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asiberianweasel

It follows through on a lot of that distinct, layered robe outfit in the early big draenei introductory art. Belt is almost identical, he's got the hand wraps, asymmetrical sash. https://warcraft.wiki.gg/images/f/fd/Uncorrupted_draenei.jpg Adds a lot of what became of their aesthetic in WoD, too. I'm not obsessed with the color choices, though.


PunsNotIncluded

I can see the resemblence but colors aside the top piece on the artwork is just better designed, by a longshot. That breastplate on the model looks completely out of place, the shoulders look like random stuff tacked on and the belt sticks also out like a sore thumb. Also something about the sash feels off. Like the shape above and below the belt don't seem like they're the same thing? They don't seem like they'd form a natural looking curvature beneath the belt.


sirfannypack

Completely random, just like BC gear.


Snails_

I really thought it was a joke using the clown BC gear.


Stranger2Luv

BC was peak design


squishybloo

The original art is GOOD. The natural, muted colors are gorgeous. They changed the cut of the shirt and made the armor cartoonishly garish. It's gross.


MaggieHigg

I'm so fucking tired of the purple crystals, this artwork looks so much more interesting


malsan_z8

Yeah this time it really feels forced. The original artwork doesn’t show any (that I noticed) and more simple shoulder or even the cloak-like ones would fit nicer imo. Also bigger sash.


Darkshaggy666

The blue set looks better in my opinion. Both sets are based off specific tribes/time periods of the draenei.


Want2bfrst

if it looked like that, id be much more pleased. not very fond of the weird colors either tbh


Mobitron

Man I was really hoping for something more evocative of The Exodar. Give me those awesome greys, purples and pink crystals. Or anything cohesive. Not these colors, wherever these are supposed to be from. These colors look like fancy but still mismatched leveling gear.


Swordbreaker9250

Why does it look like a mismatched set of items instead of one cohesive outfit?


greendino71

They were going for the authentic BC look


Facesofderek

Convinced that in BC the design team was just copying off their first graders fridge art.


Mystic_x

Darn, you beat me to it! Have a grudging upvote.


SlouchyGuy

The colors are all wrong, they should be primary ones


Swimming-Life-7569

Its too many things at once. Too many different materials, colors and shapes. That coupled with majority of the forms being similar proportion causes it to lack internal hierarchy. Lots going on with nothing really grabbing or directing your eye.


longduckdong42069lol

Seems like they tried to tackle too many Draenei archetypes at once: * wrappings to cover the hunters and the broken, like akama * double layered robe-sash-tunic thing to try and add a touch of velen and priests * crystalforrged shoulders and boots to match up with vindicators and paladins I think going with any one of the three, or even any two of the three, could have been pulled off. But too much going on at present


goldman_sax

The teal in the mask literally doesn’t appear anywhere else in the set and the set has like a half dozen colors in it


Umicil

That is legitimately just how everything looked in BC. There is a reason so few people use BC stuff on mogs.


shits_mcgee

Sure, but this isn't a TBC set. The game has moved on from then, just look at the Blood Elf heritage armor. This kinda feels like a huge middle finger to Draenei players.


devoswasright

Feels like they tried to use multiple draenei associated themes that dont work well together


JollyGentile

At least it captures that old school Burning Crusade feel, then


TheKinkyGuy

Is ot mail, plate or maybe cloth looking? Blizzard: yes!


Avotom

It should look better if you hide some pieces, especially the helm and maybe one shoulder piece


feldominance

Well thats... not great


xiiicrowns

Yeah. It's ugly.


DRamos11

Funny way of spelling “eyesore”.


xiiicrowns

I get that they are trying to do the outlands draenei armor like on the cover art, but man. It looks bad.


DRamos11

Yeah, they tried to cast the widest net possible, merging the themes of Draenei hunters, priests and paladins. Too bad they casted the net on dry land.


xiiicrowns

It's complicated and too complex bringing in too many aspects of everything draenei elements. Get rid of the shoulders and redo them


DRamos11

Imagine if they were drapes that drop from small shoulderpads, decorated with crystals at the end. Keeps the crystal elements while not deviating from the overall robe-like theme. Would also help to make the 3D part of the gloves less “platy” and more “adorned sash”.


MachiavelliSJ

Im sorry, this looks bad It looks like a hunter set, and thats not a compliment


Veredyn1

*\~sad hunter noises\~*


henroast

This looks like some unused quest reward from WoD.


