SWTOR

[Ingmar]

I guess?  I mean sure, a Mithril chain mail is going to look nicer than a plain chain mail, but I never assumed a +2 Plate Armor looked any different from normal Plate, in fact, most of the time you needed to use detect magic on things just to even know if they were magical. 

Pretty sure even the D&D rules specified that the intrinsic value of the material determined the power of the enchantment it could carry.

This is dependent on the edition, but yeah.

[Ratman_tf]

Fighting a dragon in an evening gown is only slightly more less ridiculous than this:

*edit mraglgegagle*

I still say it looks like some hunter poured glue on himself and rolled around on a beach for 10 minutes.

"This is mah armor!"  

[Samprimary]

The argument speaking rationally to the pros and cons of appearance tabs become completely irrelevant when you make armor that looks like that. It reduces your game to being forced to provide appearance tabs, or be convicted of war crimes.

[Typhon]

Why did the artist decide to attach large fishing weights to the armor?  How does that make it more awesome?  How can you look at that outfit and not know that, at least a little, Blizzard hates it's customers?

[Merusk]

Just hunters & Paladins, who are subjected to the worst of the looks and mechanics.  But that's been a given for 5 years now.

[Paelos]

Just hunters & Paladins, who are subjected to the worst of the looks and mechanics.  But that's been a given for 5 years now.

Flight control, we are cleared for takeoff:

[Typhon]

lol, Gundam-paladin, especially the human male.

And to be clear, I love fun - the fake murloc suit that you get to wear in that quest line in WotLK was genius.  I jumped the entire time I was in it, and laughed 95% of the time while jumping.  Just fantastic. 

Forcing your playerbase to wear the hunter fish-entangled-in-lure-encrusted-fishing-line set to be in the highest-level of gear, well that's just mean.

[tmp]

appearance tab = every single jedi regardless of gender dressed as slave leia.

I can't tell if that's supposed to be pro or against.

[Fabricated]

The tier 6 shoulder thing you're looking at is a light effect and not a "physical" piece of the armor. It's a glowy book.

[Sky]

You'd think they could afford shoes.

[Lantyssa]

They're unimportant once lift-off has been achieved.

[Sky]

Be a Paladin - Feel the wind between your toes!

[Fordel]

Yea, that isn't even remotely the worst paladin suit.

[Ingmar]

It isn't even the most Gundam looking one.

[Fordel]

The Paladin armors do highlight how useless the idea of using gear visual to gauge class power/abilities in WoW is.


Go ahead and tell me if the armor Ingmar just linked is the tanking suit, healing suit or DPS suit. 

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Edit: This topic got outdated real fast.

[Ratman_tf]

Why did the artist decide to attach large fishing weights to the armor?  How does that make it more awesome?  How can you look at that outfit and not know that, at least a little, Blizzard hates it's customers?

I suspect it's like... have you ever had a funny comment and banter it back and forth, and everyone's laughing even when the topic goes to stupidtown? I think that's where Blizzard's armor design is.

[Paelos]

The Paladin armors do highlight how useless the idea of using gear visual to gauge class power/abilities in WoW is.


Go ahead and tell me if the armor Ingmar just linked is the tanking suit, healing suit or DPS suit.  

This tier was for going clubbing at the Boneshakers.

[Sheepherder]

Anyone that can honestly say they wouldn't mind looking at their character in the aforementioned armour sets needs to get their head checked, with the possible exception of the first paladin one (because it's rendering incorrectly in that screenshot).

[WindupAtheist]

I got worse and worse looking all throughout WOTLK. It never got really bad, mostly because my battleground scrub PVP armor wasn't important enough to "deserve" being covered in glowing dicks or whatever, but I would have happily worn my Savage Saronite blue set forever if it weren't for stats.

[Ingmar]

I honestly don't care about that stuff so much in World of Warcraft just because that's the context that's been set for that game/world*. I would have a huge problem looking like that in, say, LOTRO.

To bring it around, nothing they've shown us about the character looks in SWTOR really looks out of place for the context they've already given us in KOTOR 1/2.

* That said, Warrior T2 is and will always be completely retarded.

[Simond]

Tier 9 plate was just fine.

...

