Guild Wars 2

Also: if I can’t get a bondage-esque outfit for my male human Thief, I’m going to be very disappointed.

SuperSpicyCurry.2415:

Seriously!? You’re complaining about a weird claw boob thing? If you want digitalkitten so bad play a med armor human female and get the underboob armor. I’m sick of people complaining about there being too few revealing female armors. There are plenty while the males have significantly less options.

To me it’s nothing about being revealing, but rather the art style of the armor. It doesn’t feel as “raw” as it used to. I don’t/won’t be playing a female warrior/guardian any time soon for it, but other players are.

lorazcyk.8927:

I vote for your suggestion, I think it’s good to have options.
However I would prefer if they make revealing armor for males first. You females already have a ton of options, having one less (though this one is still plenty revealing) won’t really hurt your options. Males however, are terribly lacking.

Agreed. It just baffles me that every angle of a female’s breast can be shown by certain pieces of armour (aside from the nipples) and yet male characters are forced into being ‘flat’ when it comes to their intimate areas. Why there’s a lack of bulging leather, underwear and large codpieces is beyond me. I’d want it done tastefully, but I do admit that it’s irritating when I see every other female in skimpy attire only to see male characters limited so severely.

While I disagree that we should have skimpy heavy armor (because it doesn’t make sense)…

I think that the art style is slightly… Ruined by the additions of hiding things. Like it was said, it looks less savage or in my own words raw and powerful.

Attention: This request was brought on on guildwarsguru but the thread was closed due to the insulting behavior from some users opposed to the idea. If you object to this suggestion, please do so in a respectable manner.

During the betas, numerous people, myself included, went to preview the armors available in the game from the PvP locker. I was quite happy to notice the happy medium between the fully functionnal armors and the skimpy ones. Those that wanted to wear practical armor that covers the whole body entirely had numerous armor choices, as well as those who wanted to display the more revealing armors.

Wheter you prefered one or the other, you had the choice.

At release, a few armors were censored, most notably the heavy arah armor, now some of you might be wondering why, as all there was no censorship for the more revealing light and medium armors.

Why am I focusing on the Arah armor ? Well it’s because there is eight dungeon armors, they are most probably the most time consuming pieces of equipement to obtain, and Guild Wars 2 endgoal is basically to acquire the best looking/most sought out armors. Of these eight, only the Arah armor was skimpy, all the others are in the practical armor category. Those that enjoy this type of armor are rejoyed of course, but those that don’t are left behind.

Dungeon armor skins beta: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/uploads/gallery/album_197/gallery_3318_197_23334.jpg

There are of course, other skimpy heavy armors in the game, but they have no “prestige” like the dungeon armors, as they can either be crafted, or obtained for really cheap on the trading post.

Some might say that the change Anet implemented to the armor is very minor, but as one user mentionned in the guru thread, the change might be small, but it is very noticeable, with the beta armor, your eyes are immediately drawn to the chest piece area, which is the whole point of skimpy armors, to turn your eyes to the partly covered private areas of the female body. With the new version of the armor however, you are not, nothing special catch your attention in comparison to the original.

Beta: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/Ashariel/Heavy91.jpg

Release: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/Ashariel/gw108.jpg

Of an artistic point of view, it also seems worse, as the armor was highly unsymmetrical, which made its charm, but with the change, it seems more bland, less wild and savage.

On a final note, a lot of people will read this thread and feel this request is trivial and not worth the time, they might even object to having skimpy armors in the game but the fact is, you can’t change it, there is already. You might be annoyed of the impractical nature of skimpy armors in general, but the vast majority of heavy armors in the game covers the entire body, is asking for only one so bad ?

Revealing armors are very popular, suffice to look into a character screenshot thread to notice.

In the end, I just don’t understand the reason for this change, as there is still a lot of skimpy armors/clothing in the game, why change this one in particular ? The only skimpy dungeon heavy armor ?

So here is my request Anet, please revert back to the beta skin to the heavy arah armor.

Thank you.

Addendum: As mentionned in the first lines of the message, if you are opposed to the idea, you are very much free to voice your opinion, but let it be in a civil manner, there is no need for those who like revealing armors and those that dislike them to fling insults to one another.