Wrath of the Lich King Artbook Hints At Incoming Armor Sets?
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iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 16 Comments Tags: armor sets, art book, collector's edition, concept art, tier 7, tier 8, wotlk, wrath of the lich king
iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 16 Comments Tags: armor sets, art book, collector's edition, concept art, tier 7, tier 8, wotlk, wrath of the lich king 
Most players who care already know what the Tier 7 loot is going to look like. The loot from the retuned Naxxramas - which, by the way, has already been beaten - will be styled after the look from the old Tier 3 of vanilla WoW's Naxxramas 40. Styled doesn't mean copied however, with Blizzard confirming that their will be some model upgrades and modifications, as evidenced by the difference in 10-man and 25-man varieties, which can be as little as a color palette swap.But what about beyond Tier 7 you ask? Well, if you purchased the Collector's Edition of Wrath of the Lich King, you might get a sneak peek at upcoming tier sets. Included in the Phat Lewtz section of the art book is four images of gear sets, presented in the common modeling fashion, but sans any kind of label.
Two of the pictures are pretty easy to figure out, with this one almost certainly being a Warlock set. Notice the demonic energies flowing around the armor. This set obviously looks holy in nature, leading one to label it as a Priest set, but possibly a Paladin set as well. However, the robe's look has me to leaning in the direction of the priestly arts.
It appears the Blizzard may have also included a Death Knight set in the bonus section. The DK set is complete with their iconic skulls at the belt buckle and knees. We also have their trademark blue aura disseminating from the gear. Last but not least, is the piece that took a friend and I some time to make a guess at. While the other three pieces were relatively easy, I had to mull this one over before agreeing with him. The gear obviously wasn't of the Rogue or Hunter variety, with a robe kind of ruling out Warriors. It doesn't appear as earthy as most Druid stuff, so we finally settled on a Shaman set.
The book also has presentation of Rogue and Hunter sets, but they are not in full frame and do not appear to be part of the other series. The scans we have aren't high-resolution (don't want to infringe on any copyrights here), so if you are interested in the details then take the book out of the shrink-wrap or head over to a friend's house.
Any differing opinions on which sets the images belong to? Think we will see these bad boys with patch 3.1 and Ulduar? Perhaps later, or maybe they are truly just concepts and will never be implemented. That would suck because, as usual, I think the Warlock set looks awesome.
Reader Comments (16)
Just checked my artbook, the death knight set (i think its DK at least) look awesome, as does warlock and priest (i'm guessing it's priest anyways :P). Hope to see them implemented in next patch!
I wouldn't put too much stock in the "art sets". BC came with an art book too that had some really cool armor set designs (especially a really cool Crystalforge design for pallies) that never got used ingame.
Seems like Blizz only puts the designs that they decided not to use in the art books.
I'd love to have a nice set of simple looking armor with shoulderpieces that I could fit through a doorway wearing. There are ways to make armor interesting looking that don't involve massive protrusions!
While I was looking at the artbook the first time, I did wonder if one of those sets were gonna end up in the game.
But I because I didn't find anything Hunter-looking, I didn't start wondering whom they belong to.
The third one is (apparently) a hunter set. I know, right? Anyway, there are a few Youtube videos of the sets. ** Insert standard caveat about grains of salt for Youtube videos **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLrJc1kUyX0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DXKlUHjgI
Though I'm still bitter about the paladin tier 5 set from the BC artbook. It was largely the same as the existing Crystalforge, though the shoulders were slightly different (floating holy symbols instead of random crystal shards). The main difference was in the descrition where it mentioned "Blue-White Crystals" instead of the pink ones we ended up with. Talk about a disincentive to roll on tokens.
You know what I always thought while playing World or Warcraft? Why don't they make it so you can paint your armor a different color, customize the look in a way that would be SWEET!
Your man,
Sickid
just checked my artbook...the DK set looks SWEEEEEEEEEEEET
Its all on Atlas loot so you dont have to wonder
i dont have an artbook but i thin kthe gear looks awsome especaily DK at first i didnt like the gear made tham look 2 times larger but i think thats just to show of tuffns look how big orcs are thier sertly war types
ya priest and lock
The death knight set looks pretty badass :)
/cheer
The warlock set is actually grand apcrathary putris
Alot of these on the pic for the blog seem like Blizz got bored and puked up many different pieces of gear and then mixed it all into a little ball of rainbow crap. As long as the stats are good I guess...
The warlock set is most likely real, as at least the helm, ive seen on an NPC in the game, during the invasion as far as i remember.
lol
it makes sense pallys have a bare chest
it just shows off how beefy they are :)
the shammyO.Odid the creators throw randome collers and armor looks in ?:???it beter be worth it!!!