Female assassins.

Dawndisciple

Dawndisciple

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2009

United kingdom

I would like to suggest for a little work be done on female assassins.

The hair styles look to be done with a lawn mower, and please feed the girl, she looks positively anorexic.
I compare the female assassin on the box to the one in the game and wonder what is wrong with this picture.

Mickey

Mickey

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Eternal Insight

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Infuse carbs!

/signed for beefing up female assassins, just a wee bit please.

Hairstyles, not so much. There are a few decent ones, and the rest are meh, but that is the same with all classes. What they really need to do is create a hairstyle pack as part of a content update. Yay for microtransactions (just kidding).

eldrethv

eldrethv

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2009

[DL]

Mo/E

And fix how they stand.
Legs bend so awkwardly. >.<


Same with male assassins, they all have bad backs.

Empress Amarox

Empress Amarox

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2008

Above you.

Mo/W

Body stylist imo...

Female Assassin with Warrior body. They'd have to redo every single female sin armor though, wouldn't that suck? Not like they don't have enough money to do it though.

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

I absolutely LOVE their body shape.
I also LOVE their movement animation. (Well, except when wielding anything but daggers ... that's does not end up pretty!)

What I do not love are the faces available (the chicks are ok - but the guys are beyond ugly!) nor the fact that you can't have a black haired guy!
And that's the reason why I keep deleting my assassins. I seriously want to play one because they are fun - but RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO me if I am going to play with an ugly character!

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

I don't know why we aren't able to have a weight option in character generation. I know it could distort armors but wouldn't that be the same issue with height?

Asplode

Asplode

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Chicago, IL

Rebel Rising [rawr]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade View Post
I don't know why we aren't able to have a weight option in character generation. I know it could distort armors but wouldn't that be the same issue with height?
Death's Charge with a fat assassin would require 25 energy.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by upier View Post
I absolutely LOVE their body shape.
I also LOVE their movement animation. (Well, except when wielding anything but daggers ... that's does not end up pretty!)

What I do not love are the faces available (the chicks are ok - but the guys are beyond ugly!) nor the fact that you can't have a black haired guy!
And that's the reason why I keep deleting my assassins. I seriously want to play one because they are fun - but RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO me if I am going to play with an ugly character!
Pay $9.99 and change their face to ANY campaign.

It does suck though.

Vallisahllirium

Vallisahllirium

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

A/W

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Originally Posted by Asplode View Post
Death's Charge with a fat assassin would require 25 energy.
And would cause exhaustion xD

Dawndisciple

Dawndisciple

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2009

United kingdom

Looking through the choice of face, hair for the assassin does give the impression that the designers were in a slight rush to finish this character.

Far from looking the dark mysterious femme fatale with deadly knives, more the underfed street urchin with a begging bowl.

Warvic

Warvic

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2009

The Netherlands

A/W

I can't look at female assassin tbh I have a male sin.
1) no good hairstyles (imo)
2) not 1 armour looks good (imo)
3) they stand strange
Seriously, why do people make female sins..

Bloodgrave

Guest

Join Date: May 2009

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Originally Posted by Vallisahllirium View Post
And would cause exhaustion xD
That might be true however at least you would get an automatic [Earthquake] when he gets there.

Edge Igneas

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2008

Poland

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Originally Posted by Warvic View Post
Seriously, why do people make female sins..
Because they are at least better than the male models?

I have Elite Kurz on my Male sin, and Elite Luxon and Kurz on my Female sin. I prefer the Female one. The only thing that ever bothered me on my female assassin was how small and fragile they look, and the running animation in towns is pretty funny.

Don't get me started on the male, I look like a pincushion when I walk with those giant spikes on the Kurz armor.

Tbh I bought Factions when I saw the assassin advertised on the front. Well its nothing like that Few hair colors, and most hair styles are rather fitting for a lesbian.

Eleonora Morgan

Eleonora Morgan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2008

Absinthe and Lace [Posh]

Me/

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Originally Posted by Edge Igneas View Post
Few hair colors, and most hair styles are rather fitting for a lesbian.
Ehm... what?

But yeah, beef 'em up a little. They are past anorexic, since even bare ribcages are wider than females sins are.

