Guild Wars 2

Darn, you all T1 heavy users make me thinking on getting it, but I don’t have munniez to get the fine stones. Degrading armor to lv 79 and transmuting that sounds kind of overkill to me too

Yeah, that and the skirt are the reasons I never get that skin. ;p

I don’t know if people would like this, but I remember there was a unique feature for female dark elves in Lineage 2, when wearing armors with a big collar, their hair mesh swapped to a high ponytail. I think TERA does that too? I’m not sure, but browsing TERA’s files, I’ve noticed that every long female hairstyle has a variation with a an elegant bun.

Something like this as an optional switch would be great.

Race: Human
Gender: Female
Class: Elementalist
Armor: Heritage Light
Body type: In character creation it’s probably – second “page”, lower row, far right preset. I can’t confirm that having no free slot to create a character. There are two quite proportional presets, one with larger, one with smaller breasts. It’s the second one, with distinct muscle lines (ele with abs, got a prob with that? ). I’m including a screen if that helps.

The clipping illustrated on the screens is constant. It gets worse around the waist depending of the moves the character does. Corset looks fine, but adjusting the skirt at that areas would be my suggestion.

helladoom.4317:

Is making few copper bars that painful, really? Just asking.

Painful? How about fun?

Well, if you were doing previous dailies, you surely got mats in your bank. You take those (just the gathering tools cost, even not if you got tools from the personal story), take any crafting profession (free), craft the basic stuff (copper ore to copper bars being the easiest example) and sell it on TP! Do I lose anything from it? Two minutes of my time. Do I gain something? Munniez on emergency WP and repairs! Not much for someone like me who just explores maps, but you know what they say, a penny saved is penny earned. It makes me happy.

Edit: Also TIL Sparkfly Fen is awesome for dailies.

Mine is probably unoriginal as they come, but her appearance was decided long time ago, I was a fan of Roan Fierceheart. He was a Mo/Me if I remember clearly, and always standing at the entrance to the CoF, majestic as hell. xD
I gave her non complicated horns though in case I’d like to draw her someday. Not very good at that, so just wanted to keep it simple. Well, close enough.

Is making few copper bars that painful, really? Just asking.

Clipping will occur always. It’s unavoidable with the way the things are made. I’m not even sure if reducing the clipping would be possible to do, a dev would have to give some insight. Even if it was, I’m sure it would 1) be difficult as hell since there’s so many armors. 2) could not be possible to implement without requiring some godly PC setup.

I have an ele with the longest, straight hair, and it’s not that scary as I thought it could be. It’s actually the first game where I enjoy having a toon with a long hair.
Upper part (of this particular hairstyle) is rigged to move with the neck, so they’re stretching, you might find that ugly if you tend to fixate on details, and below that, they are animated with game physics.

They (long hairstyles in general) will clip with staves and armors with large collars/shoulder pieces. You can create a toon, teleport to the Mists, go to PVP locker and try out sets in preview.

As someone who played around with 3D models extracted from games, I can just say, clipping is sometimes the only way, need to learn to live with that.

Kagato.4061:

A lot of the human female emotes are pretty cute in my opinion.

Um. Yeah ;( /laugh being not one of them.

As far as I know lore won’t allow you get a dragon companion. Like never. Wasn’t Glint one of the smallest dragons?

Oh wait, saltspray/rockhide Canthan dragons. Also “drakes” count as dragons family (I thought they don’t, wiki says they do), so forget what I said. So technically you can already tame a “dragon”.

Flying, hmm… I’ll make a ranger if I ever get to tame a bat o_o.

VictoriousMonk.7150:

RainbowSyrup.4130:

I always wondered what happened to this hair, I loved it from when I first saw it :/

So where is this screen cap from? I like that hair style on the lady.

It’s kitten from an early teaser video. Or maybe even the first one ever. I don’t remember clearly.

Edit: oh greeeat, so two “s” letters one to another are apparently censored. It was supposed to be a shortcut from “screenshot” just btw

Aisa.2817:

Cabalist. That set has to be one of my favorites. It’s sexy without showing everything off.

