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Druid Tier 13 and Visual Retrospective
Blizzard released another Tier 13 preview and today's post features the Druid set, the Deep Earth Vestments.



Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Adventurers will be tested like never before in World of Warcraft patch 4.3 as they take on Deathwing and his minions, emerging from the conflict with powerful new treasures. Please enjoy this preview of the druid tier 13 armor set, as well as a visual guide to tiers 1 through 12 for Transmogrification purposes.

Deep Earth Vestments


The design called for "phosphorescent mushrooms, reminiscent of Zangarmarsh," so our main concern was avoiding making a helm that looked like a giant toadstool sombrero. We’re always looking to incorporate interesting light sources within a raid set, and bioluminescent vegetable growth certainly provides that. Twisting, organic shapes are often key elements of a druid set, and this tier is no exception, with writhing plant roots providing a frame for the glowing clusters of fungi.

Druid Tiers 1-12







This article was originally published in forum thread: Druid Tier 13 and Visual Retrospective started by chaud View original post
Comments 295 Comments
  1. leviathonlx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Burnwild View Post
    Those aren't shrooms. Those are rock shards, probably from deepholm. A idea used in season 10 Mage conquest gear.
    Uh no it's fungus.
  1. galdroth's Avatar
    I actually really like it ...but seriously, am I the only one that noticed the obvious Vashj'ir (underwater) theme???
  1. mmocced9c7d33d's Avatar
    Doesn't look that special...could turn out better if the blue thingies actually looked a bit like Mushrooms..didn't know they were until someone said they were shrooms...

    Tier 1, 5, 6 are the best looking sets, T8 n T11 have nice shoulders at least.

    Awful are T2 (except for head), T9, T10, T12.
  1. mmoc9820a55f46's Avatar
    It's not the best set, but for now think it looks okay. At least the colours dont look as ridiculous as the warlock set. I guess it's inspired by the earthen ring or something earth related, but Im not sure about that. I think these are gems on the shoulders, although I would have loved mushrooms. ^^ The head would look better with some eyes, I think.
  1. mmocd54ba1bbcc's Avatar
    Wow you guys had some shitty looking sets
  1. Vesoha's Avatar
    Its a nice set good colors and such but very boring. Ofcourse if the opposite of boring is something like the warlock set then boring is not that bad.
  1. Rayn7734's Avatar
    You can really tell who the players are that came in -during- Cata. Best set? Hardly. Not some crappy patch-together? Look at the helm, now look at the rogue t10 helm....take out that single eye and add some silly antler thing. The rest of it looks unbelievably plain as well....I'm not suggesting go back to BC tiers with all glowy colors and crap, but damn, Wrath tier sets looked good without being gaudy, for the most part.
  1. Raivosoturi's Avatar
    It's okay, but I dislike those ridiculously large belts.

    Druid T9 (both factions), T10 & T12 were horrible though.
  1. Vecks's Avatar
    Bit meh compared to Squid face and Deathwing head.
  1. mmoceeceb76e25's Avatar
    Wow didnt realize how poor most of the Druid sets have been over the years,id say this new set is one of the better looking ones so far for droods.
  1. mmocd7bc7bf333's Avatar
    One of the few Druid sets that I liked from the first time I've seen it. I like the natural looks of sets, cause thats what Druids are... the colors are VERY nice! And I do like the large belts Finally a Druid set I'm happy with again... after T10 and later all were a bit boring.
  1. Immamoonkin's Avatar
    Wow... this is kinda a big disappointment.. -_- Guess I'll stick with Transmorggin back to T8.
  1. mmoc4f7a735ed2's Avatar
    T13: So you remember that nice JP set you had at the beginning of cataclysm? Well you're gonna use it again to fight Deathwing! If only you hadn't kept it in such a moist place, it's gone all moldy now!
  1. xf11's Avatar
    t13 for druids overall is actually refreshing, it doesn't look like anyother tier, but compared to the others a bit meh, but it looks like druids haven't had too much luck with sets in any point in time
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    These shoulders looks bad for me. I think they should make them more "druid".
  1. nmarez's Avatar
    thank god i m playing as a warrior...
  1. Rainec's Avatar
    meh, previous sets looked better imo
  1. McFrotton's Avatar
    Wait what, I personally last druid tier set were awesome (t10,t11, t12 are all REALLY cool imo and tier 6, tier 2 are really hot too ) but this tier 13 is .....garbage wtf is this common, whats happening to the hat???
  1. Stevoman's Avatar
    I'll reserve judgement until I see it on a Tauren, but this looks to be one of the better looking tiers in the last two or so years.
  1. valcrist's Avatar
    is it just me or is blizzard getting a little lazy on this tier set due to now people can turn it into previous Tier? to me this Tranmorph thing is just a tool so blizzard can be more lazy.

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