important for their survival. This raises various interesting questions about certain aspects of their society such as what do they see as desirable qualities in mates and how each gender views one another. It’s an interesting design in my opinon. Although their underwear does the classic covering of the midsection for females we do know that certain armors let you see that female asuras apparently don’t have nipples. But whether this is a game fault or not is as far as I know not answered.
We also see this in various lesser races such as quaggan and skrit where you aren’t able to really tell male from female for clear reasons. As animal based races they shouldn’t be having the human baby barring hips and breasts.
Now when this aesthetic comes to the sylvari they seem to have put no thought in this. They are sprouted from the pale tree there for shouldn’t have any form of gender. Male and female seems an irrelevant term in their society since people choose their beloved from someone born during the same time as they are born. So if they are plants and don’t have sex to make more of them why do they have breasts and clear humanistic sexual body types. It makes no sense and really makes me resent them as a race. I understand some plants do have gender qualities but this wouldn’t manifest its self as breasts or kittenes. Also being born from the pale tree means they don’t breed.
Why i bring up this point is that this feels like a wasted opportunity. We perhaps could have had a walking plant race that could have been much more unique. Maybe a shambling pile of vines in human form or A walking Venus flytrap with humanoid appendages for better movement. It would have been made all the more interesting if they harbored the same enthusiastic behavior of the current sylvari with a less human face added.
Just some thoughts running though my head. I love the Asuras and charr and like how they stuck to a great racial design, But the Sylvari seem to be a quickly designed races just to get a new elf like race rushed in.
Thoughts?
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same problem here bro this needs to get fixed.
same I want my reward Pls
People just need to stop using signets in every slot. Its just terrible and people need to stop it.
Lvl 80 Prestige Armor should always be exotic (culturaltier3*cough*)
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Posted by: Champagne Showers.1036
So true literally going to make a thread on this.
The Armor is too expensive to be worth it and The weapons cost too much karma imo. They should be exotic just so they make it worth getting. Why buy rare weapons when the Temple armor costs less Karma and are better it.