Project Lore

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.

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