9 Sets of Armor from Alpha!

[TEO Cheatle]

Here you go, enjoy!

9 Sets of Armor

[AvenaOats]

I'm no artist, but there's a very solid balance of light to heavy gradation change that is visible but essentially imo, not over-the-top either but looks right: Function -> Form not Form -> Function if that is a distinction that is clear to make.

[TEO Cheatle]

I would have to agree with you. Even seeing all the other armor out there (there is about 5 sets I am missing from what I have seen around in alpha) it seems all Function over Form, or more like realistic over outlandish.

[Drejk]

No ginormous shoulder pads?!

Spoiler:

I love them! :D

[KarlBob]

Nice collection. Thanks for displaying them.

[Wyspr]

Thanks for snapping the screeies Cheatle.

[Giorgo]

Function over Form is a promising start, thanks for sharing.

Please take a few screenshots in Alpha Build 8 when Elves and Dwarves are introduced? :)

[Being]

There is also a really nice looking set of light armor for skirmishers that shows a hood (though there are clipping issues for the hood for a character with a ponytail).

[Hardin Steele]

These look way more normal than may in other games. Sometimes you bust your butt trying to get the best gear only to discover you look like a complete idiot in the stuff they designed. I played a Republic healer in SWTOR and was very disappointed when I finally got the gear. I knew it looked goofy, but felt twice as bad after I equipped it. in Here are some examples:

SWTOR Jedi Sage Horrible headgear

SWTOR Columni Force Master Ultra Funky Headpiece and Triangular Shoulders

GW, please keep the gear decent. I will be very sad if tier 3 is clownish.

[Audoucet]

Hardin Steele wrote:

These look way more normal than may in other games. Sometimes you bust your butt trying to get the best gear only to discover you look like a complete idiot in the stuff they designed. I played a Republic healer in SWTOR and was very disappointed when I finally got the gear. I knew it looked goofy, but felt twice as bad after I equipped it. in Here are some examples:

SWTOR Jedi Sage Horrible headgear

SWTOR Columni Force Master Ultra Funky Headpiece and Triangular Shoulders

GW, please keep the gear decent. I will be very sad if tier 3 is clownish.

Except that in SWTOR, you could change the appearance of your best gear, and take the one you liked.

[Ryan Dancey]

There are some variations in those suits too. As you add +s they get slightly more ornate.

[T7V Avari]

Audoucet wrote:

Hardin Steele wrote:

These look way more normal than may in other games. Sometimes you bust your butt trying to get the best gear only to discover you look like a complete idiot in the stuff they designed. I played a Republic healer in SWTOR and was very disappointed when I finally got the gear. I knew it looked goofy, but felt twice as bad after I equipped it. in Here are some examples:

SWTOR Jedi Sage Horrible headgear

SWTOR Columni Force Master Ultra Funky Headpiece and Triangular Shoulders

GW, please keep the gear decent. I will be very sad if tier 3 is clownish.

Except that in SWTOR, you could change the appearance of your best gear, and take the one you liked.

SWTOR, if nothing else, looked and sounded great.

[Audoucet]

T7V Avari wrote:

SWTOR, if nothing else, looked and sounded great.

Yep.

[Andius the Afflicted]

Are these all tier 1?

If so one thing to keep in mind is that the newb to moderate level gear in most games generally produces (what I consider to be) the best looking gear.

Newb gear almost always looks function > form. As you get into the super high level gear you get the ridiculous ornamentation.

That's why I still fear over the top / gaudy gear being all we have to wear past a certain point of gear progression in PFO if we as a community do not consistently repeat that is not what we want.

This is cool looking / fairly tasteful high level gear.
This is a shiny clown suit.

[TEO Cheatle]

Tier 1
Runespun(lvl 4), Footpad's Leathers(lvl 2), Loose Warriors Shirt(lvl 5), Novitate's Scale(lvl 6), Solider's Chaimail(lvl 3), Pot Steel Plate(lvl 2), and Hide and Steel Banded (lvl 1)

Tier 2
Embroidered Silk Robes(lvl 10), Ornate Steel Plate (lvl 8)

[Saiph the Fallen]

Looks good!

[TEO Cheatle]

Here is a list of all the Armor in the game.

