henlo, care to help me recoup a bit of cost from a laptop malfunction?
offering this style of inkless coloured portraits in mixed media on A5 for £45 to help cover some costs!
i can send these directly to you in the post for £5 regardless of location as well :>
i specialize in creatures/charr/sylvari/dragons, but will attempt most things other than mechas!
payment is via paypal, please send a message via tumblr or discord if you have me on there if you're interested :>
[as an aside; no I am not in desperate need of cash, I am not struggling, things will just be a little tighter until the end of next month, please do not prioritize if you would rather support an artist in an emergency 👍]
how wrecked do you think the commander's immune system is? like inhaling all the fumes and dust and magic and bloodstone etc has got to have done a number on them.
Homestead Decor I want ANET to add but it gets more and more specific the longer the list goes on:
Floors. Please. The floor is dirt, at least let me put some wood or something over it.
More paintings! We have such a small selection to chose from.
Signs that work as actual signs (like the statues and gravestones)
Plants that aren’t in pots. I get you can drag the pots underground so they’re hidden but it’s about the sentiment.
A station for the trading post and bank. I am so tired of having to leave my homestead to go to the trading post.
The Joko statues you could get as decor for guild halls. It needs to function the same too, I want my character to say “Praise Joko!” when interacting with it.
Accurately sized airship set pieces. For reasons.
A decor version of Mr. Quiggles so he can be in my house as well as in my shed
Bloodstone pieces. For reasons.
That one fancy stovetop in the Red Duck Teahouse in New Kaineng (for the modern chefs out there)
Literally just a premade house I can put in the corner
That one weird wall with Caudecus’ face imprinted on it from the scary room under Caudecus’ Manor that made its official debut in LWS3E4. For reasons.
A bunch of Jade tech stuff so I can build my own personal reactor (sans Soo-Won of course)
Joko’s Bonewall but it’s a decoration now
A bunch of Nayosian looking stuff so I can build “Little Nayos” and invite Peitha to come there for tea
thinking about the logistics of moving a large amount of material/people through waypoints and why it just isn't done. I think trying to get a small Pact army to a waypoint in the jungle, say, would function like a DDOS attack on the leyline network and temporarily render it offline
You can give or take how you interpret charr anatomy, but personally whenever I imagine my charr fighting, (since he is shorter and is faster than he is strong) is his reliance on charr flexability.
In their emotes you can see Charr have similar capabilities of cats, which means I take some of the insane movement you see in felines and apply it to charr at a grander scale. They're flexible, their fast-twich muscle fibers allowing for big bursts of movement, they have incredible spacial awareness. I feel like we often see charr as bulky, muscly warriors which they definitely can be, and Im sure there is a trade off with Charr who prefer to use what their anatomy allows for harder, faster blows than flexability especially if their armor does contrict tighter movements, at least for Blood. I can imagine ash legion tends to lean into the more dexterous side of things more often than not.
Everytime I imagine Leo fighting I can imagine him using the enviorment to his advantage since he prefers wearing light plate armor, he can do so. Kicking off the side of a wall to escape a pinch, running and making a quick turn, stabbing his sword into the ground as his hind legs glide behind with his tail balancing him out until his claws grip the earth and he bounces back at a faster pace. Sometimes he swings his sword at a speed that looks almost unbelievable.
I think the quick movement charr can do can surprise the other races because them being so large throws them off, but no they still have those capabilities! I just like thinking of Charr leaning into being Creatures. I like imagining them Having those cool animalistic traits you don't see in humans. It makes them more "uncanny" and terrifying and COOL.
I just visited Whiskerbrew's homestead and was left in awe. They built a challenging jumping puzzle in this Alice in Wonderland feeling forest that takes you through the treetops along treehouses and it even features a plushy scavenger hunt. If you see their LFG up in EU I would definitely suggest seeing for yourself :)