MagmaRed

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai View Post
Pay $9.99 and change their face to ANY campaign.

It does suck though.
True you can buy a makeover, but only core classes have options other than what you had when making the character. Assassin and Ritualist can only be made in Factions, and only have faces/hair from Factions. Dervish and Paragon can only be made in Nightfall and only have faces/hair from Nightfall.

Enma Ai

Enma Ai

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2007

Fiesty Kitties [Meow]

Mo/E

Zenmai face and hair please.

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Edge Igneas View Post
Because they are at least better than the male models?

I have Elite Kurz on my Male sin, and Elite Luxon and Kurz on my Female sin. I prefer the Female one. The only thing that ever bothered me on my female assassin was how small and fragile they look, and the running animation in towns is pretty funny.

Don't get me started on the male, I look like a pincushion when I walk with those giant spikes on the Kurz armor.

Tbh I bought Factions when I saw the assassin advertised on the front. Well its nothing like that Few hair colors, and most hair styles are rather fitting for a lesbian.
Gosh, there is so much win here!

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MagmaRed View Post
True you can buy a makeover, but only core classes have options other than what you had when making the character. Assassin and Ritualist can only be made in Factions, and only have faces/hair from Factions. Dervish and Paragon can only be made in Nightfall and only have faces/hair from Nightfall.
What?!?!

I did not know that, and what a STUPID decision by Anet.

That would be a HUGE selling point.

Sometimes, I wonder what the hell the marketing department at Anet is thinking.

Anet, please update this: you will make back any money it costs tenfold. Most people HATE the Factions faces.

Miss Puddles

Miss Puddles

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

Shiverpeaks Search And Rescue [Lost]

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They never said you could have a sin with a nightfall ele face or anything like that. People assume too much.

haggus71

haggus71

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2007

FotS

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Originally Posted by Enma Ai View Post
Zenmai face and hair please.
Nika hair and face. She's 'hawt' with that Farrah Fawcet circa Charlie's Angels doo.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Wow, another "female assassins look anorexic" thread. Haven't seen one of these in a while. We used to have like 8 of these the first month of Factions coming out, but they eventually quieted down.

Anyway, as what most people said to rebut that in those old threads, female assassins actually look lean and athletic, which is what you'd expect someone who is a highly trained fighter to look like. Several pictures have been shown that actually do side by side comparisons of the female assassins to other females. Female sins are actually generally a few inches fatter in their midriffs then female rts or female eles (keeping in mind that some armor changes a persons body shape). Just because they don't have DD breasts, don't mean female assassins are anorexic.

jadedragoon

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2006

Terribad Turtles [TaNK]

W/Rt

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Originally Posted by Asplode View Post
Death's Charge with a fat assassin would require 25 energy.
I imagined a giant fat sin using that and I loled. Hehehehe

Hailey Anne

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2007

A/E

as long as it doesnt mess up the look of ones you have already made then /signed
if it changes current then /notsigned.

Dawndisciple

Dawndisciple

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2009

United kingdom

Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms View Post
female assassins actually look lean and athletic,
I wouldn't agree that they look lean at all, at the very least they would have a few ounces of muscle to allow them to do their wicked deeds.

They look extremely undernourished and in great need of a consultation with their local GP. When I see a female assassin I imagine that they are about to keel over and die or be blown away by a gentle breeze.

I find that the picture on the box and the assassin shown in the trailers to be the better interpretation.

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

From this thread.



And in my experience, most 'Asian' females tend to look smallish as well. The Assassin on the Faction's box doesn't look like Asian at all to me (just look at the face, it's more Caucasian.)

Lhim

Lhim

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2007

Rt/

Maybe the looks aren't that great, but the armor is even worse.
This armor should be added:

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

They are perfectly fine as they are, small and thin, no fat. That works for an assassin. You can't pretend them to have female Norn body shapes. That's for warriors.

But like all 4 campaign specific professions, they could use some new faces and hairstyles and,of course, more armors.

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Originally Posted by Mordakai View Post
Pay $9.99 and change their face to ANY campaign.

It does suck though.
You can't, the lists are profession-specific. Since yo can't make assassins anywhere else, the options you have are the same you had upon creation.

