Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 17 Comments
Tags: 3.3, armor, icc, icecrown citadel, official, Paladin, Patch, Priest, tier 10
Two new entries have been added to Blizzard’s Official Tier 10 armor previews: the Paladin and Priest. Though you’ve likely seen them before, these two sets can now be considered “complete” and in their final forms. Even after much controversy, they remain roughly the same as they did when data-miners first pulled them out of the patch files, but let’s have a quick evaluation of them anyway:
Paladin - As usual, I think this Tier 10 set looks better than the majority of the community seems to. The open-helmet design with glowing skull looks boss and the erupting shoulder pads do, too. I especially like the runed purple ribbon design that runs consistently throughout the outfit. Now, if the complaints have come from anywhere, it’s from those players upset about having to wear a skirt again. Maybe it’s the fact that I don’t have to wear it, but it doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal to me. One of the all-time favorite Paladin sets is Judgment (Tier 2), and that also features a dress as opposed to hard-plated armor. Even if Judgment still looks nice in terms of design, it’s a bit of a wake-up call as to how far the art and modeling teams have come since then. Colors are deeper, shapes are more complex. The equipment shows off a little bit of wear and tear. It’s just more interesting overall. And really, who wouldn’t want to be as awesome as Tirion Fordring?
Priest - Now people who haven’t taken kindly to the Priest’s Tier 10 seem to think that it just looks far too plain. And… I can see where they’re coming from. I don’t think it looks terrible by any means, it’s well-enough designed, but players have come to expect their armor to look big and bombastic. This set seems rather mild by comparison and the random burning fires don’t seem to add as much flair as the usual shoulder/head-slot embellishments do. If there’s one thing that really stands out to me, it’s the bad-ass collar. With the cowl thrown in there, casting shade over the Priest’s face, I can see this Tier being a favorite of Shadow-specced players, as opposed to the usual holy-rollers.
If I can point to one thing that makes all of this armor look goofy, it’s the terrible posing. Maybe it’s just the traditionally stiff posture of the Male Human model or the weird angle that they’re being photographed at (leaning forward on one foot and slightly hunched over?), but either way, I’m pretty sure it’ll look more appropriate on live servers than it does on these test dummies.
Of course, the big question now is: where the hell is the Shaman set. This far into devleopment, with most other sets good and ready to go, and not even the data-miners have been able to find one piece or texture from the Shaman’s Tier 10. You know that if we find out anything, we’ll keep you posted, but for now, it remains a mystery to everybody.
I’d still love to hear your thoughts on the direction that the newest sets are headed in though, and feel free to talk about the others previously revealed if the mood strikes you!
Related Posts: 3.3: New Official Tier 10 Previews, Tier WTF, Sneak Peak of an Emtpy Ulduar, Patch 3.3: Final Tier 10 Preview, Shaman, Too Soon for a New Tier?,
By Daemonbane on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
First! i think they’re all really cool
By Frostescape on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
yeah i reckon they are awesome but the skull head thing kinda looks weird, maybe if they had something better than that it would better.
By 4KhazModan on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Heres what I think the lore behind the paladin set looking like it fell off a DK. It probably did, the pally put it on and infused it with holy energy and that is what you see leeking out of the shoulders where it looks like a skull design had been.
By Azurko on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Personally, I’d like the Priest set more for a mage than the priest..
By Meloran on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I’d expect the Shaman set to be something awesome and “Nerz’hul”-esque. White skull mask anyone?
By Phanttas on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Armour sets are one of the things that slowly grow on me, especially if I’m wearing them, and after seeing most of them for a while I don’t think any of them are particularly bad. Would I go as far to say I’ll enjoy wearing a big spike on my head (hunter) I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
“The open-helmet design with glowing skull looks boss” - Boss? In what century was ‘boss’ used? Certainly I haven’t heard it in a while xP
Other than that sweet post. Your writing skills are sick! (hehe)
By Amatera on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 3:37 am
@Phanttas
“Boss?” We’re bringing it back!
(Besides, it’s still in Urban Dictionary! It counts!)
By Elsey on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 4:31 am
I think the name of the preist set is crimson robe ect so might have something to with the raven preist’s in the scarlet onslaught
By alphadoom on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 8:17 am
warrior and lock are hard core, i wants baaaaddddd.
By cocopuff on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 11:35 am
i wasnt a fan when i saw then first but when i saw it in full size it actualy looks preaty cool
By Grant on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I really dont want to have to wear a skirt again.
Thats the only thing I was stoked about when t9 came out was that my Belf didnt have to wear a dress.
Oh well…. thanks Blizzard. Making us all look really manly.
By darkdreamer on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
rogue set looks like the doods from tim burton’s new movie nine. O_o badass though. druids look lame…. sadface
By 4KhazModan on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
@darkdreamer
You want manly? Check out T5.
By Lolmaster on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Nice sets, but I was really hoping for the shaman set too! But seeing as I play Death Knight, Paladin and Shaman, I’m satisfied with the Paladin set that came out!
By Essam on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 9:15 am
i dont know what pallies are complaining about. shamans have to wear dresses all the damn time. we are not complaining!
By Rogue4Life on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 8:21 am
i can’t wait to start wearing T10 for the rogue. It does look a little tim burtonish, but it seems to go with the abomination make up of “patching” stuff together. T8 was really cool for rogues, helm was wicked! T9, well I would say when it was first shown I didn’t care for it. But then when you look at what the gear was from/for it fit. Besides it gave use something a little more dressed up for attending special events.
I believe T3 is my favorite (not sure if that is right). the 8 piece sets back in the day, i know it is the red/black color scheme and the full set looks BA. I have been trying to collect it before Cataclysm. I have 2 pieces to go.
By Lynex on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
This Paladin set is AWSOME! I don’t see why anyone would complain about this set. So what if we have the dress, the shoulders and helmet are amazing!