Character Creation: Body Type

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I never wanted to be the "he-man"-stereotype warrior. I'm a freelance mercenary warrior/assassin, not a 300 pound meatshield, just waiting for the enemies to trip over me.

Granted, I see how one would find it ridiculous to spend time ajusting appearence in a game; but it's a ROLE playing game. It's sorta implied that you ought to have a role for your character. Therefore, one should be able to look different from others.

I think it's a great idea.

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In your second picture the 2 body types are exactly the same. Just the armour is different.

no they arent the body types look different and they stand differently the warrior stands up like some weirdo

This is the body I would be happy with:

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9...mbatant0mi.jpg

What about everyone else? If I had a warrior that had a body like that I would be happy. I also don't want to be a tank but a swordsman that uses sup runes.. I'm more of a solo kind of guy anyway.

My build would be more like the Rangers.

I agree with you Quid Pro Quo, and yes I like that picture, thanks for posting it.

This picture is from guild wars itself, so there you go.
I guess I just made the mistake of posting a pic from outside sources

Yeah, maybe. To me the pictures you put out all looked like the current warrior.

I really hope a dev atleast looks at this topic.

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Okay there seems to be a mass approval of scales for body fat, and muscle mass. This is what I'll add, like height there needs to be limits to restrain the profession from looking too different then its generic look. Hence how monks are ment to be short, their max height is the medium height of a warrior. As long as there are limits to each profession with a fat/muscle scale, I'll be happy.

I would prefer that there wasnt a difference between professions height. (I dont mind the difference between male and female, but I am sure there are many who do)

Why cant they all just be the same, lower the lowest to the lowest so far, and the highest to the highest so far. (will someone repost that more eligently?)

I get what you mean and what he means. I agree that all the proffesions should be able to look similiar since they are all humans. Just because I'm a necro doesn't mean that I am undead or even evil. At the same time I can understand each class having their own look but I really don't think that it will be a problem.

Armor, hair, faces and skin tones will stay the same not to mention normal stance. I highly doubt adding somthing like this would make the proffesions look too similiar.

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this may be a bit off topic, but i think it would be one step better if the person's style of fighting would change along with their body type. for example: when i was growing up, i lived near a martial arts dojo and a sword shop. Naturally, i learned martial arts and swordsmanship hand-in-hand, and i can tell you that the way a large person uses a weapon isnt the same as the way a small person would. i could beat larger, stronger ppl because i was faster, more agile, and smarter than them. Anyways, i think it would be quite cool if the style in which you fought would change according to your body type, but im getting ahead of myself. first things first, we need to get the body type concept off the ground first. thank you for your time.

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Some professions, IMO, such as ele, are just fine. But I agree with some body types:

-Could we at least have ONE male necro that doesn't look like he's undead or a pupil-less zombie?

-Non-buff warriors.

-Non-buff rangers. Should we not be more nimble and such? I find it a bit odd the males have all these abs, and how? Just from running all over? Doesn't seem right.

-Taller women. Monks especially, they're microscopic in comparison to men.

It'd be a good idea to make some new changes, but not a huge array of 20+ body types. Massive model and polygon variants = painful.

I totally agree i mean like geez look how fat
i look in fissure armor and im suppose to be darth vader :S
i would like to look more like the necro hunks

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But what anet appears to be doing is based on the flavor of the chapter you are creating your character from, it will be different selections.

You will be able to create a monk in Factions but the face style, body, color are different from the one in C1.

Have you seen the paper thin female looking fighters from the battle isles (if you do the practice area / practice pvp matches.

Really? They look the same to me, Eternal. Are you talking about the armor styles?

/signed. plain and simple.

/signed that is all im gonna say

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