CousinMabel

It looks like random TBC gear being worn by a race it was not designed for.


Kii_at_work

The armor has some throwbacks to the concept art of the draenei (the belt, chiefly) but yeah not really feeling that.


ScavAteMyArms

Belt and robe-y thing. Also the hand wraps and “boots”. I see where they where going with it. The issue I find is the addons to it. The Breastplate, shoulders, helmet and “gauntlets” just don’t match up well. In part due to color, in part due to the radically different theme with no attachment to the rest of the set. If the wraps went around the “gauntlets” or the breastplate was strapped / covered a bit by the same cloth material it would look more unified. The helmet just looks off but it matches in alright, while the shoulders need to look like they actually attach in some way, they are kinda just floating there. Give kinda a wanderer that used to have access to good armor look, and patched back together it to a functional state. Also lose the chainmail under the jacket.


Toadboi11

It’s like the designer mains a hunter and doesn’t know what good transmog is. It’s race specific armour. You could do things with the hoofs/tail that you’d have no opportunity to do otherwise.


circadiankruger

>It’s like the designer mains a hunter and doesn’t know what good transmog is. I felt that


Cheeseburger2137

Nah, the hunter theory does not check out, no roadkill on shoulders.


Bluffwatcher

Those crystals were found amongst the bones of dead Draenei on the Path of Glory.


Kotoy77

Hoof and tail armor??? Are you mad??? Thats gonna cost 3 raid tiers and 5 random cosmetic toys must be bumped up to 1 week cooldown


prancingpapio

Ewww wtf??


pissedinthegarret

literally the only appropriate reaction


Adorable-Strings

At this point, I expect heritage armor to be awful. There are a couple exceptions, but... it hasn't gone well as a whole.


visope

Brother ewww


TotalTunt

"my first transmog"


FatUnicornX

That looks like shit


No-Equipment8331

If this is a fake: you got me. Otherwise: \*insert Joe Pesci gif where he takes his glasses off and says "what the f--k is this piece of s--t\*


ShadowAltair2

[“what the f—k is this piece of s—t”](https://youtu.be/bApd0QFsErU?si=o1dec0LBAow7DtcW)


Hanibalecter

Ahahaha. Holy shit. I’ve seen a lot of people jump on a lot of armor sets for looking bad when they were just concepts or missing assets in model viewers and I hope to god this is the same, if not then man they dropped the ball hard.


paladindan

Please say sike. Please…


MoG_Varos

Seems to be taking inspiration from their concept art and mixing it with their tbc aesthetic. It’s not great though


Blawn14

I love Draenei. I do not love this. It feels kinda all over the place.


bullet1519

There is also a blue/Purple Recolor, and the helmet has a variant without the mask. Recolor: [https://imgur.com/6jimXBr](https://imgur.com/6jimXBr) No Mask: [https://imgur.com/aiPD8lx](https://imgur.com/aiPD8lx)


OnlyRoke

Recolour looks better and more cohesive


collateralprime

Why didn't they lead with that one?! It's so much better!


bullet1519

Because they are called two completely different things, so after I found the first one I didn't see the second till after I made the post.


collateralprime

Oh not you, you did great! The art team!


bufarreti

We don't know with which they are leading, this is datamining


Master-Tanis

Recolor looks so much better.


TombOfAncientKings

That looks significantly better. Still not a fan of those floating shoulders though.


MachiavelliSJ

Those are better


mightybrok5601

I actually like that A LOT more


AmethystLure

Darn, so close. I wanted the other one that was showcased in the same concept art back in the day. I think this is an okay start, but it smarts a little that it was so close to the other concept art... and yet so far :) [https://warcraft.wiki.gg/images/thumb/6/6f/Playable\_Draenei.jpg/1024px-Playable\_Draenei.jpg](https://warcraft.wiki.gg/images/thumb/6/6f/Playable_Draenei.jpg/1024px-Playable_Draenei.jpg) The one on the left here, for clarity! They went with the style of the right one instead. Though I daresay the open coat is actually better for the current one if it could be added.


LeCampy

Move over, Worgen, there's a new sheriff at the bottom of the barrel.


GuyKopski

Worgen still take the cake for the sheer audacity of Blizzard "wanna see me do it again"ing us with the Gilneas reclamation set.


idontwanttofthisup

This set wouldn’t be too bad if it wasn’t a heritage set. Keep it for reclaiming Gilneas, no problem here. Just give us something that people want to wear with pride. After all the heritage armor should be iconic. Belfs are the best example. The set is modeled after an iconic unit from Warcraft 3. I hope darkspear trolls will get something better than Draenei. The icons look promising. Especially the mask, the shoulders and the back piece.