Oh, wait, you played Alliance. Bwahahaha.  
Anyway, speaking of gear appearance and SWTOR (as we were a few pages back), I'm guessing that teh shiney for epix lightsabers is going to be weird coloured crystals? Or are we going to end up with light-katanas, light-zweihanders and light-sword-chucks (yo)?

[tmp]

Anyway, speaking of gear appearance and SWTOR (as we were a few pages back), I'm guessing that teh shiney for epix lightsabers is going to be weird coloured crystals? Or are we going to end up with light-katanas, light-zweihanders and light-sword-chucks (yo)?

Maybe higher tier lightsabers simply get bigger

[Fabricated]

I don't get how anyone but troopers and bounty hunters will look more and more badass with better gear. I mean, troopers/bounty hunters can get bigger badder weapons and "walking battle tank" armor.

Even at the end of KOTOR 1/2 your best armor as a Jedi were swanky robes. Swanky glowy robes I guess?

Also in terms of "ready for takeoff" no one mentioned the worst: Warrior Tier 5.

[Merusk]

Anyway, speaking of gear appearance and SWTOR (as we were a few pages back), I'm guessing that teh shiney for epix lightsabers is going to be weird coloured crystals? Or are we going to end up with light-katanas, light-zweihanders and light-sword-chucks (yo)?

Maybe higher tier lightsabers simply get bigger

[Lantyssa]

Revan's Robes were simple but very nice.  It's the one hack I make to KotOR when I do replays, simply because I like their look so much.

[Lucas]

At least I hope the "it's" in the last sentence was an intentional reference to the horrible misuse of that poor pronoun we can notice basically..well, everywhere, nowadays.

Sorry, "grammar nazi" mode - off

[Ingmar]

I don't get how anyone but troopers and bounty hunters will look more and more badass with better gear. I mean, troopers/bounty hunters can get bigger badder weapons and "walking battle tank" armor.

Even at the end of KOTOR 1/2 your best armor as a Jedi were swanky robes. Swanky glowy robes I guess?

More and more ridiculous eyewear.

[SurfD]

Personally, I dont really have any problem with that Hunter Murloc Suit, as a set of hunter armor.  My only real problem with it is that it does not really fit thematicly with any of the raids you get it from.  Stuff should have been dragon themed / twilight themed, and the Murloc Suit should have been left for the Abyssal maw Raid.

[Kail]

I'm guessing that teh shiney for epix lightsabers is going to be weird coloured crystals? Or are we going to end up with light-katanas, light-zweihanders and light-sword-chucks (yo)?

I always got the impression that they were going down that path with the prequel movies. 
"Okay, in the first one, Maul's got a lightsaber, except it's like... a double lightsaber!"
"And then in the second one, Annakin gets two at once, dual lightsaber action!"
"And then in the third one, they get... um, like... four lightsabers?  I dunno, I'll have to work on that one."

[Fordel]

As ridiculous as most armor suits are in WoW, it gets even worse in that you rarely get to wear the actual matching suit. 2 pieces of this tier, 3 pieces of that tier, bunch of random stand alone purples. 

[Samprimary]

 light-sword-chucks (yo) will from this point forward be my official fandom weapon

[Fabricated]

Again, another problem that could be solved by cosmetic slots or the D.C. Universe costume lock option.

Your reward for collecting all of the armor/lightsaber doodads available is the ability to put together whatever look you want and keep it that way.

[Furiously]

Again, another problem that could be solved by cosmetic slots or the D.C. Universe costume lock option.

Your reward for collecting all of the armor/lightsaber doodads available is the ability to put together whatever look you want and keep it that way.

yes....Future devs please read this.

[Cyrrex]

Again, another problem that could be solved by cosmetic slots or the D.C. Universe costume lock option.

Your reward for collecting all of the armor/lightsaber doodads available is the ability to put together whatever look you want and keep it that way.

yes....Future devs please read this.

Agreed...the way DCUO presented this was perfect. 

Seems Jedi/Sith in this game will get fancier robes, and then their armor underneath the robes will also get fancier.  So far, it looks okay to me as long as it doesn't get too far out of hand.  In one of those vids that Lucas posted, it appeared the newbie Jedi had a training saber of some sort.  I find that to be...different.

While we're on the topic:  Absolutely all the armor in WoW looks ridiculous and unrealistic.  I'm not sure why we should expect it to be otherwise.