WrA RP Horde-side is literally all Blood Elves. Download the CensusPlus addon and run a scan of races currently online. Last I ran it, returned with 66% Blood Elf players and 19% of characters online were Shaman and Druids...
How anyone can take the lore seriously and be immersed when you don't even see fuckin' Orcs in Orgrimmar is beyond me.
A bit off topic,but for RP and realistic gear you could check our Lord of the Rings Online european RP servers,there are also a lot more systems implemented purely for RP reasons in there
But I agree on you about WoW items,I'm not actively roleplaying in WoW,yet I often find myself looking at a weapon for my DK and think "how the hell am I even supposed to wield this shit?"
what about playing the game with current gear and mogging it into ''old'' gear, or only using your RP gear, when actually RPing? i mean, it has to brutally suck, if you're wearing level 60 gear while doing lvl 110 content. If you're actually WEARING that old gear, i guess, you can't be helped and should play something non-visual.
As I said, you can just use current gear, and mog it into ''suiting'' RP-gear.
Armor up to T10 looks quite good to me, anything above is garbage, much like the current expansion.
Just daggers alone, of apperances i have, all have multiple colours, and most of them have daggers that were used in the real world]
staves now, and yes you will say "big gems" yeah and? As long as they dont glow its fine, people have used crystals and qaurtz for deceration forever.
all from WOTLK onward
no floaty bits or special glows
those are the ones i have, alot more i dont
Maybe you shoudl never make a claim of "NONE" when you dont even look at the stuff?
OP asked about realistic weapons with high definition textures and all you guys are doing is talking about WoW being hyper fantasy game or saying OP to stop play WoW.
What the hell is wrong with you guys?
That's one is actually burning. So not that much realistic weapon... Though I agree, there are plenty of realistic weapons in WoW, I mean in the further expansions such as MOP/WOD etc.
Not a RPer myself, but I do prefer simpler, more "realistic" looking gear. Consequently, most of transmog sets are composed of mainly Vanilla gear. The low resolution doesn't bother me, but I would certainly welcome new sets in that vein for the sake of diversity. Quest gear and green drops should be for that.
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I agree, I really wish they'd make some more down to earth sets/weapons in current expansions. Every now and again you get something, but for the most part items are incredibly outlandish and over the top. That's great and all, but I'd really love some simple alternatives every now and again, just for variety if nothing else. I'm pretty exhausted with how elaborate and crazy most of the game's modern cosmetics are. You can make incredibly cool designs without them needing to look like they come from outer space.
I just don't think Blizzard is going to take the time to redo old basic gear. I think what you may see is more takes on some old stuff like they have with the tier, but they tend to get nailed for being lazy by a sizeable part of the community if things aren't flashy enough.
If you want "realistic" you are playing the wrong game.
I think the last 'realistic' set we got was the Stormwind guard set in WoD. Just need to fix those shoulders though but otherwise, it still looks like something people could actually wear and use properly.
Otherwise, my favorite set is still the Overlord's set (World drop Vanilla) without it's shoulderpads and headpiece, together with a proper looking longsword (Guardian Blade. And I mean real longswords that are two-handed, nor fantasy longswords that are one-handed.)
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