+1 to this, it’s my fav skin for my ele. I don’t have enough stones to transmute my 80 lv set with it :/ Animated parts, nice details, colors nicely. Misses earrings thou, one of the things I’d like from GW1 to be in GW2.

This thread – again – is an opinion, and the idea of “sexiness” is different to everyone, but I have to agree in one thing. Heavy and light armors have quite a variety of revealing armors lots of them already available under lv 79 so they can be transmuted, while definitely larger part of medium sets are trench coats. Yeah, I kind of hoped to some of GW1 spirit to be transferred over, not just HoM skins and some weapon replicas, but the style of the armor. Ranger/assassin skirts included.

After the whole discussion over starter light armor, I don’t see OP’s demand granted unless we get some new skins in new dungeons or expansions that would met their expectations.

Leo G.4501:

I think Rytlock’s voice is sexy.

Well, duuuh. https://twitter.com/blumspew/status/296779349401673729

This sound reminds me of something… sound of the dragons were making in Vagrant Story o_o

“Changing”? I thought they were supposed to be random now…

^ Well, if you hold a sword/offhand weapon, they have this cute animation like they were looking around alerted, sniffing something. Of course I’m not comparing them to dogs, but it still darn cute.

I’m horrible at platform games, clumsy, and I tend to play alone, yet when I see a reaction like this…

*Get into low level zone, aggro few enemies, press “V” randomly, I’m SURE you will get the “Evaded” info eventually.
*Res dead NPCs. Game is full of them. Begin with behind the Shaemoor Garrison.
*You surely got some materials during your gameplay, simple refinement counts as crafting. Simple ball of dough from cooking. Bolt of jute. Copper bars.
*If the “combo” achi shows up again, just run and do some events on the maps where people lvl up and ping directions on the /y chat. Daily events pops in at the same time. Veterans might too. You don’t even have to TALK with people. Read descriptions on the skill bar, see which ones create combos, and just use them when you see some funny white circles on the ground :/ Oh, it’s also karma, and gold, and exp…
*Veteran Oakenhearts walk in packs.

Everything is done on low level maps. The chances that one may fail are really really low, unless something is bugged on the game level.

Start complaining again when something is impossible for you to achieve.

This will sound bad, but sometimes I think that people who complain about new dailies like being rewarded, want laurels, want gold and karma just like everyone else, but they don’t want to put any effort to earn it. After making them myself I think it’s seriously minimal.

Shining KoW.4683:

They look fantastic! What are the armors?

Haha, thanks! You mean the GW2 armors? :P It’s just basic sets. Ele is wearing the apprentice set which you get when the character is created. Guardian is wearing crafted scaled armor set.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Apprentice_armor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scale_armor

I checked screenshots from before the update and from the time when she was created (around the game’s launch), my asura has the same ears as OP’s character. The asymmetry was there, always.

But the funniest thing is, I never really noticed it, because I was wearing helmets that covered her ears. Now that I think about it, that asymmetry is a little bit too strong. Once you see you cannot unsee. :/

I like the “banded” armor a lot. Sleek, with reasonably long skirt, dyes nicely, doesn’t clip too much. Surprisingly the craftable “splint” skin is interesting too.
I want to like the Whispers set, but the details just disappear on tiny asuras. Koda set is great too.

Is this the same issue that removed hair of my toon while she’s wearing the top hat? It happened around Halloween update as far as I remember. Would be nice to have it back to the way it was ^^

I’m guessing that unless we see females running around in panzer thongs, we won’t see codpieces.

Not that I would want to.

Yes. I think it’s their body language, which I love totally :P

Well, people just make what feels nice to them. Players go for “individuality” rather than “diversity”, I think. GW1 main was a tanned Canthan. My Elonian paragon girl was darker, but not completely dark skinned. I made their GW2 “counterparts” similar.

