DK Armor graphics

[Nasghul]

When we first started our DK's the blue set we got from Ebon Hold looked so sweet and was ideal for a Death Knight! We looked cool, so cool that I've kept my beginning armor set because of this.

However, the generic armor & lack of any DK armor while lvling up was a serious disappointment to me. Then when I hit 80 and looked at the Tier 7 gear, I'm still disappointed. The tier 7 set doesn't look as cool as the set you start with, doesn't radiate the "aura" of a DK and one that should be befitting of their first heroic class...

It would be nice if Bliz would:

a) either redesign the graphics for each class, so the Tier 7 items look the part better (thank god I'm not lvling my Paladin- their armor is terrible looking)

or

(b) allow us to custom create the armor skin, color, etc. in the game soon toons stand apart from each other more.

I'd seriously prefer option B. It would be nice to pic from a couple different skins for each armor piece and then customize it with dye kits, etc. Heck, they could even charge additional $$$ to a player to do so.

With the way it's so easy to earn gold in the game now, paying for armor & weapon customization like this would be another money sink for the game and a way to control inflation, etc.

It won't be long before I will have gotten the Ring of Kirin Tor, and the buyable mounts, so money won't have nearly as much worth at that point.

Just my two cents worth... what do you think? Who would like to see customizable gear, etc?

[Larsus]

Other games have ways to dye armor. I can't really see anything detrimental coming from something like that in WoW. Even shaping the armor differently wouldn't be a bad idea(to some extent). More customization and money sinks are never a bad thing in games like these. I would just hope the cost would be reasonable...I loathe farming gold.

[Toshi]

Gentlemen, this is why we have an itemcache editor. =D

[Necrophagia]

When we first started our DK's the blue set we got from Ebon Hold looked so sweet and was ideal for a Death Knight! We looked cool, so cool that I've kept my beginning armor set because of this.

So did i!!!

Hehe, thought i was the only one!

[Ramesses]

I personally think this is a class-wide issue. Its like they hired a new armor designer for WOTLK and his name is Suck McSuckerson. Seriously, what happened to the armor models in WOTLK. For one thing, as you level up, you get 1 armor model set. Thats it. Maybe the shade of your shoulders changes slightly, or you have a nice new leather piece added to the texture. But I cant believe the lack of diversity in gear look while leveling to 80. Thats not that big of a deal however. Not as bad as the fact that the 80 armor models pretty much all blow. My main is a paladin, and as the other poster had said, I almost would wear shittier gear to avoid the look of t7.

What happened to kickass glowing/floating crazy shit. That was cool. Now we get maybe a glowing strip, or in the case of a paladin nothing at all, looks like a green set from level 60. /gag

Fire the armor director guy. Hire/Promote the guy who did BC armor, that was cool looking shit.

Seriously, dont underestimate how important looks are to some players. Its a gamebreaker for some.

Me for example: How motivated am I to spend loads of time leveling up, faction grinding, and raiding to look like the godamn tooth fairy? Back in BC days though I was more than happy to pvp grind on my priest because the armor was kickass looking.