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Sort of an irrelevant aside, re: GW1. Almost every set of assassin armor made one look like a tool. Spikes everywhere. You can’t stealthily assassin someone if you get tangled up in the curtains because of all those senseless protrusions.
Only class I never really played much of.
Bearhugger, that’s not exactly true.
scantily clad heavy options in addition to the one you mentioned:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Barbaric_armor_human_female_front.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Pit_Fighter_armor_human_female_front.jpg
Mostly clothed light:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Student_armor_human_female_front.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Dry_Bones_armor_human_female_front.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Acolyte_armor_human_female_front.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Cabalist_armor_human_female_front.jpg
to name a few. And that’s drawing just from crafting, loot and karma. ANet was clearly thinking about options for more reasonably clothed female characters when they were designing their armor. And completely ignoring the inverse, which I think is crucial if you’re looking for some real balance in terms of how you handle gender, etc.
Edited for typo.
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Scantily clad sorceress? Check! Scantily clad sorcerer? … Yeah, about that…
As it stands I can have female human, sylvari and norn characters wearing about as much or as little armor as one could want, which is great! The same is not remotely true for male characters of the light and medium tier (heavy armor is actually pretty well balanced in this respect! Kudos!). Many of the male PCs are gorgeous and I’d like the option to celebrate that fact. GW2 needs more basic variety in male armor skins, and they ideally should be available via loot, karma or crafting, not behind a paywall (speaking as someone who has bought gems at regular intervals) as this isn’t something that should be considered special, etc.
I have heaped praise upon this game for so many reasons, but this has always been an obvious and disappointing short coming.
Is this something we’ll ever see? Is the armor skin staff unable to imagine men in attractive armor? Perhaps there’s something wrong there.
My cultivated seed has been converted to a pet seed as well.
Made the backpiece a week or so ago. The cultivated seed was sitting in my character’s inventory, and I only noticed the change after having completed the story and activated the various new items.
I’d really like to see some more diversity in the armors available for male characters. While I can have a scantily clad sorceress, I can’t have a similarly scantily clad sorcerer, and this is tremendously disappointing. I praise this game highly and one of the few criticisms I have is of this imbalance. I’d really like to see both genders have functional, and impractically revealing armor options at all tiers and armor types.
We see a considerable diversity in the armor selection for female humans at least. I’d really like to see some more diversity in their male counterparts. I want to be able to make a similarly scantily clad male elementalist, and while there are some pieces that may come together and accomplish that, there’re no sets that are remotely as attractive as the female armor sets.