With the emphasis on personal story, I’d have thought that ANet would have wanted a bit more background diversity. I understand why the characters are usually physically fit, because they all are a combat class. Not a crafting, economic, or political class. Still… miniskirts really need to be optional instead.

It takes a bit more similarity than just “holy trinity!” and “questgivers!” to be a ‘WoW clone’.

Even covered up it still looks ridiculous. Every other character looks professional but the female casters have to look like they ride the short bus.

I never received any of the other outfits that supposedly were available in drops. Nor could I find them on the game’s Black Lion auction shop.

And considering that there was post after post of complaints about this armor in the forums, not many people did receive the slightly better armor either.

The WoW format is more to do with the style of combat (hotbars with a fairly large amount of skills), the layout of the world (quest hubs with overlapping goals), the progression of the game (pve solo to dungeons to raids), etc. ‘

It sounds like you looked for a definition that allowed you to label your preferred game as Different.

Here are some pics of the low level female light armors:

http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Light_Armor

They are different than the starter armor and you can mix and match pieces to get a look you like, as well as use transmutation stones (which I was getting from doing the personal story I believe) to keep a look as you continue on. So either your client was broken or perhaps you might have been picking the leftmost armor reward, which might (???) have been the same as the starter armor. I always went with the rightmost (Velvet) reward after picking it as the first reward, to get the full set.

The crafted set (Embroidered) is completely different as I made a set myself. The next level crafted was also completely different.

Playing TSW I see quest givers (they just don’t have the “!”, but NPC and objects are quest givers…) and see chat “looking for healer for dungeon X” and “looking for tank for dungeon Y”.

TSW have the holly trinit and quest givers, so TSW IS a WoW-clone. And the “zombie appocalipse” setting have the same problem that the “3th pillar” have at SWTOR: someday will be boring.

TSW will ahve the same fate that SWTOR had.

Frankly the armor felt like a practical joke and the joke was on the player playing the character with the tutu.

And I don’t think they will change it either. And throwing in new armor later in the game does nothing to change the fact that this particular armor set for female casters is horrendous.