I was more let down about the lack of… rounded and plump bodytypes. If I’m going to be an aristocratic engineer on her first time out on the town, I’m gonna have a bit of -weight-, okay? But… no. I guess not.

The armor system in gw2 is different to that in gw1 – professions are divided into 3 types or armor classes and don’t have purely profession-specific armor sets.

So the visuals in the class previews are purely down to aesthetics – some dev has picked up 3 different sets of Light Armor and colored them to their liking as to represent the professions. This doesn’t mean that the mesmers can’t look like the eles or necros in the same previews (down to the same colors even).

Having said that, the mesmer in those shots just looks awful. Both male and female. It’s not a good look.

I like how my beefy dudes look in their armor overall from GW2 pics. In Dragon’s Dogma I can make a female that looks like my Spell Archer in my stories(she just wears, like, normal leather and cloth as befitting a magician/archer.) My first character is going to be my 212cm huge Wood Elf Stonemason with his sword and board Farm Boy partner(whose at a rather matching 199cm. )

Tera’s armor though…yeah. I enjoy my High Elf Berserker guy, but high elf dudes get some really killer armor in that game.

At least, Tera did something that not many other games do-they made Castanic Men show some serious skin in several of their outfits. My alt Castanic Slayer has half a shirt on right now. Literally, the shirt covers half of his torso; the other half is bare for the world to see with a few strings. Later, he covers the other half of his body, but removes the bottom half of his shirt to show his impeccable, Bruce Lee would be jealous abs. Protective? Nah, but at least they actually went as far as to make a stripper dude race.

Male High Elves in cloth actually show quite a bit of stomach, and Male Amani in cloth wear no pants(admittedly, I mean, I’m not one for Monster Guy without pants but for those ladies and gents who like their Monster Guys without pants, there ya go!). I’m beginning to think Tera was made ”let’s see just how little we can put on everyone. Yes, even the dudes. Go.”

If people ask me ”what’s the most normal thing I can play in Tera’, i find myself saying ‘The big stone castle guys or the butterball ferret dudes.’.

Now the cocktail of subscriptions, pointless text-quests of endless fetching and killing stuff is a more likely culprit. I got bored for an hour or two i played it in one beta weekend and most of my circle of friends testifies to the same effect.

I’m kind of bummed actually, because i’d like games with this combat system to succeed.

this is the only one of the three that has the transmutation stones mechanic that actually frees one entirely in regards to their wardrobe. One can be trashy or wear burka if they like – it’s totally up to them!

(And before u ask, T-stones are karma vendor goods as well as RM Shop items, so – pretty accessible)