Tier icon art

It’s a minor issue but one I feel is worth talking about in hopes it is avoided in the future. Some of the icons in the new raid are unclear what they are. First being the weapon icons. The weapon models themselves look amazing in-game however the weapon icons all focus on the hilts of the weapon so some of the weapons are hard to tell what they are. Which on its own isn’t that bad on its own but it isn’t compounded into the second issue.

The second issue being all tier icons in Nerub-ar which all use the same exact icons as the weapons that drop in the same raid which can lead to some (short lived of course) confusion when items first drop.

Tier icons in the last few years have been different colors of a gem or seed so it was distinct from other items in the raid which I felt was better. Of course I’d much prefer if we went back to the generic glove/helm/chest/shoulder/leg icons from earlier expansions for example Leggings of the Wayward Conqueror and think it’d be best if those icons were upres’d and just used for every raid going forward for tier token item for visual clarity.

Again a minor issue but as icons are meant to show a quick visual image of what an item is supposed to be I feel the weapon/tier icons missed the mark.

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The tier icons for this raid are all different color snakes. One of the trinkets in the raid uses the same icon so it can be easily mixed up.

I got the Ula’tek curio and went to the vendor to find my gloves. I have to mouse over each item to figure out which one is gloves because they all use the same icon.

I’ve said it before but I wish the tier set icons showed what the item was it is something that feels like it was done better 18 years ago. Not asking for new icons every tier just 5 icons representing every tier slot glove/helm/chest/shoulder/leg and then a different color tint maybe to show cloth/leather/mail/plate. Then it could be reused for every raid going forward.

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