My prob with certain colors is that with dark skin facial features disappear (I LOVE the fact they didn’t forget about lighter inner palm, so many designers skip this!), and pale characters glow like light bulbs. So, sure, I will be making chars somewhere in between. I’m trying to avoid orange lips though, they usually come with more caramel skin tones. They look ill to me. Or… too much carrot juice?

Issue I described in this post also applies to Heritage Heavy Armor set.

Same profession, gender, body type as in that post.

Also lower body part and legs seem to me a bit too massive, but that may be just me.

^ Nope, it actually shows up for (my) characters who aren’t Vigil. Nobody can read it though.

Oh, I’ve found this shot! I always hoped that people who want their “descendant characters” look like their GW toons will have that possibility, but we got what we got.

So, luckily for me there is one than more “fairly Canthan” face preset that it could work with. My goal was to make her similar, I doubt that I could make her identical. I liked the result and I play that char from the day one (though my main is an asura). I was delighted to finally have nicely animated long hair, too.

What do you think? Do anyone else tried to do the same thing?
Edit: I also tried with the paragon. So-so, but there’s not much dark skinned PCs on my server, so I’ll stick to her. It’s just a pity the face features are so “homogeneous” for human females.

For the starters, I’m just gonna say I don’t know anything about 3D and stuff, but I’m interested in how dyes work. So I’m sorry if this post seems like driveling, it’s just all observations described in simplest words I know.

I’m actually curious in this what people perceive as this kind of shine. The brighter the color of the surface and the brighter lights, the stronger the “shine” caused by bloom effect (post processing) is. Celestial dye is very bright, if not the brightest dye (dunno, I saw it only on screens), then sure, bloom will be more visible in most areas.
Well, in that case it’s not exactly “shine” but “glow”. But not glow as in light (like emissivity effect on sylvari, or a lamp, or fire, etc).

My guildmates mention that the color of the “shine” changes with some expensive dyes.
I never noticed dyes affecting specular effect in any way. Specular lighting is always specific for the area (for example login screen, it’s bluish), not for the dye, at least that’s what it looks to me.

Unless I’m mistaking it with some kinda environmental/gloss mapping (since visibility of it is increasing in less light), but still, it’s seem to be specific to area, not the dye. I think. It would be nice to know how are our armors made. Are we changing only the diffuse map, or something else when we apply dyes?

In other words, buying an expensive dye, do we pay for color and rarity, or something else too?

Also not sure if you guys noticed, /laugh doesn’t sound like a laugh to me…

HAWTERTHAN.7523:

My Asura is cute, right? Everyone seems to think she’s a bit creepy however. :/

Miniature looks like “Tardar Sauce”. You know, the so called grumpy cat. I like!

^
Yes, I’ve found that recently. He spawns every time I’m passing that place, though it’s Tybalt in my main’s case.

I have a question though regarding my char that had Forgal as mentor. In the Vigil Keep, in the instance chamber where Almorra resides, there’s a desk next to the stairs, with a scroll on it. If you highlight the scroll, it says “Note from Forgal”, but I can’t read (F doesn’t work) the contents of the scroll.

All my characters in the instance see this scroll, but none including the one who joined the Vigil can’t read it. Anyone knows something about it?

“I can outrun a centaur!” Please. Kill it. On the opposite side my fem asura guardian speaks her best lines so rarely it hurts me…

Everything about Kormir makes me shudder. I just really don’t like her, yet Kormir’s Priestess sounds like Courtenay Taylor (?) so I can’t help but tolerate it. xD

Me on the other hand, I’m always distracted clicking on every male charr NPC just to check if he will greet me with Blum’s voice. He’s everywhere in this game, I think he even voices few old asuras. I guess it may be also because this guy is great to work with, or so I’ve heard.

Listening to Mardine was very entertaining, apart from the fact he’s loading cows on his “cattlepult”.

I’m not VO freak, and I often may not recognize people, but I find some actors more pleasant to listen than others, Steve’s one of them.

A bit OT:
Although I miss Maurice LaMarche and his performance as Vekk. Sure Vekk is dead by now but it would be nice if Maurice could make some guest appearance.

