Proposed changes to Nightborne Heritage Armor Revised

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This thread needs to be noticed by developers, and not stay in the Reddit or in Imgur.

Thread is officially done by: bladeofavilliva https://imgur.com/r/wow/Mq55L

-Upon seeing the male heritage armor I was confused. Why are they so covered up?

https://imgur.com/a/ufg6wQP

Why can’t I show off my tattoos like the countless in-game examples of male Nightborne in full regalia? And if I want to cover myself completely, doesn’t the Nightborne tabard serve that function?

So I tried tweaking the concept as non-invasively as I could, in theory being changes that can be made quickly with no need for remodeling.

https://imgur.com/a/CH1uHzg

Examples of how male (and female) Nightborne look in-game, almost all of them show some skin on their chest and arm slot to allow their magical tattoos to be seen. Almost all the noble/upper-class Nightborne are shown in this way, with star augur being the only exception (but he doesn’t wear pants, so can we trust him?)

https://imgur.com/a/wbdu5Mt

I tried to make my proposed changes as non-invasive as possible on the existing models (requiring no remodeling, only alpha on parts of the texture, and some tweaking volumes on the low poly model).

https://imgur.com/a/lEbNoW5

The “cushion” pattern on the abdominal muscles could be alpha’d out of the chest piece, revealing magical tattoos. The upper parts of the chest piece could be moved up to expose more skin for the tattoo design.

Lastly, the arm sleeves are pulled down a bit to expose more room for tattoos, (and added some self-illumination to the eyes but I’m going to assume that’ll be particle-based in the game).

https://imgur.com/a/FJQ71Y0

(Older edit I did of changing the shoulders a little bit as well, also showing what self-illumination on the eyes could look like.)

Although the textures and design are great, why does he look so stuffy? Shouldn’t he be able to show off the magical tattoos that so many countless other Shal’dorei can? And if I want to cover myself completely like this, doesn’t the Nightborne tabard serve that function?

https://imgur.com/fd7yDos

PS: I do understand lately you have been drowned with elf topics, but try to support it.

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The main thing I want is a non-robe option, robes are nice for casters but the melee types like the Duskwatch have something more like shorts, why can’t we have those?

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Nightborne armor should have a miniskirt and tank top alternative :rofl:

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My Nightborne Hunter is running around in a dress (robe)…We for sure need pants options first.
Also I agree with some of this, I think instead we should get more variations of heritage armor, like red color, and different shoulders.
Like one seen on Magistrixs of Suramar (floating and having some nice spikes uwu)
Since Nightborne really don’t fit into any armor set into the game almost, I don’t know why but it’s hard playing a nightborne without our heritage armor, it looks ugly ew.

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https://imgur.com/a/0EOtxXu

My protection warrior crying in the corner

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:unamused:

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Your hunter, I am tanking with a dress sis. :joy:

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Ehhh it’s better but could use some more shorts components.

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There’s so much Nightborne armor that the NPCs wear that Blizz coulda took inspiration from yet they decided on giving us basically a dress.

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Dress is good for some classes, really they should have gone the Blood Elf route and let us pick.

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There are ready models as well.

Rather than polishing already existing models they decided to mold something out of blue and call it a Nightborne.

wrote on the top, I am a tank in a dress :confused:

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Well stop tanking in a dress, you’ll trip and get stabbed in the back!

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You only need some high heel shoes to match that dress.

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What makes you think that Blizzard will change anything?
I don’t remember any precedents when they retroactively changed specific graphical aspect of… anything, really.

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The problem with your picture is that it proposes changing the pants model to a dress, but the problem is that the pants slot is the only one that can’t be changed.

The first on the left and last on the right is what I wanted for the Nightborne. The bracers, gloves, boots and shoulders made of arcane tendrils, it looks so nice in game. Of course, with intricate metal pieces as a base.

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I wish all the Heritage armor had robe and non robe option and i dont know why its not a thing

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Everything about nightborne screams rush job. Terrible effort from blizz lmao.

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Sadly true if only they would have taken the time they needed

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What i dont like about the nightborne heritage armor is the chin piece. Especially for females its weird and makes me look even more manly. So i cant wear the armor due to that, and that armor was the only reason i leveled my mage hehe.

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Where’s the mana hair?, mana around hands?.

Who tf played Suramar and then designed that heritage armour???.

I’m convinced blizzard doesn’t play their own game. Also wtf is up with the male faces. Females aren’t amazing but not as bad as the males.

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