Yeah not sure what they were going for on that one.
As I mentioned before what I wanted was either the still-unobtainable Deathguard outfits modernized with flashy graphics. Or a spookified version of Lordaeronian Knight armor. As I felt that’d be a good way to spell out the past, present and future of the Forsaken. No longer rejecting their human heritage as they did under Sylvanas but still decidedly being their own thing.
This is just okay. My main issue with it is I feel the BFA Season 2 PvP did such a better job with the concept that this feels just lame in comparison.
Also idk how I feel about the tiny coffin. It’s certainly on brand, that much can’t be argued, but isn’t that the equivalent of like a human walking around with a tiny bed strapped to their back?
Idk feels very “We get it, you’re vegan” to me.
But in the same breath while I’m dissatisfied with the overall look of the armor I am happy that this seems to signal that the Forsaken will stay the mayors of Halloweentown and that’s cause for a mild nod of respect if nothing else.
But what do you think? Dead and buried or dead but delicious?
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At least it looks better then the gnome and Orc ones.
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Yeah I don’t hate it. But I’m not excited about it either. My opinion Plague Doctor by way of Glowstick Darth Vader cloth BFA season PvP 2 / Battle of Darkshore cloth set, and mail set for that matter remains;
Like I said at the top, it’s alright. But idk there are so many really interesting things you could do with the Forsaken. Having their heritage armor be just Banner Bae’s outfit with a weird novelty backpack just smacks of Blizz continuing to fail to realize the potential of the best fantasy race in the entire genre.
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Blood elf and Tauren are the best looking in my opinion.
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I definitely agree with you on the Tauren. Seriously about time their warriors can look like Tauren Chieftain. And really they always looked absurdly top heavy in plate, and even more ridiculous after helmets made their horns dissappear.
As for the Belf stuff yeah it’s okay. I think there’s way more interesting Belf themed gear but unfortunately it’s all from 2006 and looks like garbage now.
Like 30% of the reason I decided to make my Belf Paladin RP as a San’Layn spellbreaker is because I tried to do a right and proper Blood Knight and the game went;
“Well your options are to wear the heritage gear or dress up in this stuff that looks like cheap cosplay next to everything else”.
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I pray what the trolls will get blows the competition out of the water. That set is important because my main is a troll hunter.
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Oh definitely hope they get a cool Shadowhunter esque outfit. Seriously Troll themed mogs are few and far between. Not at all helped by the reality that to get the best mail one from Cata you need to level up defunct archeology.
I swear to God the devs act like this isn’t a collective experience. Once somethings old news it just gets left to wither on the vine.
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For me the Darkshore Warfront armor remains the definitive Night Elf set. The heritage armor is however a decent callback to the First Cinematic.
Yeah, your feelings sum up mine as well.
“It’s… fine?”
I’m holding out on firm opinions because I know it may not be in it’s final iteration yet. I keep saying it but I’m REALLY hoping they add a robe option. Apothecaries and Shadow Priests are a cornerstone of Forsaken lore and it would be weird if that wasn’t included in the set as an option. The proportions seem somewhat bulky on the Forsaken frame, so I think a robe would balance it well. It feels restricted to Rogues and MAYBE Warriors so far?
That being said, I love the colour scheme and that they included the Lordaeron symbolism within the design. The little coffin backpack is a campy little ooky spooky touch and the option to have a facial covering is really cool. Although, I much prefer the Darkshore sets from BfA over this one so far.
I’m hoping they take the opportunity to add upright posture for Undead as well. That would definitely make the set look less ‘bunchy’ overall. I do really love the skin tones they are adding though, the green tones are bomb.
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Personally if I had supreme authority I’d give the Forsaken three distinct models.
An upright porcelain skinned and eerirely beautiful one for casters only, that’d be for the vamps and wraiths in the audience. They’d be called Sirens.
A stiched Frankenstein’s monster esque model that would ideally be able to mix and match body parts from humans, gnomes, dwarves, trolls and orcs. Theyd be called Metzgers and would be avaliable exclusively to martial classes.
