Medium armor being heavily trench coat-y saddens me
My character's a human ranger and I prefer a pretty nature foresty archer as opposed to a heavily coated cowboy-like archer. Since I'm not sylvari I can't go for cultural stuff there, and even if I was a norn there's a fundamental clash in the aesthetic of a Norn Ranger (traditional huntsman) and Sylvari ranger (elf-like??).
I get that clothing and aesthetic wise, adventurers have the most variation in the game, from Ranger to Engineer to Thief, and being restricted to the same armor class between this difference is unfortunate.
I will say that part of this has to do with my character being a human male. The armor that comes closest to what I want which I'm currently wearing is the Nightmare Court Guise (chest), and I looked at how the exact same outfit (dyes, pieces, etc) looks on a female version of my character with the aesthetician preview and it was a difference of night and day. So I guess that part's on me.
The dress-like look with that armor is almost exactly what I'm going for and I wish the male armor somewhat resembled the female armor (now that I say it though expecting a dress-like armor on a male character probably adds to the difficulty and that's also on me).
I'll acknowledge that I feel this issue is solely with Ranger due to how different it is in fashion from the rugged Thief and Engineer, and the more I think about it the more it comes down to the look I'm going for being incompatibile with medium armor and more compatible with light armor. Issue primarily comes from picking human and male it seems, because I think Sylvari males can pull off the Nightmare Court chest better.
I feel like this whole rant is just an appreciation post for the Medium Nightmare Court armor set due to it being one of the very few dress-like armor sets for medium armor, but all in all yeah just wanted to talk about the issues I'm encountering with my human male ranger, since it seems neither the class nor gender are very compatible with the look I'm going for (that being said, it is quite a specific look).
