They're fretting about the appearance of an item that is designed specifically for appearances. I think their gripes are justified.
It's really no different than the people who complain about stat allocation... if an item is designed to improve stats, it should be useful. If an item is designed to look good, it should look good.
A Farewell to Pre-Cataclysm Azeroth (video)
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdlhcVG2p7M
WCM: http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=168677
As for the troll image, im fine with it, doesnt look badass but its passable.
The Panda one though, i dont know if its on purpose, but the texture must be at the lowest and the screenshot was taken when the helm was halfway through forming the skull-face. ive seen that crown on male and female pandas in-game, and they look perfectly fine.
Bleh
helms ugly are helms... no wait, ugly helms are ugly. I wouldn't use this as a transmog if Blizz paid me $15 to have them.
I see zero appeal to them. But I know there is a lot of people who do find them worthy. Fortunately I've already picked my transmogs for my toons - and these helms don't complement them at all...
Now, maybe if the fire helm was green fire, to go with my warlock - maybe. Nah.
Hmm there should really be option to turn off that skull effect. It looks pretty bad on tauren and worgen, like almost every helm.
I've actually had a change of heart since, been playing about with my transmog outfits and I'm actually quite liking how it looks, I guess I just had my heart set on it being shadowformed, but I think as others have said that it really does look much better like this, and ingame you can see the detail much better than the screenshot shows, but the tips of the horns fade from the orange to the purple shadowform as it moves its actually pretty sweet
I am about to go check out how it looks with the glyph , I'll post a screenie when I do
Shadow form without the glyph:Front
Shadow form without the glyph: Back
Shadowform with Glyph
I took these inside as in full daylight it looked really washed out (the glyphed shadowform)
This one below, is full shadowform in daylight, and you can really see the purple shading at the tips of the horns on this one, which I think looks awesome
I wont be paying 12 euro for cosmetic item, ever, but...
Damn if I dont want that on frost mage/dk...
basically there is no changing the minds of whiners. Those that are oh so against other people spending money on helms will always say they are ugly. They won't even look at it fairly. I see similar results from my kids with eating new food. Same mentality but on here, people dont grow out of it. Truly sad. BTW endless winter helm looks nuts on a troll...that is probably the best mog helm ive ever seen on one.