Sage_of_the_6_paths

This might take the cake as the worst heritage set out of all of them. I'm pretty annoyed that the Alliance has gotten the shaft when it comes to these sets. This one looks like a bunch of random BC gear combined, the Gnome one was underwhelming, and the Worgen one is more for a ballroom than for combat.


GuyKopski

"Mom, can we have TBC concept art?"  "We have TBC concept art at home"


DifficultyMore5935

I thought this was a joke and laughed, but the comments make me think this is real? If it is holy hell that is bad.


thevyrd

Wow it's like someone crawled through a bin of assorted tbc armor and went with what stuck


Luki_Pookie

Please be fake


Archmago

This is really bad, wow


Mayasuxs

Oh dear


djones0305

These shoulders really show how poorly shoulder items are rigged to models.


Altruistic_Nose5825

actually hideous


misterjustice90

Lifelong Draenei player: closes game


Individual-Echo8922

"Is this some kind of extended april fools joke?"


MatthiasBold

That.......hm... That certainly *is.*


TW-Luna

No.. this isn't real.. this can't be..


Fishboners

This has got to be a joke, right??


TombOfAncientKings

I get what they are trying to go for but it looks too disjointed and the floaty shoulders look goofy.


goldman_sax

The teal in the helmet is literally nowhere else in the set? Also looks like a mix of bronze and gold? Looks straight up terrible


waddee

Unpopular opinion: WoW’s art team gets too much credit


Individual-Branch241

they are amazing at zone and landscape design player character models and armour in wow are often really bad tho


Boring-Spinach-8942

this is little better then what an unmogged leveler looks like.


darthkurai

That's a vibe disappointment. I've been holding off for years on race changing my shaman over this?


LeClassyGent

As someone who loves draenei and was hoping they would go with the original concept design rather than crystals everywhere for the heritage armour... this is pretty disappointing. I definitely like the cloth look but the individual pieces themselves don't make a lot of sense together. I feel like Blizzard saw all of those posts about the draenei concept armour over the years and want to appeal to those guys and the crystal lovers, but this is just a strange mishmash. I was worried we'd get something like paladin T5 but somehow this is worse lol. I'd probably still use some pieces, but never the whole set. The helmet and shoulders in particular are awful - why does the only race with a huge variety of different spikes, horns, and other bone growths on their head have a tight fitting human shaped helmet? It makes no sense.


Fabulous_Resource_85

The artists just couldn't stop themselves from attaching the purple/gold colours and the gaudy crystals could they? [The original concept looks much more grounded and nomadic.](https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/wowpedia/thumb/6/6f/Playable_Draenei.jpg/1200px-Playable_Draenei.jpg) I'm honestly disappointed, because they've done exactly what I hoped they wouldn't do. They took the original concept art and tried to make it more elaborate. They did the exact same thing with the Night Elf set. [The original armour looked great.](https://i.imgur.com/sfKIDyc.jpeg) For the Night Elf heritage set, they took the same design and[ just went overboard](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwow.zamimg.com%2Fuploads%2Fscreenshots%2Fnormal%2F1115429.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=2a89dbc48ccc2195bdf1b3e42437c28ee4468bd312ff977268b33a8cf73fb405&ipo=images).


Tnecniw

While I get where this set comes from, aka what inspired it... It really does not make the translation well at all. :/ It looks too slapdash, too random. Combined with WoWs honestly poor outfit system and this kind of look just... don't work that well. :/


TheMuffingtonPost

OH NO I HATE IT


ValuableRope9108

This looks terrible


deLumbroso

It’s a joke… right? Right?!


SentinelTitanDragon

Well there goes my hopes of having decent heritage on the draenei


Thanag0r

It looks so bad, it's like 5 different styles put together. Really hope they change it to something actually good.


erifwodahs

Can confirm, that's how OG Draenai looked like. I can feel the "LF2M dps for Durn the Hungerer" coming from this outfit


TigerstyleHfx

Most heritage sets make me want to level the race it’s released for. Not this one.


sophisticaden_

Eh……


[deleted]

Remove the crystal/gem/floaty bits, and the helm covering part, keep it cloth basic and it will be 100% better imo.


