While I appreciate the efforts to listen to people and work on improving existing armour sets, do you not feel that resources and time would be far better spent fixing the appalling clipping issues that have been in the game since launch?
Rather depressingly, a huge number of armour sets across all genders, weights and classes have some sort of problem with various body parts clipping through the armour. The worst offender is Charr armour. Finding an armour set that does not clip with SOMETHING on my Charr is nigh on impossible. If it’s not the tail, it’s the horns getting sliced off by helms. If it’s not the horns getting sliced off, it’s sure to be some other annoying little mistake. The fact that our T3 Light Cultural has a SOLID SKIRT befuddles the mind quite frankly. I’d be willing to put up with the tail clipping in existing armours if it wasn’t for the fact that you are still giving us new armour skins where the tail clips. Your latest Gem store light armour skin (Trickster) for example. The skirt clips with the tail on Charr. Surpise, surprise. You’ve been told by players several times how much we hate the tail clipping, why are you still churning out armour with this problem?
It’s really not just Charr though. I have a max body shape female Norn Mesmer. Most of the light armours clip through her thighs at the front. At the back, it clips through itself so there is a patch of armour under layer peeping through the top layer rhythmically as she breathes. My female human Engineer? Boots clip through trenchcoats a lot of the time, and I had to reduce her hip size because it was distorting the shape of armour. And I know there’s other problems, that I’ve heard from other people, but I can’t confirm for myself as I don’t own every race, class and gender combo.
So why, I politely ask, would your first priority be to “fix” a “problem” with Sylvari cultural that didn’t even exist in the first place. You’ve clearly upset a lot of players with this change. I have a male Sylvari Warrior, so I’m fortunate not to have been affected by this “fix” yet, but I can foresee major issues occurring with my T2/Twilight Arbor combo I have on him. I already have enough trouble dying the combo to blend with each other as it is.
I’ve already said enough about how confused I am by your prioritising, Anet. And I do respect that you are trying your best to give us improved content here, so instead of complaining I’m going to give a suggestion now. In future, instead of introducing stuff like this in stealth patches, why not make a post on the forums proposing your planned changes? Tell us what you plan to do, give us a preview picture of what the changes look like, and then let us say yea or neigh. Take on board what the players say, and if people don’t like it keep the content the way it is, or go back and work on it more until they do. If people do like it, go ahead and plomp it in game.
