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HawkofStorms · May 21, 2009, 09:02 PM // 21:02

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 · May 22, 2009, 12:27 AM // 00:27

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Originally Posted by Asplode

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 · May 22, 2009, 02:38 AM // 02:38

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

Dawndisciple · May 22, 2009, 05:01 AM // 05:01

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

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 · May 22, 2009, 10:01 AM // 10:01

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 · May 22, 2009, 10:25 AM // 10:25

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

MithranArkanere · May 22, 2009, 11:45 AM // 11:45

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

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 · May 22, 2009, 05:54 PM // 17:54

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 · May 23, 2009, 04:39 PM // 16:39

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

A11Eur0 · May 23, 2009, 08:06 PM // 20:06

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Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

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 · May 23, 2009, 08:45 PM // 20:45

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Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

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 · May 23, 2009, 10:01 PM // 22:01

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 · May 24, 2009, 01:48 AM // 01:48

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

Sincerely,
Waif of Death xD

Roupe · May 25, 2009, 08:40 AM // 08:40

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 · May 25, 2009, 11:47 AM // 11:47

Requesting in game chyro for male sin and male necros.

draxynnic · Jul 23, 2009, 03:52 AM // 03:52

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Originally Posted by Roupe

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 · Jul 23, 2009, 07:05 AM // 07:05

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Originally Posted by upier

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....

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

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 · Jul 23, 2009, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Not anorexic, that's a SIX PACK.

crazybanshee · Jul 23, 2009, 05:45 PM // 17:45

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

Espadon · Jul 23, 2009, 06:04 PM // 18:04

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