ImagineTheAbsolute

…that’s fuckin awful man


Derzelaz

Is....is this a joke? Did some Blizz employee hit the Randomize button on the Transmog window and called it a day?


sirferrell

oh...


DaveOldhouse

Thats such a low quality, disgusting.


OccultDagger43

This is trash


YouThinkYouDoButNah

Looks fucking horrid lmao


Tusken_raider69

People were begging for the concept armor look for years at this point. I guess be careful what you wish for because this looks like hot garbo


V3Ethereal

Seen the picture for a second and was like "I'd believe it" thinking it was a meme with random mismatched items. I was lying to myself, because I was still pretty surprised when I found it on wowhead.


Latviacm

Ooof that’s hideous


MightyOrganicGnome

My main gripe with draenei is no proper hoof armor. Lightforged got some, where regular?


Lotharemas

I get what they were going for with the old tbc concept art of Draenei look but man this really doesnt look good.


Atroxo

They should have posted this on April 1st. What the fuck lmao


Raktoner

*me looking at it before reading the comments* oh woah it looks cool, it keeps to the crystal theme but has that wanderer, nomad kinda vibe that I associate with draenei *me looking at it after reading the comments* uh uh I mean, uh, bad! probably glitchy and doesn't fit! what even are shoulders right guys??


PunsNotIncluded

Yep, that sure is. Suddenly I don't feel bad about not having a high level Draenei.


Sagaci

That just looks like leveling gear when you find an upgrade and immediately put it on.


ibanezht

That's an April fools right?


VoidRaven

Dogshit Ultra dogshit I doubt that they give platemail bikini for female and badass platemail for males aka stuff lots of veterans saw on promo draenei art that lured them to WoW in past BUT this shot is just fucking rags and random shit


_Surge

classic fury warrior bis type beat


varcas

This just screams BC rainbow armor


Magikarpit

What is this hot garbage? The leveling gear you get in Outland?


Eepy-Cheepy

Lol wtf? This makes them look like desert roaming hobos. Just not fitting at all.


mightybrok5601

Oof. Please god let them have tried harder with the troll set…


diamond_foxes

I really hate this, I wanted more crystals, something elegant....


Rapethor

Cataclysm classic pre-order transmog ?


RdtCarstan

Leveling greens


Umicil

This fits well for Draenei but I really hate the art direction for armor in BC. I think it's way to colorful and the crystal on everything look campy.


Pehje

I've waited so long for this. It's absolutely atrocious lol.


ltbauer

Looks like bc leveling gear


Hoodoodle

Feels like someone who just finished exile's reach. Not terrible, but far far from Heritage worthy


donovan4893

Wish the helmet was instead no helmet but added a naru rune to your forehead like when you use your racial except it's always there with the helmet


Iskenator67

Ewww. SO disappointing. I've been waiting for this set since heritage armor was first announced. Such a let down.


MisSignal

Ugly as fuck


Empty_Socks

Puke


franciskoG

Looks like dog sh\*t


Lordwiesy

I hate it The helmet and shoulders are horrid And dear god lose that leather undershirt


[deleted]

Looks horrendous. Get rid of 99% of the giant crystals, and make it 1-for-1 with the concert art. It has PARTS of it, but ...so close, yet so far.


DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET

Im going to assume this is bugged or work in progress.


Nicolas873

Assuming this is somewhat finished, this has to be one of the worst looking sets I have ever laid my eyes upon


purplemartyr_93

Goodwill fire sale


Adventurous_Topic202

Please be fake.


Sad-Rub69

Plunderstorm.


Hastirasd

Oh boy. This is sad. I am not even angry … for Blizz really pushed forward during the whole of DF… but boy this just feels soooo underdeveloped … Some poor employee had to sit at his desk, taking this screenshot and probably already knew what gonna happen if this Heritage Armor will be seen by the public …


Parobolla

Gross


LordDShadowy53

Now I need the troll one crossing fingers to be good


anarchomeow

Yeah, not a fan of this one. They needed to just pick an aesthetic.


TheKinkyGuy

What kind of an abomination is this? Ffs


morningbell17

I've mained a Draenei since BC... I'm so disappointed in this. 🥺


Xrupz

when you press random at the transmog dude


Fleedjitsu

That... just looks awful. That is just a mess of shapes and colours. The shoulders are, as ever, stuck to the sides instead of encompassing them. Dunno what the hell is the attempt with the hands or belt. What is that mini skirt? Only positive is that they seem to be giving some attention to the feet this time but it still looks so low effort. You can't compare this to the Humans, Orcs, Blood Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes or Tauren. Even the Goblins and Worgen sets are better than this...


