Blizzard should take inspiration from Saint Seiya for new armor sets

[Kyphael]

Whether your familiar with the hit anime series Saint Seiya, mostly popular in Japan, Europe, and Latin Americas, Masami Kurumada's talent and art style to create distinct armor sets is unrivaled. This is a huge untapped resource of inspiration for Blizzard I feel, to create new armor sets going forward. Kurumada created unique armor sets for more than 200 characters, inspired not only by astrology, but Greek myth in its entirety. Here are some examples.

Aries, The Ram and Taurus, The Bull. I could see Tauren and Highmountain Paladins rocking similar armor sets.





Gemini, The Twins. Explore humanity and The Light's duality.



Cancer, rotten to the core and evil. Warlocks, anyone?



Leo, heart of a lion. Heart of a Warrior?



Virgo, The Virgin, pure and transcendent. Priest, anyone?



Libra, balanced, and an arsenal of Chinese weapons. Perfect for The Monk.



Scorpio. Cunning, swift, bloodthirsty and potentially merciful. The Rogue.



The Centaur, half-man, half-horse. The bowman. Obviously, The Hunter.



Capricorn, a skilled swordsman ready to impale any evildoer, just like a true Warrior.



Aquarius, commander of ice and water. Mage or shaman, take your pick.



Pisces, I could see this as a Shaman set.



Death Knights, look no further. For the Blood Elf Death Knights, I bring you the Death Fairy.



If we had a Bard class? The Lyra.



Perseus, rocking the legendary shield of Medusa. A Warrior with a shield that turns the targets to stone for 4 seconds sounds awesome.



The Dragon, another potential Monk set.



Andromeda, pure and sacrificial for the greater good. Chains with life of their own, or moved by The Light? A feminine Priest armor set.



The Cygnus, graceful and right at home in the ice. A mage cloth set.



Lastly, The Pegasus. This set looks like it could look good on a Warrior.



Obviously I'm not saying Blizzard should straight up rip off aesthetics of a trademarked anime, but The Horoscope and Greek Myth cannot be trademarked, and they could easily take inspiration from there as Kurumada did for his armor sets.

[FelPlague]

No. No they should not.

[Varodoc]

Can you imagine a primitive orc, tauren, or troll in such elegant and shining sets? Sacrilege.

[Kyphael]

Can you imagine a primitive orc, tauren, or troll in such elegant and shining sets? Sacrilege.

I bring you Fenrir, The Nordic Wolf armor set. Hunched and everything.

[Stelio Kontos]

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[Rendark]

I would rather they never made armor sets again then make something that looks like this.

[FlemmMinis]

Yeah hard no from me.

[Schattenlied]

Yeah, that's gonna be a no for me as well, dawg.

[Unholyground]

I would say the first one could work for a Monk perhaps but the rest are kinda insane, plus I don't want my huge Dwarf dick flopping out when I am trying to tank a boss.

[Greyfang]

I'm gonna give you a YES from me, but only cause I love Saint Seiya. I dont think they fit WoW too much though, but with some work I can see them fit. We already have a Yeti xmog, so at this point anything goes.

[Lochton]

Yeah. Sorry. I like gold but no thanks.

[Kyphael]

I'm gonna give you a YES from me, but only cause I love Saint Seiya. I dont think they fit WoW too much though, but with some work I can see them fit. We already have a Yeti xmog, so at this point anything goes.

Thanks! Was thinking the same thing. lol

[Rustedsaint]

God no, they should take a lesson from Jojo if anything

[Amnasty]

This is thread is exactly why drugs are illegal.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Of all the armor in anime and manga you chose saint seiya.. what is wrong with you?

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

There could be 100 yeti transmogs and I would still say no to this.

[Kyphael]

Of all the armor in anime and manga you chose saint seiya.. what is wrong with you?

Well opinions are subjective, but for the sake of discussion, name one? Mind you, as many distinct armor sets, not just 3 super awesome looking armor sets!

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Lmao true. This is terrible.

Do you have your own opinion, or do you just echo trash responses?

[cwowtbang]

That'll be a no from me. That seems more fitting For FFXIV IMO. A lot of the gold sets in those pictures look the same to me. I don't like them at all.

[TheRainman]

Hard, hard, hard pass.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Well opinions are subjective, but for the sake of discussion, name one? Mind you, as many distinct armor sets, not just 3 super awesome looking armor sets!

I can't really be arsed to look up a bunch of generic armor designs, but virtually anything on https://www.pinterest.de/fir3br8nd/anime-armor/ or https://www.pinterest.de/katarinamarovic/anime-armor/, despite being generic as fuck, would look better than the barely distinguishable 80's gold-swirly-muscle-plate with spandex you posted. A more notworthy mentions might be stuff like Guts' berserker armor or the one griffith wore if you want a more light-side touch. They would at least somewhat fit Wow's aesthetic (even if it was pretty much just FFXIV at that point..).