Sunspire Skin

Ruinhorn

My modest feedback is written about Sunspire Skin (can't add anything else about trial itself for now).

It is the ugliest and worst skin I've ever seen. Basically, it is The New Life festival skin (which I think is taken from Direfrost Keep, you can see frozen statues there), with orange-colored arms and legs.

First one is The New Life festival skin (aka Direfrost), second - Sunspire (taken from Alkast website).

They are identical.
I fully realize this part of content wouldn't be changed even with enough time to design a new skin from zero.
To complete my feedback with constructive and absolutely fair critique:

• Sunspire Skin was not designed from scratch and was quickly made of the same textures as The New Life skin.
• This skin is a reward for completing Sunspire trial in veteran mode, which is insane for a copy-paste skin.
• Unlike MoL, HoF/AS (basically the same) or CR it is not unique, gives no motivation to complete this trial for a unique and well-looking reward (like vMoL for example).
• Looking back for recent skins I believe it is correct to say the quality of this kind of reward (skins) has dropped.

TL;DR
Sunspire skin is a lazy-"designed" copy-past The New Life festival skin.

Blinkin8r

10/10 agree with OP. Pretty lazy design. The mounts were a cool idea but a vet dlc trial skin should not be simply adding some orange to a skin you can get for doing mindless quests and making some crap furniture. Looking forward to running the trial and it should be fun, but as far as the reward for vet completion goes it won't be a motivator this chapter.

lassitershawn

100% agree. Even the mount is pretty meh and if it wasn't for the absurd difficulty in getting it seeing as you have to no death/speed/HM the trial I seriously doubt anybody would ever use it.

Leeched

Even the mount only is a lazy reskin of a reskin:

Anhedonie

I mean...they have to top spiderkith skin yet.

Banana

Gross.

Dark_Lord_Kuro

To me they all seem pretty ugly exept the scalecaller peak one but thats just me

Darkdex

At least the other trial skins look epic (good-looking glowing eyes, good colors, etc).

This skin is just... pathetic. I won't be using that since i dont use the Crystalfrost one.

Onefrkncrzypope

Lol it looks like trolli sour gummy worms

FakeFox

Ruinhorn wrote: »

Basically, it is The New Life festival skin (which I think is taken from Direfrost Keep, you can see frozen statues there), with orange-colored arms and legs.

Uhm no? It has orange eyes as well!

TheBonesXXX

Ruinhorn wrote: »

My modest feedback is written about Sunspire Skin (can't add anything else about trial itself for now).

It is the ugliest and worst skin I've ever seen. Basically, it is The New Life festival skin (which I think is taken from Direfrost Keep, you can see frozen statues there), with orange-colored arms and legs.

First one is The New Life festival skin (aka Direfrost), second - Sunspire (taken from Alkast website).

They are identical.
I fully realize this part of content wouldn't be changed even with enough time to design a new skin from zero.
To complete my feedback with constructive and absolutely fair critique:

• Sunspire Skin was not designed from scratch and was quickly made of the same textures as The New Life skin.
• This skin is a reward for completing Sunspire trial in veteran mode, which is insane for a copy-paste skin.
• Unlike MoL, HoF/AS (basically the same) or CR it is not unique, gives no motivation to complete this trial for a unique and well-looking reward (like vMoL for example).
• Looking back for recent skins I believe it is correct to say the quality of this kind of reward (skins) has dropped.

TL;DR
Sunspire skin is a lazy-"designed" copy-past The New Life festival skin.

Elwyser is looking to be half unique, half lazy.

Darkdex

@ZOS_GinaBruno Why not invert the colors? At least with that the skin should look more "fireish", and maybe add more emphazis on the eyes???

Inverting the colors (ice arms and legs, fire everything else), will make the skin more appealing for everyone and i think that's not that hard to do.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

It's more likely that you dipped your arms and legs in dragon urine than your body and not your arms and legs. Skin is accurate.

Feanor

Personally I find that they wasted a lot of opportunities with the Meridia theme. The Lady of Infinite Energies would have allowed so many cool looking stuff. But all we got are items that are not looking good at all. I had looked forward to the Meridian Mount especially and didn’t buy it because it was so different than expected.

karthrag_inak

wow, not giving up dro-m'athra for that.

Ruinhorn

Personally for me Dro-M'athra was, is and I think will be the best skin in ESO.

1. It is quite realistic and perfectly fits into lore.
2. It is cool looking, deep blue stripes are well combined with black main color.
3. Stripes are not just ugly photoshopped lines like someone picked a color and made several strokes with shaking hand. Their color and glowing varies along thickness.
4. You should complete a difficult trial (probably already not the most difficult nowadays) with well coordinated team on Veteran mode (no HM required) to obtain it as a reward.

I have the only one skin from trials - dro-M'athra. We spent months to beat Craglorn trials on vet modes to get prepared for vMoL. Despite I was the only one stamina player in a group: in those times stamina players were not in favor at all, but I did all my best to compete with magicka players. We did it, and this skin was my main goal and motivation to learn and beat this trial. Neither HM, nor anything else, but skin itself. I love it and use from time to time, because I deserved it.

Looking at... This. I don't want to use bad words, but comparing it with dragon's urine above is accurate. I have no feelings and no motivation to complete Sunspire. Dragons? Every fantasy game has dragons, they are not unique.

It is slap in the face and disregard to ESO players, even on my opinion its community fully deserved it. But it's another discussion, which goes beyond topic theme.

Ri'har

sudaki_eso

Thats some lazy design!
Lucky me that i find most skins ugly and not care about them, the best ones in my opinion are the ones you can buy: Zombie and Blood-Forged Skin - ok, the vhof skin ist okayish but everything else....meh

Gnozo

Most of the time you can only see the head of a char and using that skin you are forced to show your hands and feets for ppl to realized you have the trial skin and not just the one from new life... Lol.

Darkdex

Or just make the whole skin with the fire theme and frost details...

IamElayne

For a vet drop I do think it's weak. Those drops should be pretty spectacular considering the effort and experience needed to run them. It would be good for one of the festival drops like the frost one was. I do think the mounts , even though it's not much different from the frost, do look a lot better then the humanoid counterparts, though. Not sure why, maybe because of the mount gear

Kyoma

While I can agree that it is pretty much a (semi)copy-paste I do think that the trial skin is ALOT cooler and not so much of an ugly layer with a monotone color. The contrast makes a big difference IMO.

DisgracefulMind

The skin is just REALLY REALLY lazy. They couldn't at least try to make it look decent for the new full trial...lol?

karthrag_inak

surprised they didn't make an animated skin for this trial, or at least something somehow special. i mean, this one is just laughable - take the easiest and probably most-owned skin in the game, and modfiy the hands and feet. seriously?

Zedrian

I find the skin doesn't really represent the trial. Yes there is a Fire boss and Ice-Lightning boss... but where are the Lightning elemental and Time represented in the skin ?

They could of done a Dragon Scale Skin or something related to time.

Onefrkncrzypope

Guys I got stacks of ideas for new skins.