Pistachio

Pistachio

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

I actually don't mind the body shape of most of the female classes as much as I mind the armor. 90% of it looks like Halloween lingerie that no "fighter" would be caught dead in. It ruins the illusion for me to see a female warrior sacrifice protection for cleavage, and it is amazing to me how half those ideas don't get thrown out for their absurdity.

Whatever.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

What? Don't you know the rule? The less it covers, the more it protects.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade View Post
I don't know why we aren't able to have a weight option in character generation. I know it could distort armors but wouldn't that be the same issue with height?
Height is pretty much body scale...it's the same relative dimensions, just a different size. No distortion, just increasing the scale of the same relative dimensions.

I like female sins...I just wish they had their own set of emotes besides /dance.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere View Post
What? Don't you know the rule? The less it covers, the more it protects.
Well duh
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph.../Stripperiffic

DreamRunner

DreamRunner

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

W/

I don't mind the female assassin model and I do prefer the male. They both do look pretty thin but I have seen some very thin endurance runners on the track, so I am not that worried about it.

Day Trooper

Day Trooper

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Guild With No [NAM???]

E/Mo

Wha? Female sins look severely underfed? Get outta here.

Sincerely,
Waif of Death xD

Roupe

Roupe

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

I suggested on another thread that they should allow all the faces from all the proffesions when choosing to modify the character. they could do that to the body as well.

As for armor, the wordpolice in me sometimes get annoyed that armor in in Guild Wars can be scantly thin cloth. I guess the developers thought that armor sounded better than clothes. And that they didn't want multiple labels for the same data category

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I use multiple "armor"pieces, to make it look like a ninja and not a pincushion. but my assasins cant display their true choice of style on the monument.

Raccoon

Raccoon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2007

Me/A

Requesting in game chyro for male sin and male necros.

draxynnic

draxynnic

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2005

[CRFH]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Roupe View Post
As for armor, the wordpolice in me sometimes get annoyed that armor in in Guild Wars can be scantly thin cloth. I guess the developers thought that armor sounded better than clothes. And that they didn't want multiple labels for the same data category
I tend to think that by the time you get to max "armour", a lot of the protection is coming from enchantments on the material rather than material itself. Starting with stronger material helps (which is at least part of why warriors do have higher AVs than spellcasters), but of that AL60 that spellcasters have, somewhere around 45 of that is magical reinforcement.

So, well, it is armour (or protective wear, anyway) - its just armour that gains its protective value from something other than its physical composition.

On the Stripperiffic thing... I don't mind that the trope exists, but for some profession/gender combinations I do wish there were more (or in the case of female Paragons, early-game male Paragons, and early-game female Elementalists in any campaign but Factions*, any) options that avoided the trope.

*Prophecies elementalists are reasonably well served once they get past presearing. Nightfall ones have to jump campaigns or get to the Bone Palace...

Shasgaliel

Shasgaliel

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2008

[bomb]

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Originally Posted by upier View Post
What I do not love are the faces available (the chicks are ok - but the guys are beyond ugly!) nor the fact that you can't have a black haired guy!
I might be a colour blind but my sin has a black hair....

Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms View Post
Anyway, as what most people said to rebut that in those old threads, female assassins actually look lean and athletic, which is what you'd expect someone who is a highly trained fighter to look like. Several pictures have been shown that actually do side by side comparisons of the female assassins to other females. Female sins are actually generally a few inches fatter in their midriffs then female rts or female eles (keeping in mind that some armor changes a persons body shape). Just because they don't have DD breasts, don't mean female assassins are anorexic.
Indeed. In some of the countries in Eastern Europe female sin would not be considered too slim. Just look at the gymnastics competitions mostly at the European and Asian teams. Nobody will tell me that those small thin ladies/girls are not strong...

Mad Lord of Milk

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2009

Dishonorable Hall of Fame

R/W

Not anorexic, that's a SIX PACK.

crazybanshee

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Look out!

E/

yeah they're ugly, that's why anet made the mo zing mask - cover up that ugly mug.

Espadon

Espadon

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

USA [GMT -5]

State of the Nolani [gusy]

A/

MoZing only makes you look like a burn victim. Nothx.