Hey Orbus Community!
I thought we could break from the meta here of everyone bringing up bugs and class balances to do something a bit more fun, talking about some transmog ideas that we would like to see in the game to add some flair to our characters.
The developers are no doubt hard at work trying to fix all the bugs in the game while balancing coming out with new content, but there are artists as well that might want some inspiration from our community!
What kind of weapons would you like to see added into the game as transmogs to better enjoy the roleplay aspect for you, and who knows, Perhaps @Outlander_Robert @Mathieu_D might want to see ideas to improve your enjoyment of the game aesthetics rather than always being peppered with ideas on how to improve on the gameplay or fix bugs.
Current Ideas:
Paladin - Instead of just a hammer, maybe an axe, Polearm, scythe, halberd, Massive blacksmith hammer, Mace(we were close to this with the legendary citadel hammer), Flail (no animated parts, just a handle/chain/and spike ball on the end) An I beam with a handle (structural support for a building), Treesus’s tree weapon, enraged sephoteps staff (see also runemage suggestions), stafrage wooden cudgel (hope I got that right, the big wooden brutes)
Warrior - An Axe also comes to mind here, A massive butchers cleaver, baseball bat, double sided blade ( think Darth Maul, but the bottom blade doesn’t need to interact with enemies, just look rad!) A leaf sword, the new undead brutes swords from the forsaken isle (huge and beautiful, we want to wield it!) <- basically Cloud’s buster sword, sephiroth’s long sword (if unfamiliar, it’s a thin almost samurai sword but it is about 6-8 feet long, doesn’t need a new hitbox but it would look sweet) zweihander, Hamberge, rapier, basket hilted sword, Short scythe, katana, Chaos giant’s sword (those purple glowy weapons are sweet), wooden sword (basic, but a new flavor)
Runemage - STAFF! (it could just extend back further from the wand, it would clip through your character and you can draw runes from the tip like any normal wand, but it could improve the RP aspect while walking around town!), Enraged Sephotep’s staff, A short dagger, element themed wands (blue ice, red flame, pink arcane, dark affliction, green pushback glow), more enemy parts like the skeleton hand, or stafrusher limb, dead fish wand (or fish skeleton)
(On this note, possibly an adjust wand drawing point, some wands are huge and difficult to draw with because the graphic covers up the tip of the wand, if we can drag an anchor out from the tip so the drawing is done maybe a few inches away we could enjoy the larger wands more).
Ranger - Not sure where to go here, possible choice of making a crossbow that you pull back like a bow and fire normally for those who prefer to fire their bow rotated flat instead of up and down, I’d like to hear everyone’s ideas on this because I’m drawing a blank.
Scoundrel - Same issue as above, but we could get silly like using a fish shaped gun, or something larger like a blunderbuss. Again, I’d like to hear other people’s thoughts because I’m lacking here. Perhaps a gunblade? blade is just for aesthetics, but firing a gun from the hilt would be rad. The two shard legendary guns are already sort of doing that anyway.
Bard - New personal transmogs for the look of the marimba, and just about any stick like transmog you can think of because bard transmogs are horribly lacking in flavor and aesthetic, the new citadel mallets are probably the first and best step forward to improve on this. All of the runemage suggestions could go here as well aside from the staff idea.
Musketeer - It’s already hard enough to aim the weapons, I’m thinking bigger and more complex transmogs like the beautiful guns they had from preborn. (I keep suggesting this but, a giant fish gun, or fish skeleton gun), A generic cannon, tear minion themed gun(purple effect again), Futuristic plasma cannon (Let our musketeers feel like Samus! it doesn’t neeeeed to have a handle, our hands disappear when the weapon is equipped anyway) Nerf gun, shotgun
Shaman - SO much potential to interact with transmogs but currently they just hover a bit in front of the face which I personally find doesn’t add much to a transmog, I would love to see the mask wrap around more to cover the face in case people want the mask to interact with helmet transmogs that either fully or mostly cover the face. Baseball umpire mask, plague mask with hat (perhaps just a helm transmog that goes with the current bird mask, something that gives like a black cover over the whole head and a hat so the mask looks like it attaches better to something, or the option to black out your characters appearance when your mask is on so all of the shaman masks look a bit more menacing instead of having a goofy face behind an already detached mask.) Animal themed masks like Fox mask (@TangleTheFox), Bear mask, Stafrusher mask, Tear minion mask, Fish mask, Lion mask, Sephoteps mask (nearly there with one of the mask, but again, he’s way cooler because his mask actually covers the face and wraps around the head). Taller masks, no reason we can’t have the mask go two feet down from where they currently sit, a giant tiki mask would be kind of awesome.
These are just some of the suggestions that spring to mind, lets hear from the community! Is there a weapon you love in the game that could use a little more flair to add to your roleplaying experience? Post it! There are no bad ideas, just missing ideas and we can use help getting them listed here!
hiya chase!