The Honor Guard

By GosiPosi on October 31st, 2016
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Armor: Heavy
Color: Gold
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She is the protector of the kingdom, awarded for her great deeds with shiny elegant heavy armor. Wearing her majestic laurels, the award of great bravery, on her head with pride.
She protects the small folk of Kryta against bandits, centaurs, undead and all the evil of the world :)

I always wanted to create this kind of royal and elegant look for my guardian. Since, for me, guardians are protectors of the small folk. So they should look elegant, approachable but still have the proper, solid heavy armor.
As soon as I discovered the bottom part of her outfit I knew where I want to go with this armor, farmed WvW for couple of days to get these shoes and PvP for the chest piece.
I was also thinking about giving her a helmet but decided on laurel as if it was the reward for deeds and should be worn with pride.
I do want to get her different gloves so if anyone has any ideas, shoot me! :)

Thanks for reading. I really did try to come up with better description but I think I do not have the talent for these :P


Comments


Hylek
Fashionista
That colour-concept is weirdly fascinating!
At first glance it looked kinda off, but the longer i look, the more i like it :D
Its just so unique!
I really get a royal guard vibe here :)
Your screens are nicely colourful, very fitting for the colour-concept!
I appreciate the fresh and unique dye-job here! Gold from me :D
2016-10-31 10:08

Migg
Fashionista
I really love those dyes!! They are light dyes but not very colorful as most of the light ones, they look very realistic and smooth.
If I had to change something it would be the greatsword and maybe the shield, I don't know their names as you didn't put them but this is MY OPINION of course :P Also it sucks to take screenshots with a guardian because that aegis :(

I liked the screenshots, I wanted to see more! haha
2016-10-31 15:55

GosiPosi
Fashion Collector
I agree about Aegis. And yes, I am not a fan of the shield myself but at the moment I am broke so couldn't afford any decent skins :P
2016-10-31 16:21 in reply to Migg

Mihrean
Fashion Guru
The one thing that I love about this is how your wreath of cooperation is dyed to look like a real laurel wreath. I think that's a really nice touch and makes her look like a some returning triumphant hero.
2016-11-03 5:34

Exitus_Letalis
Fashion Guru
Cute look! Gold! I always liked regal looks.
2016-11-03 8:16

GosiPosi
Fashion Collector
Yeah well these are leafs! They should be green! + they match the rose on my back when they are green :P
2016-11-04 8:53 in reply to Mihrean

GosiPosi
Fashion Collector
Thanks!
2016-11-04 8:54 in reply to Exitus_Letalis

Elessar Taralom
Fashionista
The armour mix here is simply amazing, such royal looking pieces together are definitely my kind of look!
Your presentation is overall really good and doesn´t leave much to wish for
I am not 100% about the dyes however; while I really like the specks of red and blue in there, the particular hue of gold does make it feel a little too blocky and flat for me
Maybe of the two golden hues were a bit more distinct and less uni?
But that´s really the only criticism I could bring up and still doesn´t keep me from giving you a well deserved gold ^^
2016-11-07 5:50

GosiPosi
Fashion Collector
Thank you for your kind words! :)
Oh trust me, I did try different golden hues but, unfortunately, the Glorious chest piece is so hard to match with the rest of the set that I just had to settle with rawhide one even though its not my favourite.
Actually, sometimes I still try different dyes on the chest piece but like I said... it's a stubborn piece of armor, always comes up with differend shades! xD
2016-11-07 14:19 in reply to Elessar Taralom