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Sylvari Clothing / armor
Gurpslord
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in Guild Wars 2
So I enjoy that each race sort of has a style for their culture, their armor and clothing reflects it. However, from what (Admittedly very litle) i have seen of the sylvari, that whole wrapped in lettuce look is kind of attrocious. I hope there's more to it than just making my character look like a kelp wrapped nudist.
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That made me lol
At least it's not a 3 leaf strategic placement. I imagine there'll be all sorts of different looks for them just as there are for the other races.
http://www.guildwars2.com/global/includes/images/screenshots/sylvari/sylvari-03.jpg
From Anet's Sylvari page- a shot of several synvari in costume.
I suspect the "wild/natural" look is always going to be a theme with them, but they still will have some variety.
They are plants....
nuff said ....
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There were a couple of Sylvari npc's hanging around in Divinity's Reach on the stress test. Dunno if they were there on the BWE's before that. To be honest, I'm not that keen on their look either. Think I'll be boring and stick to humans
Those are the Sylvari racial armors. You can wear normal armor if you like it more.
I hope so
<provides proof>
Click for larger pic.
After looking at some of the images and reading that little article about the Sylvari, my understanding of them has grown a bit. Originally I think my brain fixated on a more "elven" race. This is definitely n ot the case and the more I look at the models and read the concept the more I like the race, a truly unique race that I can't think of any comparison to. The idea of the armor more or less growing naturally is a very interesting concept and I can't wait to see how it turns out.
I'm the opposite, I would never put textile armor on a Sylvari, I especially love their leafy clothes.
Along with the article posted above, have you watched this accompanying video:
Growing the Sylvari with Ree Soesbee and Kristen Perry Interview
As you've come to acknowledge, they are trees with leaves that create the illusion of humanoid like features. Definitely my favorite race!
I'm sort of curious how the racial armor thing will work. Will new Sylvari starting armor be racial? How will upgrades be available? If Sylvari players do get racial armor early and then need to rely on Transmutation Stones to maintain the look, then we have to hope that availability of the stones outside of the gem store greatly improves. Otherwise, it's going to be expensive, via cash or gold to gem trading, to keep a Sylvari in the racial armor look over the course of their progression, for those who desire to do so.
I personally wil be fine with my Sylvari running arouund in non-racial armor for most of the progression, if need be, but I know some people will not.
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Well, since I like nature so much...I really like their leafy clothes and the whole race itself.
It will be a hard tie between choosing Charr, Human or Sylvari...all three look awesome. Then the Norns are cool (I'll have one as an alt), since I love vikings and they are a bit similar to them.
But yeah, I actually like the look of Sylvari. I think their race clothes really suit them.
totally agree to whimsical for my taste, they need some edge to them. Even the Asura have that "scarey kid from horror movies" tone going on.
I would photoshop the legs a little, you made dem go outside the armor, but beside that great photomanipulation!
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Clearly you've never played Dark Age of Camelot. Hibernians got a Sylvan race.
I would even go far enough to say that Mythic did them better.
I think you can make your sylvari look a bit darker or scarier. I'm pretty sure you can choose more of a bark look (winter look) than a leafy summer look.
I think the thing we have to remember is that the sylvari as a race is only 25 years old at the time of GW2. So the problem is trying to make the race look naive, whimiscle, and youthful, while giving options for a darker, older look.
"Suit". Lol.
Here's some more photomanipulation for you then.
(edit: removed link and added image - click image for larger picture)
Well that's the style that fits their (young) culture, maybe you don't fit in but the armor does?