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Saraphim · Jun 06, 2007, 10:51 PM // 22:51

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Originally Posted by Sir Seifus Halbred
I find it odd how the majority of people don't make only light skinned ele's but every class i see are lightskined. Sure, i have some lightskinned characters myself. (One actually)

Example: Why can't people make dark skinned Paragon's? I have a dark skinned (african paragon) I'm not black...

Is it that people are racist in a way? Or other reasons? I don't get it though...

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Originally Posted by ducktape

I doubt it's usually racist, although I'm not denying there are unfortunatley a lot of racists in the world. A lot of people take the opportunity to make a representation of what they wish they could make themselves look like when they make a virtual character, and since GW is sold in countries whose majority populations consist of white or asian people, that probably explains why a lot of the characters running around don't usually have skin different-looking than the your average person of those ethnicities. Another thing to consider is that the characters with the "ghostly" skin colors are probably aiming to make acharacter or a character whose skin literally radiates light, implying they are supernatural - think stereotypical elves, fairies, angels, gods and goddesses in american, european, and asian cultures).

That said for hypotheses on the large amount of characters without dark skin colors, I love all the dark skinned characters I've seen, and I think it looks especially good with so many dye and hair combos

No, I doubt it's racist either. I think people choose an avatar for a variety of reasons, and there's bound to be a fair proportion that will choose skin colour based on their own ethnicity.

Good point about the "ghostly" , I hadn't really considered that, I tend to forget that GW is at heart a semi-fantasy world. All that WTS WTB in the chat tends to throw you out of the moment.

coseyfiep's right too. The Tyrian option is pretty limited, and I found that a couple of the (very attractive) faces just didn't look good with tanned or dark skin. Which left Saraphim with her somewhat Barbie-fied face. But I'm too fond of her to change anything about her now, even if we did get an NPC Stylist...

[edit] Actually looking at those screenies, Prophecies has plenty of choice, but (IMO) the faces just don't work as well as the Factions or NF eles. Plus Nightfall faces have much more detail in the lip textures, and better tonal values on the bodies.

I won't re-roll !! No sireeee.

Spazzer · Jun 07, 2007, 07:41 AM // 07:41

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Originally Posted by Mournblade

Spazzer... how can you make such a beautiful Ele and name her Spazzer? LOL

That made my day, haha.

My friend's ele is named Fina Aquilae. Basically, it's [Internet Handle] [Constellation]. More specifically, it's a constellation that contains a solar system that is used in the Descent series of video games.

I decided to copy that naming scheme.

For myself, Serpentis fit my fancy for many reasons. It was used in the Descent series and then later on as a major point of interest in the Freespace games. Also, from the Star Control (Best game ever) series, Serpentis is the home of the Yehat, and I'm pretty unstoppable with a Yehat Terminator.

So, basically, I named this beautiful ele Spazzer because I wanted to bandwagon on someone else's awesome name.

ElinoraNeSangre · Jun 07, 2007, 08:04 AM // 08:04

Everyone one of my NF chars (4 of them; ranger, ele, paragon, dervish) are dark skinned. I just wish I'd made my ranger one shade darker (putting her at the darkest shade). I'd planned on making a female dervish that was as dark as I could get, but ended up with a male one.

My second char, a Tyrian monk, is also dark skinned.

I remember when the NF preview weekend came around, and people complained about the lack of lighter skinned options. I did a lot of eye rolling. In fact, all of that is why I specifically make all my chars from NF darker skinned because it make more sense to me. To be fair, though, NF is the first game were a lot of the faces fit in darker tones really really well across a lot of professions.

To stay somewhat on topic still, here's a picture of my hubby's ele Jules:

The only complaint hubby had was that he couldn't get hair of Koss proportions.

RTSFirebat · Jun 07, 2007, 08:23 AM // 08:23

Always glad to see a debate about character skin tone going so well, in Riverside it would have turned into a flame fest for sure. But in anycase this is screenshot expo, not riverside.

So back on topic please, lets see some pictures.

Moa Bird Cultist · Jun 07, 2007, 10:33 AM // 10:33

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Originally Posted by RTSFirebat

So back on topic please, lets see some pictures.

Naturally, that's why I'm here

On the beach, north of Beetletun, about to be mobbed by level 11 skale. Armed with her latest effects; a bargain of a sword and a shield-scroll and sporting a completely redesigned skillbar, which I'm really enjoying playing. It's still earth/sword, but both are much more powerful now thanks to some tweaking and an insignia swap. Only 2 days until she turns 2 years old, too!

As for the dark/light skin debate, I think the Elonian Elementalist armor sets were made with dark skin in mind whereas sets like the kurzick/ancient combo, (it's now a set because I say so

) are usually the ones that make fair and pale skinned eles look best*. On top of that, most all the elonian faces are designed with dark skin in mind and look much nicer with it. Case in point being the lips on a lot of the female faces - they look positively creepy on fair skin, but gorgeous with dark skin.