Tier 1 Clothes
Peasant Clothes
Petitioner's Robes
Runespun Robes
Spellwoven Robes

Tier 2 Clothes
Merchant Clothes
Adept's Robes
Emroidered Silk Robes
Imbued Silkd Robes

Tier 3 Clothes
Noble Clothes
Robes of the Disciple
Robes of the Magi
Robes of the Master

Tier 1 Light Armor
Footpad's Leathers
Piecemeal Brigandine
Quiet Iron Shirt
Hunting Leathers
Singing Iron Shirt
Tribal Leathers
Loose Warrior's Shirt
Stylish Padded Armor

Tier 2 Light Armor
Boiled Leather
Muffled Steel Shirt
Strapped Leather
Glistening Steel Shirt
Warden's Leathers
Berserker's Leathers
Fancy Padded Armor
Ornate Steel Shirt
Studded Leather

Tier 3 Light Armor
Strapped Shadowskin
Studded Shadowskin
Truesilver Shirt
Shimmering Truesilver Shirt
Adamantine Shirt
Dragonskin
Extravagant Padded Armor
Fine Truesilver Chain

Tier 1 Medium Armor
Beast Hides
Soldier's Scale
Warden's Heavy Leather
Piecemeal Hides
Soldier's Chainmail
Warden's Heavy Hide
Novitiate's Scale
Novitiate's Chainmail

Tier 2 Medium Armor
Captain's Scale
Enameled Hides
Hunter's Hides
Braided Hides
Captain's Chainmail
Wanderer's Hides
Priest's Scale
Priest's Chainmail

Tier 3 Medium Armor
Adamantine Scale
Shadowhide
Adamantine Chainmail
Thick Dragonscale
Truesilver Chainmail
Conqueror's Scale
Crusader's Scale
Fine Dragonscale
Ghostwood Splint
Conqueror's Hide
Crusader's Chainmail
Crystal Scale

Tier 1 Heavy Armor
Hide and Steel Banded
Pot Steel Plate
Segmented Lorica
Yew and Iron Splint

Tier 2 Heavy Armor
Dwarven Steel Banded
Ornate Steel Plate
Caravan Guard's Armor
Lobstered Plate
Oak and Steel Splint

Tier 3 Heavy Armor
General's Banded
Conqueror's Plate
Crusader's Plate

[TEO Cheatle]

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[<kabal> Bunibuni]

Andius the Afflicted wrote:

Are these all tier 1?

If so one thing to keep in mind is that the newb to moderate level gear in most games generally produces (what I consider to be) the best looking gear.

Newb gear almost always looks function > form. As you get into the super high level gear you get the ridiculous ornamentation.

That's why I still fear over the top / gaudy gear being all we have to wear past a certain point of gear progression in PFO if we as a community do not consistently repeat that is not what we want.

This is cool looking / fairly tasteful high level gear.
This is a shiny clown suit.

Hey, if I am a high level Mage, I want gaudy! How else are the peasants going to know to fear me without first blasting most of their village into dust? It should get me the best seat at the inn with no waiting.

Now I can understand fighters not wanting gaudy except for formal occasions since that gaudiness could make it easier to hit them, since the blade wouldn't bounce off or slide off if it catches on that gaudy stuff on it.

[KarlBob]

Some gaudy armor and some utilitarian armor sounds ideal, just like some revealing armor and some modest armor. As long as people have choices on both of those axes, we'll be in good shape.

[Guurzak]

Guurzak approovz of havin a choyse of axes.

[KarlBob]

Hand axes, battleaxes, throwing axes, Lochaber axes...

[KoTC Edam Neadenil]

KarlBob wrote:

Hand axes, battleaxes, throwing axes, Lochaber axes...

which is a polearm

but ... Great Axe ... just because

[Tyncale]

I am impressed by the amount of armor that is already there, that sure seems to go way beyond MVP.

[Wyspr]

There were a few items of armor that didn't make the list, I had a few of them myself but unfortunately I didn't take the time to look at Cheatles post until after alpha had finished. I must say for everyone who has not been in alpha, Cheatle has been extremely busy during the alpha open times and has brought a LOT of information to the community.

[Guurzak]

Tyncale wrote:

I am impressed by the amount of armor that is already there, that sure seems to go way beyond MVP.

Art creation isn't interchangeable with feature design and coding; the people who do one aren't typically able to do the other. So the rate at which we get new art in game is pretty much independent of the speed of game development.

[Tyncale]

True. :) I am just glad that we have so many armors already. More fun for us crafters.

[DeciusBrutus]

The art being in is part of MVP, and the art pipeline doesn't gradually iterate up to high-quality.

That said, each armor has five permutations for two sexes and four races already; that's a freaking lot of unique meshes that have to be in before certain features are implemented. Props to the art department for not holding up features or release.