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TLDR: Title. Here’s the link to the datamined models: https://www.wowhead.com/news/all-season-2-tier-set-models-datamined-in-war-within-patch-11-1-355145 The new raid tier sets for Liberation of Undermine / Season 2 are for the most part, in my opinion, simply gorgeous. Tons of awesome looking gear here as far as I’m seeing. Just have a look at Paladin: Death Knight, Evoker, Hunter, Rogue, Warrior, Priest, Warlock — the list of great looking sets for this tier goes on and on. And they all share one key distinction: They’re not explicitely goblin-themed. While the datamined weapons are indeed, the armor wasn’t designed with the forced caveat of having to conform to the typical gasoline, ramshackle steampunk goblin aesthetic, and they gain, in my opinion, so much from this. In the past, I feel the WoW design team has often had the mandate of having a theme forced on them to do their work, which, while producing some cool sets as well, has in my eyes often lead to mediocre tier sets that simply were the only ideas that the team could come up with to fit the theme, whereas a theme-agnostic set could have looked much more interesting instead. The tier sets presented here could be from almost any modern WoW expansion; Legion, Dragonflight, or even BFA — and they look amazing, like many of the sets from those expansions, just because of the simple fact of not being forced to conform to a preexisting aesthetic. Thus, I advocate for Blizzard loosening their theme restrictions regarding new season tier sets, and simply allow the design team to come up with great looking sets, regardless of the current patch or xpac theme, What do you think? submitted by /u/creamy__velvet |
r/wow TLDR: Title. Here’s the link to the datamined models: https://www.wowhead.com/news/all-season-2-tier-set-models-datamined-in-war-within-patch-11-1-355145 The new raid tier sets for Liberation of Undermine / Season 2 are for the most part, in my opinion, simply gorgeous. Tons of awesome looking gear here as far as I’m seeing. Just have a look at Paladin: https://preview.redd.it/6cv7pw8du68e1.jpg?width=4484&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=753e08a7d1f514f13aa2d269ad0028752450d211 Death Knight, Evoker, Hunter, Rogue, Warrior, Priest, Warlock — the list of great looking sets for this tier goes on and on. And they all share one key distinction: They’re not explicitely goblin-themed. While the datamined weapons are indeed, the armor wasn’t designed with the forced caveat of having to conform to the typical gasoline, ramshackle steampunk goblin aesthetic, and they gain, in my opinion, so much from this. In the past, I feel the WoW design team has often had the mandate of having a theme forced on them to do their work, which, while producing some cool sets as well, has in my eyes often lead to mediocre tier sets that simply were the only ideas that the team could come up with to fit the theme, whereas a theme-agnostic set could have looked much more interesting instead. The tier sets presented here could be from almost any modern WoW expansion; Legion, Dragonflight, or even BFA — and they look amazing, like many of the sets from those expansions, just because of the simple fact of not being forced to conform to a preexisting aesthetic. Thus, I advocate for Blizzard loosening their theme restrictions regarding new season tier sets, and simply allow the design team to come up with great looking sets, regardless of the current patch or xpac theme, What do you think? submitted by /u/creamy__velvet [link] [comments]
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TLDR: Title. Here’s the link to the datamined models: https://www.wowhead.com/news/all-season-2-tier-set-models-datamined-in-war-within-patch-11-1-355145 The new raid tier sets for Liberation of Undermine / Season 2 are for the most part, in my opinion, simply gorgeous. Tons of awesome looking gear here as far as I’m seeing. Just have a look at Paladin: Death Knight, Evoker, Hunter, Rogue, Warrior, Priest, Warlock — the list of great looking sets for this tier goes on and on. And they all share one key distinction: They’re not explicitely goblin-themed. While the datamined weapons are indeed, the armor wasn’t designed with the forced caveat of having to conform to the typical gasoline, ramshackle steampunk goblin aesthetic, and they gain, in my opinion, so much from this. In the past, I feel the WoW design team has often had the mandate of having a theme forced on them to do their work, which, while producing some cool sets as well, has in my eyes often lead to mediocre tier sets that simply were the only ideas that the team could come up with to fit the theme, whereas a theme-agnostic set could have looked much more interesting instead. The tier sets presented here could be from almost any modern WoW expansion; Legion, Dragonflight, or even BFA — and they look amazing, like many of the sets from those expansions, just because of the simple fact of not being forced to conform to a preexisting aesthetic. Thus, I advocate for Blizzard loosening their theme restrictions regarding new season tier sets, and simply allow the design team to come up with great looking sets, regardless of the current patch or xpac theme, What do you think? submitted by /u/creamy__velvet |