Or Mari Weiss (Oola/Livia). Though I think I hear someone who sounds like her, but no database confirms her participation. If someone could give some insight on that, I’d be grateful.

Ahaha, that’s true, there are funny voice clips with short interval in whole DR and its instances. Once you hear, you cannot unhear…

EDIT:
Well, for those who may miss this “occurrence”, I managed to record this clip. It’s in the home instance, but close to the described weeping mother as you’ll see. :P
http://youtu.be/yeVypcp5wAo

It just sounds like some random clips are played too frequently. Sometimes it;s hilarious. Yesterday I was running around DR and the instance and this wasn’t happening just in one place. For example, I went inside this cottage near this place, there’s Josir standing on the second floor, and the sounds glitched just like in the movie (that’s why I came back here today), it wasn’t the “uh-huh, uh-huh”, but some female moaning-yawning sound instead.

I LOL’d at the thought of Josir being “this pervy Priory scholar”. Because he's kind of cute.

That’s Priory’s Historical Greatsword. Just mind that all the jade-glass parts are invisible in previews, so if you want to look at any Priory’s weapon, it’s better to look online/gw2wiki for screenshots.

Small update! Black Moa photobomb.

^ Thank you very much! I’m now enjoying Priory’s GS on my asura who joined Whispers long ago. Yeah, asura. I know. ^^;

I don’t know if it was mentioned earlier, but my fem. guardian used this line lately:

“You will not pass!”

Female human guardian wearing [Precise] Worn Chain (crafted) set.

Issue: upper and lower body aren’t connected, there’s quite a big hole there. It looks like it’s the gaiters’ fault, because:
- changing them to something else closes the gap;
- when I unequip the upper part, gap is still there.

Body build: I’m sorry, but I don’t remember which one was that anymore, and I don’t have a free slot to confirm. Second tab, upper row, it was the proportional (read: no wasp-waist and no baloon boobs), muscled one, but with larger breast than the one in the lower row on the same page – thus I’m adding a screen in underwear, I’m sure 3D artists are able to determine the shape.

I’m sorry for bumping this old thread, but can I get a confirmation on the transmute method? I’m in the same predicament as OP, but since I don’t play much and don’t have too much gold, I don’t want to waste it for nothing…

EMAN.6190:

It’s not the size that matters it’s how you use it!

Trishka’s voice “Yeah, you go on believing that.”

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. But I agree with the idea that weapons scaling is ok as it is, but their placement is off. Staff clipping with the left ear, greatsword’s tip clipping with the ground…

I was picking a name only for about two hours, even though it was my first character on the account and it was a day after the game’s release. Everything from my usual names list (50+ long) was already taken -_-

Sirrji it is.

Edit: um, asuras are tiny so I gave up on looking for an unique armor for her… I just wish my weapons won’t clip through the ground.

Doesn’t matter how much I want to make a character that’s supposed to stand out a little, I always end up making everything toned-down. T_T

Armor/clothing art issues:

(sorry if was reported before)

Recently I bought a cultural heavy tier 1 set for my female sylvari (loving it btw). As you see, she has an additional skin pattern, but this pattern is not displayed while wearing the bottom piece of the set, which results in the seam on her stomach.

Tad.4109:

NinjaKnight.1340:

BTW – I like Felicia Day and I think those who don’tlike her scenes should blame the director/scriptwirter.

very good point.

Not necessarily. I’m definitely not Felicia’s fan, but I think Zojja’s VO is brilliant.
What bothers me more are fem!sylvari. While it’s always fun to have Jen Hale around, after some time I lost interest in playing my salad.
I can’t quite put my finger on it. But I felt more fascinated by asuras, charr, and grew nostalgically more fond of April Stewart.

All matter of taste and variety, I guess…

Or just that Commander Shepard sets the bar reeeeally high for me.
Edit: spelling -.-

This is my “descendant” character, of Canthan origin as well Gotta love Cabalist armor for all the beautiful details and animated bits.

Also, first post, hello! ^^;