Event is live in EU now, and once again it looks like no new reward sets have been added.
Is it really so hard to just pick an old unused set, do some HD touch-ups, and throw your playerbase a tiny little bone here?
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They could add a pet reward āMurkmodeā, a chic murloc that has incomprehensible but enthusiastic reactions to our outfits.
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A new xmog reward for trial of style would have gotten me to log in again for the first time since before 8.2 on whatās left of my subscription.
But it sounds like I can safely miss the trial this time around and if I come back later I wonāt have missed out on anything.
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For some reason ātier setsā coughā¦ I have this strange feeling they fired alot of the Art Department to make room for
" meaningfull positions "
If this is true Iām gonna be sad. The Art department has been one of the few highlights of this entire expansion. They have been pretty much carrying BFA all their own.
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This makes me sad.
The sets in BfA have been very lackluster, to me at least. I would have liked to be able to aquire a new old clunky set through the Trial of Style.
I already have everything I can get so, if thereās no new rewards, thereās no real point in participating.
Iād say the raiding/mythic gear has really been the only lackluster art thing in BFA. Everything else the Art team has done fantastic on so far in bfa.
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I disagree.
I feel a vast majority of the sets have been drab and lifeless. But thatās just me.
Though I donāt see many folk running around wearing them either.
Well I generally find leveling sets to be pretty drab and lifeless regardless of expansion. Itās in the hard end-game content that I expect some real pizzazz with armor. The art time has utterly failed in that regard with this expansion. They have done fine everywhere else so I feel like itās really hard for me to pick on the art time for BFA. The fact the armor is the only thing I hear people complain about means that overall the Art Team did a good job. I just canāt hold them to perfection.
I usually find something to like in the leveling and dungeon sets. Thereās some good stuff in there.
This time around thereās less of them and somehow theyāre worse. Itās weird.
And I agree with you regarding the high end sets too. Theyāre not really worth chasing this time 'round.
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a lot of the zones look INCREDIBLE
i think they opted to put as much effort into those as possible which, while the zones look nice
nobody is going to care about the zones if their characters feel extremely lackluster and tired
(you can say the same about class depth and rotations and pruned buttons though even though raid encounters are better)
good examples being the heroic raid sets
the elite pvp armor
the gladiatorās pvp tabard
all look absolutely lifeless and there are SEVERAL leveling sets that more effort went into
the BoD āboneā themed sets look great
very boring being shared theme for everyone though
uldir and EPās mythic sets look absolutely PLAIN
they used to put more effort into honor token armor from random battlegrounds
itās sad 
Iād guess this was done many many months in advance. I just donāt think the current lead made any effort.
Just excuse after excuse.
Itās not their fault. They canāt control what goes in.
So yeah.
I was half expecting more variation in difficulty for what armor sets were rewarded, but they are stripped down mythic variations.
The questing KT greens looked better to a point but Ion says itās subjectiveā¦ maybe he just knows heās cutting corners and doesnāt want to admit it.
Canāt fault the art department to be honest.
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Thatās a good point.
Also, if thereās great armour pieces Iāll wear them forever. I donāt imagine Iāll visit the current zones much at all when the next expansion drops.
So a little bit more effort put into the sets/armour would have been appreciated.
By me at least.
I think a bit more effort on the armour would have been appreciated by most people, even if it meant a little bit less effort in the zones. They knocked the zones so far outta the park, I feel like they probably could have afforded a bit of redirection to spruce up the sets.
Then again, Iām not the Art Department so I donāt know under what constraints they were working with that we as players donāt know about.
The only thing I can suggest is that the Tokens carry forward. And by and large, the ToS is a pretty fun event.
So go ahead and have a little fun, collect some Tokensā¦ and you can save them, hopefully, for next year. When a cool set comes out, you wonāt have to worry about āgrindingā Tokens, youāll have plenty and can just go buy the new stuff. 
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I, for one, agree with this statement fully!
Iām just looking forward to the free transmogging so I can take this starfish off my face.
( just ignore the fact that hiding the helmet is free anyway )
Iām not sure why people are still surprised by this, the new ensembles come maybe once a year and itās been made pretty clear that player feedback about the event isnāt really taken into consideration.
Itās laughable, i havenāt been playing for the last 3 weeks or so, I log in every few days to see what the emissary is (still waiting on alliance weap cache).
Logged in today with the intent of actually spending a few hours playing, (trial of style of course), see that there is ZERO new rewards, and log back out.
The constant RNG ontop of RNG has killed this game for me, the lure of free things was enticing, shame blizzard didnāt actually deliver.