Veph hit the nail on the head for me. I love unlocking things or having a 'goal'. When I'm hearing Blizzard tell people "well if you don't like the artifact, transmog it", it kinda irks the crap out of me. No offense, and I understand you can't please everyone. But don't tell people transmogging is the answer or solution when it really isn't. You're still telling us to essentially 'transmog' over an entire experience (not just weapon) when that's the solution you give.Vephriel wrote: I am bummed out about not liking the gun models though because if there's one thing I enjoy doing it's working to unlock things as a bit of a completionist, and having no real reason to unlock all of my artifact appearances is kind of a downer.
If I had been told "well BM you get locked into an artifact, but here's your choices: Bow or Gun." I'd be happy even if I thought all the models weren't to my liking, at least I get a bow to flow with my characters design and history.
Quivering wrote:I know many artifacts are new, and have new story written just for them. I get that, but this feels so forced. "Techno-magical" made me cringe when I read it for the first time, but thats just my opinion.
What really gets me is the fact they are focusing so much on fantasy, yet a dwarf sharpshooter (MM) using a bow (a Windrunner bow of all things) is one the most fantasy breaking thing I could imagine. And a night elf beast master using a gun? I know they had to lock in the artifact weapon class in order to go forward with this idea, I get that. I just dont understand how a beastmaster using a bow breaks fantasy, but a night elf using a gun doesnt.
I have a feeling were gonna see a bunch of BM hunters transmogging to old weapons, because they have no option for a new bow/xbow model to use.
NAIL HIT. AGAIN. So much of this.
It irked me a lot sitting at the panels there and listening to them say "we want the fantasy to feel right" and all this other stuff, but then tell many of us Hunters in the same breath "YOU'LL LOVE THE ARTIFACT BECAUSE IT FITS THAT FANTASY."
It really doesn't, and you're forcing it. Honestly, if I remember lore correctly, majority of the Hunter-races in Azeroth use Bows or Crossbows. The singular only reason I can imagine that gun was the 'given choice of BM hunters' is because Blizzard is in love with the mental image from the opening cinematic where a Dwarf is wielding a gun, with his bear companion. And maybe if I was a dwarf or an engineer, a gun would be the clear choice; but a gun is not the weapon my Night Elf would use. So this whole "forced" feel just makes me angry, instead of just objectively disappointed in the design.
Yep, same feeling. When I saw all the weapons on the Legion Webpage that showed all the weapons the classes and specs will be receiving; and then the awesome panels showing the color/elemental/etc variants....Vephriel wrote:Hrkkk seeing those bow models just makes me even more envious of the other specs. They're SO much more awesome than the guns. ;A;
BM's looks so lackluster compared to that. These weapons don't at all look nearly as legendary as these other weapons. I'm sorry, but it looks like we're getting questing gear if Ulduar was a quest hub =/ All I can do is hope that these aren't the polished/finished products or that a later patch will address more variants.