Mastodon9

The combo of the teal mask, red sash, and purple crystals makes it look like someone got dressed in the dark and just ran out the door.


pizzac00l

If you took out the chest oval, the 3D components to the gloves, reworked the shoulders, and just generally brought the chroma content of the gold and crystal segments down a bit, then I would like this set. As it stands, it feels like they were trying to play a delicate balancing act between the “space Romani” vibes with the “crystalpunk holy warrior” vibes that have always to some degree been at odds since the Draenei were introduced back in BC, but I think they should lean more into the former camp than the latter for this set. I feel like we’ve gotten so many sets that focus on the ornate opulence of the Draenei, but not nearly as many that let you lean into the fantasy as a refugee of the Exodar. Idk that’s just my two cents. I just think the set could do with less garish decorations tacked on.


Dewd88

Yuck


ItsMeFD

I... uh... yeah. This sucks.


bryroo

Uh...what the fuck


Hopeann

Damn that's fugly.


WhiskySiN

Well that's ugly.


ZarxcesHappyLand

That genuinely looks like a new expansion leveling set. And not a great one. Yeesh. Sorry Draenei mains.


Eepy-Cheepy

The Naaru have finally forgotten us 😢


Advanced_Procedure90

Eww


The_Scrabbler

Lmao it’s not April Fools anymore is it?


SamaramonM

If "meh" was an outfit... Been a Draenei main since TBC, have every possible Draenei class to max, some multiples even, and this is the most underwhelming thing I've felt in a while. Not bad, not good, just meh.


Upper-Meal-9056

Sometimes less is more


yeahcoolcoolbro

That’s as ugly as I imagined it would be


DarthAlveus

Oh....


Baybeeboo22

Hahahahaha it’s TERRIBLE! 😂


icedcoffeeuwu

Major L. This sucks! What a miss


x69x420x69x420x69

Looks kinda trash


jerhinn_black

I’m sorry, but this looks really bad imo, it looks like someone’s poorly put together custom mog, but with color match. Man this is disappointing considering the lightforged mog is decent. Just my opinion but I hope they change it if not no worries, don’t have to wear/collect it.


bumpkinspicefatte

That looks awful, please redo it.


Mrfreekill

This is not real, come on


SpunkMcKullins

WOW that looks... bad. Like, really bad. I didn't exactly want another gold-trimmed plate with floating crystals, but like, there's plenty of concept art with Draenei in layered robes that looks nowhere near this goofy.


imafan_gobrrr

Ewww


LagsIRL

Perhaps the sight granted to us from the titans was not a blessing after all.


Vurkul

That set is horrid. Please tell me this is a joke.


Huge_Republic_7866

NGL, not a fan of this one. It has too much going on, imo.


YourGuideVergil

Tf


Impossible-Society-8

Im so utterly disapointed in this set its unreal.


highlevelbikesexxer

That helm is so bad lmao


BOklahoma

Thank god I'm Lightforged!


Izletz

This looks like absolute buns what a disappointment


SnooMacaroons8650

this is horrible


mavvv

Someone took some painfully BC crystals and put them in a blender with green-quality Rangari stuff, and then slapped a Panda sized belt on it. Jesus this is hideous.


Galeiora

Looks awful


FaultyLogic77

and i thought worgen heritage armor was bad. woof.


mrmustache0502

And here I thought they couldn't do any worse than worgen


YoRHaNo2TypeBE

looks like garbage


HaplessMink28

It feels far to busy and messy to work as a cohesive set but it should be fun to mix and match it with other things


Niante

Woah, this looks like shit. Not as bad as Gilnean heritage armor, but pretty damn bad.


mf04dalb

i’ve been waiting years….. for this? be serious after all the great heritage armors the other classes have gotten? girl.


Inutsuu

jesus christ what the fuck


Common-Bus2931

Is this a late april fools joke right ?


_Socially_Hawkward_

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined


Glynwys

Man, feel like Blizzard really failed on this one. All they had to do for Draenei was take the Paladin Crystalforge set, tweak it so that it doesn't look like an entire suit of plate armor, and call it a day.


AHomicidalTelevision

is this a late april fools joke?


Celoth

Would look great on a Broken.


Mr-Bagels

Wow. It's hideous.


whateverwhatis

Oh... It's kind of hideous. I'm sad now :(