Human Heritage Armor Ideas - Uther's Tomb/Kyrian Ascendancy

[Julian Rayne]

Lots of good ideas on this thread. I almost think that the best way to implement it would be with multiple tints like the Mag'har and a robe/tunic choice like the Worgen and Belves. But I guess that's too greedy to hope for.

[CaptainV]

Imho, the Footman armor was already added in WoD so we need something else entirley, I think we should get something more Anduin Lothar themed since Humans are primarily Stormwindian in the playable race section, maybe a good ol' grand marshals set style thing from Vanillia highly remodelled, or Varianesque.

Similarly, the Horde should get something Orgrim Doomhammer themed, in reminessance of ye old Thrall.

[Thalassian Bob]

They are two gryphons on the crest. But do you know which two animals the WoW gryphon is a cross of?
Yep. Lion and eagle And the one on the Grand Marshal soldier is just an eagle. Same goes for Varian's shoulderplate as well.

I see Oswen pointed out what I was going to about the hippogryph. And while they could certainly be eagles on the Grand Marshal set or Varian's regalia, it could just as easily be gryphons. I think a Stormwind set should focus primarily on lions or it would probably run the risk of just looking like the Grand Marshal set again. Though, that wouldn't be a terrible thing if it was just an HD upscale more or less of such a classic set.

[Encaitar29]

Samples of a recoloured Uther statue as concepts for Human Heritage Armor.
With Uther's ascendancy as a Kyrian, he won't be needing his old armor, and the Statue dedicated to him seems to fit the basic Human-Male shape. Half-way there Blizz!



Goofy little name ideas for the colours from left to right could be:
Uther's Embrace, Pride of Stormwind, Memory of the High King, Last of Lordaeron, Aegwynn's Blessing

Singular pics on the imgur https://imgur.com/a/aksFYZw

As a Human Mage, I feel this armor could be used among Cloth, Leather and Plate wearers and still feel thematically accurate. It has a combination of sleek and bulk that fits a number of fighting styles.

I had always thought that a callback to the Field Marshal plate would be perfect for a Human Heritage set, and then I had recalled Uther's tomb statue and it's fine armor. And yes, I'm aware Ion just said that the Tomb was basically just a touch-up for basic polishing reasons unrelated to lore events. Still, this was fun.

What do you think? Would you take on armor like this as the Human Heritage cosmetics? What else would you prefer?

Very nice job with recoloring of the armors. I think they'd be a great heritage set and would compliment the warfronts sets. I still can't get over the medicore set BEs got compared to Lor'themar's armor (the 2D vanilla robe/flat panty pants is the worst part), I hope that Blizzard won't screw up other races as they did with BE set.

[Shinrael]

I see Oswen pointed out what I was going to about the hippogryph. And while they could certainly be eagles on the Grand Marshal set or Varian's regalia, it could just as easily be gryphons. I think a Stormwind set should focus primarily on lions or it would probably run the risk of just looking like the Grand Marshal set again. Though, that wouldn't be a terrible thing if it was just an HD upscale more or less of such a classic set.

If we are talking preferences, I am 100% for one lion shoulderplate and one eagle shoulder plate. Basically Varian's armor.

My point was that eagles being present in the themes of the set wouldn't be weird because they are also an icon of the Alliance. A gryphon as I said is a mix of lion and eagle. If we can have a shoulderplate in the shape of an eagle and call it "gryphon" then we can have a heritage armor with a shoulderplate in the shape of an eagle and you can call it "gryphon" or whatever you want. It still comes from an eagle and I still like it, regardless of what you call it

[Ealyssa]

Most humans aren't paladins. So it's a big nope thank you from me.

Heritage armor should be about the race culture, not a specific character and certainly not a specific class.

[Ihavewaffles]

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This is wow. where phoenixs looks like fire eagles.

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Most humans aren't paladins. So it's a big nope thank you from me.

Heritage armor should be about the race culture, not a specific character and certainly not a specific class.

Look at dark iron dw0rf heritage armor...but I agree, add more cloth to the 'plateish' armor for humans

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If we are talking preferences, I am 100% for one lion shoulderplate and one eagle shoulder plate. Basically Varian's armor.

Too much, you are puting urself on par with a lore character, and the king no less, u have to step down a notch, n chose one creature n the most iconic for alliance is the lion.

RAWR

[Venziir]

This is wow. where phoenixs looks like fire eagles.

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Look at dark iron dw0rf heritage armor...but I agree, add more cloth to the 'plateish' armor for humans

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Too much, you are puting urself on par with a lore character, and the king no less, u have to step down a notch, n chose one creature n the most iconic for alliance is the lion.

RAWR

Mag'har heritage is pretty much an exact clone of Grom's armor, Tauren is a mix of Baine and Cairne and Kul Tiran is pretty much the armor of Daelin Proudmoore so...

[Thalassian Bob]

If we are talking preferences, I am 100% for one lion shoulderplate and one eagle shoulder plate. Basically Varian's armor.

My point was that eagles being present in the themes of the set wouldn't be weird because they are also an icon of the Alliance. A gryphon as I said is a mix of lion and eagle. If we can have a shoulderplate in the shape of an eagle and call it "gryphon" then we can have a heritage armor with a shoulderplate in the shape of an eagle and you can call it "gryphon" or whatever you want. It still comes from an eagle and I still like it, regardless of what you call it

I feel you, dude.

I think I'm gonna just have to say we agree to disagree though. ^^'

[Thrif]

Most humans aren't paladins. So it's a big nope thank you from me.

Heritage armor should be about the race culture, not a specific character and certainly not a specific class.

This exactly.

Not a bad set per se, but really bad as a heritage armor. You can't escape the heritage armor set looking like some of the armor types (dark iron is plate, mag'har is leather, nightborne is cloth), but they should never instantly draw your thoughts to a specific class.

[Shinrael]

This is wow. where phoenixs looks like fire eagles.

Said he, while looking at the artwork of the one and only, most iconic phoenix in the Warcraft Universe (that we have seen ingame) which is clearly not based off an eagle. Amazing.

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I feel you, dude.

I think I'm gonna just have to say we agree to disagree though. ^^'

BTW, keep in mind that in Shadowlands we will be able to transmog each shoulder separately. That is why I suggested the set having 2 different shoulderplates. Ideally we would be able to transmog both to lion face, both to eagle face, hide both or show lion on one and eagle on the other. This way everyone would be happy, no?

[Thalassian Bob]

BTW, keep in mind that in Shadowlands we will be able to transmog each shoulder separately. That is why I suggested the set having 2 different shoulderplates. Ideally we would be able to transmog both to lion face, both to eagle face, hide both or show lion on one and eagle on the other. This way everyone would be happy, no?

Yeah, that's an interesting point!