What can I say about the remaster besides that it is nearly flawless. But that one flaw that it has is very glaring when you played on d2 for 15+ years. The flaw? A fatal redesign: Vampire Gaze. You took the coolest helm and totally ruined it. You took away the horns. Why I ask would you remove the horns? It looks so much cooler with horns. I even made a Leviathan Bone Visage in hero editor, and guess what? Looks cool as blazing hell. We need the real vampire gaze back. The one with the horns. I’ve messaged blizzard many times regarding this issue. I think it’s time we start a petition. I don’t know how though to be honest
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What horns? Please make a screenshot. And what the hell is Leviathan Bone visage. Leviathan is armor.
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I think it’s about the old model for bone helm type armor vs. the new one. The OG varieties all had ram’s horns, and the new ones don’t.
Vamp Gaze, Trang, Tancred, Wormskull, etc. all use the same base item, so that’s what this is about.
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I miss the horns, all the unique looking bone helms just chop them off and it’s really sad. Even if it’s not true to the og art of the item it looks way better with the horns.
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your 100% right on this one
wierd because the dev remake all set and unique but drop the
ball on this one
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in the hero editor you can take any item and make it any unique like an occy ring for example, and yes the vamp gaze had horns in vanilla, it looks exactly like a bone helm but green
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I honestly was sooooooo disappointed as well when I saw this, and every single time after. I really do miss the OG gaze. That helmet looked so good, and was fun to use with different mixtures of armors. I would absolutely love for them to bring this 3d art back to what it originally was in d2:LoD
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You can easily equip a set/unique bone helm and compare the look in-game with the graphics switcher (default keybind G).
Even as pixelated and lo-rez as the old graphics are, you can clearly see the horns. Switch back to upgraded graphics and the horns vanish. They appear to have only removed the horns from the set and unique bone helm types; rares and below still have the horns.
Personally I would have done the reverse, to make the upper-tier items look more elaborate with the lower-tier items having no horns.
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100% agree, they botched this re-mastered gfx.
Needs to be remade close to the original with the downward horns
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Yep I will not even use a Gaze after seeing it it looked so terrible, should have been one of the best. Feedback this in PTR I am with ya
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Yeh agreed they also spoiled arreats face as well its sad. Even the breast plate from sigons looks like its shrunk in the wash.
I miss the old motor cycle crash hat look of Jawbone cap’s etc as well.
Not the end of the world though really.
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I guess they wanted to to make it closer to what the artwork looked like. I didn’t see any horns in the old D2 artwork although they were there when you equipped it.
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old model did not have horns, they stayed true to the original and designed it correctly
Agreed.
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They didn’t stay true to the original. They stayed true to the inventory graphic.
yes original inventory graphics, vamp gaze isn’t suppose to look like in old D2.
all uniques now look like what they are suppose to look like.
u can close this silly thread
You have my vote, looks way better in old D2
Hi! Vamp Gaze in D2R does not look nice at all, for such a good helm it is, it deserves a much cooler skin! 100% for it being changed if possible!!
But it still makes more sense to see the real art of the unique on the character rather than what the original base looks like. People asked for shako to show up green on the character all these years and they finally did it. I would happily accept what the unique looks like as it is.