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Sat, 05/24/2025 - 22:40
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I really like most of the designs for the new Wizard promo gear, but I do have a few concerns that I'd like to share.

Cone Caps
These things are great, but I think they get really buggy when a knight wearing it is in any pose other than idle. When I have my weapon unsheathed, I notice that the screws on the sides of my head stretch REALLY hard. They become ridiculously deformed into a long pill shape especially on my knight's left side (no not your left).

The screws aren't the only thing that get deformed when not in an idle pose. The entire back of my head practically caves in as soon as I pull out my weapon. As a result, my knight's head shape essentially becomes an oval at a 45° angle. This looks REALLY weird to me and it's always really jarring when I have to get jumpscared by my wonky looking head at every elevator.

Speaking of the back of my head, there seems to be a completely black area on the back of the cone caps. Honestly, I can't even tell if this is intentional (no offense to the artist). I'd much prefer if something was covering that spot, but I guess there's some logic to a balding wizard.

Also a minor nitpick but the belt strap seems to clip through the bottom of its buckle (sorry to anyone who will never be able to unsee this).

Sorcerer's Robe
I haven't been able to really see if this issue is on the Magister Robes too since I haven't equipped one yet (don't wanna bind it till I can piece together a good outfit), but given I can even see this from my preview menu and can't for Magister I'll assume it isn't as severe there if present at all. I feel like the textures on the Sorcerer robes are really oddly grainy. Most armors in this game have always had low res textures, but it's unusually noticeable on this armor specifically. When wearing them in the ready room (cool robes to be specific) I can even see the colors cut off on the edges of some parts like the shoulder plates. I see a lot of spots between where 2 different colors meet where there's a bunch of pixels scattered between them that look almost white.

I actually only just noticed this while writing but I think there's another black spot maybe missing texture on the back of the feet similar to how the back of my head wearing the cone hat is pitch black. I know that area is probably meant to be dark and well shaded but idk given what I saw on the head I'm a little wary of it.

Magister's Robe
The feet are a bit too dark imo. I can actually see a very faint leathery texture down there but I'd prefer if it weren't THAT dark. I understand the inside of the robes are meant to be understated but idk the feet are still protruding from the robes down there so I feel like the darkness shouldn't extend that far.

The back of my right foot clips through the robes when my weapon is unsheathed.

That's pretty much it. I have very few issues with this thing. It's just peak. Kino, if you will.

Charming Cap
I really REALLY like the moon sigil on the belt, but that's pretty much where my praises end for this thing. It just looks too messy and the shape itself is really weird to me. I really don't like the screws on the side of the head being more like fabric than metal. The screws look so tacky and reek of that "ugly christmas sweater" kind of pattern. The black insides just make it look really dead in there too with nothing going on there. Would've liked something to fill in that spot.

As for the shape, I have 2 main issues. The first is that I don't really like the sides curving upwards as much as they do here. I feel like a better angle to approach this from would've been for the back of the hat to start low and then curve upwards towards the front. I'm imagining something similar to the floppy beach hats for this. My second issue regarding the shape is that it just looks a bit too thin. I'm ok with the brim being as thin as it is but I think hats like that need to be really broad to compensate such a choice. The thickness of the hat's tip I think could begin to thin out a little later and keep a little more of its bulk. If the brim were widened I think the tip could be widened a little bit too, but not as much.

Divine Coloring
Why are the divine hats and robes so... brown? The primary color used in the divine variants of these things are unusually dark compared to typical divine patterns. Don't get me wrong; I actually really like the colors used on these. My issue here stems from these not actually being the typical divine color scheme. I would like to see a rework of these to just have the typical divine coloring. Ideally, we'd just get another set added to the boxes (or distributed some other way for similar prices if this correction would be done after the promo ends) and anyone who owned the old version of divine wizard armors/hats would keep those old designs and just have them renamed to something else to avoid confusion. It'd be a shame to lose these neat color schemes, but I wouldn't really call these divine.

Cauldrons
These are cool but the moment you grab a crystal in the clockworks they become an abomination of clipping and agony. This would definitely be a lot to ask for, but what if the cauldron completely overrode a crystal's model and instead started to bubble at varying severities depending on the size of crystal you had on your back? Maybe the color of the cauldron would be prismatic like it is now until you grab a crystal at which point the color would change to match said crystal? Definitely some high effort suggestions that I don't actually expect to happen but I do think the accessory clashes with crystals enough to at least warrant being addressed in some way.

contd.

Sat, 05/24/2025 - 22:40
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Fallen-Feces
I managed to reach the word limit!!!!!!

Brooms
I actually have pretty much no issues with these. I would like to entertain the idea of whether they'd function as a hip accessory like the parrying blade rather than a back one? It'd just be nice to have all the accessories in this box attach to different parts of the body. It still looks nice as a back accessory though.

Grizzled Gorgets
A lot of my thoughts in here are heavily influenced by my own personal tastes (especially in regards to the Charming Cap section) but I will actually just refrain from giving any thoughts on these things. I've never liked any of the mustache or beard related accessories so I literally just can't give any constructive feedback on these.

Conclusion, end, what have you.
I really like this box. It was a pleasant surprise to be greeted with brand new designs for cosmetics after such a long time. Definitely started with a bang in my opinion, but I feel that despite how much I like most of these things, they are quite unpolished. I do hope that most of the blemishes like seemingly missing textures and mesh issues are resolved, but I don't actually expect anything as big as a complete redesign of the entire Charming Cap to be done (I'm well aware that section was just fueled by my own personal preferences).

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