I have one medium skinned ele myself. She doesn't get played at all, (none outside my top 4 or 5 see any playtime these days, and even then, Rena gets 90% of it,) but I don't regret making her. I also have my dark skinned male paragon, who doesn't get played either, but only because I cant stand running about in a kilt all the time... (And I'm too obsessed with title hunting/leeching/grinding at the moment to play anyone other than Rena...)

*I'm hugely biased about this, but you knew that anyway, right?

ThugLife · Jun 09, 2007, 03:55 PM // 15:55

My Ele.Talim, with her new armor

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6484/arezsdcwh9.png

Edit by Unlucky Slayer: While the filmstrip look is cool, it was way too big to show normally. Please take a look through the screenshot rules before posting more pictures.

Vahn Roi · Jun 10, 2007, 05:15 AM // 05:15

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Originally Posted by Mournblade

Spazzer... how can you make such a beautiful Ele and name her Spazzer? LOL

Really like that hair. Much better than the pig tales or buns hair that everyone seems to love so much.

Morag D · Jun 10, 2007, 05:31 AM // 05:31

to also contribute to this skin-color discussion: I'm a central european girl, blond and light-skinnend, and ALL my characters are 'black'. why? because I think that makes them much more interesting... we always like what we can't have >.<

@topic:

The undead Mesmer · Jun 10, 2007, 07:55 AM // 07:55

Dark skinned elementalists just look better ^.^

and light effects affect em more >.>

Oogami · Jun 10, 2007, 12:08 PM // 12:08

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Originally Posted by The undead Mesmer

Dark skinned elementalists just look better ^.^

and light effects affect em more >.>

indeed ! its allot like the very pale models.. get affected by the light allot too ^^;;

johan the destroyer · Jun 10, 2007, 04:15 PM // 16:15

Here is my new ele. He's lvl 12, but I did get him Elite Stoneforged armor dyed black, cuz it looks awesome!

Here it is:

Midnight Harmony · Jun 14, 2007, 01:39 AM // 01:39

I've never really combined my two 15k Ele sets, so I decided to play around today and found a combo that I really like!

Madman100 · Jun 14, 2007, 08:45 AM // 08:45

Yes, I'm a sword ele.
No, I'm not using a conjure build. It has a sundering mod.
Yes I'm an E/W.
No, I don't die a lot.
Yes, that is a combo between collector's and elementalist basic armour. I think it looks cool (especially since it's one of the few ele armours with trousers, I don't want her to look like she'll take it all off for a few gold).
Yes, I'm using that old over-used hairstyle, but only because it's one out of 2 in prophecies that look decent, and the swirly buns are too dainty for a warrior.

Moa Bird Cultist · Jun 14, 2007, 12:14 PM // 12:14

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Originally Posted by Madman100

*snip*
Yes I'm an E/W.

3.5 Million XP later and I still don't see whats so bad about that. Welcome to the club. Rena's just hit her 2nd birthday, so I may treat her to a new set of armor, (something, something, something, kurzick, ancient, mumble.) Or buy her that Collosal Scimi she's always wanted

I can't say I agree about the hair - I'd say 4 or 5 of them are really nice, but prophecies fails for not having pink as a colour

Oh and Morag, you get +100 for doing something I thought impossible; Making Ele FoW look really good

**cosyfiep** · Jun 14, 2007, 06:14 PM // 18:14

and the racing stripes down the side are better than buns....hm....must agree that the choices were pretty slim for eles in prophecies.

and yes I too have an e/w working her way out of pre. She likes her hair out of her face so I picked another less used hair (and the pretty hairnet isnt too bad)

Fanshen Flinty Hill · Jun 14, 2007, 11:48 PM // 23:48

I made a new ele, but used the same name as one of my old eles. So far, he's at grand court in nightfall, nowhere in tyria, and at vizunah square in factions. Once I got to kodash, I decided I had to have the vabbian armor and now I'm pretty much broke.

Mammoth · Jun 19, 2007, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Haven't posted pictures of my lovely elementalist, Eve Samael, in a long while!

That's all of the armors so far, still have more to get =|

I just got the hydromancer armor recently!

Chaotic was Lyssa · Jun 20, 2007, 07:22 PM // 19:22

I absolutely LOVE your armor collection and the way the weapons match the armors. Plus your ele is so pretty. ;]

Tryll · Jun 20, 2007, 10:41 PM // 22:41

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Originally Posted by Mammoth

Haven't posted pictures of my lovely elementalist, Eve Samael, in a long while!

*snip*

That's all of the armors so far, still have more to get =|

I just got the hydromancer armor recently!

Very colour coordinated and your ele is really lovely!

I got new Ancient armour for my ele, but she didn't suit the top. Trying out this combo for now, may change the colour later but kind of hard to match shades sometimes

helion_ftw · Jun 21, 2007, 01:35 AM // 01:35

FoW Armor dyed Red and Purple