What would it take to remove buttcapes?

90% outfits are instant pass , can't find normal heavy pants for the life of me, just don't understand why everything needs to be buttcaped or some odd flap added to it.

Can you design more regular armor for the love of all the gods and 9 divine combined, especially in cantha don't ruin my fav aesthetic with endless buttcape. At the very least design ONE good armor set that is just normal for all and/or make outfits into skins again so we can mix match to look half decent.

For being a horizontal progression MMO I really do think the aesthetic game is below any other on the market aside from WoW which is actually probably better but suffers from lack of 3D textures and horrible poly count. FF14 gives me so many options to look how I want. Drop your outfit restrictions and even make 2 versions of the same set for outfits so we can choose the one without buttcape.

And for being a 'progressive' team I find it strange how in ESO I can be a big beautiful orc in a wedding dress or skimpy attire but can't do the same in GW2. There are too many limitations for a game that should be largely focused on fashion but actually isn't. I just can't click with this art team at all and its a shame that I am destined to be ugly forever in GW2 outside of using a full outfit that can't be customized in any way outside of dye. You really gonna make me use a outfit I've been using for years, for more years? -_-

GW2 needs like 10x more options, your fashion game is sorely lacking.

i actually liked more of the armor in gws then what guild wars 2 has when you compare it to “normal” armor. There was hardly any butt capes

Yes GW1 armor was good.I think them customizing the engine for 2 really messed with the quality of armor, much of it just looks awful, even the ones directly taken from 1 just don't look or feel the same at all. In WoW they updated HD to some of the old sets and they were still the same just looked much better. I can't really put my finger on it in this game but its so inferior to what they had.

Guild Wars 1 even had a mage plate armour with legguards - the Tyrian armour for necromancers. It looked smackin' good and wasn't even an elite set.

A Tyrian cultural revolution. None of the NPCs are complaining about it, so it's what's in style for them right now. It wasn't in GW1. Perhaps tastes will be different in GW3!

Fabric Scissors?

On top of that all these warrior miniskirts we have often cause clipping issues.

Agreed. Also give heavy armor more casual outfits looking like medium or light armor, not always with plate or steel on it.

To answer the thread title, it would take a mind-set change at the source.

All it will take is for people to stop complaining about them.All joking aside at one point you gotta accept that this is Arenanet's primary style for heavy and medium armors and for whatever reason they're just not interested in changing that in any significant way. Maybe the plurality of the dev's just aren't butt people. And yes, much of GW1's armors are better.

Hopefully, they are never removed. This is just your opinion man. No different than saying, "I do not like these so I also want nobody else to have them.

I just hope that a decent amount of the armors from factions make a return. I love most of the shing jea, luxon and kurzick armors. I think gw2's armor problem is more because of the work for designing around 5 races. I wish they would just have made most armors racial as those all mostly look great.

I wouldn't want racial armors as then most everyone would look the same. That's one of the things that I don't like about outfits in general. I also wouldn't want to get locked into a specific race just because I like the armor that's only available to that race.

Skirts, skirts everywhere!It's shocking how hard it is to find armor that doesn't have some kind of skirt attached weather on the legs or from the chest piece. It's why I've been constantly wearing the Abyss Stalker outfit, It's perfect.

Yeah, for whatever reason there seems to be an aversion to showing the female backside. Sure, there are a few options, but a lot more buttcapes. :(

There's nothing inherently wrong with buttcapes and skirts...

However, it'd be nice to have more variety.

This goes with a lot of the themes we see with the different armour classes. Such as how Light armour has very few boots and is mostly just shoes (Which looks odd when half the skirts in the game come with tights that stop just above the ankle...). Or how Heavy armour barely has any "Trouser" style leggings.

I find myself keeping using the light requim set as it have no buttcapes.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Requiem_armor_(light)Ive tried to use other armor, but I always return to this one as theres minimal clipping, compared to sets with huge buttcapes.

Please just give me variety. I would like more options.

You can hide butt capes with real capes.

Disney+ and some CGI hair? ?

I always wished Anet would expand more on cultural armor. I think it would be nice lore wise

Butt capes/flaps are awesome and I would wear one in real life if I hadn't stood out from the crowd so much doing so.Admittedly, there are a lot of them..! (not irl, but in the game)

I play ranger main ... on the bright side, no one can SEE your armor when you are PLAYING the game.

@Strider Pj.2193 said:Fabric Scissors?

I pulled up this thread planning to answer exactly this lol. You have my respect ?

@Super Hayes.6890 said:

@Strider Pj.2193 said:Fabric Scissors?

If only it was this easy... ?