wow Incredible Death Knight Allied Race Armors by Handclaw + Interview

[Starym 3,800]

 

The racial armor man is back, as Arthur "Handclaw" Lorenz has finished up his next project! You may know him from his almost-insane project of creating racial armors for each class and race combination (almost 200 unique sets) or his more recent, but equally impressive Barrens Warfront concept (with even more themed armor sets, weapons, siege engines etc.), and possibly to a lesser extent for making a unique Icy Veins armor set for an Ogre Frost DK! And today we get some more of his brilliance, as he continues to update his "all class and race armor combos" dream, by adding the newly introduced Allied Race DKs to the mix. We also get to talk to him again after our big interview and hear the inspirations and thoughts behind the sets as well!

Also, it seems we're getting these ones courtesy of Halloween:

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As for why I did the Allied Race armors later, I simply needed a break after doing so many armors back to back, and sorta turned it into an early Halloween special.

We're starting off with the Alliance, as we take a look at their side of the Allied Race addition (as well as a bonus Pandaren at the end):

 

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On Kul Tirans I thought about going with a "raised from the sea" direction, but I enjoyed the back piece which draws from the "Sun" in the Kul Tiran banner so much, so I decided to go with that instead. But as always, there are often various options of what a set could look like, this is just one option I chose.

The Lightforged was the most difficult as I had to find a compromise to make it not accidentally look like a Paladin. In my first approach I still used blue effects but it simply didn't fit in well for a being 'forged by the light'.

Finally, on the Pandaren, I've drawn a bit of inspiration from Chinese culture: the Alliance version is in part inspired by the Jiang shi, the hopping  vampires, who are often depicted with a paper talisman on their head. The talisman is meant to immobilise the vampire, which felt like a good fit to the very disciplined and self-controlled Tushui Pandaren.

And on to the Horde:

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Zandalari Trolls draw again from Bwonsamdi while also taking a more regal approach with its inclusion of gold.

For the Mag'har, it didn't feel right to have one clan in particular for this class, but still I was able to draw from WoD: the Botani. Their infested orcs offered a unique direction to include in this set, making it distinct from other races.

While on the Horde Pandaren version, I decided to use white as a main colour as it is in some instances associated with death. The Mogu elements served to give it an darker feel and with Houjin being more practical, they wouldn't be above using anima like the Mogu.

There are much more detailed images for each of the races over on Handclaw's Artstation, so make sure to head on over there, and meanwhile we're just going to pick our favorite:

If any of this looked cool to you, you should absolutely check out our interview with Handclaw and the massive race/class armor sets as well.

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[Lawrenz 105]

Love that guys work. This alliance Panda DK set is siiiiick with the charms on the helmet as well. I hope they bring out a similar "dark monk" set in the future, that incorporates charms like this *.*

[Devastor 11]

Why can't Blizz sign him and let him do the future and hopefully backcomming Tier Sets ?

(instead of those mostly shitty Raid Style Armortype Versions that are basicly just a cheaper solution cause you only need to create 4 different Sets instead one for every class...)

[Whiterhino 31]

this guy probably spends 5% the time and money that blizz does on designs and they look 500% better

[Belzedup 3]

Lol people here don't know *filtered*.

[Lawrenz 105]

1 hour ago, Devastor said:

Why can't Blizz sign him and let him do the future and hopefully backcomming Tier Sets ?

(instead of those mostly shitty Raid Style Armortype Versions that are basicly just a cheaper solution cause you only need to create 4 different Sets instead one for every class...)

First: Its already confirmed, that class sets are coming back for the future raids. Nathria will be the last one to have raidstyle sets.

But i cant accept your last comment for the "cheaper solution". To compensate for the raid style sets, we got the warfront sets, that have the 4 armor types and the horde/alliance differentiation. Its just 2 warfront sets in this regard, but much work nonetheless.

And on top of that, the Human-, Nelf-, Orc- and Undead-Sets are the best armor pieces they have yet created. The Human Version being my favorite sets among plate and mail especially.

And not to forget that the WF sets had 3 tiers of models for some of the armor pieces.

So yeah, i agree, the raid sets were boring, but the effort was put in additional sets elsewhere. And i am not mad for the sets we got.

I guess, they satrted of with non-class-raid sets because we get all the 4 different covenent sets for the 4 armor types, which is quite some work as well.

Anyways i am looking forward to the upcoming Class sets *-*

Rejoice!

[Seksi 208]

Looks absolutely amazing as before, slap some kick *filtered* tier bonuses on it and we're cruising ? 

[Fedaygin 4]

Stunning artwork. Wonder if Devs know about him / her & if been influence to their work. Hope the person who made these gets to work with Blizzard or some other nice company.

[Mar10DU 0]

4 hours ago, Belzedup said:

Lol people here don't know *filtered*.

I love your profile pic! lol