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look terrible in the current tier. They all have some blue tint thing going on that I greatly dislike. The hats are also just stupid looking compared to the awesome heroic ones.

I like the earth tones of the heroic gear, the not insane looking shoulders, looking like a soldier and not a fancy boy.

Some tier sets look great, some look stupid. Some dungeon gear looks great, some looks stupid.

I'm not so sure it's even that the pieces themselves look stupid, only that they look completely wrong situationally.

For instance, I think that the Mage Tier looks great. It completely conveys the volatility of the class, looks flashy yet serious, and gives an overall sense of badassness.

Deathknights and Priests look relatively good, as well. The druid set looks decent for a caster, but seeing as the class has a wide variety of roles it fails in and of itself.

Then you have Shaman and Rogue sets, and the Warlock, Warrior and Paladin sets not including the helm. These sets look acceptable, but far from any exceptional piece of gear. Epic Warlock has a good tint to it, but the Warrior and Paladin coloring is all wrong! And someone tell me why a Rogue would want to glow? These sets are not suitable as epic sets. They are standard and take a horrible direction in where they attempt to stand out.

Lastly, Hunters. These sets should never have been conceived. If they had been conceived, they shouldn't have been drawn as concept, and then certainly not rendered as 3D sets. Once rendered, they most definitely should have not been implemented, and the fact that they were then chosen as acceptable Tier pieces boggles the mind.

The problem lies in the checks and balances between creativity, practicality and aesthetics. Truthfully, only Mage achieves a good balance. Casters should emit light, and have doodads floating about being suspended by magic: a continuation of TBC graphics with less pink. Rogues should be dark, emitting smoke and darkness. Hunters should look as though their armor is crafted out of leathers from animals they have championed. Paladins need to look simple, slow, solid, but bright to accommodate their different play styles, just as Druids should emanate the simple tones of earth with the flows of magic. Shamans' gear should reflect the elements, remaining volatile yet solid.

I'm all for bucking convention, but I just don't get what they were going for with these Tier pieces. They're horrible. Horrible bad. And I'm with you, the Helmets are overall the worst of all tiers.

I suppose gear graphic bashing is a constant: people always find something wrong with the gear. I greatly disliked the look of 3.0 gear before Tier, I thought it all looked too brown. But at least T7 conveyed the point of each class. And as WotLK went on, the gear got worse and worse.

Now we're at a fresh point: the weakest tier of this expansion. It should look restrained, and that is the one thing they got right. But heroic gear looks restrained too, and it doesn't look blatantly horrible.

I find that the feathery shoulders are mocking my choice of race.

Bat Form doesn't have feathers.

I particularly like my mage's WWF-style belt. /vomit

Also, I picked my mage's apperance because I like it. If I wanted to play as Ghost Rider, I'd go play World of Nicholas Cage. Glowing eyes is cool, but the current mage helm is just silly.

I can see it now....

Newbie Blizz designer guy: Boss, Boss, I solved the feather problem.

Boss: Great. We were having a hard time getting the look right since bats don't have feathers.

Newbie: This is really breaking new ground. You know how we had those great quests in Helfire, and everybody loved your Negrand cherry idea. Picture this for our bat friends. Guano shoulders, and they could even drop poo while they fly.

Boss: That's the stupidist... hey, you might be on to something. Get going on some sketches pronto.


Edited, Mar 19th 2011 6:42am by dadanox

^ Seconded.

The worst thing I've ever seen him do is the scene where he stalks, pretends to meet, and then attempts to have coffee and a conversation with a strange lady in Knowing. He's just so smooth it hurts.

Agreed, but then again rope belts that look paper thin for a warrior make no sense either.

The Mage Belt looks fantastic with the rest of the set, it just looks horrid when its discolored. Where the helmets you can make invis, it is obnoxious that the belts do not have such an option, but when put on as part of the full set they go wonderfully. Although I understand your complaint about your tabard.

I am a fan of the girdle style belts, at least for Plate classes, but it would be nice if there was an option for appearance.

To be frank, it would be very nice if there were a lot of options for appearance. I've played numerous MMOs that handled that aspect of the game much better. Dyes, Graphic Infusions, Graphic Swaps, Hidden Graphics, etc. all allow customization - something that helps keep people very very happy with their characters but able to change when they're feeling bored.

I personally find it obnoxious that you can find, say, a staff that's simply a piece of wood but is very powerful because it's been "infused" with some power, yet you cannot by any means of magic transfer that power to something that looks different. Also, Dying is simply put a zero-effort way to keep huge percentages of the population happy, and yet they seem to overlook the idea.

All the while, they bend to QQing on the boards about PVP and PVE, yet there are hundreds of legitimate complaints/concerns/suggestions for RP, Professions, and exploration that they do not seem to care about.

It's not a bad idea. I like being able to control my shoulders, though. Hmph.

Well, a few of the FTP MMOs have a system which almost always costs real cash in which you can alter the appearance of items by taking the graphic from one item and the stats from another. While there are the cliche players who simply find the biggest weapons and armors they can find to try to grab attention, this method also truly works well in diversifying the look of different players.

I'm still wearing mostly the Pre-T11 JP gear on my Priest, the one that looks like a white-mage. If I had my way this is what I'd wear till the end of time with him. Unfortunately, that gears getting replaced slowly but surely.

I'm not bothered anymore by bad looking gear in WoW, I mean if it's like that then meh, I'll get something prettier soon enough.
Of course, I still like pretty gear but if you really want your character to look pretty you can go play one of the superhero MMO's anyway.

I mean, where else do you get to make a ranger that looks like this:

Or a warlock/mage type character that looks like this:








Or make your character look like captain Falcon

I'd be willing to agree the Mage set would better suit a Warlock.

The Warlock set would better suit Crazy Ray who lives up on the hill and yells at children passing by.

*Edit*

Quick lil alteration to Mage set and you have a pretty cool bit of Warlock gear.

Destro, Demo, Affliction (although that's how how they split them up anymore)

Mage T11 as Warlock

Edited, Mar 20th 2011 2:02pm by tzsjynx

For the pure DPS classes, sure. The rest of us already have different sets with different stats. :-p What I don't get is why Blizz puts ****** stats on gear, that no one who uses said gear actually needs. Like with caster leather gear, crit is the worst stat for both boomkins and resto, yet there's still a bunch of it on our gear. Now obviously we don't want zero crit, because critting is still a good thing, it just seems weird to me that on nearly all the new gear coming out of ZA and ZG, there's tons of crit and almost zero haste. I think maybe one piece has haste on it.

Also, I've noticed this with trying to gear my feral off set too. A lot of the epic rings with agility on them have haste. The rep ring, the VP ring, and one of the rings that drops off of the first fight in Throne. Now granted I don't know if hunters or rogues need haste (I doubt it though), but feral druids and enhancement shamans sure don't. Unlike with caster druids and crit, haste is completely and utterly useless for those two specs.

I agree, I personally dislike essentially every hunter set in the game, atleast the helms, but still think they suit the class. They gotta suit the class, It'd be silly to have priest gear look all demonic lol.