And the original recipe who I’d codify in lore as ghasts. Basically ghouls 2.0 who were meant to be the new backbone of the Scourge. Same ability to recover from flesheating and use their mutated bone claws as a weapon but capable of using arms and having the capacity for independent thought. Good idea but backfires tremendously when Illidain tried to single handedly cause global warming. They can play anything.
Don’t get me wrong as a RPer I actually like the vagueness of undeath. I’ve some characters that are necrobiotic cyborgs, some that are monstrous meaty skeletons and some that are just goth hotties because they’re magic.
I actually love the new customization option as to illustrate he’s had a rough time I’ll have this toon be rotted and jawless. But he’s always runway ready thanks to the organ and marrow donation of humans;
But be cool if I could better represent this. My Rogue is an ‘exquisite corpse’ type who’s constantly augmenting her body with superior limbs.
And my warrior is written as a Varguel and I’d love if I could have him as just a skeleton with a beard thats probably fake but you try telling that to the 10ft tall skeleton that magically still has the muscle lifting capacity of 6-12 in their prime Arnold Schawzeneggeren.
It’s fine, at best.
I stated in another thread that my main issue is that I don’t really know who it’s supposed to be for. It’s too lightweight for a Deathguard and not thematic enough for an Apothecary. Deathstalkers are the closest fit but it only barely looks right for them. It mostly looks like a civilian’s traveling outfit - a comfortable set of basic clothes with a few handy tools hooked onto the belt.
My personal preference would have been for something plate-ish, because I think that’s the worst of the four Battleground sets that the Forsaken got. The Forsaken are an extremely thin model, and any plate that a Forsaken wears has to be bulky enough to balance that out. The Forsaken Battleground plate set is, contrarily, made up of very thin pieces that only accentuate the already too-thin body beneath. It’s really a bad set on them - made all the more embarrassing by the fact that the mail set actually seems to understand the requirements of the Forsaken body very, very well.
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I just can’t over the tiny coffin.
What do they keep snacks in there?
If it turns out they have an emergency auxiliary Goblin in it then I’m down. Too few of those in WoW;
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I need to actually level my night elf and one of my undead.
But I THINK the cutoff is 50? So that’s no big deal. But then there’s the special things for the draenei and I still need to haul my tauren UP FROM 60 so I can do that storyline and get a very large totem.
But then also it’s been a very long summer and just being a small angry woman in Ranked Solo Shuffle to entirely inappropriate music is very relaxing.
At least one of my undead is at least committed enough to wear the coffin in all seriousness because he is VERY EDGY.
It’s where you carry Nathanos’ head like Dio’s head in Phantom Blood.
You hear him rattle in there and grumble.
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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Also personally I adore the Forsaken heritage set. My only complaint (which is entirely a technical issue) is fixing the 3D assets on the gloves.
The inspiration to me seems to be the acolyes from WC3 with a gothic wanderer vibe. Going too specifically into one niche, like say, something plate-y, wouldn’t be great imo.
That said I am also playing on the female model.
I’m mostly interested in the quest line
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The goal of the heritage armors seems to be less to have a hugely breakout set, design wise, and more to have a set where you can mix and match pieces of it with various mogs, and make any mog look more like X race.
Orcs and Humans both have multiple pieces of theirs that can be swapped around with the myriad Human and Orc themed sets to make something new, pretty readily. Trying to make a set that encompasses ALL the niches of a given race isn’t really feasible, after all, even races that seem more monolithic still have various tribes, clans, and so on. They function well enough as full sets, but to try and reflect the different niches of the race, you need to add more.
The Forsaken set, much like the Kaldorei one, seems like it was made to mix and match with the Warfront stuff. It’s just that there are few Kaldorei themed armors and even fewer Forsaken ones, so that’s what we automatically go to.
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I assume the Forsaken quest will involve getting rid of the remains of the scarlet crusade. The night elf one will be settling in the new world tree.
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I’m more worried it’s going to be a “Calia Menethil as the new face of the Forsaken” party.
I’d rather it just ignore her and pretend that abomination never happened.
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