Monday, October 12, 2009

The Porky Set

We can now see some of the upcoming Tier 10 armour sets. And again they confirm what I've been suspecting for a long time: Blizzard designers hate warriors. I mean... see this! A frigging boar head on shoulders!! Usually warriors have followed the boring themes of spikes and blades (since skulls have been reserved for death Knights), so when they try to strife out of that what do they come with? A swine with tusks on shoulder. Oink! Oink! The set looks good on Horde, specially orcs and tauren, but for Alliance just looks horrible. The helmet isn't bad and reminds of a yeti, but shoulders are a big design fail. And the rest of the set doesn't have any remarkable features. At least they could have followed the boar motiff on the rest of pieces, like a belt simmilar to the one Sláine used in the comic by Simon Bisley. Would be more 'porky' but at least it would had been more coherent.

I'm too sexy for my gear, too sexy for my gear

The rest of the available sets are ok. Rogues look like geists, death knights follow the skulls-everywhere design, hunters' helmet make them look like Dagoth, the horned demigod from Conan the Destroyer and druids... well, seems somebody drank too much because the set seems more fit for evil warlocks than treehuggers.
See them in motion:


2 comments:

  1. That is quite hilarious, even more so since one of our tauren warriors has the nickname "Bacon" - that set is going to be perfect for him!

    The hunter shoulders look like they are causing a shocking amount of air pollution, not very fitting for someone associated with nature.

    And as usual priests have to wait, bah! :P

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  2. Indeed, hunter set should be nicknamed "Contamination". Looks like designers went totally nuts and aren't keeping much coherency this time, I fear what clothies will look like.

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