What does the art team have against robes?

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…and kilts?

Looking at yet another couple of heritage sets, they are again without a robe version. I mean, for Goblins it sort of makes sense. Worgen? Why?

I am starting to realize I am the odd one out here, who will forever be stuck with old mogs and never get anything new, because it seems the art team thinks robes and kilts are ugly design.

Does it really cost that much, creating a robe/kilt version of the heritage armor, or any armor set? Pretty much every single heritage armor so far, except the Bloodelven one, are all leggings and tunics(…or, melee oriented, from my point of view).

I genuinly wish the art team could give out some kind of explaination as to why they pretty much stopped making sets with a robe version for other armor users than cloth, and why robes aren’t an option for the heritage sets for those races where the “population” are a combination of casters and melee?(e.g. dwarves and lighforged).

I guess I am outdated, but this is something that sort of makes me want to quit playing. It’s incredibly frustrating never getting any new armor sets, because the art team has stopped making the type of armor I mog into, and which is an iconic apperance of my class. Pretty much all druid sets through the years have been with a robe/kilt.

Blizzard defended their transmogrification restrictions as they wanted to “preserve armor identity”. I cringe every time I think of that. You took away the identity of many classes/specs through own design. What happened?

I defended “armor identity” argument Blizzard did, until the day I realized I lost my own armor identity as a druid. I am now strongly against it, because it doesn’t exist anymore.

I just wish to know why you don’t think robes and kilts are good visual design? You keep creating new sets, I keep getting sets I’ll never wear because they don’t have a robe/kilt version, and it genuinly cause extreme amounts of frustration every time I get reminded of it. You could say I have a problem, but I think we can all agree that we all care how our characters look like. I just tend to have my focus majorly on robes and kilts, because I think those look really cool(especially on nightelves, which is my main race).

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Looks like a robe to me…

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/873569.jpg

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I dont know what fetish Blizzard have with robes but there is TOO MANY of them! All cloth armors in BFA were robes and only one in Legion was saved from this fate.

Give me a mini :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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That is not the connect version by the looks of it. Look at MMo Champion, for the latest one, unless I am mistaken.

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You are mistaken. There is both a robe and pants version, similar to belves.

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If you are a clothie, there’s plenty. Clothies barely get tunics. I would fully support clothies getting a tunic version of their future sets, where mail and leather would get a robe version. I don’t see how it would cost that much more resources, but what do I know…

https://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2019/december/worgenheritage.jpg

Is the one I found today.

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+1
I personally dont care about robes because i dont like them but others do and variety is good!

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you have a choice between dress or trousers, like the belf heritage. As I mentioned before.

https://www.wowhead.com/news=295507/worgen-goblin-mechagnome-vulpera-heritage-armor-sets-now-in-dressing-room

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I stopped wearing robes the day I noticed they make your character legs disappear. You can notice that when you jump and ESPECIALLY when you swim.

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I am aware of that version of the set, but it doesn’t seem to be the newest version. That old version was shown many weeks ago, and to me it looks like they scrapped the robe version, since they didn’t show it after the update. Obviously I’m hoping they didn’t, but I’ve lost all faith by now.

I noticed that in 2006. Still doesn’t bother me, and I usually only see it when I swim.

However, when writing this post, I got curious if this could be a reason why they want to avoid it. Though it doesn’t explain why cloth still get plenty of robes.

What do bother me though, are other types of clipping. Belts, shoulders, cloaks, weapons, helmets. I generally don’t use items that clip through other items. Lacking legs while wearing robes, is nothing in comparison. To me anyways.

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As a mail user I would frankly love to see less robes/kilts.
That said having different options -within reason- for allied races would be neat, albeit unlikely.

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I was actually quite glad to see Blizzard moving away from robe-only designs.

I suppose the best thing is if it’s done like the Blood Elf armor and just give both.

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Hunters, sure, but shamans are a robe/kilt class to me, at least Elemental and Resto.

I can’t wear robes on my hunter either.

I wear robes on casters mostly. Very rarely on anything else. I do think one of my DH’s have a kilt equipped atm though.

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Which is fine and dandy, bar the overkill of kilts and robes (so it feels at least) in mail ever since removal of tier sets.
I don’t even wear robes/kilts on my shaman, they feel off for anything but a clothie or at a stretch a druid.

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Druid tier sets were pretty much always robes/kilts. How can they feel like a stretch?

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Personal opinions and prefference? I find they branched druid tier sets out over the years to a mix of kilted and no kilted versions.

Edit: I should probably pre-face this by saying I mainly played Feral (and guardian) on my druid and I don’t see either -shapeshifting or not- wearing robes or kilts.

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I would love to get more robes and kilts! There is way too little of them. Especially kilts and other “pants substitutes”. I like to choose my top and bottom separately and there is very little dresses going for leg part (even wiht clothies most of them are pants). I would also like to get different styles of dresses, short ones, long ones, puffy ones, skinny ones, mermaid style, mini dresses and so on.

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I am currently looking through my wardrobe, and there are very few druid sets that doesn’t have a robe/kilt. I’ll do a number comparsion once I am done couting, but if I have counted correctly, there are only 3 or 4 druid only sets in the history of all expansions which doesn’t have a robe/kilt.

Tunics and leggings seems to mostly come with the sets we share with all leather wearers.

Done counting.

There are 19 Druid raid sets that are robe/kilt.
There are 4 Druid raid sets that are tunic + leggings(AQ 40, T4, Firelands and Antorus)

The Druid class hall set is also a robe set.

The dungeon sets were also robes for druids(vanilla + TBC).

I have not counted PvP sets, but many of those are also robes/kilts for druids. I don’t PvP much at all, and is slightly insecure which ones of those sets that are shared sets and which are druid only.

Most sets that are leggings + tunic are sets we share with all leather wearers(like all BFA sets, or event sets like the Legion invasion set.

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Most PvP sets are look alikes - which means the T4 equal has pants, only exceptions are like the early PvP sets (GM sets) those come with pants on druid.

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Well, I can see all the PvP sets in the collection tab, I just can’t tell the ones that doesn’t look like raid sets, appart.

Many of those sets have robes too, so I assume those are druid only too, but there are also sets there with pants that I have no idea if are shared or not. I could wowhead it, but didn’t bother since it’s already pretty obvious that the iconic druid apperance made by Blizzard, are with robes/kilts.

Hence, they can go eat their own words when they said they wanted to “preserve armor identity”. They’ve utterly failed the druid, and likely many others too.

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