Hey, im here to give some feedback that I didn´t find about new world and I feel like it´s a big thing that is missing.
I´m not a very experienced mmo player but we know that an essential thing in this type of games is…making your character look BADASS.
I mean, after all the grinding, the questing, the time spent leveling up and etc, we want our armor and weapons to look really cool (besides the technical upgrades we get from better gear). And that is missing here.
As a tank wearing heavy armor, it looks boring and pretty much the same or WORSE than when I was leveling up! I have found some armor in levels 30-40 better looking than after those levels.
(Transmogs would be accepted too).
Same applies for weapons. I think in these games most of us like that nerdy feeling when you walk into the city wearing a really cool looking armor set, weapon or MOUNT (this last entirely missing in the game). Because you earned it! All the time you put into the game had a visual reward that you and everyone else gets to see!
Maybe some of you would say that “It kills inmersion”, but if all of this visual stuff is well made and they make it fit into the world it would be awesome.
Imagine cool animations when hitting enemies, fantasy looking weapons and mounts.
(not like the ranbow lions we got when the game launched lol that´s too much).
Idk just my opinion. It would really give me some motivation to keep grinding.
Sorry if my english isn´t very good, it´s not my first language.
It’s easy to demand to look cool, but what design would look cool?
The skins so far mostly make you look like a clown, and i mean the kind of clown that gets hired to hold up signs to a nearby sale.
Well but skins are skins. Their purpose is replace the look of your gear for some crappy design (and you have to pay!).
My point is that the actual gear needs to look better as you progress.
I don´t know if you ever played WoW but when you are leveling you can literally see it in your gear, also, the transmog system is great.
Designs that merge the medieval style with fantasy, because that´s new world, would be great. With some imagination you can think of something better than the actual designs.
I have made this suggestion in another thread. If I use asmodeum or glittering ebony while crafting a warhammer, I want to see the texture of these materials on the according weapon parts.
When they make an arena they should consider adding a PvP battle pass with lots of weapon skins and armor skins. I’m sure people would buy it. Additionally at the end of each arena season they should award skins related to your rank.
I agree and have repeatedly added into threads on visuals -
Skins wise ;the entire wardrobe of history for weapons and armour and we get this as the shop stuff?
Craft wise ; those cool dynamic colourings for star metal, orichalcum etc are where ?
Gear progression wise; who would want that void stuff? My opinion is the design is atrocious…
Optimistically things can only improve from current bar so hopefully some great historic armour and weapons to look forward to amd decent material textures built in.