New visuals for Dragonknight need some refinement

TheDreVMiros · February 24

We're talking about a couple of ultimates and the skill that summons armor. Let's go in order:

1) Dragon Leap (Ultimate) - sounds and looks pretty good. But it feels unfinished. Why not add some illusory armor or an illusory dragon appearance? For example, add a visual illusory tail style, dragon horns, and dragon scales? After all, this ultimate should at least feel like dragon power, not just a jump with wings. You could even leave a visual effect after the leap for 1–2 seconds. (I'll attach an example below of what I mean)

2) Magma Armor (Ultimate) - looks like just a bunch of rocks glued to the player's body. Why not give this ultimate the look of molten dragon armor? Something like a molten crown and molten dragon scales. Right now it doesn't look like magma armor — it looks like random chunks of stone on the body.

3) Earthspike Mantle - looks raw, very raw. It’s okay on the back, but on the arms… on the arms it looks like glued-on plastic. This skill needs work. A decent solution would be to add some pauldrons. But most importantly - add dragon horns to the head, lengthen the spikes on the back, and add a tail. (For a tail example, take the Molag Bal polymorph.)

After all, Dragonknight skills (especially ultimates and the class armor) should remind you that this is basically a "Dragon". The visuals should show and say it. Besides, the visual improvements I listed above wouldn’t hurt, they’d just make it much more enjoyable to look at the class.

Vaqual · February 24

I think your example looks bad. I want to see less particles.

BardokRedSnow · February 25

Those are for the dragonborn via the thu'um, as Im sure you're already aware of, of course but those illusory images should be reserved for them. I honestly would've reversed it, had the actual dragon wings and so on be on the dragonborn and dragon knights have illusory magical imagery of it, but you're wearing the soul of a dragon over you and its supposed to be regal I figure, so that should at least remain consistent between the two.

Dragonborn wields dragon soul, dragon knight wields earth bones and dragon's "shell". Doesn't make much sense, DK having actual wings and scales but I don't want them also stepping even more on the toes of the actual dragonborn.

WerewolfMoonHunter · February 25

While I like your porpositions and ideas, I feel like the DK powers shouldn't look as shiny and cool as Dragonborn Shout skills. Yet I think this is something to consider.