Maya v1.0

By pukystyle on April 7th, 2016
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Armor: Light
Color: Black
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Hello again. I was playing around with skins for my mesmer, Maya, and came up with this. It's an angelic look, but with some elemental control.
It's not a look that fits the mesmer class obviously, but elementalists can't use sword and Bolt seems to synergize very well with it.
The Wings of Ascension have a nice dark gold look with blue and purple details as well as a nice particle effect with blue/purple/orange flames.
I'm aware the armor skins aren't the most original out there. I like the Incarnate Shoes a lot, and I wanted to make a long glove look to match how tall the boots are. The Incarnate Vest seems to be the better match for this. As for the Winged Pants, I know a lot of human females wear them, but to be honest, I didn't find a better match for said chestpiece, so I went with those. Why the Winter's Presence? Well, since it makes it snow, it mixes very well with the elemental theme of the look. The armor has a Shadow Abyss base color with golden tones to match the backpiece.
For weapons, Twilight/Sunrise/Eternity match nicely, so I went with Eternity since the aura has a flame effect to it, both black (matches the outfit) and golden (matches the backpiece). Bolt not only keeps the same color spectrum, but the aura on it adds lightining, which looks great with the winters presence snow. The Ghastly Grinning Shield has a black that matches the outfit, a flame particle effect and the grinning face has a fiery tone to it. Meteorlogicus, even though it's light blue during daytime, still synergizes with the elements, as well as the Presence's snow aura. When in night time, Meteorlogicus turns purple, synergizing better with the colors of the backpiece. The Anomaly also matches the look with it's purple tone. I tried to include different shots using various skills. I coulnd't add any with the dark version of Eternity. I'm not sure if the Hidden Arcana instance (where I took most of the pictures) is affected by night time, but I waited a while and it didn't change. I'll retry later on and add them.
I'm open to suggestions, I hope you like her.

Edit: It has been brought to my attention that there's an overload of particle effects, which is true. My take is the Winter's Presence might be too much. Turning it off should fix the issue for the most part :) (I don't think an actual shoulderpiece would be necessary at all if the Presence is not used).

Edit 2: v2.0 is up, link here: http://gw2style.com/look.php?id=11102


Comments


Pattou
Fashion Guru
To me, it looks like a mess of special effects, there's too much things on it. I think that I get what you wanted to do, but there's too many shiny stuff which is so different that you can't tell what is what.
The screens are good by the way !
2016-04-07 17:25

pukystyle
Stylist
That's true, I think the Winter's Presence might be contributing to the mess. It should balance if it's turned off. Thanks for your review :)
2016-04-07 17:28 in reply to Pattou

KestrelGirl
Fashionista
Gotta agree with Pattou. Take out the Winter's Presence, use the illusory weapons (if you can afford them!) instead of basically everything but The Anomaly, and you're good to go. That armor and dye combo is surprisingly great as is though, nice job!
2016-04-07 18:15

pukystyle
Stylist
It's funny because I have every single Ectoplasm Weapon there is (I obviously skipped Lyss when I made Ilya, because it was completely redundant and Usoku's Needle is a drop). I can see those as viable options, but they might be too bright. I'd like to try that, but I'm out of charges though so I can't really play with them atm. Thanks for the review :)
2016-04-07 18:26 in reply to KestrelGirl

KestrelGirl
Fashionista
Woah, I admire your effort (or luck). Make some moneyz, get some TCs, and show us V2! I think the illusory weapons will go great with the outfit :D
2016-04-07 19:00

Elessar Taralom
Fashionista
There is a lot of good stuff happening here and some stuff that needs improvement
While the armour mix in itself is not necessarily the most original one, it still works, so apart from switching out Winter´s Presence I wouldn´t change much
Dye wise it falls a little flat, I like the black and gold, but I´d maybe add a third dye; how about one of the brighter pastel colours from the wings? Something like a light violet maybe
The weapons are okay imo, except from the shield maybe
Your screens are already great and I can see that you also put a lot of time in the description, so those two things are definitely goldworthy ^^ If you work on some minor details, this is a goldlook for me!
2016-04-08 4:13

pukystyle
Stylist
Yeah, switching out the presence is definitely something I'll do (excess particle effects, now that I look back, I kinda regret doing this since it's something I completely overlooked). On the dyes I also agree. Even though I'd like to add a third dye (it did cross my mind), adding it would change the colors a bit too much due to how the dye channels and the areas they cover (some b areas would turn too bright). Now that you mention a pastel violet tone, I was actually using an Electro Purple dye before choosing the Lemon Zest specifically because it matches the purple details on the wings. KestrelGirl suggested using Ectoplasm Weapons, which might combine well with Electro Purple. As soon as I get some Transmutation Charges I'll work on a V2.0 using what has been suggested so far (I'll try both weapon sets). Thanks a lot for your review! :)
2016-04-08 8:24 in reply to Elessar Taralom

Zeppeli
Fashion Collector
I don't want to be harsh but you could do better. It looks like a clown suit as it is. "Some of this and some of that... ta~daa~"

I mean, almost everything is shiny and expensive or hard to get as individually. But it doesn't mean that they look okay together.
2016-04-08 11:57

pukystyle
Stylist
It's ok. I respect your personal opinion. Doesn't look like a clow suit to me. I'm not expecting to please evreryone's taste since that's impossible. I'd appreciate it you could add some constructive ideas to improve it like the others.
2016-04-08 12:13 in reply to Zeppeli

inferno
Trendspotter
Woah i think it looks great! really caught my eye and it has this Victoria's Secret look which im loving it! Gold from me!
2017-05-22 5:04