I'd say Cylons myself.

Thanks for the item compositions Jagiya!

I'm fine with more tunics

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...eathknight.jpg
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...ce_paladin.jpg
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...ce_warrior.jpg

And that's why I'm here for you!

And we're all wearing Warrior Tier 1 hats... on our shoulders.

I love the idea of Horde and Alliance getting different models. But if it means their quality of design is this low, I say failed experiment. For example, Alliance Two-handed maces look like lower quality renderings of the Titansteel Destroyer.

A section of the playerbase (of which I'm a member) has long thought that Blizzard should devote more art resources to item models. Yes, Ulduar is beautiful, the Coliseum looks decent, but you look at your toon (and other toons) absolutely everywhere.

There was an interesting lore reason/understandable reason for the similar look posited on the mmo-champ comments. Since we're receiving this armor from the Argent Crusade and they're trying to make an army to assault Icecrown then it might be that they're trying to uniform us up a bit to turn us into more of an army than a ragtag force of heroes. Sort of like the different colored stormtrooper suits in Star Wars: Republic Commando/Clone Wars etc.

I agree that it is cheap and lame after the hype of different stuff for alliance and horde created an expectation for full tier equivalent sets for every class twice. I guess this goes along with the discussion earlier in the thread with whether this is Sunwell or an actual tier according to blizzard and art-wise I think it is along the lines of AQ/Sunwell rather than BT/Ulduar.

These are the PvE sets. They've said that PvE and PvP sets would have separate looks.

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Were people honestly expecting Blizzard to make 20 (30 when you include Season 7) completely different models of gear this patch?

Even sharing the models among the same armour type of your faction, that's still 8 new models of gear (instead of the usual 10). And even then, they've managed to still make the Alliance plate armour differ in certain ways (e.g. graphic on the chest). I assume they'll continue to make similar slight changes on the other sets as well.

I'll quite gladly look like the hunters in my raid if it means that I get to walk into Icecrown as a member of an army of Horde soliders and not have to look the same as all the blue space goats running around Dalaran.

I figure Coliseum raid is more analogous to Ahn'Qiraj; since the Ahn'Qiraj sets also looked very similar to each other. I mean more or less every "cycle" we really get 4 sets, but only 3 named tiers or something. (Tier 1 2 3 and then AQ gear, Tier 4 5 6 and then Sunwell gear).

Item models is an area that Blizzard has always been fairly lazy/frugal with, so I just had realistic expectations for the new content. I'm not saying I wouldn't be happy with a unique set for every class on each faction, but I'm hardly surprised they've gone this way. As mentioned above, AQ40 and Sunwell did something similar with their item design.

Flavour-wise, I think the idea of faction specific gear is fantastic, especially as we confront Arthas in Icecrown. Given the choice of looking similar to other Horde players of the same armour type or all members of the same class across both factions, I would choose the former every time. I liked the old vanilla PvP gear for a similar reason.

Throwing more money at something doesn't make more get done. It is a lot of work to creature a model, texture and then fit it to every single race/gender and I'd prefer seeing my patches coming quicker and them putting more effort into the real T9 in Icecrown. I see these sets on the same level as the AQ40 and Sunwell sets and really expected them to be like that.