Did you hire new armour designers, ZOS?

slumber_sandb16_ESO · October 2015

After seeing the amazing quality of the alliance armours in Imperial City I was even more excited for Orsinium than before, hoping I'd get to see some sweet new Orcish armour and weapons to put on my Orc. I saw the artwork as the excitement rose even higher.

Today I saw King Kurog wearing the ancient orc armour. The disappointment was real.
Look for yourself, it looks so flat and uninspired, textures look well.. not as good. The chest armour specifically looks plainly painted on, there doesnt feel like there's any detail or thickness to it. Like for example the neck area, in the artwork the area at the front is raised like a sort of neck guard, in the game is just as flat as it can get. Why?

I mean, what happened? The alliance sets in Imperial City were AMAZING, they had that extra detail of layers, chest armour had some raised areas rather than just painted on etc, just look at the pictures. Compare them.

I'm begging you ZOS, have the alliance sets as the minimum requirement for appearance quality for future armour. The flat painted on armour thing is no fun for vain players like myself.

Tarrin · October 2015

Concept arts of this armor are from beta. We`ve seen Alliance armor concept on QuakeCon2014, and ancient orc armor in one of the game quests.

Corey Loving (dismissed) has made a lot of contept arts.

Mettaricana · October 2015

Looks like total crap

Reznique · October 2015

This is the ugliest armor style I've seen, it beats Argonian for sure.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · October 2015

Isn't that the armor the Iron Orcs in Craglorn wear?

Alucardo · October 2015

I'm going to give that armour the most professional and helpful criticism I possibly can: it looks like poop.

Jitterbug · October 2015

Well... it does at least look "ancient" I guess

slumber_sandb16_ESO · October 2015

It just looks like a huge step back compared to the IC armours.

FerrumnCutem · May 2016

I especialy dislike the flat upper chest area, in alot of the designs for armors there is a piece of neck like armor which always gets left out

Panth141 · May 2016

FerrumnCutem wrote: »

I especialy dislike the flat upper chest area, in alot of the designs for armors there is a piece of neck like armor which always gets left out

It's a shame that you didn't dislike it seven months ago, so that you could've got in on this discussion