New Hair Cool but Disappointed ^^;

#1 - Oct. 2, 2013, 1:49 p.m.

I love that new hairstyles were added to all the races! Most are even pretty cool looking. I am sad though, because the one new hairstyle I really want for my sylvari has a thing that makes me not want to actually use it. :/

The hairstyle in question doesn’t use your chosen hair color as the hair color. It uses your SKIN color instead, and since I use “light pink” as my skin color to have a human-esque looking sylvari it ends up being like a lot of the racial armor. :/

Kristen Perry

#14 - Oct. 8, 2013, 10:45 p.m.

Heyo everyone!

Just wanted to pop by and let everyone know I am still forum lurking, like I mentioned on the livestream a bit ago. I’m glad everyone seems to like the fiddle fern hair and I am reading feedback for the flower hair. The reasons for its dye layout have all been listed above (Electro and Arrow Storm, you guys get +1 internets!).

I tried to explain this in the livestream, but I don’t think I adequately got the entire point out. By having it behave so naturally, it does take up a dye channel, so I have to be creative in coming up with ways to make the design feel full. The bringing in of secondary skintones helps with that a lot. But until you guys pointed it out, I didn’t even see the “bald” sorta thing, it just looked like a swept-back hair to me. Still does, but I get where you guys are coming from and will keep this in mind for the future.

Personally the flower hair is my favorite because of the flip and I had a lot of fun with the petals. It was my “Mary Tyler Moore” homage and if anyone was particularly astute, you’d see it was in the upper left corner of the sketches in the livestream. ;}

Oh and incidentally, because I’ve seen it mentioned—the hairs were all made new for the release. The sketches were over a year old. I wanted to enthuse that many of the things you guys had on your wishlist were the same I had on mine!

Thanks for the constructive feedback!

Kristen Perry

#17 - Oct. 9, 2013, 12:03 a.m.

Some folks may have picked the hair style because they loved it as is. To change it for one may change it negatively for another. So in general, it’s very difficult to get big design changes like that done once it’s out in the wild. I don’t know if adding more direct secondary skin color is possible, but I’m pretty sure structural changes are right out. ;{

I’ll just be sure keep hairline concerns in mind for the future.